The first table below looks at the demand for SNMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SNMP over the 3 months to 21 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 Communications & Networking category for the Cambridge 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Rank 33 42 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing SNMP 6 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.786% 1.928% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.108% 10.96% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £298 £290 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.58% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £300 £283
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
Average hourly rate £48.25 £52.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.09% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £52.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-60.95% +52.17%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
74 73 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.02% 17.59% 22.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 19
Average daily rate £285 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.80% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £213 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £375 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 21 10
Average hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.94% +18.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £10.70 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
SNMP
Cambridgeshire

SNMP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SNMP across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Cambridge SNMP Jobs Demand Trend

SNMP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge SNMP Daily Rate Trend

SNMP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SNMP across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge SNMP Hourly Rate Trend

SNMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing SNMP 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 SNMP.

1 7 (70.00%) Python
1 7 (70.00%) VLAN
2 6 (60.00%) C#
2 6 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 5 (50.00%) UNIX
3 5 (50.00%) Cryptography
3 5 (50.00%) Internet
4 4 (40.00%) Validation
4 4 (40.00%) Embedded Software Development
5 3 (30.00%) HSRP
5 3 (30.00%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (30.00%) System Testing
5 3 (30.00%) PCI DSS
5 3 (30.00%) Cacti
5 3 (30.00%) WhatsUp Gold
5 3 (30.00%) IPsec
5 3 (30.00%) Windows
5 3 (30.00%) Nagios
5 3 (30.00%) OSPF
5 3 (30.00%) LAN
5 3 (30.00%) VoIP
5 3 (30.00%) WAN
5 3 (30.00%) VPN
5 3 (30.00%) Cisco
6 1 (10.00%) QA
6 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (10.00%) Bash shell
6 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (10.00%) Banking

SNMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing SNMP 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 SNMP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) VLAN
2 5 (50.00%) Internet
3 3 (30.00%) HSRP
3 3 (30.00%) IPsec
3 3 (30.00%) OSPF
3 3 (30.00%) LAN
3 3 (30.00%) VoIP
3 3 (30.00%) WAN
3 3 (30.00%) VPN
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (10.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Software Integration Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Test Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Test Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Test and Integration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Non-Functional Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (10.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) UNIX
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Validation
1 4 (40.00%) Embedded Software Development
2 3 (30.00%) System Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) C#
2 6 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 3 (30.00%) Cacti
1 3 (30.00%) WhatsUp Gold
1 3 (30.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco
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