The first table below looks at the demand for Veritas Cluster Server skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Veritas Cluster Server over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)
Rank 466 517 489
Rank change year-on-year
+51 -28
Contract jobs citing Veritas Cluster Server 74 64 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.157% 0.109% 0.151%
As % of the System Software category 1.679% 1.376% 2.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 32 55
Average daily rate £425 £401 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.91% -5.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £313 £322
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £425 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £356 £316
% change year-on-year
+19.29% +12.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 -
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4407 4652 4389
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.335% 7.958% 7.296%
Number of daily rates quoted 2121 2234 1929
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 £204 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 623 644
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 £11.15 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £36.03 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%

Veritas Cluster Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Veritas Cluster Server Jobs Demand Trend

Veritas Cluster Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Veritas Cluster Server Daily Rate Trend

Veritas Cluster Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Veritas Cluster Server within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Veritas Cluster Server Daily Rate Histogram

Veritas Cluster Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Veritas Cluster Server Hourly Rate Trend

Veritas Cluster Server
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 Veritas Cluster Server within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +52 70 £425 +5.91%
London +39 59 £413 +2.48%
South East +32 9 £425 -
City of London +12 8 £406 +1.24%
Surrey +22 7 £425 -
Camberley - 5 £425 -
Docklands, London +3 2 £400 -
Scotland - 2 £373 -
East of England -8 1 - -
Canary Wharf - 1 £425 -
South West - 1 £450 -
Brentford - 1 £450 -
Renfrewshire - 1 £373 -
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
Hemel Hempstead - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 - -
Erskine - 1 £373 -

Veritas Cluster Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Veritas Cluster Server 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 Veritas Cluster Server.

1 114 (96.61%) Veritas
2 107 (90.68%) Linux
3 93 (78.81%) UNIX
3 93 (78.81%) Solaris
4 78 (66.10%) SAN
4 78 (66.10%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 67 (56.78%) EMC
6 65 (55.08%) Finance
7 59 (50.00%) AIX
8 54 (45.76%) Red Hat
9 51 (43.22%) Shell Script
10 50 (42.37%) Banking
11 46 (38.98%) VMware
11 46 (38.98%) Sun
11 46 (38.98%) Oracle
12 43 (36.44%) Investment Banking
13 42 (35.59%) SUSE
14 41 (34.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 39 (33.05%) Perl
16 38 (32.20%) ITIL
17 37 (31.36%) Migration
18 36 (30.51%) Korn
19 32 (27.12%) Problem Management
20 29 (24.58%) Symmetrix DMX
20 29 (24.58%) NAS
20 29 (24.58%) RDF
21 26 (22.03%) Change Management
22 24 (20.34%) Sybase
23 20 (16.95%) SharePoint
23 20 (16.95%) Clustering

Veritas Cluster Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Veritas Cluster Server 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 Veritas Cluster Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (4.237%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.847%) LAMP
2 1 (0.847%) Memcached
2 1 (0.847%) Gearman
Application Platforms
1 20 (16.95%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.932%) Apache
3 6 (5.085%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.542%) MS Exchange
5 2 (1.695%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (1.695%) MQSeries
5 2 (1.695%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.237%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.695%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 78 (66.10%) SAN
2 29 (24.58%) NAS
3 15 (12.71%) TCP/IP
4 10 (8.475%) DHCP
5 8 (6.780%) Gigabit Ethernet
6 7 (5.932%) DNS
7 5 (4.237%) LDAP
7 5 (4.237%) Ethernet
8 3 (2.542%) VoIP
8 3 (2.542%) iSCSI
9 2 (1.695%) VLAN
9 2 (1.695%) Firewall
10 1 (0.847%) SSH
10 1 (0.847%) Internet
10 1 (0.847%) SNMP
10 1 (0.847%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.25%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (1.695%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (1.695%) MySQL
3 1 (0.847%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (0.847%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.847%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.847%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (0.847%) Subversion
General
1 65 (55.08%) Finance
2 50 (42.37%) Banking
3 43 (36.44%) Investment Banking
4 7 (5.932%) Financial Institution
5 5 (4.237%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (0.847%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (39.83%) Administrator
2 42 (35.59%) Systems Administrator
3 37 (31.36%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 33 (27.97%) UNIX Administrator
5 16 (13.56%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 13 (11.02%) Linux Engineer
7 12 (10.17%) Linux Administrator
8 8 (6.780%) UNIX Support
8 8 (6.780%) Consultant
9 7 (5.932%) UNIX Consultant
9 7 (5.932%) UNIX Engineer
10 6 (5.085%) Solaris Systems Administrator
10 6 (5.085%) Solaris Administrator
10 6 (5.085%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 5 (4.237%) Technical Consultant
11 5 (4.237%) UNIX Specialist
12 4 (3.390%) Analyst
12 4 (3.390%) Systems Analyst
13 3 (2.542%) Technical Specialist
13 3 (2.542%) Exchange Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 29 (24.58%) Symmetrix DMX
2 20 (16.95%) Clustering
2 20 (16.95%) Wiki
3 10 (8.475%) Firmware
3 10 (8.475%) Hedge funds
4 5 (4.237%) HACMP
5 3 (2.542%) Equities
5 3 (2.542%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.542%) EqualLogic
6 1 (0.847%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 107 (90.68%) Linux
2 93 (78.81%) UNIX
2 93 (78.81%) Solaris
3 59 (50.00%) AIX
4 42 (35.59%) SUSE
5 41 (34.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (10.17%) Windows
7 8 (6.780%) HPUX
8 5 (4.237%) VMS
9 4 (3.390%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (3.390%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (2.542%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.847%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.847%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (32.20%) ITIL
2 37 (31.36%) Migration
3 32 (27.12%) Problem Management
4 29 (24.58%) RDF
5 26 (22.03%) Change Management
6 5 (4.237%) Validation
6 5 (4.237%) Fund Management
6 5 (4.237%) Wealth Management
6 5 (4.237%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (4.237%) Business Transformation
7 3 (2.542%) Risk Analysis
7 3 (2.542%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (1.695%) Capacity Management
8 2 (1.695%) Network Architecture
8 2 (1.695%) Time Management
9 1 (0.847%) Configuration Management
9 1 (0.847%) Project Management
9 1 (0.847%) Operations Management
9 1 (0.847%) Business Analysis
9 1 (0.847%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (43.22%) Shell Script
2 39 (33.05%) Perl
3 36 (30.51%) Korn
4 17 (14.41%) Bash shell
5 11 (9.322%) Python
6 3 (2.542%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.847%) AWK
7 1 (0.847%) Ruby
7 1 (0.847%) C++
7 1 (0.847%) PHP
7 1 (0.847%) SQL
7 1 (0.847%) Bourne shell
7 1 (0.847%) sed
Qualifications
1 6 (5.085%) RHCE
2 1 (0.847%) Degree
2 1 (0.847%) SCSA
2 1 (0.847%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (0.847%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (0.847%) HPUX Certification
2 1 (0.847%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (0.847%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (0.847%) CCNA
2 1 (0.847%) MCSE
2 1 (0.847%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.847%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.17%) SLA
2 2 (1.695%) QA
System Software
1 78 (66.10%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 20 (16.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (15.25%) Veritas File System
4 14 (11.86%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (6.780%) NFS
5 8 (6.780%) Samba
6 7 (5.932%) vSphere
7 5 (4.237%) Active Directory
7 5 (4.237%) SRDF
8 4 (3.390%) PowerHA
8 4 (3.390%) Cronacle
9 3 (2.542%) VMware ESX
10 2 (1.695%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (1.695%) Postfix
11 1 (0.847%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.847%) Xen
11 1 (0.847%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.847%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.847%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.847%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 12 (10.17%) Puppet
2 8 (6.780%) Cobbler
3 7 (5.932%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 5 (4.237%) NetBackup
4 5 (4.237%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (2.542%) Tivoli
5 3 (2.542%) OpenView
5 3 (2.542%) Cacti
5 3 (2.542%) OpenNMS
6 2 (1.695%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 2 (1.695%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (1.695%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.847%) Nagios
7 1 (0.847%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.847%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 114 (96.61%) Veritas
2 67 (56.78%) EMC
3 54 (45.76%) Red Hat
4 46 (38.98%) VMware
4 46 (38.98%) Sun
4 46 (38.98%) Oracle
5 24 (20.34%) Sybase
6 16 (13.56%) HP
7 15 (12.71%) IBM
8 10 (8.475%) Microsoft
9 6 (5.085%) NetApp
10 4 (3.390%) Dell
11 3 (2.542%) Symantec
11 3 (2.542%) Hitachi
12 2 (1.695%) BMC
13 1 (0.847%) Remedy
13 1 (0.847%) Fujitsu
13 1 (0.847%) Brocade
13 1 (0.847%) Intel
13 1 (0.847%) Cisco
Camberley, Surrey
An opportunity has arisen for a skilled UNIX SA to join a global organisation as part of a projects team working closely with the Backup Storage projects for...
Aston Carter
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Camberley, Surrey
A leading investment bank requires a senior UNIX engineer to work within their infrastructure area. The successful candidate will need: Requirements: * Deep knowledge of Linux and Solaris Operating...
iKas International
Rate: £400 - £475 per day
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Knowledge of AIX, HpUX. Ability to deploy and configure Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server... Required skills; Linux, RHEL, Solaris, Shell Scripting, AIX, HpUX, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas...
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Rate: £450 - £475 per day
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They are looking for someone with technical skills in the following: *Oracle Database Server Administration at an expert level (including RAC) *Oracle High Availability technologies at an expert...
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