Just a quick question for those of you who work in IT - I was wondering how many IT staff there are compared to the rest of the company?

Is it one IT guy per 50 employees? , per 100? , per 200?

If there are lots of you with different roles , how is that broken down between Network , Software Developers , Windows/Server bods and so on.

Thanks

Back in the day, it was me and three other guys doing everything: me and another guy on hardware / network / server / software support; the other two on software development. About 100:1ish on the support side. But then 'thrown together' would probably have been the best way of describing our IT policies back then!!!

we have around 4500 employees, 10 service desk staff, 5 branch support staff, 7 desktop support/app delivery staff, 4 operations staff, 3 sql/hosting staff, 2 network and 3 storage management.. and currently about 150 developers too

and about 5 management levels too many!

3 of us looking (2 fulltime, 1 parttime) looking after 400 pcs and 30 servers.

About 160 staff, (mix of academic, support etc) with four in the IT office - 1 web/online comms/marketing, 1 hard/software/network, 1 facilities/resources and me, who ends up straddling all three. Ooh err........

Me .....................and thats it lol

I also take care of health and safety and first aid. :rofl:

Very loose description of IT, in other words I can use a PC

Erm... IT department is 3 people, serving 70-ish people internally, and 4 on the help desk (including me) serving 5,000 remote users.

Interesting , thanks.

There does seem to be quite a bit of variation there.

Interesting , thanks.

There does seem to be quite a bit of variation there.

I guess alot of it is based on the infrastructure... most of our core systems are centralised.. citrix/powerterm etc with thin-clients out in the field. i rekon only about half of our head-count have access to email and msoffice... also to be honest i think the number of IT bods will drop as people leave we aint replacing them.

Not sure how I can describe our IT head count as we are an IT company. Out of about 350 staff (not including management) only about 10 are non IT.

Our infrastruture is a core system which is centralised and consists of me sitting on briskoda all day on a AMD 2000 XP processor and occasionally doing some letters and 10 minutes worth of Sage Payroll a week :rofl: :rofl:

Me only in my place. I also do purchasing, building maintenace, and work rotas!

Our infrastruture is a core system which is centralised and consists of me sitting on briskoda all day on a AMD 2000 XP processor and occasionally doing some letters and 10 minutes worth of Sage Payroll a week :rofl: :rofl:

And sending me all of the excel spreadsheets and word documents your to stupid to do

:rofl:

And sending me all of the excel spreadsheets and word documents your to stupid to do

Err......Oh yeah, and that :( :(

Me for 16 computers, but one I have nothing to do with (belongs to the council). However, I'm pretty limited by head office as to what I can do with them. They would rather call in an external firm at god knows how much an hour than pay me extra.

I also do the weighbridge and associated data, crew sheets and associated data (including worked hours), vehicle defects, drivers hours, etc, etc.

we have approx 30-40 people on each shift covering Windows/AIX/Unix/Solaris/HPux/SQL/App Support/Networks/Storage/Major Incident Managers and the site is manned 24x7x365 and our end user base is 10s of thousand's of end users spread through the South of England.

There are also another 40+ people working day based 9-5 roles doing project stuff too.

Not sure about how many people do desktop support as we ship that out to a 3rd party.

About 350 employees, 14 sites nationwide, IT team of 7 (Manager, Sys Eng, 1 admin/helpdesk, 1 DB/helpdesk, 1 PM, 1 senior tech, 1 tech/helpdesk). I'm sys eng- we cover Servers, PCs,Network, Phones, Some application support.