The first table below looks at the demand for Cacti 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 Cacti over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cacti
Rank 498 525 570
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +45
Contract jobs citing Cacti 15 34 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.036% 0.064% 0.002%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.526% 1.034% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 0
Average daily rate £325 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 -
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
2851 3289 3255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 6.857% 6.166% 5.793%
Number of daily rates quoted 1633 1702 1593
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 157 222
Average hourly rate £20.50 £20.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -13.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.73 £14.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
Cacti
UK

Cacti
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Cacti Jobs Demand Trend

Cacti
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Cacti Daily Rate Trend

Cacti
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cacti across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Cacti Daily Rate Histogram

Cacti
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Cacti Hourly Rate Trend

Cacti
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cacti within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
London +22 6 £450 +50.00%
East of England - 6 £299 -
Yorkshire +2 3 £363 +11.53%
Cacti
UK

Cacti
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Cacti 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 Cacti.

1 30 (85.71%) Nagios
2 24 (68.57%) Linux
3 18 (51.43%) Cisco
4 17 (48.57%) Windows
5 15 (42.86%) VPN
5 15 (42.86%) VMware
6 14 (40.00%) VLAN
7 12 (34.29%) Firewall
7 12 (34.29%) DNS
7 12 (34.29%) SNMP
7 12 (34.29%) iSCSI
7 12 (34.29%) Windows Server 2008
7 12 (34.29%) CentOS
8 11 (31.43%) CheckPoint
8 11 (31.43%) Red Hat
8 11 (31.43%) Apache
9 10 (28.57%) Open Source
9 10 (28.57%) Ubuntu
9 10 (28.57%) Debian
10 9 (25.71%) VMware ESX
10 9 (25.71%) vSphere
10 9 (25.71%) E-Commerce
10 9 (25.71%) VoIP
10 9 (25.71%) NFS
10 9 (25.71%) BGP
10 9 (25.71%) Windows Server 2003
10 9 (25.71%) HP
10 9 (25.71%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (25.71%) Fibre Channel
11 8 (22.86%) Regular Expression

Cacti
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Cacti 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 Cacti. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (22.86%) Regular Expression
2 1 (2.857%) LAMP
2 1 (2.857%) J2EE
2 1 (2.857%) Web Services
2 1 (2.857%) XML
Application Platforms
1 11 (31.43%) Apache
2 5 (14.29%) IIS
3 4 (11.43%) MS Exchange
4 3 (8.571%) Tomcat
4 3 (8.571%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (2.857%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.857%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.857%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (42.86%) VPN
2 14 (40.00%) VLAN
3 12 (34.29%) Firewall
3 12 (34.29%) DNS
3 12 (34.29%) SNMP
3 12 (34.29%) iSCSI
4 9 (25.71%) VoIP
4 9 (25.71%) BGP
4 9 (25.71%) Fibre Channel
5 8 (22.86%) NetScaler
5 8 (22.86%) Cisco Nexus
5 8 (22.86%) Internet
5 8 (22.86%) HTTP
5 8 (22.86%) Ethernet
6 7 (20.00%) SMTP
7 6 (17.14%) OSPF
7 6 (17.14%) WAN
7 6 (17.14%) LAN
7 6 (17.14%) IPsec
7 6 (17.14%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (2.857%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.857%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.857%) CruiseControl
1 1 (2.857%) Maven
General
1 3 (8.571%) Finance
2 1 (2.857%) Publishing
2 1 (2.857%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Administrator
3 4 (11.43%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (8.571%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (8.571%) Operations Analyst
4 3 (8.571%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (8.571%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.571%) Exchange Engineer
4 3 (8.571%) Build Engineer
4 3 (8.571%) Wintel Engineer
4 3 (8.571%) Analyst
5 2 (5.714%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.714%) UNIX Administrator
5 2 (5.714%) Web Analyst
6 1 (2.857%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.857%) Lead Architect
6 1 (2.857%) Web Administrator
6 1 (2.857%) Server Administrator
6 1 (2.857%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Open Source
2 6 (17.14%) Clustering
3 3 (8.571%) EqualLogic
3 3 (8.571%) Hedge funds
4 2 (5.714%) Firmware
5 1 (2.857%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.857%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 24 (68.57%) Linux
2 17 (48.57%) Windows
3 12 (34.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (34.29%) CentOS
4 10 (28.57%) Ubuntu
4 10 (28.57%) Debian
5 9 (25.71%) Windows Server 2003
6 8 (22.86%) UNIX
7 6 (17.14%) FreeBSD
7 6 (17.14%) Gentoo
8 4 (11.43%) Solaris
9 3 (8.571%) Windows 7
10 1 (2.857%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (2.857%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) E-Commerce
2 8 (22.86%) Change Management
2 8 (22.86%) Load Balancing
3 2 (5.714%) Configuration Management
3 2 (5.714%) Project Management
4 1 (2.857%) Incident Management
4 1 (2.857%) Time Management
4 1 (2.857%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (2.857%) Stress Testing
4 1 (2.857%) ITIL
4 1 (2.857%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (2.857%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.571%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.714%) Shell Script
2 2 (5.714%) Java
2 2 (5.714%) Perl
3 1 (2.857%) Ruby
3 1 (2.857%) Objective-C
3 1 (2.857%) PHP
3 1 (2.857%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Degree
2 7 (20.00%) RHCE
3 6 (17.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.857%) QA
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) VMware ESX
1 9 (25.71%) vSphere
1 9 (25.71%) NFS
1 9 (25.71%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (22.86%) XenServer
3 6 (17.14%) Postfix
4 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
5 3 (8.571%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (8.571%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (2.857%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (85.71%) Nagios
2 6 (17.14%) WhatsUp Gold
2 6 (17.14%) Cisco CUCM
2 6 (17.14%) Puppet
3 3 (8.571%) ZABBIX
3 3 (8.571%) OpenNMS
4 1 (2.857%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 18 (51.43%) Cisco
2 15 (42.86%) VMware
3 11 (31.43%) CheckPoint
3 11 (31.43%) Red Hat
4 9 (25.71%) HP
5 8 (22.86%) Citrix
6 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
7 4 (11.43%) Oracle
8 3 (8.571%) EMC
8 3 (8.571%) Juniper
8 3 (8.571%) NetApp
8 3 (8.571%) F5
9 1 (2.857%) Tangosol
9 1 (2.857%) Polycom
9 1 (2.857%) JD Edwards
9 1 (2.857%) Akamai
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