ProxySG Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for ProxySG skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ProxySG over the 3 months to 24 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 of the System Software 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Blue Coat Proxy SG
Rank 501 518 551
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +33
Contract jobs citing ProxySG 28 66 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.060% 0.113% 0.054%
As % of the System Software category 0.643% 1.437% 0.749%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 39 20
Average daily rate £380 £425 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.58% +13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £282 £425 £274
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £490 £478
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £200 £275
% change year-on-year
+106.25% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £40.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
Search 3 ProxySG jobs
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 4352 4594 4408
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.381% 7.877% 7.221%
Number of daily rates quoted 2092 2210 1930
Average daily rate £350 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £455 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 589 627 658
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.01 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%

ProxySG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

ProxySG Jobs Demand Trend

ProxySG
Daily Rate Trend

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

ProxySG Daily Rate Trend

ProxySG
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ProxySG within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

ProxySG Daily Rate Histogram

ProxySG
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ProxySG Hourly Rate Trend

ProxySG
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ProxySG within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +7 26 £385 -9.41%
London -2 11 £300 -29.41%
East of England +21 7 £413 -
Colchester +8 7 £413 -
Essex +2 7 £413 -
Berkshire +17 5 £390 -
South East +10 5 £390 +95.00%
City of London -2 4 £274 -35.52%
Reading +16 3 £390 -
North Yorkshire - 2 £413 -
Yorkshire - 2 £413 -
York - 2 £413 -
Edinburgh +6 1 £300 -
Scotland -8 1 £300 -
South West - 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Swindon - 1 - -

ProxySG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ProxySG 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 ProxySG.

1 72 (100.00%) Blue Coat
2 56 (77.78%) Firewall
3 42 (58.33%) CheckPoint
4 41 (56.94%) Cisco
5 37 (51.39%) F5
6 30 (41.67%) Juniper
7 29 (40.28%) Citrix
8 27 (37.50%) Linux
9 25 (34.72%) BIG-IP
9 25 (34.72%) Network Security
10 23 (31.94%) Cisco ASA
10 23 (31.94%) VPN
11 22 (30.56%) E-Commerce
12 21 (29.17%) Red Hat
12 21 (29.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 20 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
14 19 (26.39%) WAN
14 19 (26.39%) Load Balancing
15 17 (23.61%) LAN
15 17 (23.61%) DNS
15 17 (23.61%) SSL
15 17 (23.61%) Internet
16 16 (22.22%) HP
16 16 (22.22%) NetScaler
17 15 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
17 15 (20.83%) UNIX
17 15 (20.83%) Windows
17 15 (20.83%) VMware
18 14 (19.44%) OSPF
18 14 (19.44%) Web Services

ProxySG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ProxySG 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 ProxySG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (19.44%) Web Services
2 7 (9.722%) ASP.NET
2 7 (9.722%) .NET
2 7 (9.722%) ADSI
3 6 (8.333%) SOAP
3 6 (8.333%) XML
3 6 (8.333%) XSLT
3 6 (8.333%) WebSphere
4 4 (5.556%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 13 (18.06%) IIS
1 13 (18.06%) Apache
2 7 (9.722%) Oracle Application Server
3 6 (8.333%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (2.778%) MS Visio
1 2 (2.778%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 56 (77.78%) Firewall
2 25 (34.72%) BIG-IP
2 25 (34.72%) Network Security
3 23 (31.94%) Cisco ASA
3 23 (31.94%) VPN
4 19 (26.39%) WAN
5 17 (23.61%) LAN
5 17 (23.61%) DNS
5 17 (23.61%) SSL
5 17 (23.61%) Internet
6 16 (22.22%) NetScaler
7 14 (19.44%) OSPF
8 13 (18.06%) TCP/IP
9 10 (13.89%) IPsec
10 9 (12.50%) DHCP
11 8 (11.11%) BGP
11 8 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
11 8 (11.11%) FWSM
12 7 (9.722%) NAS
12 7 (9.722%) NetScreen
General
1 7 (9.722%) Telecoms
1 7 (9.722%) Finance
2 2 (2.778%) Back Office
2 2 (2.778%) Retail
3 1 (1.389%) Billing
3 1 (1.389%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 15 (20.83%) Network Engineer
2 13 (18.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (13.89%) Security Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Security Specialist
5 7 (9.722%) Wintel Engineer
5 7 (9.722%) Migration Engineer
6 6 (8.333%) E-Commerce Specialist
6 6 (8.333%) Network Security Specialist
6 6 (8.333%) Network Specialist
7 5 (6.944%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (6.944%) Consultant
8 4 (5.556%) Network Consultant
8 4 (5.556%) Network Security Engineer
8 4 (5.556%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.556%) Security Consultant
8 4 (5.556%) Cisco Engineer
8 4 (5.556%) Network Support
8 4 (5.556%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 4 (5.556%) Network Security Consultant
9 3 (4.167%) IP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.722%) Fat Client
1 7 (9.722%) Clustering
1 7 (9.722%) Thin Client
2 6 (8.333%) PKI
3 4 (5.556%) Computer Science
4 2 (2.778%) Streaming Media
Operating Systems
1 27 (37.50%) Linux
2 21 (29.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (20.83%) UNIX
3 15 (20.83%) Windows
4 7 (9.722%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (9.722%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (9.722%) Windows 2000
4 7 (9.722%) Windows XP
4 7 (9.722%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (30.56%) E-Commerce
2 19 (26.39%) Load Balancing
3 13 (18.06%) Change Control
4 11 (15.28%) Project Management
5 8 (11.11%) Migration
6 7 (9.722%) High Availability
6 7 (9.722%) Information Security
6 7 (9.722%) ITIL
7 3 (4.167%) PRINCE2
7 3 (4.167%) ITSM
7 3 (4.167%) Network Security Management
7 3 (4.167%) Security Management
7 3 (4.167%) Change Management
8 1 (1.389%) Content Management
8 1 (1.389%) Document Management
8 1 (1.389%) Network Design
8 1 (1.389%) Problem Management
8 1 (1.389%) Security Architecture
8 1 (1.389%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (1.389%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.11%) SQL
2 6 (8.333%) C
2 6 (8.333%) Java
3 4 (5.556%) VBScript
3 4 (5.556%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (18.06%) CCNP
3 10 (13.89%) CCSE
4 9 (12.50%) CCSA
5 8 (11.11%) CCNA
6 7 (9.722%) CCIE
7 6 (8.333%) CISSP
8 4 (5.556%) Degree
9 3 (4.167%) SC Cleared
9 3 (4.167%) Security Cleared
9 3 (4.167%) CCSP
10 2 (2.778%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (2.778%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (2.778%) JNCIA
11 1 (1.389%) APMP
11 1 (1.389%) MCSE
11 1 (1.389%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.389%) Check Point Certification
11 1 (1.389%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.167%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (9.722%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 7 (9.722%) vSphere
2 7 (9.722%) XenApp
2 7 (9.722%) VMware ESX
3 1 (1.389%) Snort
3 1 (1.389%) NFS
3 1 (1.389%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 7 (9.722%) SCOM
1 7 (9.722%) NetBackup
1 7 (9.722%) Backup Exec
1 7 (9.722%) Legato
2 6 (8.333%) Cisco CUCM
2 6 (8.333%) Cisco UCCX
3 3 (4.167%) SCCM
Vendors
1 72 (100.00%) Blue Coat
2 42 (58.33%) CheckPoint
3 41 (56.94%) Cisco
4 37 (51.39%) F5
5 30 (41.67%) Juniper
6 29 (40.28%) Citrix
7 21 (29.17%) Red Hat
8 16 (22.22%) HP
9 15 (20.83%) VMware
10 13 (18.06%) Microsoft
10 13 (18.06%) Infoblox
11 11 (15.28%) Sourcefire
12 9 (12.50%) McAfee
13 8 (11.11%) Oracle
14 7 (9.722%) Leostream
14 7 (9.722%) PlateSpin
14 7 (9.722%) Sophos
14 7 (9.722%) Dell
14 7 (9.722%) Veritas
14 7 (9.722%) BMC
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