Symantec Contracts

Symantec
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Symantec products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Symantec over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Symantec Corporation.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 623 672
Rank change year-on-year +87 +49 -80
Contract jobs citing Symantec 62 96 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 0.37% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 71 133
10th Percentile £400 £413 £365
25th Percentile £475 £440 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £775 - £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +14.29% +10.53% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £18.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -71.97% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £18.50 -

All Vendors
UK

Symantec is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

Symantec
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Symantec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Symantec in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Symantec.

Daily rate trend for Symantec in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Symantec over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Symantec in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Symantec.

Hourly rate trend for Symantec in the UK

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Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Symantec within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +126 58 £600 +10.60% 25
UK excluding London +66 43 £600 +14.29% 13
South East +30 21 £605 +34.44% 4
London +99 16 £675 +20.54% 13
Work from Home +82 14 £475 -9.09% 9
Midlands +27 11 £675 +58.82%
North of England +35 6 £575 -4.17% 1
East Midlands +23 6 £575 -
West Midlands +29 5 £750 +76.47%
North West +15 3 £575 -4.17% 1
East of England - 3 £290 - 2
Scotland +31 2 £525 -1.28%
Yorkshire - 2 £399 -
North East - 1 £600 -

Symantec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.84%) CMS
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (3.23%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (3.23%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (3.23%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (3.23%) Exchange Server 5.5
2 2 (3.23%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.61%) Apache
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 24 (38.71%) Azure
2 13 (20.97%) OCI
3 10 (16.13%) AWS
4 9 (14.52%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (9.68%) Entra ID
5 6 (9.68%) GCP
6 5 (8.06%) Alation
7 4 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.23%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.61%) Collibra
9 1 (1.61%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 32 (51.61%) DNS
2 28 (45.16%) DHCP
3 26 (41.94%) Firewall
4 19 (30.65%) SAN
5 9 (14.52%) Internet
6 7 (11.29%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (9.68%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (9.68%) VPN
8 5 (8.06%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (8.06%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (8.06%) HTTP
8 5 (8.06%) LAN
8 5 (8.06%) MPLS
8 5 (8.06%) PBX
8 5 (8.06%) SD-WAN
8 5 (8.06%) VoIP
8 5 (8.06%) WAN
8 5 (8.06%) WLAN
9 4 (6.45%) SMTP
10 3 (4.84%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) Metadata
1 5 (8.06%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.45%) Big Data
3 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.61%) Power BI
3 1 (1.61%) PowerCenter
3 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.61%) Git
2 1 (1.61%) Subversion
General
1 20 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.90%) Banking
2 8 (12.90%) Finance
3 6 (9.68%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.84%) Legal
5 2 (3.23%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (32.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (19.35%) Storage Engineer
3 8 (12.90%) Architect
3 8 (12.90%) Senior
4 5 (8.06%) Enterprise Architect
4 5 (8.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Analyst
5 4 (6.45%) Consultant
6 3 (4.84%) Developer
6 3 (4.84%) Junior
6 3 (4.84%) Junior Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Server Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) SharePoint Developer
6 3 (4.84%) SOC Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Data Governance Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) Web Services
2 4 (6.45%) LDAP
3 3 (4.84%) CSS
3 3 (4.84%) HTML5 Canvas
3 3 (4.84%) jQuery
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (3.23%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.61%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.61%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 21 (33.87%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (9.68%) HP Storage
3 5 (8.06%) Clustering
3 5 (8.06%) Cyberattack
4 3 (4.84%) PKI
4 3 (4.84%) Replication
5 2 (3.23%) Blackberry
5 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.61%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 36 (58.06%) Windows
2 27 (43.55%) Linux
3 19 (30.65%) Windows 10
4 18 (29.03%) Windows Server
5 16 (25.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (24.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (22.58%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (20.97%) Windows XP
9 9 (14.52%) Windows Server 2003
10 7 (11.29%) Solaris
11 6 (9.68%) AIX
12 4 (6.45%) Windows 7
12 4 (6.45%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (4.84%) Unix
14 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.16%) ITIL
2 23 (37.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 19 (30.65%) Performance Tuning
3 19 (30.65%) Project Management
4 18 (29.03%) Storage Management
5 16 (25.81%) Data Loss Prevention
6 15 (24.19%) Performance Monitoring
6 15 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (20.97%) Break/Fix
7 13 (20.97%) Converged Infrastructure
7 13 (20.97%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (20.97%) Proactive Monitoring
7 13 (20.97%) Project Delivery
7 13 (20.97%) Server Management
8 7 (11.29%) Analytics
8 7 (11.29%) Migration
8 7 (11.29%) Roadmaps
9 6 (9.68%) Computer Science
9 6 (9.68%) Data Protection
9 6 (9.68%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (46.77%) PowerShell
2 8 (12.90%) SQL
3 6 (9.68%) Bash
3 6 (9.68%) VBScript
4 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.84%) Python
5 1 (1.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 28 (45.16%) Security Cleared
2 19 (30.65%) Degree
2 19 (30.65%) DV Cleared
2 19 (30.65%) SC Cleared
3 18 (29.03%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (20.97%) CCNA
4 13 (20.97%) CCNP
5 5 (8.06%) CCIE
5 5 (8.06%) CCIE Data Center
5 5 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (6.45%) CISSP
7 3 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (4.84%) CISM
7 3 (4.84%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (3.23%) CEH
8 2 (3.23%) RHCE
8 2 (3.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) GDPR
2 5 (8.06%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.61%) GRC
4 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (40.32%) Active Directory
2 18 (29.03%) VMware ESXi
3 17 (27.42%) Hyper-V
3 17 (27.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (11.29%) XenApp
5 5 (8.06%) vSphere
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.61%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.61%) DFS Replication
7 1 (1.61%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.61%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (33.87%) NetBackup
2 19 (30.65%) EMC NetWorker
2 19 (30.65%) SCCM
3 18 (29.03%) vCenter Server
4 15 (24.19%) WSUS
5 13 (20.97%) SCOM
6 6 (9.68%) HP Data Protector
7 3 (4.84%) PingFederate
8 2 (3.23%) Ansible
8 2 (3.23%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (3.23%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (3.23%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.61%) Norton AntiVirus
9 1 (1.61%) Puppet
9 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.61%) SELinux
9 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (1.61%) vMotion
Vendors
1 27 (43.55%) Cisco
2 23 (37.10%) VMware
3 22 (35.48%) HP
3 22 (35.48%) Microsoft
4 21 (33.87%) EMC
5 20 (32.26%) Oracle
6 19 (30.65%) Palo Alto
7 14 (22.58%) Dell
7 14 (22.58%) Juniper
7 14 (22.58%) Veeam
8 13 (20.97%) 3PAR
8 13 (20.97%) Extreme Networks
9 10 (16.13%) Citrix
9 10 (16.13%) Zscaler
10 6 (9.68%) Brocade
10 6 (9.68%) Infoblox
10 6 (9.68%) Ivanti
11 5 (8.06%) IronPort
11 5 (8.06%) SolarWinds
11 5 (8.06%) Talend