The first table below looks at the demand for Plesk 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 Plesk 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Parallels Plesk Panel
Rank 376 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Plesk 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.078% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £358 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £138 £225 -
% change year-on-year
-38.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 -
All Systems Management
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
1276 1511 1516
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 5.897% 5.611% 4.795%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 850 864
Average daily rate £419 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £250 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £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 67
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 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.25 £33.80 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
Plesk
England

Plesk
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Plesk Jobs Demand Trend

Plesk
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Plesk Daily Rate Trend

Plesk
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) PBX
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V

Plesk
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Office Communications Server
1 1 (100.00%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) PBX
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
1 1 (100.00%) XenServer
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) vCloud
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Ensim
1 1 (100.00%) Polycom
1 1 (100.00%) 3PAR