Symantec Contracts

Symantec
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Symantec products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Symantec over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Symantec Corporation.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 598 662
Rank change year-on-year +86 +64 -56
Contract jobs citing Symantec 63 84 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 0.35% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 58 133
10th Percentile £396 £413 £385
25th Percentile £475 £444 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £588
90th Percentile £775 - £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £603 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +14.76% +10.53% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £18.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -71.97% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £18.50 -

All Vendors
UK

Symantec is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,277 24,339 35,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.45% 43.42% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,373 16,241 23,612
10th Percentile £263 £265 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 647 855
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.97 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%

Symantec
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Symantec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Symantec in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Symantec.

Daily rate trend for Symantec in the UK

Symantec
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Symantec over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Symantec in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Symantec.

Hourly rate trend for Symantec in the UK

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Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Symantec within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +95 60 £600 +14.83% 13
UK excluding London +47 44 £603 +14.76% 11
South East +21 22 £605 +34.44% 2
Work from Home +73 16 £475 -2.56% 3
London +92 15 £600 +7.14% 4
Midlands +29 11 £675 +58.82% 1
North of England +23 6 £575 +8.24% 1
East Midlands - 6 £575 - 1
West Midlands +14 5 £750 +76.47%
East of England - 4 £290 - 1
North West +18 3 £575 +8.24% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £399 -
South West -1 1 - - 5
North East - 1 £600 -

Symantec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.35%) CMS
1 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (6.35%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (3.17%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (3.17%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (3.17%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (3.17%) Exchange Server 5.5
2 2 (3.17%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) Exchange Server 2013
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.68%) Azure
2 14 (22.22%) OCI
3 10 (15.87%) Microsoft Purview
4 7 (11.11%) AWS
5 6 (9.52%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.94%) GCP
7 4 (6.35%) Alation
7 4 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.17%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 32 (50.79%) DNS
2 27 (42.86%) DHCP
2 27 (42.86%) Firewall
3 20 (31.75%) SAN
4 9 (14.29%) Internet
5 7 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (9.52%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (9.52%) HTTP
6 6 (9.52%) VPN
7 5 (7.94%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (7.94%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (7.94%) FTP
7 5 (7.94%) LAN
7 5 (7.94%) MPLS
7 5 (7.94%) PBX
7 5 (7.94%) SD-WAN
7 5 (7.94%) SMTP
7 5 (7.94%) VoIP
7 5 (7.94%) WAN
7 5 (7.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) Metadata
1 4 (6.35%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.76%) Big Data
3 2 (3.17%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.59%) Power BI
4 1 (1.59%) PowerCenter
4 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.59%) Git
2 1 (1.59%) Subversion
General
1 19 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.70%) Banking
2 8 (12.70%) Finance
3 7 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Legal
5 2 (3.17%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (34.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (20.63%) Storage Engineer
3 9 (14.29%) Architect
4 8 (12.70%) Senior
5 6 (9.52%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (7.94%) Analyst
6 5 (7.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Server Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) SOC Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Consultant
8 3 (4.76%) Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Junior
8 3 (4.76%) Junior Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) PowerShell Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Security Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) SharePoint Developer
8 3 (4.76%) VMware Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Architect
9 2 (3.17%) Data Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) LDAP
1 5 (7.94%) Web Services
2 3 (4.76%) CSS
2 3 (4.76%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (4.76%) jQuery
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (3.17%) Regular Expression
4 1 (1.59%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.59%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 20 (31.75%) Data Centre
2 7 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (9.52%) Cyberattack
3 6 (9.52%) HP Storage
4 3 (4.76%) Clustering
4 3 (4.76%) Replication
5 2 (3.17%) Blackberry
5 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.17%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.59%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.59%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 37 (58.73%) Windows
2 29 (46.03%) Linux
3 19 (30.16%) Windows 10
3 19 (30.16%) Windows Server
4 17 (26.98%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (26.98%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (25.40%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (22.22%) Windows XP
7 7 (11.11%) Solaris
7 7 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (9.52%) AIX
9 4 (6.35%) Windows 7
9 4 (6.35%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (4.76%) Unix
11 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.03%) ITIL
2 23 (36.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 20 (31.75%) Performance Tuning
4 19 (30.16%) Storage Management
5 18 (28.57%) Project Management
6 16 (25.40%) Performance Monitoring
6 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (23.81%) Data Loss Prevention
8 14 (22.22%) Break/Fix
8 14 (22.22%) Converged Infrastructure
8 14 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
8 14 (22.22%) Server Management
9 11 (17.46%) Project Delivery
10 7 (11.11%) Migration
11 6 (9.52%) Analytics
11 6 (9.52%) Data Protection
11 6 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
12 5 (7.94%) Performance Management
12 5 (7.94%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 8 (12.70%) SQL
3 6 (9.52%) Bash
3 6 (9.52%) VBScript
4 3 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.76%) Python
5 1 (1.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 27 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 20 (31.75%) Degree
3 19 (30.16%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (30.16%) SC Cleared
4 18 (28.57%) DV Cleared
5 14 (22.22%) CCNA
5 14 (22.22%) CCNP
6 5 (7.94%) CCIE
6 5 (7.94%) CCIE Data Center
7 4 (6.35%) CISSP
7 4 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.76%) CISM
8 3 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (3.17%) CEH
9 2 (3.17%) RHCE
9 2 (3.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) GDPR
2 4 (6.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.59%) GRC
3 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (38.10%) Active Directory
2 18 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (26.98%) Hyper-V
4 16 (25.40%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (9.52%) XenApp
6 3 (4.76%) vSphere
7 2 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.59%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.59%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (1.59%) DFS Replication
8 1 (1.59%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.59%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (34.92%) NetBackup
2 21 (33.33%) SCCM
3 20 (31.75%) EMC NetWorker
4 17 (26.98%) vCenter Server
4 17 (26.98%) WSUS
5 14 (22.22%) SCOM
6 6 (9.52%) HP Data Protector
7 3 (4.76%) PingFederate
8 2 (3.17%) Ansible
8 2 (3.17%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (3.17%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 1 (1.59%) HP SIM
9 1 (1.59%) Puppet
9 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.59%) SCDPM
9 1 (1.59%) SCVMM
9 1 (1.59%) SELinux
9 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (1.59%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 1 (1.59%) vMotion
Vendors
1 28 (44.44%) Cisco
2 22 (34.92%) EMC
2 22 (34.92%) HP
2 22 (34.92%) Oracle
2 22 (34.92%) VMware
3 21 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 20 (31.75%) Palo Alto
5 15 (23.81%) Juniper
5 15 (23.81%) Veeam
6 14 (22.22%) 3PAR
6 14 (22.22%) Dell
6 14 (22.22%) Extreme Networks
7 10 (15.87%) Zscaler
8 8 (12.70%) Citrix
9 6 (9.52%) Brocade
9 6 (9.52%) Infoblox
9 6 (9.52%) IronPort
9 6 (9.52%) Ivanti
9 6 (9.52%) LogRhythm
10 5 (7.94%) SolarWinds