The first table below looks at the demand for Netcool skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Netcool over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Tivoli Netcool
Rank 482 521 502
Rank change year-on-year
+39 -19
Contract jobs citing Netcool 51 52 86
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.110% 0.089% 0.143%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.627% 1.466% 2.400%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 15 45
Average daily rate £370 £370 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £287 £272
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £438 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £373 £375 £300
% change year-on-year
-0.66% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
3135 3546 3583
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.737% 6.078% 5.950%
Number of daily rates quoted 1770 1802 1697
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 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 169 224
Average hourly rate £20.25 £20.00 £23.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -14.43%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.90 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.25 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%

Netcool
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Netcool Jobs Demand Trend

Netcool
Daily Rate Trend

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

Netcool Daily Rate Trend

Netcool
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Netcool within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Netcool Daily Rate Histogram

Netcool
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Netcool Hourly Rate Trend

Netcool
Top 22 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Netcool within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +56 33 £370 -
London +20 14 £200 -40.74%
Scotland -5 14 £370 +2.06%
Renfrewshire -5 12 £370 -1.33%
Erskine -6 12 £370 -1.33%
South East +6 9 £370 -11.90%
North West - 6 - -
Berkshire +12 5 - -
Hampshire -10 4 £370 -13.95%
Manchester - 4 - -
South West - 3 £506 -
Wiltshire - 3 £506 -
City of London +18 2 £190 -41.53%
Slough -13 2 - -
Glasgow -18 2 £353 +0.71%
Lancashire - 2 - -
Southampton - 1 £275 -
Ipswich - 1 £250 -
Maidenhead - 1 - -
Suffolk - 1 £250 -
Corsham - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £250 -

Netcool
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Netcool 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 Netcool.

1 46 (42.59%) Windows
2 43 (39.81%) Tivoli
3 42 (38.89%) Security Cleared
4 33 (30.56%) Telecoms
4 33 (30.56%) Microsoft
5 30 (27.78%) IBM
6 28 (25.93%) Linux
7 27 (25.00%) HP
7 27 (25.00%) UNIX
7 27 (25.00%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 26 (24.07%) Windows Server 2008
9 25 (23.15%) Windows Server 2003
9 25 (23.15%) Veritas
10 24 (22.22%) SAN
11 23 (21.30%) BMC
11 23 (21.30%) SC Cleared
12 22 (20.37%) AIX
12 22 (20.37%) Citrix
13 19 (17.59%) OpenView Configuration Management
13 19 (17.59%) Remedy
13 19 (17.59%) Remedy ITSM
14 18 (16.67%) ITSM
14 18 (16.67%) SQL
15 17 (15.74%) Solaris
15 17 (15.74%) Project Management
16 16 (14.81%) Service Management
16 16 (14.81%) Perl
16 16 (14.81%) Active Directory
16 16 (14.81%) Degree
16 16 (14.81%) Performance Management

Netcool
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 13 (12.04%) XML
2 11 (10.19%) HTML
3 10 (9.259%) XSL
4 5 (4.630%) Middleware
5 4 (3.704%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.852%) CGI
7 1 (0.926%) .NET
7 1 (0.926%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 5 (4.630%) Apache
2 4 (3.704%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (1.852%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.926%) IIS
4 1 (0.926%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.926%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 6 (5.556%) MS Excel
2 5 (4.630%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.778%) MS Office
4 1 (0.926%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 19 (17.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.778%) Maximo
3 1 (0.926%) Metrica
Communications & Networking
1 24 (22.22%) SAN
2 14 (12.96%) Nokia NetAct
3 13 (12.04%) SNMP
4 10 (9.259%) LDAP
5 9 (8.333%) NAS
6 8 (7.407%) Radio Access Network
6 8 (7.407%) TCP/IP
7 6 (5.556%) DNS
7 6 (5.556%) DHCP
8 5 (4.630%) LTE
9 4 (3.704%) 2G
9 4 (3.704%) 3G
10 3 (2.778%) DPNSS
10 3 (2.778%) MGCP
10 3 (2.778%) SS7
10 3 (2.778%) Megaco
10 3 (2.778%) Q.931
10 3 (2.778%) H.323
10 3 (2.778%) Firewall
10 3 (2.778%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.407%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.778%) DB2
2 3 (2.778%) RDBMS
2 3 (2.778%) SQL Server 2000
2 3 (2.778%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (1.852%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.926%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 6 (5.556%) TestDirector
2 5 (4.630%) QuickTest Pro
2 5 (4.630%) WinRunner
3 2 (1.852%) StarTeam
General
1 33 (30.56%) Telecoms
2 8 (7.407%) Finance
3 2 (1.852%) German Language
4 1 (0.926%) Military
4 1 (0.926%) Banking
4 1 (0.926%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (24.07%) Consultant
2 19 (17.59%) Architect
3 12 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 11 (10.19%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (10.19%) OSS Architect
5 10 (9.259%) Systems Engineer
6 9 (8.333%) Technical Consultant
7 7 (6.481%) ITSM Consultant
8 6 (5.556%) Systems Support
8 6 (5.556%) Developer
8 6 (5.556%) Integration Engineer
8 6 (5.556%) Systems Support Engineer
9 5 (4.630%) Systems Architect
10 4 (3.704%) Test Engineer
10 4 (3.704%) Designer
10 4 (3.704%) Implementation Engineer
10 4 (3.704%) Product Specialist
11 3 (2.778%) Voice Support Engineer
11 3 (2.778%) Remedy Consultant
11 3 (2.778%) Voice Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.89%) Clustering
2 11 (10.19%) CMDB
3 7 (6.481%) SaaS
4 5 (4.630%) Visualisation
4 5 (4.630%) PDA
5 4 (3.704%) Derivative
5 4 (3.704%) Equities
5 4 (3.704%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.704%) Wiki
6 3 (2.778%) Statistics
7 2 (1.852%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.926%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.926%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 46 (42.59%) Windows
2 28 (25.93%) Linux
3 27 (25.00%) UNIX
4 26 (24.07%) Windows Server 2008
5 25 (23.15%) Windows Server 2003
6 22 (20.37%) AIX
7 17 (15.74%) Solaris
8 14 (12.96%) Windows XP
9 3 (2.778%) VMS
10 2 (1.852%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.926%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (16.67%) ITSM
2 17 (15.74%) Project Management
3 16 (14.81%) Service Management
3 16 (14.81%) Performance Management
4 13 (12.04%) TOGAF
5 12 (11.11%) Fault Management
6 11 (10.19%) Test Scripting
6 11 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (8.333%) Security Architecture
7 9 (8.333%) Software Distribution
7 9 (8.333%) Information Assurance
7 9 (8.333%) Configuration Management
8 8 (7.407%) ITIL
9 7 (6.481%) Use Case
10 6 (5.556%) Asset Management
10 6 (5.556%) SOA
10 6 (5.556%) Network Management
11 5 (4.630%) Test Automation
12 4 (3.704%) User Acceptance Testing
12 4 (3.704%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.67%) SQL
2 16 (14.81%) Perl
3 15 (13.89%) JavaScript
4 13 (12.04%) Java
4 13 (12.04%) C
5 10 (9.259%) XPath
6 7 (6.481%) Shell Script
6 7 (6.481%) C++
7 4 (3.704%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.704%) VBA
7 4 (3.704%) Ruby
8 1 (0.926%) Bash shell
8 1 (0.926%) Prolog
8 1 (0.926%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 23 (21.30%) SC Cleared
3 16 (14.81%) Degree
4 8 (7.407%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.852%) HND
5 2 (1.852%) PMP
5 2 (1.852%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.481%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (14.81%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.556%) VMware ESX
3 5 (4.630%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.778%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 43 (39.81%) Tivoli
2 27 (25.00%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 19 (17.59%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 11 (10.19%) Ionix
5 9 (8.333%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 8 (7.407%) SCOM
7 7 (6.481%) MOM
7 7 (6.481%) BMC PATROL
7 7 (6.481%) Unicenter
8 6 (5.556%) Nagios
8 6 (5.556%) McAfee ePO
8 6 (5.556%) HP Operations Orchestration
8 6 (5.556%) HP Quality Center
9 5 (4.630%) OpenView
10 4 (3.704%) Puppet
10 4 (3.704%) HP UCMDB
11 3 (2.778%) Netcool/Webtop
12 2 (1.852%) CiscoWorks
12 2 (1.852%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 1 (0.926%) CA SiteMinder
Vendors
1 33 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 30 (27.78%) IBM
3 27 (25.00%) HP
4 25 (23.15%) Veritas
5 23 (21.30%) BMC
6 22 (20.37%) Citrix
7 19 (17.59%) Remedy
8 13 (12.04%) VMware
8 13 (12.04%) Nokia
8 13 (12.04%) EMC
9 9 (8.333%) Oracle
10 7 (6.481%) Compuware
10 7 (6.481%) CA
11 6 (5.556%) Red Hat
11 6 (5.556%) Cognos
11 6 (5.556%) McAfee
12 5 (4.630%) OPNET
12 5 (4.630%) Cisco
13 4 (3.704%) TIBCO
13 4 (3.704%) Ericsson
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