The first table below looks at the demand for BMC PATROL skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BMC PATROL over the 3 months to 17 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 City of London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
BMC PATROL
Rank 196 208 233
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +25
Contract jobs citing BMC PATROL 5 5 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.079% 0.064% 0.132%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.377% 1.190% 2.731%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 7
Average daily rate £433 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.57% -22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £427 £275 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £439 £412 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £400 £380
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
363 420 476
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 5.766% 5.398% 4.836%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 263 300
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 31
Average hourly rate £30.50 £22.25 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.07% +1.13%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.90 £15.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.60 £33.55 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
BMC PATROL
London

BMC PATROL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London BMC PATROL Jobs Demand Trend

BMC PATROL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BMC PATROL across the City of London region.

City of London BMC PATROL Daily Rate Trend

BMC PATROL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BMC PATROL across the City of London region.

City of London BMC PATROL Hourly Rate Trend

BMC PATROL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing BMC PATROL 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 BMC PATROL.

1 8 (80.00%) BMC
2 7 (70.00%) Banking
3 6 (60.00%) Finance
4 5 (50.00%) VMware
4 5 (50.00%) Investment Banking
5 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (40.00%) BMC Performance Manager
5 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (40.00%) NAS
5 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (40.00%) NetApp
5 4 (40.00%) C#
5 4 (40.00%) Perl
5 4 (40.00%) VB.NET
5 4 (40.00%) .NET
5 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (40.00%) Web Services
5 4 (40.00%) UNIX
5 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (30.00%) Windows
6 3 (30.00%) SQL
6 3 (30.00%) Control-M
6 3 (30.00%) Remedy
6 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
6 3 (30.00%) Workflow
6 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certified Master
6 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (30.00%) MCITP
6 3 (30.00%) MCTS

BMC PATROL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing BMC PATROL 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 BMC PATROL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
1 4 (40.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) MQSeries
1 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) Rendezvous
1 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) NAS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle 10g
General
1 7 (70.00%) Banking
2 6 (60.00%) Finance
3 5 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) DBA
1 2 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Operator
2 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (10.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) UNIX
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Solaris
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (10.00%) VMS
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (10.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (30.00%) Workflow
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) ITSM
3 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C#
1 4 (40.00%) Perl
1 4 (40.00%) VB.NET
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) MCTS
1 3 (30.00%) MCITP
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certified Master
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (10.00%) Veritas File System
3 1 (10.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) BMC Performance Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Control-M
3 2 (20.00%) NetBackup
4 1 (10.00%) Foglight
4 1 (10.00%) Legato
4 1 (10.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) BMC
2 5 (50.00%) VMware
3 4 (40.00%) NetApp
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (30.00%) Remedy
5 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (20.00%) Oracle
6 1 (10.00%) Veritas
6 1 (10.00%) TIBCO