The first table below looks at the demand for Nagios skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Nagios 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Nagios
Rank 419 467 517
Rank change year-on-year
+48 +50
Contract jobs citing Nagios 110 117 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.237% 0.201% 0.110%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.446% 3.275% 1.856%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 61 29
Average daily rate £361 £370 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.36% -7.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £235 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £388
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -16.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £33.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +11.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
3192 3573 3609
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.880% 6.127% 5.912%
Number of daily rates quoted 1794 1824 1718
Average daily rate £375 £350 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -5.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 170 236
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.81 £22.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.94% -12.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%

Nagios
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Nagios Daily Rate Trend

Nagios
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Nagios within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Nagios Daily Rate Histogram

Nagios
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Nagios Hourly Rate Trend

Nagios
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nagios within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +46 108 £361 -2.36%
London +24 62 £425 -
City of London +18 19 £360 -10.00%
East of England - 18 £299 -
Cambridgeshire - 12 £310 -
South East +7 9 £463 +42.30%
North West +19 8 - -
Cambridge - 7 £298 -
Berkshire +16 6 £480 +47.69%
Newcastle upon Tyne - 6 £300 -
Manchester - 6 - -
Tyne and Wear - 6 £300 -
North East - 6 £300 -
Yorkshire 0 5 £281 +12.50%
Hertfordshire - 5 £231 -
York - 4 £363 -
North Yorkshire - 4 £363 -
Slough - 3 £503 -
Hemel Hempstead - 3 - -
Hampshire -9 2 £263 -19.23%
Stevenage - 2 £231 -
Lancashire - 2 - -
West Yorkshire +1 1 £200 -38.46%
Leeds -9 1 £200 -38.46%
Wales - 1 - -
South Wales - 1 - -
Middlesex - 1 £375 -
Bedfordshire - 1 £300 -
Southampton - 1 £263 -
Newport - 1 - -

Nagios
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 163 (81.91%) Linux
2 96 (48.24%) Red Hat
3 81 (40.70%) Puppet
4 80 (40.20%) Apache
5 67 (33.67%) UNIX
5 67 (33.67%) MySQL
6 62 (31.16%) Java
7 59 (29.65%) Windows
7 59 (29.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 54 (27.14%) Perl
9 50 (25.13%) VMware
9 50 (25.13%) DNS
10 45 (22.61%) Bash shell
11 44 (22.11%) Cisco
12 41 (20.60%) Firewall
13 40 (20.10%) Tomcat
14 39 (19.60%) Oracle
15 37 (18.59%) PHP
16 35 (17.59%) SAN
16 35 (17.59%) Open Source
17 34 (17.09%) HTTP
18 33 (16.58%) Shell Script
19 32 (16.08%) CentOS
19 32 (16.08%) Cacti
20 31 (15.58%) Git (software)
21 29 (14.57%) Jenkins
21 29 (14.57%) SQL
22 28 (14.07%) Ubuntu
22 28 (14.07%) RHCE
22 28 (14.07%) HP

Nagios
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

Application Development
1 22 (11.06%) LAMP
2 18 (9.045%) REST
3 17 (8.543%) SOAP
4 15 (7.538%) .NET
5 11 (5.528%) WSH
5 11 (5.528%) HTML
6 10 (5.025%) Regular Expression
6 10 (5.025%) Web Services
7 9 (4.523%) Middleware
7 9 (4.523%) Java EE
8 8 (4.020%) XML
8 8 (4.020%) JDBC
8 8 (4.020%) J2EE
9 6 (3.015%) WSRP
9 6 (3.015%) JSR 168
9 6 (3.015%) HTML5
9 6 (3.015%) Ajax
9 6 (3.015%) Flash
9 6 (3.015%) DHTML
10 5 (2.513%) JMX
Application Platforms
1 80 (40.20%) Apache
2 40 (20.10%) Tomcat
3 15 (7.538%) IIS
4 12 (6.030%) Amazon AWS
5 9 (4.523%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (4.523%) Liferay
6 4 (2.010%) Confluence
6 4 (2.010%) CloudStack
7 3 (1.508%) Drupal
8 2 (1.005%) Rackspace Cloud
8 2 (1.005%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (1.005%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (1.005%) MS Exchange
8 2 (1.005%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.503%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.503%) Exchange Server 2003
9 1 (0.503%) Gunicorn
9 1 (0.503%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.503%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.503%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (3.518%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.005%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (4.020%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.005%) Summit
2 2 (1.005%) Front Arena
2 2 (1.005%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.503%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.503%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (25.13%) DNS
2 41 (20.60%) Firewall
3 35 (17.59%) SAN
4 34 (17.09%) HTTP
5 26 (13.07%) SNMP
6 25 (12.56%) NAS
7 22 (11.06%) TCP/IP
8 21 (10.55%) LDAP
8 21 (10.55%) SSL
9 20 (10.05%) VPN
10 18 (9.045%) Internet
10 18 (9.045%) SMTP
11 17 (8.543%) iSCSI
12 16 (8.040%) Fibre Channel
12 16 (8.040%) DHCP
13 15 (7.538%) VLAN
14 14 (7.035%) WAN
15 13 (6.533%) BGP
16 10 (5.025%) Network Security
16 10 (5.025%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (33.67%) MySQL
2 14 (7.035%) SQL Server
3 13 (6.533%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.533%) NoSQL
4 12 (6.030%) Redis
5 11 (5.528%) RDBMS
5 11 (5.528%) CouchDB
5 11 (5.528%) Oracle 11g
6 10 (5.025%) MongoDB
7 9 (4.523%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (4.020%) Oracle 10g
9 6 (3.015%) Hadoop
9 6 (3.015%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (3.015%) Oracle 8/8i
10 4 (2.010%) Big Data
11 2 (1.005%) SQL Server 2005
11 2 (1.005%) Ingres
11 2 (1.005%) SQL Server 2000
12 1 (0.503%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.503%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 31 (15.58%) Git (software)
2 29 (14.57%) Jenkins
3 23 (11.56%) Hudson
4 19 (9.548%) Maven
5 18 (9.045%) Subversion
6 17 (8.543%) JIRA
7 16 (8.040%) Selenium
8 7 (3.518%) Ant
9 6 (3.015%) Capistrano
9 6 (3.015%) CruiseControl
9 6 (3.015%) JUnit
10 5 (2.513%) Mockito
10 5 (2.513%) EasyMock
11 2 (1.005%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (1.005%) GitHub
12 1 (0.503%) JMeter
General
1 14 (7.035%) Banking
2 11 (5.528%) Telecoms
3 10 (5.025%) Finance
4 4 (2.010%) Advertising
5 2 (1.005%) Back Office
5 2 (1.005%) Retail
6 1 (0.503%) Dutch Language
6 1 (0.503%) French Language
6 1 (0.503%) Billing
6 1 (0.503%) Publishing
6 1 (0.503%) Law
6 1 (0.503%) Games
6 1 (0.503%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 52 (26.13%) Administrator
2 37 (18.59%) Systems Administrator
3 36 (18.09%) Linux Administrator
4 33 (16.58%) Linux Engineer
5 32 (16.08%) Systems Engineer
6 29 (14.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 18 (9.045%) Network Engineer
8 15 (7.538%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.030%) DBA
10 9 (4.523%) Support Engineer
10 9 (4.523%) Technical Leader
11 8 (4.020%) Windows Administrator
11 8 (4.020%) Systems Support Engineer
11 8 (4.020%) Systems Support
12 7 (3.518%) Developer
12 7 (3.518%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.015%) Virtualisation Specialist
13 6 (3.015%) Oracle DBA
13 6 (3.015%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 6 (3.015%) Senior Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 35 (17.59%) Open Source
2 22 (11.06%) Clustering
3 8 (4.020%) Replication
4 6 (3.015%) Wiki
4 6 (3.015%) Cryptography
4 6 (3.015%) Taxonomies
4 6 (3.015%) Ontologies
5 4 (2.010%) CLARiiON
5 4 (2.010%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.508%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.005%) Firmware
8 1 (0.503%) PKI
8 1 (0.503%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.503%) SaaS
8 1 (0.503%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.503%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.503%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 163 (81.91%) Linux
2 67 (33.67%) UNIX
3 59 (29.65%) Windows
3 59 (29.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (16.08%) CentOS
5 28 (14.07%) Ubuntu
6 27 (13.57%) Debian
7 18 (9.045%) Windows Server 2008
8 16 (8.040%) Solaris
9 13 (6.533%) Windows Server 2003
10 6 (3.015%) Gentoo
10 6 (3.015%) FreeBSD
10 6 (3.015%) NetWare
11 4 (2.010%) AIX
12 3 (1.508%) HPUX
12 3 (1.508%) SUSE
13 2 (1.005%) VMS
14 1 (0.503%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (13.07%) Load Balancing
2 22 (11.06%) E-Commerce
3 19 (9.548%) Disaster Recovery
4 16 (8.040%) ITIL
5 13 (6.533%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (5.528%) Configuration Management
6 11 (5.528%) Penetration Testing
7 9 (4.523%) Change Management
8 8 (4.020%) High Availability
8 8 (4.020%) Agile Software Development
9 7 (3.518%) Project Management
9 7 (3.518%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (3.015%) Information Architecture
10 6 (3.015%) SOA
10 6 (3.015%) DRM
11 5 (2.513%) Web Development
11 5 (2.513%) Content Management
11 5 (2.513%) TDD
11 5 (2.513%) Dependency Injection
11 5 (2.513%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (31.16%) Java
2 54 (27.14%) Perl
3 45 (22.61%) Bash shell
4 37 (18.59%) PHP
5 33 (16.58%) Shell Script
6 29 (14.57%) SQL
7 20 (10.05%) Python
8 18 (9.045%) PowerShell
9 17 (8.543%) JavaScript
10 15 (7.538%) Ruby
11 8 (4.020%) VBScript
12 6 (3.015%) C
13 5 (2.513%) Korn
13 5 (2.513%) AWK
13 5 (2.513%) sed
14 3 (1.508%) VB
15 2 (1.005%) Groovy
16 1 (0.503%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.503%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.503%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 28 (14.07%) RHCE
2 13 (6.533%) Degree
3 9 (4.523%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.020%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.518%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (3.015%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (2.010%) RHCT
7 4 (2.010%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.508%) CCNA
9 1 (0.503%) CCNP
9 1 (0.503%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.503%) MCSE
9 1 (0.503%) SCSA
9 1 (0.503%) HP ASE
9 1 (0.503%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.020%) QA
2 7 (3.518%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (13.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (11.56%) Postfix
3 19 (9.548%) NFS
3 19 (9.548%) Active Directory
3 19 (9.548%) vSphere
4 15 (7.538%) Samba
5 13 (6.533%) XenServer
6 11 (5.528%) VMware ESX
6 11 (5.528%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (5.025%) Oracle RAC
7 10 (5.025%) Squid
8 8 (4.020%) Hyper-V
8 8 (4.020%) Oracle RMAN
9 7 (3.518%) Sendmail
10 5 (2.513%) Nmap
11 4 (2.010%) vCloud
11 4 (2.010%) Varnish
11 4 (2.010%) Xen
12 2 (1.005%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.503%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 81 (40.70%) Puppet
2 32 (16.08%) Cacti
3 23 (11.56%) ZABBIX
4 18 (9.045%) Zenoss
5 15 (7.538%) OpenView
6 10 (5.025%) Data Guard
7 9 (4.523%) Splunk
8 8 (4.020%) Red Hat Satellite
8 8 (4.020%) Tivoli
8 8 (4.020%) Netcool
9 6 (3.015%) WhatsUp Gold
9 6 (3.015%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (3.015%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (2.010%) SCOM
10 4 (2.010%) Ganglia
11 3 (1.508%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 2 (1.005%) SolarWinds Orion
12 2 (1.005%) Munin
12 2 (1.005%) Cobbler
12 2 (1.005%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 96 (48.24%) Red Hat
2 50 (25.13%) VMware
3 44 (22.11%) Cisco
4 39 (19.60%) Oracle
5 28 (14.07%) HP
6 19 (9.548%) JBoss
6 19 (9.548%) NetApp
7 18 (9.045%) EMC
8 17 (8.543%) CheckPoint
8 17 (8.543%) Citrix
9 12 (6.030%) BMC
10 11 (5.528%) Microsoft
10 11 (5.528%) F5
11 10 (5.025%) Rackspace
11 10 (5.025%) SAP
11 10 (5.025%) IBM
12 7 (3.518%) Akamai
13 6 (3.015%) SolarWinds
13 6 (3.015%) RightScale
13 6 (3.015%) Altiris
City, London
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