The first table below looks at the demand for BladeLogic skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BladeLogic 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 of the Systems Management category for the 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.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite
Rank 468 461 469
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +8
Contract jobs citing BladeLogic 64 84 111
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.148% 0.159% 0.194%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.098% 2.438% 3.229%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 52 79
Average daily rate £435 £500 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.00% +17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £350 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £494 £563 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £403
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
3050 3446 3438
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 7.048% 6.507% 6.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 1757 1743 1697
Average daily rate £375 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £314
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 163 231
Average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -13.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.00 £14.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £37.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.08%
BladeLogic
UK

BladeLogic
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England BladeLogic Jobs Demand Trend

BladeLogic
Daily Rate Trend

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

England BladeLogic Daily Rate Trend

BladeLogic
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BladeLogic across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England BladeLogic Daily Rate Histogram

BladeLogic
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England BladeLogic Hourly Rate Trend

BladeLogic
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BladeLogic within the 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
London +19 59 £435 -13.00% 1
North West +12 3 £400 +14.28%
South East +23 2 £300 +20.24%
West Midlands - - - - 1
East of England - - - -
East Midlands - - - -
Midlands - - - -
BladeLogic
UK

BladeLogic
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing BladeLogic 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 BladeLogic.

1 65 (72.22%) Linux
2 39 (43.33%) Oracle
3 37 (41.11%) Windows
3 37 (41.11%) Banking
4 33 (36.67%) Middleware
4 33 (36.67%) Finance
5 32 (35.56%) Microsoft
6 30 (33.33%) VMware
7 28 (31.11%) UNIX
7 28 (31.11%) Java
8 26 (28.89%) HP
8 26 (28.89%) BMC
9 23 (25.56%) MS Excel
9 23 (25.56%) SQL Server
10 22 (24.44%) Python
10 22 (24.44%) Front Office
10 22 (24.44%) Altiris
11 21 (23.33%) JIRA
11 21 (23.33%) ITIL
11 21 (23.33%) Citrix
12 19 (21.11%) Solaris
12 19 (21.11%) Shell Script
12 19 (21.11%) Agile Software Development
12 19 (21.11%) Release Management
13 18 (20.00%) Hudson
13 18 (20.00%) Capacity Management
14 17 (18.89%) VMware ESX
14 17 (18.89%) Perl
14 17 (18.89%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (16.67%) Bash shell

BladeLogic
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing BladeLogic 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 BladeLogic. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 33 (36.67%) Middleware
2 9 (10.00%) WSH
3 8 (8.889%) SOAP
4 7 (7.778%) REST
5 5 (5.556%) Web Services
6 4 (4.444%) Java SE
6 4 (4.444%) XML
6 4 (4.444%) .NET
7 3 (3.333%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
8 2 (2.222%) Regular Expression
8 2 (2.222%) CGI
8 2 (2.222%) Flash
8 2 (2.222%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 13 (14.44%) Tomcat
2 12 (13.33%) IIS
3 9 (10.00%) Confluence
4 8 (8.889%) WebLogic
4 8 (8.889%) WebLogic Portal
5 7 (7.778%) Liferay
6 5 (5.556%) Apache
7 4 (4.444%) Oracle Coherence
8 3 (3.333%) OpenStack
9 1 (1.111%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (1.111%) CloudStack
9 1 (1.111%) Alfresco
Applications
1 23 (25.56%) MS Excel
2 11 (12.22%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 4 (4.444%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.778%) SAN
2 5 (5.556%) Firewall
3 4 (4.444%) NAS
3 4 (4.444%) DNS
4 3 (3.333%) SSL
5 2 (2.222%) LDAP
6 1 (1.111%) Internet
6 1 (1.111%) BGP
6 1 (1.111%) OSPF
6 1 (1.111%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.111%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.111%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.111%) HTTP
6 1 (1.111%) SMTP
6 1 (1.111%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.56%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 9 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (3.333%) DB2
4 3 (3.333%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.222%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 21 (23.33%) JIRA
2 18 (20.00%) Hudson
3 14 (15.56%) Subversion
3 14 (15.56%) Ant
3 14 (15.56%) JUnit
4 13 (14.44%) dbdeploy
5 12 (13.33%) ClearCase
6 9 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (8.889%) Maven
8 4 (4.444%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.222%) MSI
9 2 (2.222%) InstallShield
10 1 (1.111%) Jenkins
10 1 (1.111%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (41.11%) Banking
2 33 (36.67%) Finance
3 22 (24.44%) Front Office
4 15 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 6 (6.667%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.444%) Retail
7 2 (2.222%) German Language
7 2 (2.222%) Marketing
7 2 (2.222%) Back Office
8 1 (1.111%) Games
8 1 (1.111%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (15.56%) Build Manager
2 11 (12.22%) Applications Support
3 10 (11.11%) Deployment Manager
4 6 (6.667%) Windows Engineer
4 6 (6.667%) Support Engineer
5 5 (5.556%) Applications Support Engineer
5 5 (5.556%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (4.444%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.444%) Release Manager
7 3 (3.333%) Architect
7 3 (3.333%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.333%) Developer
7 3 (3.333%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (3.333%) Identity Management Specialist
7 3 (3.333%) Automation Specialist
7 3 (3.333%) Team Leader
7 3 (3.333%) UNIX Engineer
8 2 (2.222%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (2.222%) Senior Architect
8 2 (2.222%) Development Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.33%) Fixed Income
2 6 (6.667%) Derivative
3 2 (2.222%) Computer Science
3 2 (2.222%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (2.222%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (2.222%) PaaS
3 2 (2.222%) Replication
4 1 (1.111%) Clustering
4 1 (1.111%) IaaS
4 1 (1.111%) Open Source
4 1 (1.111%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.111%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 65 (72.22%) Linux
2 37 (41.11%) Windows
3 28 (31.11%) UNIX
4 19 (21.11%) Solaris
5 13 (14.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (12.22%) Windows Server 2008
7 10 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (7.778%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (6.667%) AIX
10 3 (3.333%) HPUX
10 3 (3.333%) Windows 2000
11 1 (1.111%) SUSE
11 1 (1.111%) Windows NT
11 1 (1.111%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.33%) ITIL
2 19 (21.11%) Agile Software Development
2 19 (21.11%) Release Management
3 18 (20.00%) Capacity Management
4 14 (15.56%) Change Management
4 14 (15.56%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (14.44%) Data Management
6 12 (13.33%) Incident Management
6 12 (13.33%) Problem Management
7 11 (12.22%) Requirements Management
8 10 (11.11%) Build Automation
9 9 (10.00%) Load Balancing
10 8 (8.889%) OO
10 8 (8.889%) Configuration Management
11 6 (6.667%) Scrum
12 5 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
13 4 (4.444%) Root Cause Analysis
13 4 (4.444%) Regression Testing
13 4 (4.444%) Risk Management
14 3 (3.333%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (31.11%) Java
2 22 (24.44%) Python
3 19 (21.11%) Shell Script
4 17 (18.89%) Perl
5 15 (16.67%) Bash shell
6 14 (15.56%) PowerShell
7 13 (14.44%) Korn
8 6 (6.667%) C++
9 5 (5.556%) SQL
9 5 (5.556%) JavaScript
10 4 (4.444%) VBScript
11 3 (3.333%) VB
12 2 (2.222%) C
12 2 (2.222%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (18.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (7.778%) Degree
3 1 (1.111%) MCSE
3 1 (1.111%) CCIE
3 1 (1.111%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.111%) VCP5
3 1 (1.111%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (3.333%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 17 (18.89%) VMware ESX
2 12 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.444%) OpenSSO
4 4 (4.444%) NFS
5 3 (3.333%) Active Directory
5 3 (3.333%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 3 (3.333%) Xen
6 2 (2.222%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (2.222%) Veritas File System
6 2 (2.222%) vSphere
7 1 (1.111%) ISA Server
7 1 (1.111%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.111%) vCloud
7 1 (1.111%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.111%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.111%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 12 (13.33%) WMI
1 12 (13.33%) Control-M
2 10 (11.11%) HP Operations Orchestration
3 7 (7.778%) Puppet
4 6 (6.667%) Tivoli
5 4 (4.444%) Splunk
6 3 (3.333%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 2 (2.222%) Ionix
8 1 (1.111%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.111%) SCCM
8 1 (1.111%) SCOM
Vendors
1 39 (43.33%) Oracle
2 32 (35.56%) Microsoft
3 30 (33.33%) VMware
4 26 (28.89%) HP
4 26 (28.89%) BMC
5 22 (24.44%) Altiris
6 21 (23.33%) Citrix
7 13 (14.44%) Perforce
8 10 (11.11%) Atlassian
9 9 (10.00%) Symantec
9 9 (10.00%) Red Hat
10 7 (7.778%) Hummingbird
10 7 (7.778%) EMC
11 6 (6.667%) NetIQ
12 4 (4.444%) Tableau
12 4 (4.444%) Cisco
12 4 (4.444%) Informatica
12 4 (4.444%) Remedy
13 3 (3.333%) IBM
14 2 (2.222%) Opsware
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