The first table below looks at the demand for Backup Exec skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Backup Exec over the 3 months to 24 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 Yorkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec Backup Exec
Rank 85 88 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing Backup Exec 3 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.239% 0.192% -
As % of the Systems Management category 2.479% 2.586% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £138 £100 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £258 £200
% change year-on-year
-2.91% +28.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £17.50 £17.25
% change year-on-year
+1.42% +1.44%
All Systems Management
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
121 116 123
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 9.641% 7.412% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 68 54
Average daily rate £300 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £216 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 9
Average hourly rate £15.25 £15.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.66% -30.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £15.00 £14.68
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £15.00 £29.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
Backup Exec
Yorkshire

Backup Exec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Backup Exec Jobs Demand Trend

Backup Exec
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Backup Exec Daily Rate Trend

Backup Exec
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Backup Exec Hourly Rate Trend

Backup Exec
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backup Exec within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Halifax - 2 £138 -
Leeds -9 1 - -
Backup Exec
Yorkshire

Backup Exec
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Backup Exec 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 Backup Exec.

1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Symantec
2 3 (60.00%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (40.00%) NAS
3 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) NFS
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Back Office
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) VMware ESX
3 2 (40.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (40.00%) Xen
3 2 (40.00%) Time Management
3 2 (40.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) EMC
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) SAN
3 2 (40.00%) NetApp
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) ARCserve

Backup Exec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Backup Exec 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 Backup Exec. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) NAS
1 2 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Support Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) IT Support
2 2 (40.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management
1 2 (40.00%) Time Management
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (40.00%) NFS
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESX
2 2 (40.00%) Xen
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (40.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (40.00%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Symantec
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) EMC
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) NetApp
Halifax, West Yorkshire
VMWare. Citrix. Active directory and Windows based domains... DNS, DHCP servers... Antivirus solutions (Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro) Backup solutions (Symantec backup exec, ArcServe etc.) TCP/ IP and Networking...
Spinnaker Red
Rate: From £280 to £300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013