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 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 608 687
Rank change year-on-year +90 +79 -96
Contract jobs citing Symantec 61 86 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 0.35% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 60 130
10th Percentile £400 £413 £374
25th Percentile £475 £440 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £775 - £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £603 £520 £475
% change year-on-year +15.87% +9.47% +12.43%
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 18,083 24,657 35,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.06% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,274 16,502 23,585
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £468
% change year-on-year - +6.95% +7.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 666 891
10th Percentile £12.05 £15.11 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.97% +73.68% +0.89%

Symantec
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Symantec in the UK

Symantec
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 20 May 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 13 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 20 May 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 +122 59 £600 +15.38% 26
UK excluding London +57 42 £603 +15.87% 14
South East +29 22 £605 +34.44% 3
London +101 16 £675 +20.54% 14
Work from Home +69 14 £475 -8.65% 7
Midlands +24 11 £675 +58.82%
North of England +30 6 £575 +8.24% 3
East Midlands - 6 £575 -
West Midlands +21 5 £750 +76.47%
North West +13 3 £575 +8.24% 1
East of England - 3 £290 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £399 - 2
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 3 (4.92%) CMS
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.28%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (3.28%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (3.28%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (3.28%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (3.28%) Exchange Server 5.5
2 2 (3.28%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.64%) Apache
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.98%) Azure
2 14 (22.95%) OCI
3 9 (14.75%) Microsoft Purview
4 8 (13.11%) AWS
5 6 (9.84%) Entra ID
5 6 (9.84%) GCP
6 5 (8.20%) Alation
7 4 (6.56%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.28%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.64%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 31 (50.82%) DNS
2 27 (44.26%) DHCP
2 27 (44.26%) Firewall
3 20 (32.79%) SAN
4 9 (14.75%) Internet
5 7 (11.48%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (9.84%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (9.84%) VPN
7 5 (8.20%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (8.20%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (8.20%) HTTP
7 5 (8.20%) LAN
7 5 (8.20%) MPLS
7 5 (8.20%) PBX
7 5 (8.20%) SD-WAN
7 5 (8.20%) VoIP
7 5 (8.20%) WAN
7 5 (8.20%) WLAN
8 4 (6.56%) SMTP
9 3 (4.92%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) Metadata
1 5 (8.20%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.56%) Big Data
3 2 (3.28%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.64%) Power BI
4 1 (1.64%) PowerCenter
4 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.64%) Git
2 1 (1.64%) Subversion
General
1 19 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.11%) Banking
2 8 (13.11%) Finance
3 7 (11.48%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Legal
5 2 (3.28%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (34.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (21.31%) Storage Engineer
3 9 (14.75%) Architect
4 7 (11.48%) Senior
5 5 (8.20%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (8.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) Server Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Consultant
7 3 (4.92%) Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Junior
7 3 (4.92%) Junior Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) PowerShell Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) SharePoint Developer
7 3 (4.92%) SOC Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Data Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) Web Services
2 4 (6.56%) LDAP
3 3 (4.92%) CSS
3 3 (4.92%) HTML5 Canvas
3 3 (4.92%) jQuery
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (3.28%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.64%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.64%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 20 (32.79%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (9.84%) HP Storage
3 5 (8.20%) Cyberattack
4 3 (4.92%) Clustering
4 3 (4.92%) Replication
5 2 (3.28%) Blackberry
5 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.64%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.64%) PKI
6 1 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 34 (55.74%) Windows
2 28 (45.90%) Linux
3 19 (31.15%) Windows 10
4 17 (27.87%) Windows Server
5 16 (26.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (26.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (22.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (22.95%) Windows XP
7 7 (11.48%) Solaris
7 7 (11.48%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (9.84%) AIX
9 4 (6.56%) Windows 7
9 4 (6.56%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (4.92%) Unix
11 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (47.54%) ITIL
2 22 (36.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 20 (32.79%) Performance Tuning
4 19 (31.15%) Storage Management
5 18 (29.51%) Project Management
6 16 (26.23%) Data Loss Prevention
6 16 (26.23%) Performance Monitoring
6 16 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (22.95%) Break/Fix
7 14 (22.95%) Converged Infrastructure
7 14 (22.95%) Disaster Recovery
7 14 (22.95%) Proactive Monitoring
7 14 (22.95%) Server Management
8 11 (18.03%) Project Delivery
9 6 (9.84%) Analytics
9 6 (9.84%) Data Protection
9 6 (9.84%) Data Security
9 6 (9.84%) Migration
9 6 (9.84%) Roadmaps
9 6 (9.84%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (44.26%) PowerShell
2 8 (13.11%) SQL
3 6 (9.84%) Bash
3 6 (9.84%) VBScript
4 3 (4.92%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.92%) Python
5 1 (1.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (42.62%) Security Cleared
2 19 (31.15%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (31.15%) Degree
2 19 (31.15%) SC Cleared
3 18 (29.51%) DV Cleared
4 14 (22.95%) CCNA
4 14 (22.95%) CCNP
5 5 (8.20%) CCIE
5 5 (8.20%) CCIE Data Center
6 4 (6.56%) CISSP
6 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.92%) CISM
7 3 (4.92%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (3.28%) CEH
8 2 (3.28%) RHCE
8 2 (3.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) GDPR
2 5 (8.20%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.64%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.64%) GRC
3 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (37.70%) Active Directory
2 17 (27.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (26.23%) Hyper-V
3 16 (26.23%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (9.84%) XenApp
5 3 (4.92%) vSphere
6 1 (1.64%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.64%) DFS Replication
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.64%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (36.07%) NetBackup
2 20 (32.79%) EMC NetWorker
2 20 (32.79%) SCCM
3 17 (27.87%) vCenter Server
4 16 (26.23%) WSUS
5 14 (22.95%) SCOM
6 6 (9.84%) HP Data Protector
7 3 (4.92%) PingFederate
8 2 (3.28%) Ansible
8 2 (3.28%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (3.28%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 1 (1.64%) CSIRT
9 1 (1.64%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.64%) Norton AntiVirus
9 1 (1.64%) Puppet
9 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.64%) RSA Archer
9 1 (1.64%) SELinux
9 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (1.64%) vMotion
Vendors
1 28 (45.90%) Cisco
2 22 (36.07%) EMC
3 21 (34.43%) HP
3 21 (34.43%) Oracle
3 21 (34.43%) VMware
4 20 (32.79%) Microsoft
4 20 (32.79%) Palo Alto
5 15 (24.59%) Juniper
5 15 (24.59%) Veeam
6 14 (22.95%) 3PAR
6 14 (22.95%) Dell
6 14 (22.95%) Extreme Networks
7 10 (16.39%) Zscaler
8 7 (11.48%) Citrix
9 6 (9.84%) Brocade
9 6 (9.84%) Infoblox
9 6 (9.84%) Ivanti
10 5 (8.20%) IronPort
10 5 (8.20%) SolarWinds
10 5 (8.20%) Talend