The first table below looks at the demand for Nagios 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 Nagios over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Nagios
Rank 323 322 402
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +80
Contract jobs citing Nagios 62 84 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.287% 0.314% 0.112%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.851% 5.559% 2.316%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 41 13
Average daily rate £420 £425 £445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.17% -4.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £210 £336
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £388
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -16.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £33.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Systems Management
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
1278 1511 1511
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 5.919% 5.642% 4.837%
Number of daily rates quoted 858 856 860
Average daily rate £413 £380 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.55% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £261
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 39 61
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 £14.00 £15.00 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.25 £33.80 £38.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Nagios
England

Nagios
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 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 +12 19 £360 -31.42%
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -
Nagios
England

Nagios
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 122 (88.41%) Linux
2 67 (48.55%) Apache
3 65 (47.10%) Puppet
4 62 (44.93%) Red Hat
5 57 (41.30%) MySQL
6 46 (33.33%) Java
7 45 (32.61%) UNIX
8 43 (31.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 42 (30.43%) DNS
10 41 (29.71%) PHP
11 36 (26.09%) Perl
12 35 (25.36%) Firewall
13 34 (24.64%) SAN
13 34 (24.64%) Cisco
13 34 (24.64%) VMware
14 33 (23.91%) Tomcat
14 33 (23.91%) Open Source
15 30 (21.74%) Oracle
15 30 (21.74%) Windows
15 30 (21.74%) Bash shell
16 29 (21.01%) HTTP
17 28 (20.29%) Jenkins
18 26 (18.84%) NAS
18 26 (18.84%) Git (software)
18 26 (18.84%) E-Commerce
18 26 (18.84%) Shell Script
19 25 (18.12%) ZABBIX
20 24 (17.39%) Load Balancing
21 23 (16.67%) Ubuntu
21 23 (16.67%) Cacti

Nagios
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 19 (13.77%) REST
2 18 (13.04%) SOAP
3 17 (12.32%) .NET
4 14 (10.14%) LAMP
5 13 (9.420%) HTML
6 11 (7.971%) Java EE
7 9 (6.522%) J2EE
7 9 (6.522%) Web Services
7 9 (6.522%) Regular Expression
8 8 (5.797%) WSRP
8 8 (5.797%) JSR 168
8 8 (5.797%) HTML5
8 8 (5.797%) XML
8 8 (5.797%) Flash
8 8 (5.797%) Ajax
8 8 (5.797%) DHTML
9 5 (3.623%) JSP
9 5 (3.623%) JMX
9 5 (3.623%) JMS
10 4 (2.899%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 67 (48.55%) Apache
2 33 (23.91%) Tomcat
3 16 (11.59%) Amazon AWS
4 13 (9.420%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (7.971%) IIS
6 5 (3.623%) Liferay
7 4 (2.899%) Confluence
7 4 (2.899%) CloudStack
8 3 (2.174%) Drupal
9 2 (1.449%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (1.449%) MS Exchange
9 2 (1.449%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (1.449%) Rackspace Cloud
10 1 (0.725%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.725%) Gunicorn
10 1 (0.725%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.725%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.725%) Exchange Server 2003
10 1 (0.725%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.725%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.449%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (5.797%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.449%) Summit
2 2 (1.449%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.725%) RMDS
3 1 (0.725%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 42 (30.43%) DNS
2 35 (25.36%) Firewall
3 34 (24.64%) SAN
4 29 (21.01%) HTTP
5 26 (18.84%) NAS
6 21 (15.22%) Internet
7 16 (11.59%) SSL
8 15 (10.87%) SNMP
9 13 (9.420%) iSCSI
9 13 (9.420%) Fibre Channel
10 12 (8.696%) SMTP
11 11 (7.971%) BGP
11 11 (7.971%) RTP
11 11 (7.971%) RTSP
11 11 (7.971%) VPN
11 11 (7.971%) Network Security
12 10 (7.246%) VLAN
12 10 (7.246%) NetScaler
12 10 (7.246%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (7.246%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (41.30%) MySQL
2 16 (11.59%) SQL Server
3 14 (10.14%) NoSQL
4 13 (9.420%) Redis
4 13 (9.420%) RDBMS
5 12 (8.696%) CouchDB
6 11 (7.971%) MongoDB
7 10 (7.246%) Oracle 11g
8 9 (6.522%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (6.522%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (5.797%) Oracle 8/8i
9 8 (5.797%) Oracle 10g
10 5 (3.623%) Hadoop
10 5 (3.623%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (2.899%) Big Data
12 2 (1.449%) SQL Server 2005
12 2 (1.449%) SQL Server 2000
13 1 (0.725%) InterBase
13 1 (0.725%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.725%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (20.29%) Jenkins
2 26 (18.84%) Git (software)
3 21 (15.22%) Hudson
4 20 (14.49%) Maven
5 19 (13.77%) JIRA
6 17 (12.32%) Selenium
7 8 (5.797%) Subversion
8 7 (5.072%) Ant
9 6 (4.348%) Capistrano
10 5 (3.623%) EasyMock
10 5 (3.623%) Mockito
10 5 (3.623%) JUnit
10 5 (3.623%) CruiseControl
11 3 (2.174%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.725%) JMeter
12 1 (0.725%) GitHub
General
1 9 (6.522%) Banking
2 7 (5.072%) Finance
3 4 (2.899%) Advertising
4 2 (1.449%) Back Office
4 2 (1.449%) Games
5 1 (0.725%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.725%) Law
5 1 (0.725%) Publishing
5 1 (0.725%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 38 (27.54%) Administrator
2 34 (24.64%) Systems Administrator
3 32 (23.19%) Linux Administrator
4 28 (20.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 24 (17.39%) Linux Engineer
6 22 (15.94%) Systems Engineer
7 15 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (9.420%) Network Engineer
9 12 (8.696%) DBA
10 7 (5.072%) Web Engineer
11 6 (4.348%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 6 (4.348%) Virtualisation Specialist
11 6 (4.348%) Oracle DBA
12 5 (3.623%) Developer
12 5 (3.623%) Deployment Engineer
13 4 (2.899%) Senior Web Engineer
13 4 (2.899%) Analyst
13 4 (2.899%) Java Developer
14 3 (2.174%) UNIX Administrator
14 3 (2.174%) UNIX Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.91%) Open Source
2 12 (8.696%) Clustering
3 8 (5.797%) Taxonomies
3 8 (5.797%) Ontologies
3 8 (5.797%) Replication
4 4 (2.899%) CLARiiON
5 3 (2.174%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.174%) Firmware
6 2 (1.449%) Cryptography
7 1 (0.725%) PKI
7 1 (0.725%) Visualisation
7 1 (0.725%) SaaS
7 1 (0.725%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.725%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 122 (88.41%) Linux
2 45 (32.61%) UNIX
3 43 (31.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 30 (21.74%) Windows
5 23 (16.67%) Ubuntu
6 22 (15.94%) CentOS
7 14 (10.14%) Solaris
8 13 (9.420%) Debian
9 12 (8.696%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (5.072%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (4.348%) Gentoo
11 6 (4.348%) FreeBSD
12 3 (2.174%) SUSE
13 1 (0.725%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (18.84%) E-Commerce
2 24 (17.39%) Load Balancing
3 15 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (8.696%) Penetration Testing
5 10 (7.246%) Change Management
6 8 (5.797%) Configuration Management
6 8 (5.797%) DRM
6 8 (5.797%) SOA
6 8 (5.797%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (5.797%) Information Architecture
6 8 (5.797%) High Availability
7 7 (5.072%) Project Management
8 6 (4.348%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (4.348%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (3.623%) Web Development
9 5 (3.623%) Dependency Injection
9 5 (3.623%) TDD
9 5 (3.623%) Content Management
10 4 (2.899%) Scrum
10 4 (2.899%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 46 (33.33%) Java
2 41 (29.71%) PHP
3 36 (26.09%) Perl
4 30 (21.74%) Bash shell
5 26 (18.84%) Shell Script
6 17 (12.32%) SQL
7 13 (9.420%) JavaScript
8 12 (8.696%) PowerShell
9 11 (7.971%) Python
10 9 (6.522%) Ruby
11 4 (2.899%) Korn
12 2 (1.449%) Groovy
12 2 (1.449%) VBScript
13 1 (0.725%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.725%) AWK
13 1 (0.725%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.725%) sed
Qualifications
1 18 (13.04%) RHCE
2 10 (7.246%) Degree
3 8 (5.797%) DV Cleared
3 8 (5.797%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.072%) CCNA
4 7 (5.072%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (4.348%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.725%) MCSE
6 1 (0.725%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.725%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.725%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.797%) QA
2 2 (1.449%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (15.22%) Samba
2 16 (11.59%) NFS
2 16 (11.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (10.87%) vSphere
4 12 (8.696%) VMware ESX
5 10 (7.246%) Oracle RAC
5 10 (7.246%) XenServer
5 10 (7.246%) Postfix
6 8 (5.797%) Oracle RMAN
7 7 (5.072%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (4.348%) Active Directory
9 5 (3.623%) Squid
10 4 (2.899%) Xen
10 4 (2.899%) vCloud
11 2 (1.449%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.725%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.725%) Varnish
12 1 (0.725%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 65 (47.10%) Puppet
2 25 (18.12%) ZABBIX
3 23 (16.67%) Cacti
4 17 (12.32%) Zenoss
5 13 (9.420%) OpenView
6 12 (8.696%) Splunk
7 10 (7.246%) Data Guard
8 7 (5.072%) Ganglia
9 3 (2.174%) SCOM
9 3 (2.174%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (1.449%) Cobbler
10 2 (1.449%) Munin
10 2 (1.449%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.449%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.725%) Business Desktop Deployment
11 1 (0.725%) SCCM
11 1 (0.725%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.725%) CFEngine
11 1 (0.725%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 62 (44.93%) Red Hat
2 34 (24.64%) VMware
2 34 (24.64%) Cisco
3 30 (21.74%) Oracle
4 16 (11.59%) JBoss
5 13 (9.420%) CheckPoint
5 13 (9.420%) NetApp
6 11 (7.971%) HP
6 11 (7.971%) EMC
6 11 (7.971%) Rackspace
7 10 (7.246%) Citrix
8 8 (5.797%) RightScale
8 8 (5.797%) F5
9 7 (5.072%) Akamai
10 6 (4.348%) SAP
11 5 (3.623%) Microsoft
12 4 (2.899%) Sybase
12 4 (2.899%) Opsware
12 4 (2.899%) SolarWinds
13 3 (2.174%) Tripwire
London
My client based in London, is looking for a Linux Systems Administrator for an initial 6 month contract. This is one of Computer Futures' top clients and they...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Here's the wish list: - Linux Sys Administration (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu) - VMWare would be very useful - Scripting in such as Bash, Shell, Python - Open source tools (Nagios, Puppet,...
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Posted: 13 May 2013
London
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ISL
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013
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Rate: £500 pd
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Cisco Network Engineer required... Excellent LAN and WAN skills, including; OSPF, HSRP, VPNs, VLANs, GRE/IPSec VPNs, SNMP management, etc... Proficient with VoIP technologies (Cisco CUCM preferable). Any...
Proactive Appointments
Rate: Unspecified Market Rate
Posted: 13 May 2013