The first table below looks at the demand for Nagios skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Nagios 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 Systems Management category for the South East 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
Nagios
Rank 210 229 238
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +9
Contract jobs citing Nagios 10 18 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.125% 0.180% 0.075%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.279% 2.683% 1.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 4
Average daily rate £456 £325 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.38% +27.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £319 £271 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £503 £388 £349
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.07% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
782 671 786
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 9.765% 6.713% 7.416%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 300 292
Average daily rate £350 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £314
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 53 71
Average hourly rate £27.00 £17.50 £24.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+54.28% -28.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.65 £13.70 £13.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.08%
Nagios
England

Nagios
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Nagios Jobs Demand Trend

Nagios
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Nagios Daily Rate Trend

Nagios
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Nagios across the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South East Nagios Daily Rate Histogram

Nagios
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Nagios Hourly Rate Trend

Nagios
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nagios within the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Berkshire +19 6 £480 - 1
Hampshire -2 3 £356 +9.61% 2
Middlesex - 1 £375 - 1
Surrey - - - - 4
Buckinghamshire - - - -
East Sussex - - - - 1
Nagios
England

Nagios
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Nagios 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 Nagios.

1 15 (65.22%) Linux
2 14 (60.87%) Windows
2 14 (60.87%) Java
3 12 (52.17%) UNIX
4 11 (47.83%) Bash shell
5 10 (43.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (43.48%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (43.48%) VMware
5 10 (43.48%) SQL
6 9 (39.13%) WSH
7 8 (34.78%) HP
7 8 (34.78%) ITIL
7 8 (34.78%) Middleware
7 8 (34.78%) BMC
8 7 (30.43%) Red Hat
8 7 (30.43%) TCP/IP
8 7 (30.43%) DNS
8 7 (30.43%) DHCP
8 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
8 7 (30.43%) Puppet
9 6 (26.09%) NetWare
9 6 (26.09%) Apache
9 6 (26.09%) VBScript
9 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2003
9 6 (26.09%) Tivoli
9 6 (26.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 6 (26.09%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (26.09%) SAN
9 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
9 6 (26.09%) Altiris

Nagios
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 9 (39.13%) WSH
2 8 (34.78%) Middleware
3 4 (17.39%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 6 (26.09%) Apache
2 5 (21.74%) Tomcat
3 4 (17.39%) Liferay
4 1 (4.348%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (4.348%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.348%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) TCP/IP
1 7 (30.43%) DNS
1 7 (30.43%) DHCP
2 6 (26.09%) SAN
3 5 (21.74%) HTTP
3 5 (21.74%) SSL
4 4 (17.39%) NAS
4 4 (17.39%) tcpdump
4 4 (17.39%) iSCSI
4 4 (17.39%) SMTP
4 4 (17.39%) SNMP
4 4 (17.39%) LDAP
4 4 (17.39%) TELNET
5 3 (13.04%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (4.348%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) MySQL
2 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.348%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 4 (17.39%) Git (software)
2 4 (17.39%) Hudson
3 1 (4.348%) JUnit
3 1 (4.348%) Maven
General
1 5 (21.74%) Banking
2 2 (8.696%) Finance
3 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Administrator
2 7 (30.43%) Technical Leader
3 6 (26.09%) Windows Administrator
4 5 (21.74%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (13.04%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (8.696%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (4.348%) Architect
7 1 (4.348%) Tester
7 1 (4.348%) Software Tester
7 1 (4.348%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 1 (4.348%) UNIX Administrator
7 1 (4.348%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Clustering
2 4 (17.39%) Cryptography
3 2 (8.696%) Open Source
4 1 (4.348%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Linux
2 14 (60.87%) Windows
3 12 (52.17%) UNIX
4 6 (26.09%) NetWare
4 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (4.348%) AIX
7 1 (4.348%) Solaris
7 1 (4.348%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (34.78%) ITIL
3 4 (17.39%) Load Balancing
3 4 (17.39%) Memory Management
4 1 (4.348%) Configuration Management
4 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce
4 1 (4.348%) Performance Testing
4 1 (4.348%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (4.348%) Numerical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Java
2 11 (47.83%) Bash shell
3 10 (43.48%) SQL
4 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
5 6 (26.09%) VBScript
6 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
6 5 (21.74%) Perl
7 4 (17.39%) sed
7 4 (17.39%) AWK
8 3 (13.04%) VB
9 1 (4.348%) Python
9 1 (4.348%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 1 (4.348%) SCSA
3 1 (4.348%) RHCE
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
3 5 (21.74%) Squid
4 4 (17.39%) Nmap
4 4 (17.39%) Postfix
4 4 (17.39%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Puppet
2 6 (26.09%) Tivoli
2 6 (26.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (4.348%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) VMware
2 8 (34.78%) HP
2 8 (34.78%) BMC
3 7 (30.43%) Red Hat
4 6 (26.09%) Altiris
5 5 (21.74%) NetApp
5 5 (21.74%) Oracle
6 4 (17.39%) EMC
6 4 (17.39%) SAP
6 4 (17.39%) JBoss
7 3 (13.04%) Cisco
8 2 (8.696%) BT
9 1 (4.348%) IBM
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