The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Symantec products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Symantec over the 3 months to 23 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 Edinburgh region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within the Symantec Corporation.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec
Rank 80 81 102
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +21
Permanent jobs citing Symantec 6 11 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.564% 0.805% 0.189%
As % of the Vendors category 1.299% 1.877% 0.519%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
Average salary £47,500 £65,000 £16,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.92% +293.93%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
All Vendors
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
462 586 578
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 43.42% 42.87% 36.44%
Number of salaries quoted 297 428 423
Average salary £42,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Symantec
Scotland

Symantec
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Symantec across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Edinburgh Symantec Jobs Demand Trend

Symantec
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Symantec across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Symantec Salary Trend

Symantec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Symantec 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Symantec.

1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
3 7 (43.75%) VMware
4 6 (37.50%) Telecoms
4 6 (37.50%) Windows
5 5 (31.25%) MS Exchange
5 5 (31.25%) EMC
5 5 (31.25%) SAN
5 5 (31.25%) Firewall
5 5 (31.25%) Backup Exec
5 5 (31.25%) Degree
6 4 (25.00%) Operations Management
6 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (25.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 4 (25.00%) UNIX
6 4 (25.00%) VoIP
6 4 (25.00%) WAN
6 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
7 3 (18.75%) Cisco
7 3 (18.75%) Perl
7 3 (18.75%) Legato
7 3 (18.75%) Citrix
7 3 (18.75%) Tivoli
7 3 (18.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (18.75%) NetBackup
7 3 (18.75%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (12.50%) Axway
8 2 (12.50%) Fujitsu
8 2 (12.50%) Qualys

Symantec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Symantec also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Symantec. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (12.50%) XML
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) MS Exchange
2 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.250%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) SAN
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
2 4 (25.00%) VoIP
2 4 (25.00%) WAN
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.250%) VPN
4 1 (6.250%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Telecoms
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (6.250%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Storage Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) IT Operations Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Operations Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Network Support
4 2 (12.50%) Security Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Network Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Information Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Information Security Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Citrix Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Windows Server Specialist
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Storage Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Server Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 2 (12.50%) CLARiiON
2 1 (6.250%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (25.00%) UNIX
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 7
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.250%) Windows XP
4 1 (6.250%) Solaris
4 1 (6.250%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Operations Management
2 2 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (12.50%) Security Management
2 2 (12.50%) Information Security
2 2 (12.50%) Information Management
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Forensics
2 2 (12.50%) Ethical Hacking
2 2 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (12.50%) Service Management
2 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 2 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (6.250%) Change Management
3 1 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (6.250%) Business Continuity
3 1 (6.250%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Perl
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.250%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (12.50%) vSphere
1 2 (12.50%) XenDesktop
1 2 (12.50%) ProxySG
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.250%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (6.250%) VMware ESX
2 1 (6.250%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.250%) XenApp
2 1 (6.250%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Backup Exec
2 4 (25.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 3 (18.75%) Legato
3 3 (18.75%) Tivoli
3 3 (18.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (18.75%) NetBackup
3 3 (18.75%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (12.50%) SCOM
4 2 (12.50%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) EMC
4 3 (18.75%) Cisco
4 3 (18.75%) Citrix
5 2 (12.50%) Axway
5 2 (12.50%) Fujitsu
5 2 (12.50%) Qualys
5 2 (12.50%) Tufin
5 2 (12.50%) Blue Coat
5 2 (12.50%) HP
5 2 (12.50%) NetApp
5 2 (12.50%) StorageTek
5 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
5 2 (12.50%) IBM
6 1 (6.250%) Oracle
6 1 (6.250%) Veritas
6 1 (6.250%) CommVault
6 1 (6.250%) Altiris
6 1 (6.250%) AppSense
Edinburgh, Scotland
You will have excellent working knowledge of Microsoft, Citrix and VMWare and will ideally hold Microsoft certifications, although these aren't essential... Any experience of Symantec Backup Exec...
Bluefire Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
You will have excellent working knowledge of Microsoft, Citrix and VMWare and will ideally hold Microsoft certifications, although these aren't essential... Any experience of Symantec Backup Exec...
Bluefire Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Windows Server 2008R2 / Windows Server 2003... Experience in the following technologies is highly desirable; Microsoft SQL Server 2008 App Sense Performance, Application and Environment Manager, EMC CLARiiON / NetApp,...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: offer competitive package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Experience in the following technologies is highly desirable; Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Citrix Technologies (including Xen Desktop 5.6, Xen Aapp v5/6, EdgSight, Zone Data Collector, Web...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: offer competitive package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
My client, a highly regarded financial services organisation in Edinburgh, is seeking an Information Security Analyst to join their growing team. The job falls under the Security Events...
Salary: £ Highly Competitive Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013