The first table below looks at the demand for SolarWinds Orion skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SolarWinds Orion over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SolarWinds Orion
Rank 522 568 569
Rank change year-on-year
+46 +1
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds Orion 8 10 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.017% 0.031%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.257% 0.281% 0.522%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 7
Average daily rate £325 £290 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.06% +5.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £297 £261 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £325 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £301 £288
% change year-on-year
+7.88% +4.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £12.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -64.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £12.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -64.28%
All Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
3118 3560 3639
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.720% 6.109% 5.937%
Number of daily rates quoted 1762 1821 1721
Average daily rate £375 £350 £368
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £227 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 165 224
Average hourly rate £21.00 £19.63 £23.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.00% -16.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.50 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%

SolarWinds Orion
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SolarWinds Orion Jobs Demand Trend

SolarWinds Orion
Daily Rate Trend

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

SolarWinds Orion Daily Rate Trend

SolarWinds Orion
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SolarWinds Orion within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

SolarWinds Orion Daily Rate Histogram

SolarWinds Orion
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SolarWinds Orion Hourly Rate Trend

SolarWinds Orion
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds Orion within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +43 5 £325 +12.06%
Yorkshire -1 2 £298 -8.46%
Belfast - 2 - -
County Antrim - 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
South West +24 1 £550 -
London +18 1 - -
City of London +12 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £350 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £295 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £350 -
North Yorkshire - 1 £300 -
Nottingham - 1 £350 -
Doncaster - 1 £295 -
Aberdeen - 1 - -

SolarWinds Orion
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SolarWinds Orion 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 SolarWinds Orion.

1 29 (85.29%) SolarWinds
2 16 (47.06%) Windows
2 16 (47.06%) Cisco
3 14 (41.18%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (38.24%) Firewall
5 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
5 10 (29.41%) HP
6 9 (26.47%) CCNP
6 9 (26.47%) CCNA
6 9 (26.47%) LAN
6 9 (26.47%) Degree
6 9 (26.47%) SCOM
7 8 (23.53%) WAN
7 8 (23.53%) TCP/IP
7 8 (23.53%) MPLS
8 7 (20.59%) Wireless
8 7 (20.59%) VMware
8 7 (20.59%) VPN
8 7 (20.59%) Incident Management
8 7 (20.59%) Capacity Management
9 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
9 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
9 6 (17.65%) ITIL
9 6 (17.65%) UNIX
9 6 (17.65%) OpenView
10 5 (14.71%) Citrix
10 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
10 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (14.71%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (14.71%) Windows Server 2008

SolarWinds Orion
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SolarWinds Orion 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 SolarWinds Orion. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.941%) COM
1 1 (2.941%) XML
1 1 (2.941%) LAMP
1 1 (2.941%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.824%) IIS
1 3 (8.824%) MS Exchange
2 2 (5.882%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (2.941%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (8.824%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.941%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 13 (38.24%) Firewall
2 9 (26.47%) LAN
3 8 (23.53%) WAN
3 8 (23.53%) TCP/IP
3 8 (23.53%) MPLS
4 7 (20.59%) Wireless
4 7 (20.59%) VPN
5 4 (11.76%) OSPF
5 4 (11.76%) BGP
5 4 (11.76%) IPsec
5 4 (11.76%) WLAN
5 4 (11.76%) Network Security
5 4 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (8.824%) VoIP
7 2 (5.882%) RIP
7 2 (5.882%) SNMP
7 2 (5.882%) DNS
7 2 (5.882%) Cisco PIX
7 2 (5.882%) FWSM
8 1 (2.941%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.882%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.941%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (2.941%) MySQL
General
1 4 (11.76%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.882%) Law
2 2 (5.882%) Legal
2 2 (5.882%) Banking
3 1 (2.941%) Arabic Language
3 1 (2.941%) Avionics
3 1 (2.941%) Military
3 1 (2.941%) Finance
3 1 (2.941%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Administrator
2 8 (23.53%) Systems Administrator
3 6 (17.65%) Consultant
4 5 (14.71%) Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Network Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Network Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) IT Administrator
5 4 (11.76%) Applications Consultant
6 2 (5.882%) SQL DBA
6 2 (5.882%) DBA
6 2 (5.882%) Network Consultant
6 2 (5.882%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (5.882%) Management Consultant
6 2 (5.882%) Server Administrator
7 1 (2.941%) Network Specialist
7 1 (2.941%) Cisco Network Analyst
7 1 (2.941%) VoIP Engineer
7 1 (2.941%) Network Security Specialist
7 1 (2.941%) Systems Support
7 1 (2.941%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Mathematics
1 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
2 2 (5.882%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.882%) Handset
2 2 (5.882%) Client/Server
2 2 (5.882%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.941%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.941%) NHS
3 1 (2.941%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 16 (47.06%) Windows
2 6 (17.65%) UNIX
3 5 (14.71%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (14.71%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (8.824%) Linux
5 1 (2.941%) Solaris
5 1 (2.941%) CentOS
5 1 (2.941%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.941%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.59%) Incident Management
1 7 (20.59%) Capacity Management
2 6 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (8.824%) Service Management
3 3 (8.824%) Network Management
4 2 (5.882%) Network Architecture
4 2 (5.882%) Business Development
4 2 (5.882%) Load Balancing
5 1 (2.941%) Time Management
5 1 (2.941%) Performance Management
5 1 (2.941%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (2.941%) Project Planning
5 1 (2.941%) ITSM
5 1 (2.941%) Network Security Management
5 1 (2.941%) Security Management
5 1 (2.941%) Network Design
5 1 (2.941%) PRINCE2
5 1 (2.941%) Configuration Management
5 1 (2.941%) Project Management
5 1 (2.941%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) SQL
2 1 (2.941%) VB
2 1 (2.941%) Tcl
2 1 (2.941%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.941%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.941%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (41.18%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (26.47%) CCNP
2 9 (26.47%) CCNA
2 9 (26.47%) Degree
3 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
4 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (8.824%) MCSE
6 2 (5.882%) CCIE
6 2 (5.882%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (2.941%) JNCIA
7 1 (2.941%) CCSP
7 1 (2.941%) CCIP
7 1 (2.941%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) SLA
2 1 (2.941%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.941%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.824%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.882%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.882%) VMware ESX
3 2 (5.882%) Terminal Server
3 2 (5.882%) Terminal Services
4 1 (2.941%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) SCOM
2 6 (17.65%) OpenView
3 3 (8.824%) WSUS
4 2 (5.882%) Nagios
4 2 (5.882%) HP SIM
4 2 (5.882%) Splunk
4 2 (5.882%) HP Data Protector
5 1 (2.941%) Cacti
5 1 (2.941%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (2.941%) HP NNM
Vendors
1 29 (85.29%) SolarWinds
2 16 (47.06%) Cisco
3 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 10 (29.41%) HP
4 7 (20.59%) VMware
5 5 (14.71%) Citrix
6 4 (11.76%) BMC
6 4 (11.76%) CA
6 4 (11.76%) Compuware
6 4 (11.76%) OPNET
7 3 (8.824%) CheckPoint
7 3 (8.824%) McAfee
8 2 (5.882%) Sophos
8 2 (5.882%) NetScout
8 2 (5.882%) IronPort
8 2 (5.882%) Aruba
8 2 (5.882%) F5
8 2 (5.882%) Juniper
9 1 (2.941%) Oracle
9 1 (2.941%) Avaya
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