The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of OPNET products and/or services 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 OPNET over the 3 months to 22 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 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within OPNET Technologies, Inc.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OPNET
Rank 204 214 240
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +26
Contract jobs citing OPNET 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% 0.013% 0.010%
As % of the Vendors category 0.034% 0.030% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £400 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £550 - £425
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2906 3363 4071
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.20% 42.15% 42.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2056 2300 2802
Average daily rate £433 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.76% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 101 129
Average hourly rate £23.75 £21.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.09% -2.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £13.59
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £39.50 £44.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
OPNET
London

OPNET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London OPNET Jobs Demand Trend

OPNET
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London OPNET Daily Rate Trend

OPNET
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing OPNET 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 OPNET.

1 3 (60.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) WLAN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) OSPF
2 2 (40.00%) VRRP
2 2 (40.00%) Wireless
2 2 (40.00%) IPsec
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (40.00%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (40.00%) Network Management
2 2 (40.00%) MRTG
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) HSRP
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) MS Office
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (20.00%) BMC

OPNET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing OPNET 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 OPNET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (20.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (20.00%) MS Office
2 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) WLAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) OSPF
1 2 (40.00%) VRRP
1 2 (40.00%) Wireless
1 2 (40.00%) IPsec
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (40.00%) MRTG
1 2 (40.00%) HSRP
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (40.00%) Network Management
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) HP
1 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) BMC