The first table below looks at the demand for SolarWinds Orion skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SolarWinds Orion over the 3 months to 21 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 Yorkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SolarWinds Orion
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds Orion 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire - - -
As % of the Systems Management category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £301 £288
% change year-on-year
+16.18% +4.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £12.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -64.28%
All Systems Management
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
19 21 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 7.090% 8.015% 7.117%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 8
Average daily rate £330 £325 £251
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% +29.74%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £202 £191
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
Average hourly rate £22.75 £10.33 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+120.33% -51.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.15 £9.68 £20.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.35 £16.73 £22.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
SolarWinds Orion
Yorkshire

SolarWinds Orion
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire SolarWinds Orion Jobs Demand Trend

SolarWinds Orion
Daily Rate Trend

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

South Yorkshire SolarWinds Orion Daily Rate Trend

SolarWinds Orion
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing SolarWinds Orion 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 SolarWinds Orion.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CA
1 2 (100.00%) Terminal Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds

SolarWinds Orion
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing SolarWinds Orion 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 SolarWinds Orion. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Server Administrator
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Terminal Server
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) CA
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds