The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Opsware products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Opsware over the 3 months to 23 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 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 Opsware, Inc.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Opsware
Rank 512 557 567
Rank change year-on-year
+45 +10
Contract jobs citing Opsware 6 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.014% 0.009% 0.011%
As % of the Vendors category 0.031% 0.020% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
Average daily rate £320 £550 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-41.81% +66.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £550 £380
% change year-on-year
- +44.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
19381 24681 26342
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 46.68% 46.22% 46.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10660 13056 13559
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1103 1234 1535
Average hourly rate £19.63 £19.63 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -1.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.31 £11.50 £11.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Opsware
UK

Opsware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Opsware Jobs Demand Trend

Opsware
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Opsware Daily Rate Trend

Opsware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Opsware Hourly Rate Trend

Opsware
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Opsware within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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 - 3 £320 -
East of England +19 2 - -
Opsware
UK

Opsware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Opsware 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 Opsware.

1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) UNIX
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco
2 5 (62.50%) HP
3 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (37.50%) Windows 2000 Server
4 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
4 3 (37.50%) Nagios
4 3 (37.50%) VMware ESX
4 3 (37.50%) CCNA
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (37.50%) Solaris
4 3 (37.50%) Linux
4 3 (37.50%) .NET
4 3 (37.50%) IIS
4 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
4 3 (37.50%) Puppet
4 3 (37.50%) F5
5 2 (25.00%) Regular Expression
5 2 (25.00%) OpenStack
5 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (25.00%) Replication
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL
5 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (25.00%) Python
5 2 (25.00%) C

Opsware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Opsware 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 Opsware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
2 2 (25.00%) Regular Expression
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) IIS
2 2 (25.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing
1 2 (25.00%) German Language
2 1 (12.50%) Law
2 1 (12.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Administrator
2 4 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (37.50%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 3 (37.50%) UNIX Administrator
4 2 (25.00%) Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Architect
4 2 (25.00%) VMware Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Administrator
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Systems Administrator
5 1 (12.50%) Web Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Web Support Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Web Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) UNIX
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (37.50%) Windows 2000 Server
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (37.50%) Solaris
3 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL
1 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (25.00%) ITSM
1 2 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) C
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
2 2 (25.00%) VB
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CCNA
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (37.50%) VMware ESX
3 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (25.00%) Xen
4 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Nagios
1 3 (37.50%) Puppet
2 2 (25.00%) Tivoli
2 2 (25.00%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 2 (25.00%) Ionix
2 2 (25.00%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco
2 5 (62.50%) HP
3 3 (37.50%) F5
4 2 (25.00%) BMC
4 2 (25.00%) CA
4 2 (25.00%) NetApp
4 2 (25.00%) Citrix
4 2 (25.00%) Symantec
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft