The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lumension products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lumension over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Lumension Security, Inc.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lumension
Rank 510 514 568
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +54
Contract jobs citing Lumension 44 75 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.090% 0.129% 0.031%
As % of the Vendors category 0.192% 0.277% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 42 11
Average daily rate £425 £425 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +30.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £444 £385 -
% change year-on-year
+15.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
Average hourly rate £19.77 £15.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.54% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.77 £15.50 -
% change year-on-year
+27.54% -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
22858 27039 29208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.96% 46.56% 46.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12157 13678 14768
Average daily rate £400 £388 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -4.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1224 1348 1626
Average hourly rate £19.75 £19.63 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.63% -4.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.24 £11.37 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%

Lumension
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Lumension within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Lumension Jobs Demand Trend

Lumension
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Lumension within the UK.

Lumension Daily Rate Trend

Lumension
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lumension within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Lumension Daily Rate Histogram

Lumension
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Lumension within the UK.

Lumension Hourly Rate Trend

Lumension
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lumension within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -11 23 £238 -44.11% 1
Scotland -25 15 £463 +20.12%
South East +20 6 £238 -44.11% 1
London -14 3 £130 -69.41%
Reading - - - -
Berkshire - - - -
Surrey - - - -
City of London - - - -

Lumension
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Lumension also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Lumension.

1 63 (94.03%) Windows
2 53 (79.10%) Security Cleared
3 45 (67.16%) Microsoft
4 36 (53.73%) Citrix
5 29 (43.28%) Windows Server 2008
6 28 (41.79%) SC Cleared
7 26 (38.81%) Windows XP
8 23 (34.33%) Windows 7
9 22 (32.84%) Microsoft App-V
9 22 (32.84%) AppSense
10 21 (31.34%) VMware
10 21 (31.34%) Windows Vista
10 21 (31.34%) SCCM
11 20 (29.85%) Windows Server 2003
11 20 (29.85%) McAfee
12 19 (28.36%) VMware Infrastructure
12 19 (28.36%) DV Cleared
13 18 (26.87%) Active Directory
14 17 (25.37%) MS Office
14 17 (25.37%) Sophos
15 15 (22.39%) Fat Client
15 15 (22.39%) SQL Server
15 15 (22.39%) Cisco
15 15 (22.39%) CA
15 15 (22.39%) Thin Client
16 13 (19.40%) HP
16 13 (19.40%) Firewall
17 12 (17.91%) Blackberry
17 12 (17.91%) SLA
17 12 (17.91%) OpenView Configuration Management

Lumension
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Lumension also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Lumension. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (7.463%) .NET
2 3 (4.478%) Application Packaging
3 1 (1.493%) XML
Application Platforms
1 12 (17.91%) SharePoint
2 10 (14.93%) IIS
3 9 (13.43%) MS Exchange
4 7 (10.45%) CloudStack
5 5 (7.463%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (7.463%) Apache
6 2 (2.985%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (2.985%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (2.985%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (1.493%) Documentum
Applications
1 17 (25.37%) MS Office
2 11 (16.42%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (19.40%) Firewall
2 11 (16.42%) SAN
3 8 (11.94%) VPN
4 6 (8.955%) Internet
5 2 (2.985%) Ethernet
5 2 (2.985%) SNMP
5 2 (2.985%) FDDI
5 2 (2.985%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.493%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.493%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.493%) SMS
6 1 (1.493%) DHCP
6 1 (1.493%) DNS
6 1 (1.493%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.39%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.463%) SQL Server 2000
2 5 (7.463%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (4.478%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (2.985%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (1.493%) StarTeam
General
1 8 (11.94%) Telecoms
2 6 (8.955%) Manufacturing
3 3 (4.478%) Finance
4 2 (2.985%) Banking
4 2 (2.985%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (23.88%) Support Engineer
2 9 (13.43%) 2nd Line Support
2 9 (13.43%) Systems Engineer
3 8 (11.94%) Build Engineer
3 8 (11.94%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (8.955%) Architect
4 6 (8.955%) 3rd Line Support
4 6 (8.955%) Technical Specialist
5 5 (7.463%) Security Engineer
6 4 (5.970%) Desktop Support
6 4 (5.970%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (4.478%) SCCM Engineer
7 3 (4.478%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (4.478%) Administrator
7 3 (4.478%) Citrix Specialist
7 3 (4.478%) Desktop Engineer
8 2 (2.985%) Information Security Engineer
8 2 (2.985%) Senior Security Engineer
8 2 (2.985%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (2.985%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.39%) Thin Client
1 15 (22.39%) Fat Client
2 12 (17.91%) Blackberry
3 6 (8.955%) SaaS
4 4 (5.970%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.985%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.493%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 63 (94.03%) Windows
2 29 (43.28%) Windows Server 2008
3 26 (38.81%) Windows XP
4 23 (34.33%) Windows 7
5 21 (31.34%) Windows Vista
6 20 (29.85%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (10.45%) Windows 8
8 6 (8.955%) Linux
9 5 (7.463%) Solaris
10 2 (2.985%) UNIX
11 1 (1.493%) AIX
11 1 (1.493%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (16.42%) Software Deployment
2 10 (14.93%) Security Architecture
3 8 (11.94%) Enterprise Architecture
4 7 (10.45%) Service Management
4 7 (10.45%) TQM
4 7 (10.45%) ITIL
5 6 (8.955%) ERP
6 5 (7.463%) Release Management
6 5 (7.463%) Software Testing
7 4 (5.970%) Information Security
8 3 (4.478%) ITIL V3
9 2 (2.985%) Change Control
9 2 (2.985%) Process Architecture
9 2 (2.985%) Time Management
9 2 (2.985%) Asset Management
9 2 (2.985%) ITSM
9 2 (2.985%) Software Distribution
10 1 (1.493%) Migration
10 1 (1.493%) Configuration Management
10 1 (1.493%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.93%) C
1 10 (14.93%) Java
2 6 (8.955%) Perl
2 6 (8.955%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.463%) Bourne shell
3 5 (7.463%) VBScript
3 5 (7.463%) Korn
4 4 (5.970%) SQL
5 3 (4.478%) VB
6 2 (2.985%) C#
Qualifications
1 53 (79.10%) Security Cleared
2 28 (41.79%) SC Cleared
3 19 (28.36%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.478%) BC Cleared
4 3 (4.478%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.985%) MCSE
6 1 (1.493%) MCSA
6 1 (1.493%) CCA
6 1 (1.493%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.493%) CCEA
6 1 (1.493%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.91%) SLA
2 2 (2.985%) JSP 440
System Software
1 22 (32.84%) Microsoft App-V
2 19 (28.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (26.87%) Active Directory
4 9 (13.43%) XenDesktop
5 8 (11.94%) XenApp
6 7 (10.45%) XenServer
6 7 (10.45%) Hyper-V
7 6 (8.955%) vSphere
8 1 (1.493%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.493%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 21 (31.34%) SCCM
2 12 (17.91%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 9 (13.43%) McAfee ePO
4 6 (8.955%) WSUS
5 4 (5.970%) SCOM
6 3 (4.478%) Norton AntiVirus
7 2 (2.985%) WMI
7 2 (2.985%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (2.985%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (1.493%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (1.493%) OpenView
8 1 (1.493%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.493%) OVSD
Vendors
1 45 (67.16%) Microsoft
2 36 (53.73%) Citrix
3 22 (32.84%) AppSense
4 21 (31.34%) VMware
5 20 (29.85%) McAfee
6 17 (25.37%) Sophos
7 15 (22.39%) CA
7 15 (22.39%) Cisco
8 13 (19.40%) HP
9 11 (16.42%) Symantec
10 9 (13.43%) Oracle
11 8 (11.94%) Juniper
12 7 (10.45%) Wyse
13 3 (4.478%) EMC
14 2 (2.985%) NetApp
14 2 (2.985%) Reuters
14 2 (2.985%) Bloomberg
14 2 (2.985%) Blue Coat
14 2 (2.985%) Brocade
14 2 (2.985%) 3PAR
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