The first table below looks at the demand for Cacti skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cacti over the 3 months to 17 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cacti
Rank 514 549 -
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -
Contract jobs citing Cacti 16 29 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.034% 0.050% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.513% 0.815% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 0
Average daily rate £325 £315 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £313 -
% change year-on-year
-4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
3118 3560 3639
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.720% 6.109% 5.937%
Number of daily rates quoted 1762 1821 1721
Average daily rate £375 £350 £368
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £227 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 165 224
Average hourly rate £21.00 £19.63 £23.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.00% -16.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.50 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%

Cacti
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cacti within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Cacti Jobs Demand Trend

Cacti
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Cacti within the UK.

Cacti Daily Rate Trend

Cacti
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cacti within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cacti Daily Rate Histogram

Cacti
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cacti within the UK.

Cacti Hourly Rate Trend

Cacti
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cacti within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 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
England +35 16 £325 +3.17%
London +8 7 £450 +42.85%
East of England - 6 £299 -
Cambridgeshire - 5 £298 -
Yorkshire 0 3 £363 +11.53%
Cambridge - 3 £298 -
York - 3 £363 -
North Yorkshire - 3 £363 -
Bedfordshire - 1 £300 -
Luton - 1 £300 -

Cacti
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Cacti 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 Cacti.

1 34 (70.83%) Nagios
2 31 (64.58%) Linux
3 25 (52.08%) Cisco
4 22 (45.83%) Windows
5 19 (39.58%) VPN
6 18 (37.50%) Firewall
7 16 (33.33%) VLAN
7 16 (33.33%) DNS
8 15 (31.25%) VMware
9 14 (29.17%) BGP
10 13 (27.08%) CheckPoint
10 13 (27.08%) Windows Server 2008
10 13 (27.08%) Open Source
11 12 (25.00%) CentOS
11 12 (25.00%) iSCSI
11 12 (25.00%) Internet
11 12 (25.00%) SNMP
12 11 (22.92%) Citrix
12 11 (22.92%) Red Hat
12 11 (22.92%) Apache
12 11 (22.92%) E-Commerce
12 11 (22.92%) VoIP
12 11 (22.92%) HTTP
12 11 (22.92%) XenServer
12 11 (22.92%) NetScaler
12 11 (22.92%) Cisco Nexus
12 11 (22.92%) Regular Expression
13 10 (20.83%) Ethernet
13 10 (20.83%) HP
13 10 (20.83%) Change Management

Cacti
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Cacti 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 Cacti. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (22.92%) Regular Expression
2 5 (10.42%) Web Services
3 1 (2.083%) XML
3 1 (2.083%) LAMP
3 1 (2.083%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 11 (22.92%) Apache
2 9 (18.75%) IIS
3 5 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (10.42%) Amazon S3
3 5 (10.42%) Amazon AWS
4 4 (8.333%) MS Exchange
5 3 (6.250%) Tomcat
5 3 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (2.083%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (2.083%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 19 (39.58%) VPN
2 18 (37.50%) Firewall
3 16 (33.33%) VLAN
3 16 (33.33%) DNS
4 14 (29.17%) BGP
5 12 (25.00%) Internet
5 12 (25.00%) SNMP
5 12 (25.00%) iSCSI
6 11 (22.92%) NetScaler
6 11 (22.92%) Cisco Nexus
6 11 (22.92%) HTTP
6 11 (22.92%) VoIP
7 10 (20.83%) Ethernet
8 9 (18.75%) Fibre Channel
9 7 (14.58%) SMTP
9 7 (14.58%) LAN
9 7 (14.58%) OSPF
10 6 (12.50%) IPsec
10 6 (12.50%) WAN
10 6 (12.50%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (2.083%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.083%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.083%) CruiseControl
1 1 (2.083%) Subversion
1 1 (2.083%) Maven
1 1 (2.083%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (6.250%) Telecoms
1 3 (6.250%) Finance
2 2 (4.167%) Retail
2 2 (4.167%) Marketing
2 2 (4.167%) Arabic Language
3 1 (2.083%) German Language
3 1 (2.083%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (8.333%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (8.333%) Administrator
3 4 (8.333%) Web Engineer
4 3 (6.250%) Wintel Engineer
4 3 (6.250%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (6.250%) Exchange Engineer
4 3 (6.250%) Build Engineer
4 3 (6.250%) Analyst
4 3 (6.250%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (6.250%) Operations Analyst
4 3 (6.250%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (6.250%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.167%) Web Analyst
5 2 (4.167%) UNIX Administrator
5 2 (4.167%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 1 (2.083%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (2.083%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.08%) Open Source
2 6 (12.50%) Clustering
3 3 (6.250%) EqualLogic
3 3 (6.250%) Hedge funds
4 2 (4.167%) Firmware
5 1 (2.083%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.083%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 31 (64.58%) Linux
2 22 (45.83%) Windows
3 13 (27.08%) Windows Server 2008
4 12 (25.00%) CentOS
5 10 (20.83%) Ubuntu
5 10 (20.83%) Debian
6 9 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
7 8 (16.67%) UNIX
8 6 (12.50%) Gentoo
8 6 (12.50%) FreeBSD
9 4 (8.333%) Solaris
10 3 (6.250%) Windows 7
11 1 (2.083%) Windows Vista
11 1 (2.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (2.083%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.92%) E-Commerce
2 10 (20.83%) Change Management
2 10 (20.83%) Load Balancing
3 5 (10.42%) Network Load Balancing
4 2 (4.167%) Release Management
4 2 (4.167%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (4.167%) Configuration Management
4 2 (4.167%) Project Management
4 2 (4.167%) Network Architecture
4 2 (4.167%) Network Management
5 1 (2.083%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (2.083%) ITIL
5 1 (2.083%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (2.083%) Migration
5 1 (2.083%) Network Design
5 1 (2.083%) Incident Management
5 1 (2.083%) Stress Testing
5 1 (2.083%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.250%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.167%) Shell Script
2 2 (4.167%) Java
2 2 (4.167%) Perl
2 2 (4.167%) PHP
3 1 (2.083%) Python
3 1 (2.083%) Tcl
3 1 (2.083%) Objective-C
3 1 (2.083%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (20.83%) Degree
2 7 (14.58%) RHCE
3 6 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.167%) CCIE
5 2 (4.167%) CCNP
6 1 (2.083%) CCIP
6 1 (2.083%) CCNA
6 1 (2.083%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.083%) QA
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) XenServer
2 9 (18.75%) vSphere
2 9 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (18.75%) NFS
2 9 (18.75%) VMware ESX
3 6 (12.50%) Postfix
4 4 (8.333%) Active Directory
5 3 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (6.250%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (2.083%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 34 (70.83%) Nagios
2 7 (14.58%) Puppet
2 7 (14.58%) Cisco CUCM
3 6 (12.50%) WhatsUp Gold
4 3 (6.250%) ZABBIX
4 3 (6.250%) OpenNMS
5 1 (2.083%) Munin
5 1 (2.083%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (2.083%) CA Wily
5 1 (2.083%) HP NNM
5 1 (2.083%) OpenView
5 1 (2.083%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 25 (52.08%) Cisco
2 15 (31.25%) VMware
3 13 (27.08%) CheckPoint
4 11 (22.92%) Red Hat
4 11 (22.92%) Citrix
5 10 (20.83%) HP
6 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
7 4 (8.333%) Oracle
7 4 (8.333%) F5
8 3 (6.250%) EMC
8 3 (6.250%) Juniper
8 3 (6.250%) NetApp
8 3 (6.250%) Huawei
9 2 (4.167%) Nokia Siemens Networks
10 1 (2.083%) Akamai
10 1 (2.083%) Polycom
10 1 (2.083%) SolarWinds
10 1 (2.083%) ZTE
10 1 (2.083%) JD Edwards
10 1 (2.083%) Tangosol
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