Kent Symantec Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Symantec products and/or services in IT jobs within the Kent region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Symantec over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Cheshunt Chippenham Cirencester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnborough Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge London Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North Wales North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Runcorn Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Surrey Teddington Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	97	102
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching permanent IT job ads	7	7
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.974 %	1.074 %
Salaries quoted	4	4
Average minimum salary	£26,000	£21,500
Average salary	£28,000	£24,500
% change on same period last year	+14.28 %
Average maximum salary	£30,000	£27,500
UK excluding London average salary	£35,175	£36,595
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Vendors Kent
Matching permanent IT job ads	719	652
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.416 %	0.281 %
Salaries quoted	595	531
Average minimum salary	£34,249	£32,261
Average salary	£36,848	£34,779
% change on same period last year	+5.94 %
Average maximum salary	£39,448	£37,298
UK excluding London average salary	£40,460	£41,836
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
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These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Symantec Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Symantec across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Symantec across the Kent region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Kent 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 8 (72.73 %) Windows 2 6 (54.55 %) SAN 2 6 (54.55 %) NetBackup 3 5 (45.45 %) Active Directory 3 5 (45.45 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (36.36 %) VERITAS 4 4 (36.36 %) MS Exchange 4 4 (36.36 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (36.36 %) Backup Exec 4 4 (36.36 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 3 (27.27 %) Brocade 5 3 (27.27 %) Pensions 5 3 (27.27 %) Finance 5 3 (27.27 %) Health 5 3 (27.27 %) Windows XP

5 3 (27.27 %) HPUX 5 3 (27.27 %) Solaris 5 3 (27.27 %) Linux 5 3 (27.27 %) SQL 5 3 (27.27 %) IIS 5 3 (27.27 %) MS Office 5 3 (27.27 %) Firmware 5 3 (27.27 %) HP 5 3 (27.27 %) IBM 5 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 5 3 (27.27 %) Internet 6 2 (18.18 %) DNS 6 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification 6 2 (18.18 %) UNIX 6 2 (18.18 %) MCSE

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Kent 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 Platforms 1 4 (36.36 %) MS Exchange 1 4 (36.36 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (27.27 %) IIS 3 2 (18.18 %) SharePoint 3 2 (18.18 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 6 (54.55 %) SAN 2 3 (27.27 %) Internet 3 2 (18.18 %) Firewall 3 2 (18.18 %) HTTP 3 2 (18.18 %) DNS 4 1 (9.091 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (9.091 %) VPN 4 1 (9.091 %) ADSL 4 1 (9.091 %) LAN 4 1 (9.091 %) WAN 4 1 (9.091 %) DHCP	General 1 3 (27.27 %) Finance 1 3 (27.27 %) Health 1 3 (27.27 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 6 (54.55 %) Support Engineer 2 3 (27.27 %) Administrator 2 3 (27.27 %) Storage Administrator 2 3 (27.27 %) Storage Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Helpdesk Technician 3 1 (9.091 %) Network Support Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Server Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Network Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Server Support Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Network Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Server Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 3 (27.27 %) Firmware 2 2 (18.18 %) Management Information System 3 1 (9.091 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 8 (72.73 %) Windows 2 5 (45.45 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (36.36 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (27.27 %) Windows XP 4 3 (27.27 %) HPUX 4 3 (27.27 %) Solaris 4 3 (27.27 %) Linux 5 2 (18.18 %) UNIX 6 1 (9.091 %) Windows Mobile 6 1 (9.091 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2008 6 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (18.18 %) Network Design 1 2 (18.18 %) Computer Security
Programming Languages 1 3 (27.27 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (18.18 %) MCSE 1 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (18.18 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (9.091 %) SLA	System Software 1 6 (54.55 %) NetBackup 2 5 (45.45 %) Active Directory 3 4 (36.36 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 2 (18.18 %) WSUS 2 1 (9.091 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 4 (36.36 %) VERITAS 2 3 (27.27 %) IBM 2 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 2 3 (27.27 %) HP 2 3 (27.27 %) Brocade 3 1 (9.091 %) WatchGuard 3 1 (9.091 %) Mitel