The first table below looks at the demand for BladeLogic skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BladeLogic over the 3 months to 22 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 London 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite
Rank 335 378 368
Rank change year-on-year
+43 -10
Contract jobs citing BladeLogic 52 40 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.236% 0.146% 0.212%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.997% 2.616% 4.398%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 31 50
Average daily rate £450 £500 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% +21.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £428 £425 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £528
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £358 £425
% change year-on-year
+4.89% -15.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £23.38
All Systems Management
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
1301 1529 1478
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 5.915% 5.593% 4.823%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 862 844
Average daily rate £415 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £530 £501 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 38 66
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +9.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.65 £15.40 £15.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.25 £33.80 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
BladeLogic
England

BladeLogic
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London BladeLogic Daily Rate Histogram

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 London region over the 3 months to 22 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
City of London +17 18 £475 +2.70%
Bromley - 3 £425 -
Canary Wharf -3 2 - -
BladeLogic
England

BladeLogic
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 57 (79.17%) Linux
2 32 (44.44%) Java
3 30 (41.67%) Finance
4 28 (38.89%) Banking
5 27 (37.50%) Middleware
6 26 (36.11%) HP
7 25 (34.72%) UNIX
8 24 (33.33%) Windows
8 24 (33.33%) Oracle
8 24 (33.33%) VMware
9 22 (30.56%) Python
9 22 (30.56%) Microsoft
10 21 (29.17%) BMC
10 21 (29.17%) JIRA
11 19 (26.39%) Solaris
11 19 (26.39%) Agile Software Development
12 18 (25.00%) Shell Script
13 17 (23.61%) Perl
13 17 (23.61%) Hudson
14 16 (22.22%) SQL Server
15 15 (20.83%) Citrix
15 15 (20.83%) Investment Banking
15 15 (20.83%) Bash shell
16 14 (19.44%) Subversion
16 14 (19.44%) Ant
16 14 (19.44%) JUnit
17 13 (18.06%) Tomcat
17 13 (18.06%) MS Excel
17 13 (18.06%) Altiris
17 13 (18.06%) Data Management

BladeLogic
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 27 (37.50%) Middleware
2 9 (12.50%) WSH
3 6 (8.333%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
4 4 (5.556%) SOAP
4 4 (5.556%) .NET
4 4 (5.556%) Java SE
5 3 (4.167%) REST
5 3 (4.167%) XML
6 2 (2.778%) Web Services
6 2 (2.778%) HTML
6 2 (2.778%) CGI
6 2 (2.778%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 13 (18.06%) Tomcat
2 9 (12.50%) IIS
2 9 (12.50%) Confluence
3 8 (11.11%) WebLogic Portal
3 8 (11.11%) WebLogic
4 7 (9.722%) Liferay
5 5 (6.944%) Apache
6 4 (5.556%) Oracle Coherence
7 3 (4.167%) OpenStack
8 1 (1.389%) Alfresco
8 1 (1.389%) CloudStack
Applications
1 13 (18.06%) MS Excel
2 11 (15.28%) Mingle
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.11%) Firewall
2 7 (9.722%) DNS
3 6 (8.333%) SSL
3 6 (8.333%) SAN
4 3 (4.167%) NAS
5 2 (2.778%) LDAP
6 1 (1.389%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.389%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.389%) OSPF
6 1 (1.389%) BGP
6 1 (1.389%) Internet
6 1 (1.389%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.389%) HTTP
6 1 (1.389%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.389%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.722%) SQL Server 2005
2 7 (9.722%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (8.333%) DB2
4 5 (6.944%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 21 (29.17%) JIRA
2 17 (23.61%) Hudson
3 14 (19.44%) Subversion
3 14 (19.44%) Ant
3 14 (19.44%) JUnit
4 13 (18.06%) dbdeploy
5 12 (16.67%) ClearCase
6 9 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (11.11%) Maven
8 4 (5.556%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.389%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.389%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (41.67%) Finance
2 28 (38.89%) Banking
3 15 (20.83%) Investment Banking
4 13 (18.06%) Front Office
5 6 (8.333%) Retail
6 5 (6.944%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.778%) Back Office
7 2 (2.778%) Marketing
7 2 (2.778%) German Language
8 1 (1.389%) Games
8 1 (1.389%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (18.06%) Build Manager
2 10 (13.89%) Deployment Manager
3 6 (8.333%) Identity Management Specialist
3 6 (8.333%) Support Engineer
3 6 (8.333%) Applications Support
3 6 (8.333%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 5 (6.944%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (5.556%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (5.556%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.167%) Architect
6 3 (4.167%) Developer
6 3 (4.167%) UNIX Engineer
6 3 (4.167%) Team Leader
6 3 (4.167%) Release Manager
7 2 (2.778%) Java Developer
7 2 (2.778%) Java Team Leader
7 2 (2.778%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (2.778%) Consultant
7 2 (2.778%) Lead Developer
7 2 (2.778%) VMware Architect
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.67%) Fixed Income
2 6 (8.333%) Derivative
3 2 (2.778%) Replication
3 2 (2.778%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (2.778%) PaaS
3 2 (2.778%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.389%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.389%) CMDB
4 1 (1.389%) Open Source
4 1 (1.389%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 57 (79.17%) Linux
2 25 (34.72%) UNIX
3 24 (33.33%) Windows
4 19 (26.39%) Solaris
5 11 (15.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (11.11%) AIX
7 7 (9.722%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (9.722%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.778%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.39%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (18.06%) Data Management
2 13 (18.06%) Release Management
3 11 (15.28%) ITIL
3 11 (15.28%) Requirements Management
4 9 (12.50%) Change Management
4 9 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 9 (12.50%) Capacity Management
4 9 (12.50%) Build Automation
5 8 (11.11%) OO
6 7 (9.722%) Incident Management
6 7 (9.722%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (9.722%) Configuration Management
6 7 (9.722%) Problem Management
7 6 (8.333%) Scrum
7 6 (8.333%) Validation
7 6 (8.333%) Identity Management
8 4 (5.556%) Risk Management
9 3 (4.167%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (2.778%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 32 (44.44%) Java
2 22 (30.56%) Python
3 18 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 17 (23.61%) Perl
5 15 (20.83%) Bash shell
6 13 (18.06%) Korn
6 13 (18.06%) PowerShell
7 8 (11.11%) JavaScript
8 6 (8.333%) C++
9 3 (4.167%) VB
10 2 (2.778%) C
10 2 (2.778%) C#
10 2 (2.778%) SQL
10 2 (2.778%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (15.28%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (4.167%) Degree
3 1 (1.389%) VCP5
3 1 (1.389%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (1.389%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.389%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.556%) QA
2 3 (4.167%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 11 (15.28%) VMware ESX
1 11 (15.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 6 (8.333%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 4 (5.556%) OpenSSO
5 3 (4.167%) Xen
6 2 (2.778%) vSphere
7 1 (1.389%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (1.389%) Veritas File System
7 1 (1.389%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.389%) vCloud
7 1 (1.389%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.389%) NFS
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 9 (12.50%) Tivoli
3 7 (9.722%) WMI
3 7 (9.722%) Control-M
3 7 (9.722%) Puppet
4 6 (8.333%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 4 (5.556%) Splunk
6 2 (2.778%) Ionix
7 1 (1.389%) SCCM
7 1 (1.389%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 26 (36.11%) HP
2 24 (33.33%) Oracle
2 24 (33.33%) VMware
3 22 (30.56%) Microsoft
4 21 (29.17%) BMC
5 15 (20.83%) Citrix
6 13 (18.06%) Altiris
6 13 (18.06%) Perforce
7 10 (13.89%) Atlassian
8 7 (9.722%) Red Hat
9 6 (8.333%) IBM
9 6 (8.333%) NetIQ
10 5 (6.944%) Symantec
11 4 (5.556%) Cisco
11 4 (5.556%) Tableau
12 3 (4.167%) Hummingbird
12 3 (4.167%) EMC
13 2 (2.778%) CA
13 2 (2.778%) Informatica
13 2 (2.778%) NetApp
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