The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SolarWinds over the 3 months to 19 June 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 East of England 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SolarWinds
Rank 112 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.271% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.586% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £280 £270
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.50 £31.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-60.31% +57.50%
All Vendors
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1024 1365 1332
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 46.31% 45.20% 47.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 608 528
Average daily rate £338 £350 £312
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% +12.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £188 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 123 181
Average hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.79% +20.83%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.44 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £42.50 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England SolarWinds Daily Rate Trend

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SolarWinds across the East of England region.

East of England SolarWinds Hourly 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Essex - 4 £350 -
Hertfordshire - 2 - -
Bedfordshire - - - -
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 4 (50.00%) DNS
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (50.00%) Citrix
3 4 (50.00%) XenApp
3 4 (50.00%) AppSense
4 3 (37.50%) Xen
4 3 (37.50%) Time Management
4 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
4 3 (37.50%) HP
4 3 (37.50%) SAN
5 2 (25.00%) Symantec
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (25.00%) Wireless
5 2 (25.00%) Finance
5 2 (25.00%) UNIX
5 2 (25.00%) VBScript
5 2 (25.00%) MCSE
5 2 (25.00%) LDAP
5 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
5 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
5 2 (25.00%) MS Exchange
5 2 (25.00%) DHCP
5 2 (25.00%) VPN
5 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis

SolarWinds
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (37.50%) SAN
3 2 (25.00%) Wireless
3 2 (25.00%) LDAP
3 2 (25.00%) DHCP
3 2 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (25.00%) Support Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Citrix Support Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Citrix Support
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Citrix Support
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Support Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Network Support
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Server Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (12.50%) Server Support
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Time Management
2 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (25.00%) Investment Management
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) VBScript
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (25.00%) MCSE
1 2 (25.00%) VCP4
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (50.00%) XenApp
3 3 (37.50%) Xen
3 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
4 2 (25.00%) XenServer
4 2 (25.00%) XenDesktop
4 2 (25.00%) VMware ESX
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (12.50%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
1 2 (25.00%) WSUS
1 2 (25.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (12.50%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Citrix
2 4 (50.00%) AppSense
3 3 (37.50%) HP
4 2 (25.00%) Symantec
5 1 (12.50%) Twitter
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