The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SonicWALL 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 SonicWALL over the 3 months to 17 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 SonicWALL, Inc.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SonicWALL
Rank 523 555 578
Rank change year-on-year
+32 +23
Contract jobs citing SonicWALL 7 23 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.015% 0.039% 0.016%
As % of the Vendors category 0.032% 0.085% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 4
Average daily rate - £325 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +13.04%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £231 £331
% change year-on-year
- -30.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
Average hourly rate - £41.50 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +112.82%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £41.50 -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21775 27088 28510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.93% 46.48% 46.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11633 13855 14263
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
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 1193 1289 1605
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 £11.15 £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 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

SonicWALL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SonicWALL Jobs Demand Trend

SonicWALL
Daily Rate Trend

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

SonicWALL Daily Rate Trend

SonicWALL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SonicWALL Hourly Rate Trend

SonicWALL
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SonicWALL within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +33 7 - -
London +15 2 - -
West Midlands +9 2 - -
Birmingham - 2 - -
South East +21 1 - -
South West +19 1 - -
Berkshire +14 1 - -
Reading +11 1 - -
Yorkshire -1 1 - -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 - -
Bristol - 1 - -

SonicWALL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SonicWALL 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 SonicWALL.

1 18 (90.00%) Firewall
2 16 (80.00%) Cisco
3 13 (65.00%) VPN
3 13 (65.00%) LAN
3 13 (65.00%) WAN
4 10 (50.00%) Windows
4 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 10 (50.00%) MPLS
5 9 (45.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (40.00%) FortiGate
6 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
6 8 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (35.00%) DNS
7 7 (35.00%) HP
7 7 (35.00%) Dell
7 7 (35.00%) CCNP
7 7 (35.00%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (30.00%) VoIP
8 6 (30.00%) VMware
9 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (25.00%) DHCP
9 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
9 5 (25.00%) EqualLogic
9 5 (25.00%) VLAN
10 4 (20.00%) CCNA
10 4 (20.00%) Fortinet
10 4 (20.00%) HSRP
10 4 (20.00%) WLAN
10 4 (20.00%) ADSL
10 4 (20.00%) SAN

SonicWALL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SonicWALL 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 SonicWALL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.000%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.000%) MS Exchange
1 1 (5.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (5.000%) Lync
1 1 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) MS Office
2 2 (10.00%) S-PLUS
3 1 (5.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 18 (90.00%) Firewall
2 13 (65.00%) WAN
2 13 (65.00%) LAN
2 13 (65.00%) VPN
3 10 (50.00%) MPLS
4 7 (35.00%) DNS
4 7 (35.00%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (30.00%) VoIP
6 5 (25.00%) DHCP
6 5 (25.00%) VLAN
7 4 (20.00%) HSRP
7 4 (20.00%) BGP
7 4 (20.00%) EIGRP
7 4 (20.00%) ADSL
7 4 (20.00%) Wireless
7 4 (20.00%) WLAN
7 4 (20.00%) SAN
8 3 (15.00%) iSCSI
9 2 (10.00%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (10.00%) Back Office
1 2 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (5.000%) Finance
2 1 (5.000%) Banking
2 1 (5.000%) Retail
2 1 (5.000%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 4 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (5.000%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.000%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) Network Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) VMware Technical Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) EqualLogic
2 3 (15.00%) PKI
3 2 (10.00%) Clustering
4 1 (5.000%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.000%) EPoS
4 1 (5.000%) EMV
4 1 (5.000%) Smartcard
4 1 (5.000%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Windows
2 9 (45.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (15.00%) Windows 7
5 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (10.00%) ITIL
1 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (10.00%) Project Management
1 2 (10.00%) Change Management
1 2 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (10.00%) Network Management
1 2 (10.00%) ITIL V3
1 2 (10.00%) Customer Insight
2 1 (5.000%) Time Management
2 1 (5.000%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (5.000%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (35.00%) CCNP
3 4 (20.00%) CCNA
4 2 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (5.000%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.000%) VCP4
5 1 (5.000%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.000%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) XenServer
3 2 (10.00%) vSphere
4 1 (5.000%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.000%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.000%) XenApp
4 1 (5.000%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (10.00%) SCCM
2 2 (10.00%) SCOM
3 1 (5.000%) Backup Exec
3 1 (5.000%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) Cisco
2 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (35.00%) HP
3 7 (35.00%) Dell
4 6 (30.00%) VMware
5 4 (20.00%) Fortinet
6 3 (15.00%) ProCurve
6 3 (15.00%) Veeam
7 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (10.00%) Apple
7 2 (10.00%) Citrix
7 2 (10.00%) Avaya
7 2 (10.00%) CommVault
7 2 (10.00%) BT
8 1 (5.000%) NetApp
8 1 (5.000%) Veritas
8 1 (5.000%) NetIQ
8 1 (5.000%) Symantec
8 1 (5.000%) Sophos
8 1 (5.000%) WatchGuard