The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Redback 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 Redback over the 3 months to 23 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 Redback Networks, Inc.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Redback
Rank 536 499 583
Rank change year-on-year
-37 +84
Contract jobs citing Redback 5 66 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.113% 0.005%
As % of the Vendors category 0.023% 0.243% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 13 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £350 -
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
21806 27110 28885
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.06% 46.44% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11630 13854 14453
Average daily rate £400 £400 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 1173 1314 1625
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.56 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.87% -2.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%

Redback
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Redback Jobs Demand Trend

Redback
Daily Rate Trend

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

Redback Daily Rate Trend

Redback
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Redback Hourly Rate Trend

Redback
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 Redback within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 -18 4 - -
Reading -17 3 - -
South East -44 3 - -
Berkshire -44 3 - -

Redback
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Redback 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 Redback.

1 6 (100.00%) VoIP
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) SNMP
2 5 (83.33%) Juniper
2 5 (83.33%) OSPF
2 5 (83.33%) BGP
2 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (66.67%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (66.67%) 3G
3 4 (66.67%) MPLS
3 4 (66.67%) WAN
3 4 (66.67%) SMTP
3 4 (66.67%) DHCP
3 4 (66.67%) LAN
3 4 (66.67%) DNS
4 3 (50.00%) OpenView
4 3 (50.00%) HP
4 3 (50.00%) CiscoWorks
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (50.00%) Back Office
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
5 2 (33.33%) Firewall
5 2 (33.33%) HP NNM
5 2 (33.33%) FWSM
5 2 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
5 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (33.33%) CCIE

Redback
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Redback 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 Redback. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) VoIP
2 5 (83.33%) SNMP
2 5 (83.33%) OSPF
2 5 (83.33%) BGP
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (66.67%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (66.67%) 3G
3 4 (66.67%) MPLS
3 4 (66.67%) WAN
3 4 (66.67%) SMTP
3 4 (66.67%) DHCP
3 4 (66.67%) LAN
3 4 (66.67%) DNS
4 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (33.33%) Firewall
5 2 (33.33%) FWSM
5 2 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
5 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (16.67%) Broadband
General
1 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
2 3 (50.00%) Back Office
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) IP Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Implementation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) SecurID
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CCIE
2 2 (33.33%) CCDP
2 2 (33.33%) CCNP
3 1 (16.67%) CCIP
3 1 (16.67%) CCSP
3 1 (16.67%) Check Point Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) OpenView
1 3 (50.00%) CiscoWorks
2 2 (33.33%) HP NNM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) Juniper
3 3 (50.00%) HP
4 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
5 1 (16.67%) Nokia
5 1 (16.67%) Radware