The first table below looks at the demand for Nagios 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 Nagios 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
Nagios
Rank 405 451 507
Rank change year-on-year
+46 +56
Contract jobs citing Nagios 108 108 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.260% 0.202% 0.114%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.788% 3.284% 1.966%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 55 29
Average daily rate £361 £370 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.36% -7.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £220 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £565 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £388
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -16.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £33.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +11.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
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%
Nagios
UK

Nagios
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Nagios Jobs Demand Trend

Nagios
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Nagios Daily Rate Trend

Nagios
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Nagios Daily Rate Histogram

Nagios
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Nagios Hourly Rate Trend

Nagios
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nagios 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 +24 62 £425 -
East of England - 18 £299 -
South East +7 9 £463 +42.30%
North West +19 8 - -
North East - 6 £300 -
Yorkshire 0 5 £281 +12.50%
Nagios
UK

Nagios
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 159 (82.38%) Linux
2 94 (48.70%) Red Hat
3 80 (41.45%) Apache
3 80 (41.45%) Puppet
4 67 (34.72%) UNIX
5 66 (34.20%) MySQL
6 62 (32.12%) Java
7 58 (30.05%) Windows
8 57 (29.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 54 (27.98%) Perl
10 50 (25.91%) VMware
10 50 (25.91%) DNS
11 45 (23.32%) Bash shell
12 42 (21.76%) Cisco
13 40 (20.73%) Tomcat
14 39 (20.21%) Firewall
15 38 (19.69%) Oracle
16 36 (18.65%) PHP
17 34 (17.62%) SAN
18 33 (17.10%) Shell Script
18 33 (17.10%) Open Source
19 32 (16.58%) CentOS
20 31 (16.06%) HTTP
21 30 (15.54%) Git (software)
21 30 (15.54%) Cacti
22 29 (15.03%) SQL
23 28 (14.51%) Ubuntu
23 28 (14.51%) HP
23 28 (14.51%) Jenkins
24 27 (13.99%) VMware Infrastructure

Nagios
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 21 (10.88%) LAMP
2 18 (9.326%) REST
3 17 (8.808%) SOAP
4 15 (7.772%) .NET
5 11 (5.699%) WSH
5 11 (5.699%) HTML
6 10 (5.181%) Web Services
7 9 (4.663%) Middleware
7 9 (4.663%) Java EE
8 8 (4.145%) Regular Expression
8 8 (4.145%) XML
8 8 (4.145%) JDBC
8 8 (4.145%) J2EE
9 6 (3.109%) HTML5
9 6 (3.109%) WSRP
9 6 (3.109%) JSR 168
9 6 (3.109%) Ajax
9 6 (3.109%) Flash
9 6 (3.109%) DHTML
10 5 (2.591%) JMX
Application Platforms
1 80 (41.45%) Apache
2 40 (20.73%) Tomcat
3 15 (7.772%) IIS
4 12 (6.218%) Amazon AWS
5 9 (4.663%) Liferay
5 9 (4.663%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (2.073%) Confluence
6 4 (2.073%) CloudStack
7 2 (1.036%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (1.036%) Rackspace Cloud
7 2 (1.036%) Drupal
7 2 (1.036%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (1.036%) MS Exchange
8 1 (0.518%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.518%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.518%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.518%) nginx
8 1 (0.518%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.518%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.518%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 7 (3.627%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.036%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (4.145%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.036%) Summit
2 2 (1.036%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.518%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.518%) RMDS
3 1 (0.518%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 50 (25.91%) DNS
2 39 (20.21%) Firewall
3 34 (17.62%) SAN
4 31 (16.06%) HTTP
5 26 (13.47%) SNMP
6 25 (12.95%) NAS
7 22 (11.40%) TCP/IP
8 21 (10.88%) SSL
9 20 (10.36%) LDAP
10 19 (9.845%) VPN
11 18 (9.326%) SMTP
12 17 (8.808%) iSCSI
13 16 (8.290%) Fibre Channel
13 16 (8.290%) DHCP
13 16 (8.290%) Internet
14 14 (7.254%) VLAN
14 14 (7.254%) WAN
15 11 (5.699%) BGP
16 10 (5.181%) Network Security
16 10 (5.181%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (34.20%) MySQL
2 14 (7.254%) SQL Server
3 13 (6.736%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.736%) NoSQL
4 12 (6.218%) Redis
5 11 (5.699%) RDBMS
5 11 (5.699%) CouchDB
5 11 (5.699%) Oracle 11g
6 10 (5.181%) MongoDB
7 9 (4.663%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (4.145%) Oracle 10g
9 6 (3.109%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (3.109%) Hadoop
9 6 (3.109%) Oracle 8/8i
10 4 (2.073%) Big Data
11 2 (1.036%) SQL Server 2005
11 2 (1.036%) SQL Server 2000
12 1 (0.518%) Ingres
12 1 (0.518%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.518%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 30 (15.54%) Git (software)
2 28 (14.51%) Jenkins
3 23 (11.92%) Hudson
4 19 (9.845%) Maven
5 18 (9.326%) Subversion
6 17 (8.808%) JIRA
7 15 (7.772%) Selenium
8 7 (3.627%) Ant
9 6 (3.109%) Capistrano
9 6 (3.109%) CruiseControl
9 6 (3.109%) JUnit
10 5 (2.591%) EasyMock
10 5 (2.591%) Mockito
11 2 (1.036%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.518%) JMeter
12 1 (0.518%) GitHub
General
1 14 (7.254%) Banking
2 10 (5.181%) Finance
2 10 (5.181%) Telecoms
3 4 (2.073%) Advertising
4 2 (1.036%) Back Office
5 1 (0.518%) Billing
5 1 (0.518%) Publishing
5 1 (0.518%) Law
5 1 (0.518%) Games
5 1 (0.518%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 52 (26.94%) Administrator
2 37 (19.17%) Systems Administrator
3 36 (18.65%) Linux Administrator
4 32 (16.58%) Linux Engineer
5 31 (16.06%) Systems Engineer
6 29 (15.03%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 16 (8.290%) Network Engineer
8 15 (7.772%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.218%) DBA
10 9 (4.663%) Support Engineer
10 9 (4.663%) Technical Leader
11 8 (4.145%) Windows Administrator
11 8 (4.145%) Systems Support Engineer
11 8 (4.145%) Systems Support
12 7 (3.627%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.109%) Virtualisation Specialist
13 6 (3.109%) Oracle DBA
13 6 (3.109%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 6 (3.109%) Senior Linux Administrator
13 6 (3.109%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.10%) Open Source
2 22 (11.40%) Clustering
3 8 (4.145%) Replication
4 6 (3.109%) Wiki
4 6 (3.109%) Taxonomies
4 6 (3.109%) Ontologies
4 6 (3.109%) Cryptography
5 4 (2.073%) CLARiiON
5 4 (2.073%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.554%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.036%) Firmware
8 1 (0.518%) PKI
8 1 (0.518%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.518%) Visualisation
8 1 (0.518%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.518%) SaaS
8 1 (0.518%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 159 (82.38%) Linux
2 67 (34.72%) UNIX
3 58 (30.05%) Windows
4 57 (29.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (16.58%) CentOS
6 28 (14.51%) Ubuntu
7 27 (13.99%) Debian
8 18 (9.326%) Windows Server 2008
9 16 (8.290%) Solaris
10 13 (6.736%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (3.109%) Gentoo
11 6 (3.109%) FreeBSD
11 6 (3.109%) NetWare
12 3 (1.554%) AIX
12 3 (1.554%) HPUX
12 3 (1.554%) SUSE
13 2 (1.036%) VMS
14 1 (0.518%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (12.95%) Load Balancing
2 21 (10.88%) E-Commerce
3 19 (9.845%) Disaster Recovery
4 15 (7.772%) ITIL
5 13 (6.736%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (5.699%) Configuration Management
6 11 (5.699%) Penetration Testing
7 8 (4.145%) High Availability
7 8 (4.145%) Agile Software Development
7 8 (4.145%) Change Management
8 7 (3.627%) Project Management
8 7 (3.627%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (3.109%) Information Architecture
9 6 (3.109%) SOA
9 6 (3.109%) DRM
10 5 (2.591%) Content Management
10 5 (2.591%) TDD
10 5 (2.591%) Web Development
10 5 (2.591%) Dependency Injection
10 5 (2.591%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (32.12%) Java
2 54 (27.98%) Perl
3 45 (23.32%) Bash shell
4 36 (18.65%) PHP
5 33 (17.10%) Shell Script
6 29 (15.03%) SQL
7 20 (10.36%) Python
8 18 (9.326%) PowerShell
9 17 (8.808%) JavaScript
10 15 (7.772%) Ruby
11 8 (4.145%) VBScript
12 6 (3.109%) C
13 5 (2.591%) Korn
13 5 (2.591%) AWK
13 5 (2.591%) sed
14 3 (1.554%) VB
15 2 (1.036%) Groovy
16 1 (0.518%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.518%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.518%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 27 (13.99%) RHCE
2 13 (6.736%) Degree
3 9 (4.663%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.145%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.627%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (3.109%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (2.073%) RHCT
7 4 (2.073%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.554%) CCNA
9 1 (0.518%) CCNP
9 1 (0.518%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.518%) MCSE
9 1 (0.518%) SCSA
9 1 (0.518%) HP ASE
9 1 (0.518%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.145%) QA
2 7 (3.627%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (13.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (11.92%) Postfix
3 19 (9.845%) NFS
3 19 (9.845%) Active Directory
3 19 (9.845%) vSphere
4 15 (7.772%) Samba
5 11 (5.699%) VMware ESX
5 11 (5.699%) XenServer
5 11 (5.699%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (5.181%) Oracle RAC
6 10 (5.181%) Squid
7 8 (4.145%) Hyper-V
7 8 (4.145%) Oracle RMAN
8 7 (3.627%) Sendmail
9 5 (2.591%) Nmap
10 4 (2.073%) Varnish
10 4 (2.073%) vCloud
10 4 (2.073%) Xen
11 2 (1.036%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.518%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 80 (41.45%) Puppet
2 30 (15.54%) Cacti
3 23 (11.92%) ZABBIX
4 18 (9.326%) Zenoss
5 14 (7.254%) OpenView
6 10 (5.181%) Data Guard
7 9 (4.663%) Splunk
8 8 (4.145%) Red Hat Satellite
8 8 (4.145%) Netcool
9 7 (3.627%) Tivoli
10 6 (3.109%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (3.109%) WhatsUp Gold
10 6 (3.109%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (2.073%) Ganglia
12 3 (1.554%) SCOM
12 3 (1.554%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 2 (1.036%) Cobbler
13 2 (1.036%) SolarWinds Orion
13 2 (1.036%) NetBackup
14 1 (0.518%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 94 (48.70%) Red Hat
2 50 (25.91%) VMware
3 42 (21.76%) Cisco
4 38 (19.69%) Oracle
5 28 (14.51%) HP
6 19 (9.845%) JBoss
6 19 (9.845%) NetApp
7 18 (9.326%) EMC
8 16 (8.290%) CheckPoint
9 15 (7.772%) Citrix
10 12 (6.218%) BMC
11 11 (5.699%) Microsoft
11 11 (5.699%) F5
12 10 (5.181%) Rackspace
12 10 (5.181%) SAP
13 9 (4.663%) IBM
14 7 (3.627%) Akamai
15 6 (3.109%) RightScale
15 6 (3.109%) SolarWinds
15 6 (3.109%) Altiris
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