The first table below looks at the demand for Backup Exec skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 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 104 109 94
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -15
Contract jobs citing Backup Exec 6 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.323% 0.134% 0.219%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.371% 2.000% 2.151%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
Average daily rate £225 £100 £170
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+125.00% -41.17%
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
178 150 186
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 9.580% 6.714% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 86 82
Average daily rate £325 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £213 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £425 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 12
Average hourly rate £15.25 £12.16 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.38% -44.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.35 £9.68 £15.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.80 £21.45 £28.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
Backup Exec
England

Backup Exec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Backup Exec Daily Rate Trend

Backup Exec
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Backup Exec across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Yorkshire Backup Exec Daily Rate Histogram

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 Yorkshire region.

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 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
West Yorkshire +3 3 £138 +38.00%
South Yorkshire - 2 £300 -
East Yorkshire - 1 - -
Backup Exec
England

Backup Exec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (50.00%) Citrix
3 4 (50.00%) Symantec
3 4 (50.00%) NetBackup
4 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (37.50%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (37.50%) SAN
4 3 (37.50%) HP
4 3 (37.50%) EMC
4 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (25.00%) VMware ESX
5 2 (25.00%) Xen
5 2 (25.00%) Time Management
5 2 (25.00%) iSCSI
5 2 (25.00%) NAS
5 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (25.00%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) MCSE
5 2 (25.00%) MS Exchange
5 2 (25.00%) NetApp
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (25.00%) NFS
5 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (25.00%) Service Management
5 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery

Backup Exec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) SAN
2 2 (25.00%) iSCSI
2 2 (25.00%) NAS
2 2 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
General
1 2 (25.00%) Back Office
1 2 (25.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Support Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (25.00%) IT Support
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Time Management
1 2 (25.00%) Analytics
1 2 (25.00%) Service Management
1 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) MCSE
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) MCITP
2 1 (12.50%) CCA
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (25.00%) VMware ESX
3 2 (25.00%) Xen
3 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (25.00%) NFS
4 1 (12.50%) XenApp
4 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 3 (37.50%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (25.00%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 4 (50.00%) Citrix
3 4 (50.00%) Symantec
4 3 (37.50%) HP
4 3 (37.50%) EMC
5 2 (25.00%) NetApp
6 1 (12.50%) Juniper
6 1 (12.50%) Apple
Halifax, West Yorkshire
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Posted: 21 May 2013