The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of OPNET products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OPNET 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 Vendors currently tracked.

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 OPNET Technologies, Inc.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OPNET
Rank 512 572 586
Rank change year-on-year
+60 +14
Contract jobs citing OPNET 21 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.045% 0.002% 0.003%
As % of the Vendors category 0.096% 0.004% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 2
Average daily rate £550 £400 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% -13.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £400 £433
10% offered a daily rate of more than £571 £400 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £550 - £425
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21868 27126 28034
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.00% 46.50% 46.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11659 13853 14018
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1197 1299 1587
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

OPNET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

OPNET Jobs Demand Trend

OPNET
Daily Rate Trend

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

OPNET Daily Rate Trend

OPNET
Daily Rate Histogram

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

OPNET Daily Rate Histogram

OPNET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

OPNET Hourly Rate Trend

OPNET
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OPNET 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 +80 18 £558 +39.37%
London +28 8 - -
Shropshire - 6 £559 -
West Midlands - 6 £559 -
Telford - 5 £558 -
Scotland - 3 £375 -
Midlands - 2 - -
City of London +19 1 - -
South West - 1 £550 -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Renfrewshire - 1 - -
Erskine - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 - -

OPNET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 24 (60.00%) HP
2 23 (57.50%) BMC
3 17 (42.50%) SolarWinds
4 14 (35.00%) OpenView
4 14 (35.00%) Cisco
5 10 (25.00%) ITIL
5 10 (25.00%) MS Visio
6 9 (22.50%) Network Management
6 9 (22.50%) F5
7 8 (20.00%) Juniper
7 8 (20.00%) MS Excel
7 8 (20.00%) Oracle
8 7 (17.50%) Compuware
8 7 (17.50%) Citrix
8 7 (17.50%) OSPF
8 7 (17.50%) Firewall
8 7 (17.50%) Logistics
9 6 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (15.00%) MS PowerPoint
9 6 (15.00%) Load Balancing
9 6 (15.00%) BGP
9 6 (15.00%) TCP/IP
9 6 (15.00%) MS Office
9 6 (15.00%) SAP
10 5 (12.50%) CSS
10 5 (12.50%) Windows
10 5 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (12.50%) Nokia
10 5 (12.50%) Terminal Services

OPNET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (12.50%) CSS
2 2 (5.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (12.50%) NetWeaver
2 2 (5.000%) Lync
Applications
1 10 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 8 (20.00%) MS Excel
3 6 (15.00%) MS Office
3 6 (15.00%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (12.50%) SAP HR
2 2 (5.000%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) OSPF
1 7 (17.50%) Firewall
2 6 (15.00%) BGP
2 6 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (10.00%) BIG-IP
3 4 (10.00%) LAN
3 4 (10.00%) WAN
4 3 (7.500%) WLAN
4 3 (7.500%) SNMP
4 3 (7.500%) Wireshark
5 2 (5.000%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (5.000%) HSRP
5 2 (5.000%) MRTG
5 2 (5.000%) VRRP
5 2 (5.000%) UMTS
5 2 (5.000%) CDMA
5 2 (5.000%) GPRS
5 2 (5.000%) GSM
5 2 (5.000%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (5.000%) LoadRunner
1 2 (5.000%) SilkPerformer
General
1 3 (7.500%) Telecoms
1 3 (7.500%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Architect
1 7 (17.50%) Network Specialist
2 6 (15.00%) Developer
3 5 (12.50%) Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) Applications Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) SAP Architect
4 3 (7.500%) Technical Developer
4 3 (7.500%) Support Engineer
4 3 (7.500%) Data Analyst
4 3 (7.500%) Analyst
5 2 (5.000%) Test Manager
5 2 (5.000%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.000%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (5.000%) SAP Technical Architect
5 2 (5.000%) Senior Support Engineer
5 2 (5.000%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.000%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.000%) Senior Manager
5 2 (5.000%) Senior Test Manager
5 2 (5.000%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.500%) Statistics
2 2 (5.000%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (5.000%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.500%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.500%) e-Health
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.00%) ITIL
2 9 (22.50%) Network Management
3 7 (17.50%) Logistics
4 6 (15.00%) Load Balancing
4 6 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (12.50%) Migration
5 5 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (7.500%) Performance Testing
8 2 (5.000%) Test Scripting
8 2 (5.000%) Performance Management
8 2 (5.000%) Incident Management
8 2 (5.000%) Change Management
8 2 (5.000%) Business Development
8 2 (5.000%) PRINCE2
8 2 (5.000%) E-Commerce
8 2 (5.000%) TOGAF
8 2 (5.000%) Service Management
8 2 (5.000%) Business Transformation
9 1 (2.500%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.500%) Perl
1 1 (2.500%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.000%) PMP
2 2 (5.000%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.500%) Degree
3 1 (2.500%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.500%) BC Cleared
3 1 (2.500%) CCNP
3 1 (2.500%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.000%) QA
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Terminal Services
2 1 (2.500%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (35.00%) OpenView
2 5 (12.50%) Netcool
3 4 (10.00%) SolarWinds Orion
4 3 (7.500%) Tivoli
4 3 (7.500%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 2 (5.000%) Nagios
5 2 (5.000%) CiscoWorks
6 1 (2.500%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 24 (60.00%) HP
2 23 (57.50%) BMC
3 17 (42.50%) SolarWinds
4 14 (35.00%) Cisco
5 9 (22.50%) F5
6 8 (20.00%) Oracle
6 8 (20.00%) Juniper
7 7 (17.50%) Compuware
7 7 (17.50%) Citrix
8 6 (15.00%) SAP
9 5 (12.50%) VMware
9 5 (12.50%) Nokia
9 5 (12.50%) CheckPoint
9 5 (12.50%) Fortinet
10 3 (7.500%) NetScout
10 3 (7.500%) IBM
11 2 (5.000%) Remedy
11 2 (5.000%) NetCracker
11 2 (5.000%) CA
11 2 (5.000%) Greenplum
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