The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Open Text products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Open Text over the 3 months to 20 June 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 for the Wales region.

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 the Open Text Corporation.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Text
Rank 45 47 58
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +11
Contract jobs citing Open Text 3 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 0.636% 1.363% 0.427%
As % of the Vendors category 1.478% 3.077% 0.855%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £425 £210 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+102.38% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £419 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+11.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
203 260 351
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 43.01% 44.29% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 112 143
Average daily rate £375 £313 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £153 £200 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 15
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% -34.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.69 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.40 £25.15 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.04 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+0.21% -5.00%
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Open Text
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Open Text across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Wales Open Text Jobs Demand Trend

Open Text
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Open Text across the Wales region.

Wales Open Text Daily Rate Trend

Open Text
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing Open Text 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 Open Text.

1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
1 3 (50.00%) Web Services
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) HP
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
1 3 (50.00%) Symantec
1 3 (50.00%) McAfee
1 3 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 3 (50.00%) Clustering
1 3 (50.00%) Backup Exec
1 3 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
1 3 (50.00%) SCOM
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (50.00%) Forefront TMG
1 3 (50.00%) RightFax
2 2 (33.33%) ABAP
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) BC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) LiveLink
3 1 (16.67%) Military

Open Text
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing Open Text 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 Open Text. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (16.67%) LiveLink
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Integration Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Integration Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (50.00%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 3 (50.00%) Backup Exec
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
1 3 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) HP
1 3 (50.00%) Symantec
1 3 (50.00%) McAfee
1 3 (50.00%) RightFax
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