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

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Opsware
Rank 374 - 438
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Opsware 3 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% - 0.013%
As % of the Vendors category 0.031% - 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
Average daily rate £320 - £330
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9744 12013 14055
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 44.99% 44.59% 45.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6123 7282 8491
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £265 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 296 406
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.95 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Opsware
England

Opsware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region.

London Opsware Hourly Rate Trend

Opsware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (60.00%) VMware ESX
3 3 (60.00%) Puppet
3 3 (60.00%) F5
3 3 (60.00%) .NET
3 3 (60.00%) IIS
3 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (60.00%) Nagios
4 2 (40.00%) Symantec
4 2 (40.00%) Firewall
4 2 (40.00%) ITSM
4 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) CGI
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco
4 2 (40.00%) HP
4 2 (40.00%) Citrix
4 2 (40.00%) SAN
4 2 (40.00%) BMC
4 2 (40.00%) CA
4 2 (40.00%) NetApp
4 2 (40.00%) Tivoli
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL
4 2 (40.00%) UNIX
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server

Opsware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (40.00%) CGI
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) IIS
2 2 (40.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
1 2 (40.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) German Language
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Architect
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Web Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Web Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Web Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) ITSM
1 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) C
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) VB
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) VMware ESX
3 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (40.00%) Xen
4 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Puppet
1 3 (60.00%) Nagios
2 2 (40.00%) Tivoli
2 2 (40.00%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 2 (40.00%) Ionix
2 2 (40.00%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) F5
3 2 (40.00%) Symantec
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) HP
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) BMC
3 2 (40.00%) CA
3 2 (40.00%) NetApp
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft