The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Blue Coat products and/or services 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 Blue Coat over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Blue Coat
Rank 90 - 67
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 1 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.079% - 0.624%
As % of the Vendors category 0.182% - 1.728%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £170
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.73% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year
- +92.63%
All Vendors
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
549 721 405
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 43.26% 44.56% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 358 157
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £170 £192
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 35 44
Average hourly rate £15.25 £14.50 £16.72
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.17% -13.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.76 £10.30 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £32.50 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Blue Coat
Yorkshire

Blue Coat
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Blue Coat across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

West Yorkshire Blue Coat Jobs Demand Trend

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Blue Coat Daily Rate Trend

Blue Coat
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Coat within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Leeds - 1 - -
Blue Coat
Yorkshire

Blue Coat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Blue Coat 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 Blue Coat.

1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (50.00%) Sendmail
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Symantec
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Websense
2 1 (50.00%) NetScreen
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Reverse Proxy

Blue Coat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Blue Coat 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 Blue Coat. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SAS
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) NetScreen
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) BC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Sendmail
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Symantec
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee
2 1 (50.00%) Websense
2 1 (50.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (50.00%) Sun
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
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