The first table below looks at the demand for NetBackup skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NetBackup 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 Systems Management category for the West Midlands 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec NetBackup
Rank 93 105 85
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -20
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 3 4 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.178% 0.178% 0.484%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.000% 3.540% 8.654%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
Average daily rate £300 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £310
% change year-on-year
- +29.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £24.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-30.00% +4.16%
All Systems Management
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
75 113 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 4.462% 5.029% 5.588%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 53 47
Average daily rate £325 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £175 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £360 £423
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 7
Average hourly rate £12.50 £16.25 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% -32.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.75 £12.05 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.75 £19.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
NetBackup
England

NetBackup
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NetBackup across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

West Midlands NetBackup Jobs Demand Trend

NetBackup
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing NetBackup across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands NetBackup Daily Rate Trend

NetBackup
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NetBackup across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

West Midlands NetBackup Daily Rate Histogram

NetBackup
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing NetBackup across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands NetBackup Hourly Rate Trend

NetBackup
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetBackup within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham - 1 £275 -
NetBackup
England

NetBackup
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing NetBackup 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 NetBackup.

1 4 (80.00%) Symantec
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) EMC
2 2 (40.00%) Backup Exec
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (20.00%) WSUS
3 1 (20.00%) SCCM
3 1 (20.00%) SCOM
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) NAS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) 3PAR
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (20.00%) MOM
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS

NetBackup
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing NetBackup 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 NetBackup. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) NAS
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Backup Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Server Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Support
2 1 (20.00%) Server Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Server Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Backup Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Server Support
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (20.00%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (20.00%) WSUS
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) SCOM
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (20.00%) MOM
2 1 (20.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Symantec
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) 3PAR
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) HP