The first table below looks at the demand for Nagios skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Nagios 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 South 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Nagios
Rank - 135 -
Contract jobs citing Nagios 0 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West - 0.121% -
As % of the Systems Management category - 1.961% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £999 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £388
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -16.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Systems Management
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
118 204 186
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 5.725% 6.176% 6.734%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 119 91
Average daily rate £375 £400 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +9.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £265 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £512 £475 £449
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 9
Average hourly rate £10.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.94% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.30 £17.90 £14.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £41.50 £30.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Nagios
England

Nagios
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 West region.

South West Nagios Daily Rate Trend

Nagios
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) Compuware
1 2 (66.67%) OpenView
1 2 (66.67%) HP
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) BMC
1 2 (66.67%) CA
1 2 (66.67%) Terminal Services
1 2 (66.67%) OPNET
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) NetScout
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds Orion
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script

Nagios
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) OpenView
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Compuware
1 2 (66.67%) HP
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) BMC
1 2 (66.67%) CA
1 2 (66.67%) OPNET
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) NetScout
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
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