The first table below looks at the demand for SolarWinds Orion 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 SolarWinds Orion 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
SolarWinds Orion
Rank 386 414 429
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +15
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds Orion 1 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% 0.015% 0.013%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.077% 0.262% 0.271%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £290 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £301 £275
% change year-on-year
+16.18% +9.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £12.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -64.28%
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%
SolarWinds Orion
England

SolarWinds Orion
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London SolarWinds Orion Jobs Demand Trend

SolarWinds Orion
Daily Rate Trend

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

London SolarWinds Orion Daily Rate Trend

SolarWinds Orion
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London SolarWinds Orion Hourly Rate Trend

SolarWinds Orion
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds Orion 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 +10 1 - -
SolarWinds Orion
England

SolarWinds Orion
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SolarWinds Orion 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 SolarWinds Orion.

1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) Law
3 2 (50.00%) Legal
3 2 (50.00%) HP SIM
3 2 (50.00%) SLA
3 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (50.00%) IronPort
3 2 (50.00%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (50.00%) Sophos
3 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) MS Office
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) UNIX
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) CCNP
4 1 (25.00%) CCDP
4 1 (25.00%) Linux

SolarWinds Orion
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SolarWinds Orion 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 SolarWinds Orion. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) TACACS
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (50.00%) Law
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
1 2 (50.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Support
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Service Management
1 1 (25.00%) ITSM
1 1 (25.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VB
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) CCDP
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) HP SIM
1 2 (50.00%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (25.00%) WSUS
2 1 (25.00%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (50.00%) IronPort
3 2 (50.00%) Sophos
3 2 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (25.00%) EMC
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) Reuters
4 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
4 1 (25.00%) McAfee
4 1 (25.00%) Lumension
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) Aruba