The first table below looks at the demand for WhatsUp Gold skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WhatsUp Gold 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 of the Systems Management category for the Bedford region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing WhatsUp Gold 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford - - -
As % of the Systems Management category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £289 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
Bedford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
0 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford - 4.762% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £190
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £10.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
WhatsUp Gold
Bedfordshire

WhatsUp Gold
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WhatsUp Gold across the Bedford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Bedford WhatsUp Gold Jobs Demand Trend

WhatsUp Gold
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WhatsUp Gold across the Bedford region.

Bedford WhatsUp Gold Daily Rate Trend

WhatsUp Gold
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford region citing WhatsUp Gold 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited WhatsUp Gold.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) DMZ
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec
1 2 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Back Office
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Forefront TMG
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing

WhatsUp Gold
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) DMZ
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Back Office
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec
1 2 (100.00%) VMware