OPNET Contracts in the South West

Riverbed OPNET
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for OPNET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OPNET over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 171 160
Rank change year-on-year +42 -11 -20
Contract jobs citing OPNET 25 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.78% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.05% 0.65% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 4 5
10th Percentile £528 - £483
25th Percentile - £625 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £681 £538
90th Percentile £713 £693 -
England median daily rate £545 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -16.15% +23.81% +5.00%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

OPNET is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 413 619 554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.90% 16.80% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 502 388
10th Percentile £205 £319 £263
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +10.19%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 20
10th Percentile - £53.75 £11.17
25th Percentile - £62.43 £16.85
Median hourly rate £40.00 £69.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.03% +245.00% -54.25%
75th Percentile £72.85 £78.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.28 £87.05 £55.03
England median hourly rate £28.50 £55.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.18% +155.81% -7.37%

OPNET
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing OPNET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for OPNET in the South West

OPNET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OPNET in the South West.

Daily rate trend for OPNET in the South West

OPNET
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OPNET in the South West over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OPNET in the South West

OPNET
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OPNET within the South West region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire +20 25 £545 -16.15%
OPNET
England

OPNET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) Confluence
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) AWS
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
1 3 (12.00%) GCP
1 3 (12.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (8.00%) GitHub
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
1 3 (12.00%) VPN
2 2 (8.00%) DHCP
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) LAN
2 2 (8.00%) Skype
2 2 (8.00%) SMTP
2 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.00%) WAN
3 1 (4.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Military
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 2 (8.00%) Architect
1 2 (8.00%) Service Desk Engineer
1 2 (8.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (4.00%) Automation Architect
2 1 (4.00%) Developer
2 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (4.00%) Lead
2 1 (4.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (4.00%) Office Automation Architect
2 1 (4.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) ModSecurity
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 23 (92.00%) PKI
2 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) Change Control
2 15 (60.00%) Service Management
3 6 (24.00%) Agile
4 4 (16.00%) NsoIT
4 4 (16.00%) Project Management
5 3 (12.00%) ArchiMate
5 3 (12.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (12.00%) Business Strategy
5 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (12.00%) DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) IT Strategy
5 3 (12.00%) ITIL
5 3 (12.00%) Office Automation
5 3 (12.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (12.00%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (12.00%) TOGAF
6 2 (8.00%) Matrix Management
6 2 (8.00%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (68.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (64.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (44.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (16.00%) Degree
6 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (60.00%) JSP 440
2 2 (8.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (16.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (12.00%) Docker
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (8.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (8.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Ansible
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (8.00%) SCCM
2 2 (8.00%) SCOM
3 1 (4.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (88.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) VMware
3 4 (16.00%) Atlassian
4 3 (12.00%) Google
5 2 (8.00%) Remedy
5 2 (8.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco