The first table below looks at the demand for Opalis skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Opalis over the 3 months to 20 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 Berkshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Opalis
Rank 116 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Opalis 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.123% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.538% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £342 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £342 £288 -
% change year-on-year
+18.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
195 166 263
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 8.015% 5.416% 9.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 69 100
Average daily rate £354 £316 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.77% -2.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £168 £250 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £450 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 11
Average hourly rate £20.50 £45.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-54.44% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £15.58 £16.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £45.00 £41.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Opalis
South East

Opalis
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Opalis Jobs Demand Trend

Opalis
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Opalis within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bracknell - 3 £342 -
Opalis
South East

Opalis
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Opalis 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 Opalis.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) CA
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) MIMEsweeper
1 3 (100.00%) Xen
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
1 3 (100.00%) SCOM
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Change Control
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) MCSE

Opalis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Opalis 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 Opalis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Xen
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) MIMEsweeper
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
1 3 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) CA
2 2 (66.67%) VMware