The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SolarWinds over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within SolarWinds.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SolarWinds
Rank 118 - 128
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.084% - 0.034%
As % of the Vendors category 0.164% - 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £280 - £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £272
% change year-on-year
+16.66% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -12.50%
All Vendors
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1218 1569 1553
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 50.86% 49.89% 52.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 537 551
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £225 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 81 90
Average hourly rate £20.50 £20.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.85 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.80 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
SolarWinds
South East

SolarWinds
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire SolarWinds Jobs Demand Trend

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire SolarWinds Daily Rate Trend

SolarWinds
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Reading - 1 - -
SolarWinds
South East

SolarWinds
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing SolarWinds 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 SolarWinds.

1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) CCNP
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) UNIX
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) HP
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) IBM
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (33.33%) OCP
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (33.33%) SAN
3 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (33.33%) MOM
3 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (33.33%) IIS
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Apache
3 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 2 (33.33%) LAN

SolarWinds
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing SolarWinds 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 SolarWinds. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
1 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 2 (33.33%) IBM HTTP Server
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) HTTP
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (16.67%) BIG-IP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (16.67%) SNMP
3 1 (16.67%) ISDN
3 1 (16.67%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DBA
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Voice Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) UNIX
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CCNP
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) OCP
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) VMware ESX
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) MOM
1 2 (33.33%) HP SIM
2 1 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
1 3 (50.00%) HP
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Polycom
2 2 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) Tandberg
3 1 (16.67%) ProCurve
3 1 (16.67%) Sony