Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for WhatsUp Gold skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WhatsUp Gold over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the 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.

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank--532
Matching contract IT job ads007
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK--0.013 %
As % of the Systems Management category--0.249 %
Number of daily rates quoted004
Average daily rate--£300
UK excluding London average daily rate--£325
Number of hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate---
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategoryAll Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
358635492812
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK6.135 %5.899 %5.095 %
Number of daily rates quoted181416831261
Average daily rate£350£370£338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.40 %+9.62 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£210£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£488£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£300£320
% change year-on-year
+8.33 %-6.25 %
Number of hourly rates quoted170225232
Average hourly rate£19.01£23.38£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.67 %+6.25 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.50£14.50£13.70
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£40.00£39.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£24.40£21.00
% change year-on-year
-28.27 %+16.19 %

WhatsUp Gold
Demand Trend

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

WhatsUp Gold Demand Trend

WhatsUp Gold
Daily Rate Trend

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

WhatsUp Gold Daily Rate Trend

WhatsUp Gold
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WhatsUp Gold Hourly Rate Trend

WhatsUp Gold
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WhatsUp Gold 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 WhatsUp Gold.

15 (71.43 %)Windows
15 (71.43 %)Linux
15 (71.43 %)Windows 7
24 (57.14 %)Firewall
24 (57.14 %)HP
33 (42.86 %)IPv6
33 (42.86 %)Red Hat
33 (42.86 %)Solaris
33 (42.86 %)Windows XP
33 (42.86 %)CentOS
33 (42.86 %)Cloud Computing
42 (28.57 %)Hyper-V
42 (28.57 %)NAS
42 (28.57 %)Veritas Cluster Server
42 (28.57 %)DFS Replication
42 (28.57 %)HP SIM
42 (28.57 %)VMware ESXi
42 (28.57 %)Exchange Server 2010
42 (28.57 %)Exchange Server 2007
42 (28.57 %)Security Cleared
42 (28.57 %)VMware Infrastructure
42 (28.57 %)Windows Server 2008
42 (28.57 %)Wireless
42 (28.57 %)VMware
42 (28.57 %)Clustering
42 (28.57 %)NetBackup
42 (28.57 %)WSUS
42 (28.57 %)MS Exchange
42 (28.57 %)ATM
42 (28.57 %)LAN

WhatsUp Gold
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WhatsUp Gold 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 WhatsUp Gold. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (28.57 %)Exchange Server 2010
12 (28.57 %)Exchange Server 2007
12 (28.57 %)MS Exchange
12 (28.57 %)IIS
12 (28.57 %)Lotus Notes
12 (28.57 %)Apache
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14 (57.14 %)Firewall
23 (42.86 %)IPv6
32 (28.57 %)NAS
32 (28.57 %)Wireless
32 (28.57 %)ATM
32 (28.57 %)LAN
32 (28.57 %)WAN
32 (28.57 %)DHCP
32 (28.57 %)VPN
32 (28.57 %)DNS
32 (28.57 %)SSL
32 (28.57 %)MPLS
32 (28.57 %)SAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (28.57 %)SQL Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
13 (42.86 %)Network Engineer
22 (28.57 %)Support Analyst
22 (28.57 %)Infrastructure Analyst
22 (28.57 %)Infrastructure Support Analyst
22 (28.57 %)Analyst
31 (14.29 %)Systems Integrator
31 (14.29 %)Systems Designer
31 (14.29 %)Designer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (42.86 %)Cloud Computing
22 (28.57 %)Clustering
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15 (71.43 %)Windows
15 (71.43 %)Linux
15 (71.43 %)Windows 7
23 (42.86 %)Solaris
23 (42.86 %)Windows XP
23 (42.86 %)CentOS
32 (28.57 %)Windows Server 2008
32 (28.57 %)UNIX
32 (28.57 %)Windows Server 2003
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (28.57 %)Security Cleared
12 (28.57 %)MCSE
12 (28.57 %)CCNA
12 (28.57 %)Cisco Certification
12 (28.57 %)Microsoft Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (28.57 %)Hyper-V
12 (28.57 %)Veritas Cluster Server
12 (28.57 %)DFS Replication
12 (28.57 %)VMware ESXi
12 (28.57 %)VMware Infrastructure
12 (28.57 %)Active Directory
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (28.57 %)HP SIM
12 (28.57 %)NetBackup
12 (28.57 %)WSUS
12 (28.57 %)OpenView
12 (28.57 %)CiscoWorks
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14 (57.14 %)HP
23 (42.86 %)Red Hat
32 (28.57 %)VMware
32 (28.57 %)Cisco
32 (28.57 %)Microsoft
32 (28.57 %)Symantec
32 (28.57 %)Citrix
32 (28.57 %)Juniper
32 (28.57 %)Hitachi
32 (28.57 %)Veritas
32 (28.57 %)Lotus