The first table below looks at the demand for SNMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SNMP over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Communications & Networking category for the Reading 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Rank 66 65 69
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +4
Contract jobs citing SNMP 7 16 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.795% 1.390% 0.889%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.153% 3.354% 4.369%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £315 £250
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +26.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £47.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-57.89% +37.68%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
222 477 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 25.23% 41.44% 20.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 119 72
Average daily rate £273 £275 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.90% -21.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £132 £215 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £528
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 12
Average hourly rate £23.50 £16.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.42% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £14.56 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £44.00 £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
SNMP
Berkshire

SNMP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SNMP across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Reading SNMP Jobs Demand Trend

SNMP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading SNMP Daily Rate Trend

SNMP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading SNMP Hourly Rate Trend

SNMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing SNMP 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 SNMP.

1 8 (100.00%) DHCP
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (87.50%) SMTP
2 7 (87.50%) 3G
3 6 (75.00%) Telecoms
3 6 (75.00%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (62.50%) Back Office
5 4 (50.00%) Juniper
5 4 (50.00%) MPLS
5 4 (50.00%) OSPF
5 4 (50.00%) BGP
5 4 (50.00%) LAN
5 4 (50.00%) VoIP
5 4 (50.00%) WAN
5 4 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (50.00%) Redback
5 4 (50.00%) Firewall
6 3 (37.50%) HP NNM
6 3 (37.50%) F5
6 3 (37.50%) FWSM
6 3 (37.50%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (37.50%) Cisco PIX
6 3 (37.50%) Blue Coat
6 3 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
6 3 (37.50%) OpenView
6 3 (37.50%) HP
6 3 (37.50%) CiscoWorks
6 3 (37.50%) CheckPoint

SNMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing SNMP 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 SNMP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DHCP
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
2 7 (87.50%) SMTP
2 7 (87.50%) 3G
3 6 (75.00%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (50.00%) MPLS
4 4 (50.00%) OSPF
4 4 (50.00%) BGP
4 4 (50.00%) LAN
4 4 (50.00%) VoIP
4 4 (50.00%) WAN
4 4 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (50.00%) Firewall
5 3 (37.50%) FWSM
5 3 (37.50%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (37.50%) Cisco PIX
5 3 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
6 2 (25.00%) BIG-IP
7 1 (12.50%) LLU
General
1 6 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (62.50%) Back Office
3 1 (12.50%) Billing
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) IP Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) Security Consultant
5 1 (12.50%) Network Team Leader
5 1 (12.50%) Team Leader
5 1 (12.50%) Network Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Network Design
1 1 (12.50%) CRM
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CCNP
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) HP NNM
1 3 (37.50%) OpenView
1 3 (37.50%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) Juniper
2 4 (50.00%) Redback
3 3 (37.50%) F5
3 3 (37.50%) Blue Coat
3 3 (37.50%) HP
3 3 (37.50%) CheckPoint