The first table below looks at the demand for BladeLogic skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BladeLogic over the 3 months to 20 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 North West 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite
Rank 116 133 130
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -3
Contract jobs citing BladeLogic 3 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.129% 0.094% 0.066%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.639% 1.053% 0.948%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
Average daily rate £400 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -6.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £358 £425
% change year-on-year
+4.89% -15.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £23.38
All Systems Management
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
183 285 211
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 7.898% 8.976% 7.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 113 129
Average daily rate £300 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.16% +16.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £216 £254 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £484 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 19 6
Average hourly rate £21.00 £16.91 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.18% -47.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.80 £14.45 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.90 £21.50 £42.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
BladeLogic
England

BladeLogic
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West BladeLogic Jobs Demand Trend

BladeLogic
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West BladeLogic Daily Rate Trend

BladeLogic
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BladeLogic within the North West region over the 3 months to 20 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
Cheshire +10 3 £400 +33.33%
BladeLogic
England

BladeLogic
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing BladeLogic 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 BladeLogic.

1 4 (66.67%) UNIX
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Perl
2 3 (50.00%) DB2
2 3 (50.00%) AIX
2 3 (50.00%) Solaris
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) SSL
2 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 3 (50.00%) BMC
2 3 (50.00%) Tivoli
2 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 3 (50.00%) Middleware
2 3 (50.00%) Remedy
2 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Supplier Management
2 3 (50.00%) QA
2 3 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
2 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Windows

BladeLogic
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing BladeLogic 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 BladeLogic. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) Middleware
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) SSL
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Identity Management Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) UNIX
2 3 (50.00%) AIX
2 3 (50.00%) Solaris
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Project Management
1 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (50.00%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) IBM
1 3 (50.00%) BMC
1 3 (50.00%) Remedy