The first table below looks at the demand for Nmap 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 Nmap 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 System Software 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Mapper (Nmap)
Rank 372 413 -
Rank change year-on-year
+41 -
Contract jobs citing Nmap 5 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.023% 0.007% -
As % of the System Software category 0.303% 0.095% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £250 -
% change year-on-year
+30.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1648 2095 1868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.610% 7.777% 6.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 1198 968
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 180 204
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £36.70 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Nmap
England

Nmap
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Nmap Jobs Demand Trend

Nmap
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Nmap Daily Rate Trend

Nmap
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Nmap Hourly Rate Trend

Nmap
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nmap within the London 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
Surbiton - 2 - -
City of London +15 1 £500 -
Hounslow - 1 £450 -
Nmap
England

Nmap
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) JBoss
2 3 (50.00%) Apache
2 3 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (50.00%) LDAP
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Perl
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) JDBC
2 3 (50.00%) SSL
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (50.00%) TELNET
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) Clustering
2 3 (50.00%) AWK
2 3 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 3 (50.00%) Information Security
2 3 (50.00%) COBIT
2 3 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 3 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 3 (50.00%) tcpdump
2 3 (50.00%) Puppet
2 3 (50.00%) sed
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Forensics
3 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (33.33%) HIPAA
3 2 (33.33%) Wireshark

Nmap
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Apache
1 3 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (16.67%) Liferay
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) LDAP
1 3 (50.00%) SSL
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (50.00%) TELNET
1 3 (50.00%) tcpdump
2 2 (33.33%) Wireshark
2 2 (33.33%) Wireless
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) 802.11
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
2 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) RIP
3 1 (16.67%) SNMP
3 1 (16.67%) SMTP
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
1 1 (16.67%) Hudson
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Linux Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Security Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Forensic Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Clustering
1 3 (50.00%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Mac OS X
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (50.00%) Information Security
1 3 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Forensics
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Perl
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
1 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (50.00%) AWK
1 3 (50.00%) Bash shell
1 3 (50.00%) sed
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) GCIA
1 2 (33.33%) GCIH
1 2 (33.33%) GIAC
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (33.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) COBIT
2 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 2 (33.33%) HIPAA
2 2 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) NFS
2 1 (16.67%) Snort
2 1 (16.67%) Squid
2 1 (16.67%) Postfix
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) JBoss
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp
3 1 (16.67%) EMC
3 1 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Qualys
3 1 (16.67%) ArcSight
3 1 (16.67%) Q1 Labs