The first table below looks at the demand for NetWare skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NetWare over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Operating Systems 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.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell NetWare
Rank 505 550 566
Rank change year-on-year
+45 +16
Contract jobs citing NetWare 36 29 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.074% 0.051% 0.039%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.333% 0.247% 0.183%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 9
Average daily rate £250 £344 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% +71.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £254 £110
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £425 £352
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £305 £207
% change year-on-year
-18.03% +47.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
Average hourly rate £21.00 £19.28 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.92% +13.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.60 £16.05 £13.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.40 £23.17 £143.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £20.06 £17.00
% change year-on-year
-10.26% +18.00%
All Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
10817 11728 13102
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 22.12% 20.52% 21.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5862 5764 6526
Average daily rate £350 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £187 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 988 1195 1243
Average hourly rate £17.00 £17.62 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.49% +3.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.37 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £40.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%

NetWare
Jobs Demand Trend

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

NetWare Jobs Demand Trend

NetWare
Daily Rate Trend

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

NetWare Daily Rate Trend

NetWare
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NetWare within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

NetWare Daily Rate Histogram

NetWare
Hourly Rate Trend

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

NetWare Hourly Rate Trend

NetWare
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetWare within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +39 34 £250 -31.03% 1
London +21 10 £258 -28.96%
Yorkshire +11 8 £275 -
West Yorkshire - 8 £275 -
Leeds - 5 £275 -
City of London -1 1 £300 +20.00%

NetWare
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing NetWare 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 NetWare.

1 48 (87.27%) Windows
2 27 (49.09%) VMware
3 24 (43.64%) Novell
4 21 (38.18%) Firewall
5 20 (36.36%) DHCP
5 20 (36.36%) DNS
6 18 (32.73%) Cisco
6 18 (32.73%) VPN
6 18 (32.73%) Active Directory
7 17 (30.91%) Microsoft
7 17 (30.91%) Windows Server 2008
8 15 (27.27%) Citrix
8 15 (27.27%) TCP/IP
9 14 (25.45%) UNIX
10 13 (23.64%) Windows Server 2003
10 13 (23.64%) McAfee
10 13 (23.64%) Windows 7
11 11 (20.00%) SCCM
11 11 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (18.18%) Altiris
12 10 (18.18%) Degree
12 10 (18.18%) ITIL
13 9 (16.36%) MS Office
13 9 (16.36%) Finance
13 9 (16.36%) Disaster Recovery
14 8 (14.55%) IBM Notes
14 8 (14.55%) Windows XP
14 8 (14.55%) GroupWise
14 8 (14.55%) Lotus
15 7 (12.73%) Tivoli

NetWare
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (5.455%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 8 (14.55%) IBM Notes
1 8 (14.55%) GroupWise
2 6 (10.91%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 6 (10.91%) MS Exchange
3 1 (1.818%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 9 (16.36%) MS Office
2 2 (3.636%) MS Project
3 1 (1.818%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 21 (38.18%) Firewall
2 20 (36.36%) DHCP
2 20 (36.36%) DNS
3 18 (32.73%) VPN
4 15 (27.27%) TCP/IP
5 6 (10.91%) SMS
6 3 (5.455%) SAN
6 3 (5.455%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (3.636%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (3.636%) Broadband
7 2 (3.636%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.818%) Network Security
8 1 (1.818%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.818%) LAN
8 1 (1.818%) WAN
8 1 (1.818%) SMTP
8 1 (1.818%) ADSL
8 1 (1.818%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.818%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (16.36%) Finance
2 6 (10.91%) Financial Institution
3 1 (1.818%) Law
3 1 (1.818%) Legal
3 1 (1.818%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.818%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (20.00%) Administrator
2 6 (10.91%) Analyst
2 6 (10.91%) Windows Administrator
3 5 (9.091%) Network Administrator
3 5 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (9.091%) Support Engineer
3 5 (9.091%) Network Engineer
4 3 (5.455%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (5.455%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (5.455%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (3.636%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (3.636%) Support Analyst
5 2 (3.636%) Programme Manager
5 2 (3.636%) Desktop Support
5 2 (3.636%) Consultant
5 2 (3.636%) Novell Engineer
5 2 (3.636%) Windows Technical Consultant
5 2 (3.636%) Training Consultant
5 2 (3.636%) Microsoft Consultant
5 2 (3.636%) Migration Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Blackberry
2 6 (10.91%) Hedge funds
3 5 (9.091%) Replication
4 2 (3.636%) Computer Science
4 2 (3.636%) iPad
4 2 (3.636%) iPhone
5 1 (1.818%) SaaS
5 1 (1.818%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.818%) HACMP
5 1 (1.818%) NHS
5 1 (1.818%) Clustering
5 1 (1.818%) AS400
5 1 (1.818%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 48 (87.27%) Windows
2 17 (30.91%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (25.45%) UNIX
4 13 (23.64%) Windows Server 2003
4 13 (23.64%) Windows 7
5 8 (14.55%) Windows XP
6 6 (10.91%) Windows 2000
7 5 (9.091%) Windows 2000 Server
8 4 (7.273%) Apple iOS
8 4 (7.273%) Windows Vista
9 2 (3.636%) Solaris
9 2 (3.636%) Linux
10 1 (1.818%) openSUSE
10 1 (1.818%) AIX
10 1 (1.818%) HPUX
10 1 (1.818%) Windows NT
10 1 (1.818%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (18.18%) ITIL
2 9 (16.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (12.73%) Migration
4 6 (10.91%) Service Delivery
5 4 (7.273%) ITSM
6 2 (3.636%) Service Management
6 2 (3.636%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (3.636%) Programme Management
6 2 (3.636%) Change Control
7 1 (1.818%) Time Management
7 1 (1.818%) Data Protection
7 1 (1.818%) Network Management
7 1 (1.818%) ERP
7 1 (1.818%) Business Continuity
7 1 (1.818%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.91%) SQL
2 4 (7.273%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.273%) VBScript
3 3 (5.455%) VB
4 2 (3.636%) C
5 1 (1.818%) Bash shell
5 1 (1.818%) C++
5 1 (1.818%) Java
5 1 (1.818%) Perl
5 1 (1.818%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.818%) Korn
Qualifications
1 11 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (18.18%) Degree
3 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (10.91%) CCNA
4 2 (3.636%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.636%) CCIE
4 2 (3.636%) CCNP
4 2 (3.636%) PgMP
5 1 (1.818%) ECDL
5 1 (1.818%) SCSE
System Software
1 18 (32.73%) Active Directory
2 7 (12.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (9.091%) XenDesktop
4 2 (3.636%) Novell eDirectory
5 1 (1.818%) XenApp
5 1 (1.818%) vSphere
5 1 (1.818%) NDS
Systems Management
1 11 (20.00%) SCCM
2 7 (12.73%) Tivoli
3 6 (10.91%) SCOM
3 6 (10.91%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 6 (10.91%) Nagios
4 5 (9.091%) ZENworks
4 5 (9.091%) McAfee ePO
4 5 (9.091%) ServiceCenter
5 4 (7.273%) ARCserve
6 3 (5.455%) Novell Identity Manager
6 3 (5.455%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 27 (49.09%) VMware
2 24 (43.64%) Novell
3 18 (32.73%) Cisco
4 17 (30.91%) Microsoft
5 15 (27.27%) Citrix
6 13 (23.64%) McAfee
7 10 (18.18%) Altiris
8 8 (14.55%) Lotus
9 6 (10.91%) HP
10 5 (9.091%) NetApp
10 5 (9.091%) Blue Coat
10 5 (9.091%) Riverbed
11 2 (3.636%) Compaq
11 2 (3.636%) EMC
11 2 (3.636%) IBM
12 1 (1.818%) Oracle
12 1 (1.818%) Sybase
12 1 (1.818%) Sun
12 1 (1.818%) Juniper
12 1 (1.818%) Hitachi
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