The first table below looks at the demand for Nmap skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Nmap 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 System Software 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Mapper (Nmap)
Rank 532 568 -
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -
Contract jobs citing Nmap 8 13 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.022% -
As % of the System Software category 0.182% 0.279% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 0
Average daily rate £400 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £250 -
% change year-on-year
+30.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4407 4652 4389
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.335% 7.958% 7.296%
Number of daily rates quoted 2121 2234 1929
Average daily rate £350 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 623 644
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £36.03 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%

Nmap
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Nmap within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Nmap Jobs Demand Trend

Nmap
Daily Rate Trend

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

Nmap Daily Rate Trend

Nmap
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Nmap within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Nmap Daily Rate Histogram

Nmap
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Nmap Hourly Rate Trend

Nmap
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nmap within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +40 8 £400 +60.00%
London +19 5 £500 -
South East +27 3 £325 +54.02%
Hampshire -8 3 £325 +54.02%
Surbiton - 2 - -
City of London +14 1 £500 -
Hounslow - 1 £450 -
Gosport - 1 £350 -

Nmap
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Nmap 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 Nmap.

1 12 (92.31%) Linux
2 10 (76.92%) TCP/IP
2 10 (76.92%) SSL
3 8 (61.54%) Oracle
4 7 (53.85%) Java
4 7 (53.85%) Perl
4 7 (53.85%) SQL
4 7 (53.85%) JBoss
4 7 (53.85%) JDBC
4 7 (53.85%) Apache
4 7 (53.85%) Tomcat
4 7 (53.85%) LDAP
4 7 (53.85%) Shell Script
4 7 (53.85%) Red Hat
4 7 (53.85%) TELNET
4 7 (53.85%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (53.85%) Clustering
4 7 (53.85%) AWK
4 7 (53.85%) Cryptography
4 7 (53.85%) Load Balancing
4 7 (53.85%) Bash shell
4 7 (53.85%) Memory Management
4 7 (53.85%) tcpdump
4 7 (53.85%) Puppet
4 7 (53.85%) sed
5 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
5 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (38.46%) Hudson
5 5 (38.46%) Wireshark
5 5 (38.46%) iSCSI

Nmap
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Nmap 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 Nmap. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (53.85%) JDBC
2 3 (23.08%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET
2 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 7 (53.85%) Apache
1 7 (53.85%) Tomcat
2 5 (38.46%) Liferay
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) TCP/IP
1 10 (76.92%) SSL
2 7 (53.85%) LDAP
2 7 (53.85%) TELNET
2 7 (53.85%) tcpdump
3 5 (38.46%) Wireshark
3 5 (38.46%) iSCSI
3 5 (38.46%) NAS
3 5 (38.46%) SAN
3 5 (38.46%) SMTP
3 5 (38.46%) DHCP
3 5 (38.46%) HTTP
3 5 (38.46%) SNMP
3 5 (38.46%) DNS
4 3 (23.08%) HTTPS
5 2 (15.38%) Wireless
5 2 (15.38%) RIP
5 2 (15.38%) VPN
5 2 (15.38%) Firewall
5 2 (15.38%) 802.11
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (38.46%) MySQL
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
1 5 (38.46%) Hudson
1 5 (38.46%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (38.46%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.692%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Administrator
1 7 (53.85%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (23.08%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Architect
5 1 (7.692%) Technical Architect
5 1 (7.692%) Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Security Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Functional Test Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Security Manager
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Technical Test Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Functional Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Clustering
1 7 (53.85%) Cryptography
2 1 (7.692%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) UNIX
2 5 (38.46%) Windows
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (23.08%) Windows 2000
3 3 (23.08%) Windows XP
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (15.38%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Disaster Recovery
1 7 (53.85%) Load Balancing
1 7 (53.85%) Memory Management
2 3 (23.08%) Validation
2 3 (23.08%) Information Security
3 2 (15.38%) Digital Forensics
3 2 (15.38%) Security Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Security Management
4 1 (7.692%) Risk Management
4 1 (7.692%) ITIL
4 1 (7.692%) Software Testing
4 1 (7.692%) System Testing
4 1 (7.692%) SIEM
4 1 (7.692%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (7.692%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Java
1 7 (53.85%) Perl
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
1 7 (53.85%) Shell Script
1 7 (53.85%) AWK
1 7 (53.85%) Bash shell
1 7 (53.85%) sed
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) GCIA
2 2 (15.38%) GCIH
2 2 (15.38%) MCSE
2 2 (15.38%) GIAC
2 2 (15.38%) CISSP
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.692%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) COBIT
2 2 (15.38%) HIPAA
2 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
2 2 (15.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (38.46%) Postfix
1 5 (38.46%) Squid
1 5 (38.46%) NFS
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.692%) Snort
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Puppet
2 5 (38.46%) Nagios
3 3 (23.08%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (7.692%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle
2 7 (53.85%) JBoss
2 7 (53.85%) Red Hat
3 5 (38.46%) VMware
3 5 (38.46%) EMC
3 5 (38.46%) NetApp
3 5 (38.46%) SAP
4 3 (23.08%) HP
5 2 (15.38%) ArcSight
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
6 1 (7.692%) Qualys
6 1 (7.692%) Q1 Labs