The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services 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 over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within SolarWinds.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SolarWinds
Rank - - 36
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire - - 0.336%
As % of the Vendors category - - 0.763%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £272
% change year-on-year
+16.66% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -12.50%
All Vendors
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
102 140 131
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 38.78% 53.64% 43.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 71 69
Average daily rate £346 £250 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.50% -18.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £185 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 20 24
Average hourly rate £12.44 £23.00 £23.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.91% -1.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £11.38 £10.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £40.00 £54.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
SolarWinds
Yorkshire

SolarWinds
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire SolarWinds Jobs Demand Trend

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend

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

South Yorkshire SolarWinds Daily Rate Trend

SolarWinds
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing SolarWinds 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.

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 Orion

SolarWinds
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing SolarWinds 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. 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
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) CA
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee
1 2 (100.00%) VMware