The first table below looks at the demand for Plesk skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Plesk over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Parallels Plesk Panel
Rank 530 584 -
Rank change year-on-year
+54 -
Contract jobs citing Plesk 4 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.008% 0.003% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.125% 0.055% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £248 £225 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £138 £225 -
% change year-on-year
-38.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 -
All Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
3207 3620 3577
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.805% 6.106% 5.943%
Number of daily rates quoted 1813 1847 1704
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
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 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 173 231
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £23.19
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -13.74%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.53 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%

Plesk
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Plesk Jobs Demand Trend

Plesk
Daily Rate Trend

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

Plesk Daily Rate Trend

Plesk
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Plesk within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Plesk Daily Rate Histogram

Plesk
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Plesk Hourly Rate Trend

Plesk
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Plesk within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +58 4 £248 +10.00%
South East +17 1 £138 -
Hampshire -1 1 £138 -
North West - 1 - -
Merseyside - 1 - -
Lancashire - 1 - -
Wirral - 1 - -
Preston - 1 - -
Manchester - 1 - -
London - 1 £358 -
Liverpool - 1 - -
Bolton - 1 - -
Basingstoke - 1 £138 -

Plesk
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Plesk 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 Plesk.

1 4 (80.00%) HTML
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) PHP
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) Polycom
4 1 (20.00%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
4 1 (20.00%) XenApp
4 1 (20.00%) XenServer
4 1 (20.00%) ExpressionEngine
4 1 (20.00%) HTML5
4 1 (20.00%) 3PAR
4 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (20.00%) Lync
4 1 (20.00%) CSS3
4 1 (20.00%) MODX
4 1 (20.00%) vCloud
4 1 (20.00%) Facebook
4 1 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Plesk
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Plesk 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 Plesk. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) HTML
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) CSS3
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) LAMP
3 1 (20.00%) COM
3 1 (20.00%) Flash
3 1 (20.00%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Office Communications Server
1 1 (20.00%) ExpressionEngine
1 1 (20.00%) Lync
1 1 (20.00%) MODX
1 1 (20.00%) Joomla!
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
1 1 (20.00%) VPLS
1 1 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (20.00%) MPLS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
1 1 (20.00%) PBX
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) PHP Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Web Developer
4 1 (20.00%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (20.00%) PHP Programmer
4 1 (20.00%) Web Programmer
4 1 (20.00%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (20.00%) Consultant
4 1 (20.00%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Social Network
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (20.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) MCSA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) XenApp
1 1 (20.00%) XenServer
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (20.00%) vCloud
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Polycom
2 1 (20.00%) 3PAR
2 1 (20.00%) Facebook
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Ensim
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Location: Basingstoke Duration: Initially 1 month My client requires a Web Developer to work on website builds, emailers, web apps, flash interfaces, banners & animations as well as maintain...
Computer People
Rate: £100.00 - £175.00 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013