The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MAILsweeper skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MAILsweeper over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category.

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.

Clearswift MAILsweeper
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank574572528
Rank change year-on-year
Down-2Down-44
Matching contract IT job ads598
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.008 %0.015 %0.015 %
As % of the Systems Management category0.137 %0.250 %0.286 %
Number of daily rates quoted314
Average daily rate£338£348£340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.87 %+2.20 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£110-£450
Number of hourly rates quoted010
Average hourly rate-£11.50-
UK excluding London average hourly rate-£11.50-
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategoryAll Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
363936032795
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK6.148 %5.872 %5.076 %
Number of daily rates quoted185016941236
Average daily rate£350£360£338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.77 %+6.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£210£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£300£314
% change year-on-year
+8.33 %-4.38 %
Number of hourly rates quoted173219234
Average hourly rate£19.00£23.44£21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.93 %+9.01 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.50£15.00£14.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£38.75£38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£24.40£20.50
% change year-on-year
-28.27 %+19.02 %

MAILsweeper
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MAILsweeper within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

MAILsweeper Demand Trend

MAILsweeper
Daily Rate Trend

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

MAILsweeper Daily Rate Trend

MAILsweeper
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MAILsweeper within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

MAILsweeper Daily Rate Histogram

MAILsweeper
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MAILsweeper Hourly Rate Trend

MAILsweeper
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MAILsweeper within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+75£338-2.87 %
LondonUp+284£350+0.71 %
City of LondonUp+363£338-
EssexNew entry-1£110-
East of EnglandNew entry-1£110-

MAILsweeper
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MAILsweeper 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 MAILsweeper.

17 (100.00 %)Windows
17 (100.00 %)MS Exchange
26 (85.71 %)Microsoft
26 (85.71 %)Active Directory
35 (71.43 %)Windows Server 2003
35 (71.43 %)Symantec
35 (71.43 %)Windows Server 2008
44 (57.14 %)Clearswift
53 (42.86 %)Websense
53 (42.86 %)Change Management
53 (42.86 %)Exchange Server 2007
53 (42.86 %)Blackberry
53 (42.86 %)ISA Server
53 (42.86 %)CommVault
53 (42.86 %)HP
53 (42.86 %)MS Excel
53 (42.86 %)SQL
53 (42.86 %)IIS
53 (42.86 %)MS Office
53 (42.86 %)ITIL
62 (28.57 %)SQL Server
62 (28.57 %)SharePoint
62 (28.57 %)EMC
62 (28.57 %)Citrix
62 (28.57 %)SAN
62 (28.57 %)TCP/IP
62 (28.57 %)Cisco
62 (28.57 %)Norton AntiVirus
62 (28.57 %)Release Management
62 (28.57 %)Celerra

MAILsweeper
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MAILsweeper 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 MAILsweeper. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
17 (100.00 %)MS Exchange
23 (42.86 %)Exchange Server 2007
23 (42.86 %)IIS
32 (28.57 %)SharePoint
41 (14.29 %)Live Communications Server
41 (14.29 %)Exchange Server 2003
41 (14.29 %)Exchange Server 2010
41 (14.29 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (42.86 %)MS Excel
13 (42.86 %)MS Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (14.29 %)Summit
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (28.57 %)SAN
12 (28.57 %)TCP/IP
12 (28.57 %)NAS
12 (28.57 %)Firewall
21 (14.29 %)DNS
21 (14.29 %)LAN
21 (14.29 %)WAN
21 (14.29 %)DHCP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (28.57 %)SQL Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (28.57 %)K2 blackpoint
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (28.57 %)Banking
12 (28.57 %)Investment Banking
21 (14.29 %)Finance
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12 (28.57 %)Analyst
21 (14.29 %)Exchange Engineer
21 (14.29 %)Technical Analyst
21 (14.29 %)Support Analyst
21 (14.29 %)3rd Line Support
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (42.86 %)Blackberry
22 (28.57 %)Celerra
22 (28.57 %)CLARiiON
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
17 (100.00 %)Windows
25 (71.43 %)Windows Server 2003
25 (71.43 %)Windows Server 2008
32 (28.57 %)Windows 2000 Server
41 (14.29 %)Windows Mobile
41 (14.29 %)Windows NT
41 (14.29 %)UNIX
41 (14.29 %)Solaris
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (42.86 %)Change Management
13 (42.86 %)ITIL
22 (28.57 %)Release Management
22 (28.57 %)Project Management
31 (14.29 %)Migration
31 (14.29 %)Network Management
31 (14.29 %)Process Improvement
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13 (42.86 %)SQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (28.57 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
21 (14.29 %)SC Cleared
21 (14.29 %)Security Cleared
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
16 (85.71 %)Active Directory
23 (42.86 %)ISA Server
32 (28.57 %)XenApp
32 (28.57 %)XenDesktop
32 (28.57 %)vSphere
32 (28.57 %)VMware ESX
32 (28.57 %)VMware Infrastructure
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (28.57 %)Norton AntiVirus
21 (14.29 %)MIMEsweeper
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
16 (85.71 %)Microsoft
25 (71.43 %)Symantec
34 (57.14 %)Clearswift
43 (42.86 %)Websense
43 (42.86 %)CommVault
43 (42.86 %)HP
52 (28.57 %)EMC
52 (28.57 %)Citrix
52 (28.57 %)Cisco
52 (28.57 %)VMware
61 (14.29 %)Sun
61 (14.29 %)Oracle