The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of NetIQ 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 NetIQ over the 3 months to 21 May 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 the NetIQ Corporation.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NetIQ
Rank 531 576 565
Rank change year-on-year
+45 -11
Contract jobs citing NetIQ 9 5 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.019% 0.009% 0.025%
As % of the Vendors category 0.041% 0.018% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 13
Average daily rate £425 £295 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.06% -34.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £295 £378
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £295 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £388
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
22181 27194 27998
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.98% 46.52% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11810 13898 14021
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £235 £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 1218 1319 1577
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.23 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%

NetIQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

NetIQ Jobs Demand Trend

NetIQ
Daily Rate Trend

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

NetIQ Daily Rate Trend

NetIQ
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NetIQ within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

NetIQ Daily Rate Histogram

NetIQ
Hourly Rate Trend

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

NetIQ Hourly Rate Trend

NetIQ
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetIQ within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 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
England +49 9 £425 +44.06%
London +20 9 £425 +44.06%
City of London +16 3 £300 -
Canary Wharf - 2 - -

NetIQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing NetIQ 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 NetIQ.

1 22 (95.65%) Windows
2 20 (86.96%) VMware
3 17 (73.91%) Windows Server 2003
4 16 (69.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (60.87%) SQL Server
5 14 (60.87%) Microsoft
6 13 (56.52%) Active Directory
6 13 (56.52%) HP
6 13 (56.52%) Windows Server 2008
7 12 (52.17%) SAN
8 11 (47.83%) Symantec
8 11 (47.83%) Citrix
8 11 (47.83%) MS Exchange
8 11 (47.83%) Windows 2000
9 10 (43.48%) SQL Server 2008
9 10 (43.48%) SQL Server 2005
10 9 (39.13%) Blackberry
10 9 (39.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 8 (34.78%) CLARiiON
11 8 (34.78%) IIS
11 8 (34.78%) Linux
11 8 (34.78%) EMC
11 8 (34.78%) PowerShell
11 8 (34.78%) Capacity Planning
11 8 (34.78%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
12 7 (30.43%) Exchange Server 2010
12 7 (30.43%) Configuration Management
13 6 (26.09%) BMC
13 6 (26.09%) WSH
13 6 (26.09%) UNIX

NetIQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing NetIQ 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 NetIQ. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (26.09%) WSH
2 2 (8.696%) Middleware
2 2 (8.696%) .NET
3 1 (4.348%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 11 (47.83%) MS Exchange
2 9 (39.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 8 (34.78%) IIS
4 7 (30.43%) Exchange Server 2010
5 6 (26.09%) Confluence
5 6 (26.09%) Exchange Server 2003
6 4 (17.39%) WorkSite
6 4 (17.39%) Lync
7 1 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 12 (52.17%) SAN
2 6 (26.09%) NAS
3 2 (8.696%) SS7
3 2 (8.696%) WAN
3 2 (8.696%) LAN
4 1 (4.348%) SMS
4 1 (4.348%) VoIP
4 1 (4.348%) DNS
4 1 (4.348%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (60.87%) SQL Server
2 10 (43.48%) SQL Server 2008
2 10 (43.48%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Team Foundation Server
1 6 (26.09%) JIRA
2 2 (8.696%) ClearCase
General
1 4 (17.39%) Banking
1 4 (17.39%) Law
2 2 (8.696%) Back Office
3 1 (4.348%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Server Support
2 5 (21.74%) Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Server Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Server Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Storage Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Storage Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (8.696%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (8.696%) Development Engineer
5 2 (8.696%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) VMware Specialist
6 1 (4.348%) Exchange Consultant
6 1 (4.348%) Exchange Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) Operations Manager
6 1 (4.348%) Development Manager
6 1 (4.348%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Blackberry
2 8 (34.78%) CLARiiON
3 2 (8.696%) Clustering
4 1 (4.348%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 22 (95.65%) Windows
2 17 (73.91%) Windows Server 2003
3 13 (56.52%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (47.83%) Windows 2000
5 8 (34.78%) Linux
6 6 (26.09%) UNIX
6 6 (26.09%) Solaris
6 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (26.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Capacity Planning
2 7 (30.43%) Configuration Management
3 6 (26.09%) OO
3 6 (26.09%) Scrum
3 6 (26.09%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (26.09%) Load Balancing
4 2 (8.696%) Change Management
4 2 (8.696%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (8.696%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (4.348%) Migration
5 1 (4.348%) Software Engineering
5 1 (4.348%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) PowerShell
2 6 (26.09%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 2 (8.696%) C++
4 2 (8.696%) Java
5 1 (4.348%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) MCSE
1 4 (17.39%) MCSA
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (17.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (13.04%) Degree
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (56.52%) Active Directory
3 6 (26.09%) Hyper-V
4 5 (21.74%) XenApp
5 4 (17.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (4.348%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 6 (26.09%) Puppet
2 6 (26.09%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 6 (26.09%) BladeLogic
3 4 (17.39%) RepliStor
3 4 (17.39%) MAILsweeper
4 3 (13.04%) AppManager
5 2 (8.696%) Tivoli
5 2 (8.696%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (8.696%) NetBackup
5 2 (8.696%) WSUS
5 2 (8.696%) SCCM
5 2 (8.696%) SCOM
5 2 (8.696%) HP SIM
5 2 (8.696%) Splunk
6 1 (4.348%) WMI
6 1 (4.348%) Backup Exec
6 1 (4.348%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (4.348%) Legato
Vendors
1 20 (86.96%) VMware
2 14 (60.87%) Microsoft
3 13 (56.52%) HP
4 11 (47.83%) Symantec
4 11 (47.83%) Citrix
5 8 (34.78%) EMC
6 6 (26.09%) BMC
6 6 (26.09%) Atlassian
7 4 (17.39%) Clearswift
7 4 (17.39%) Intel
7 4 (17.39%) Compaq
8 3 (13.04%) Veritas
9 2 (8.696%) McAfee
9 2 (8.696%) Tableau
10 1 (4.348%) PlateSpin
10 1 (4.348%) SonicWALL
10 1 (4.348%) Dell