The first 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold
Rank 532 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing WhatsUp Gold 8 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.250% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £289 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £289 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
3197 3564 3578
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.772% 6.097% 5.948%
Number of daily rates quoted 1804 1813 1698
Average daily rate £375 £350 £369
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -5.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 170 226
Average hourly rate £20.25 £19.63 £23.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.18% -16.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%

WhatsUp Gold
Jobs Demand Trend

This 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 Jobs Demand Trend

WhatsUp Gold
Daily Rate Trend

This 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

This 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 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WhatsUp Gold 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 - 8 £289 -
Cambridgeshire - 5 £298 -
East of England - 5 £298 -
Cambridge - 3 £298 -
South West - 2 £280 -
Wiltshire - 2 £280 -
Salisbury - 1 £280 -
London - 1 - -

WhatsUp Gold
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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.

1 15 (75.00%) Cisco
2 13 (65.00%) SNMP
2 13 (65.00%) VoIP
3 10 (50.00%) IPsec
4 8 (40.00%) LAN
4 8 (40.00%) WAN
5 7 (35.00%) VPN
5 7 (35.00%) OSPF
5 7 (35.00%) VLAN
5 7 (35.00%) Cisco CUCM
6 6 (30.00%) HSRP
6 6 (30.00%) Cacti
6 6 (30.00%) Open Source
6 6 (30.00%) PCI DSS
6 6 (30.00%) Norton AntiVirus
6 6 (30.00%) Nagios
6 6 (30.00%) Symantec
6 6 (30.00%) VMware
6 6 (30.00%) CCNP
6 6 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (25.00%) CCNA
7 5 (25.00%) HP
7 5 (25.00%) Citrix
7 5 (25.00%) Firewall
7 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
7 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
8 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (20.00%) Back Office

WhatsUp Gold
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 1 (5.000%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (20.00%) IIS
2 2 (10.00%) Lotus Notes
2 2 (10.00%) Lotus Domino
Communications & Networking
1 13 (65.00%) SNMP
1 13 (65.00%) VoIP
2 10 (50.00%) IPsec
3 8 (40.00%) LAN
3 8 (40.00%) WAN
4 7 (35.00%) VPN
4 7 (35.00%) OSPF
4 7 (35.00%) VLAN
5 6 (30.00%) HSRP
6 5 (25.00%) Firewall
7 4 (20.00%) DMZ
7 4 (20.00%) SAN
7 4 (20.00%) DNS
7 4 (20.00%) DHCP
8 3 (15.00%) ATM
9 2 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (10.00%) Wireless
9 2 (10.00%) WLAN
10 1 (5.000%) ADSL
10 1 (5.000%) EIGRP
General
1 4 (20.00%) Back Office
1 4 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (5.000%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Wintel Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Support Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Technical Support
6 1 (5.000%) Technical Support Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) Change Management
1 4 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (5.000%) E-Commerce
2 1 (5.000%) ITIL
2 1 (5.000%) PRINCE2
2 1 (5.000%) BCP
2 1 (5.000%) Workflow
2 1 (5.000%) Network Management
2 1 (5.000%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.000%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) CCNP
1 6 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (25.00%) CCNA
2 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) MCITP
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) MCSE
3 2 (10.00%) MCSA
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.000%) CCVP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (15.00%) JSP 440
3 1 (5.000%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (20.00%) Forefront TMG
2 2 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 6 (30.00%) Cacti
2 6 (30.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 6 (30.00%) Nagios
3 4 (20.00%) NetBackup
4 2 (10.00%) Backup Exec
4 2 (10.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (5.000%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Cisco
2 6 (30.00%) Symantec
2 6 (30.00%) VMware
3 5 (25.00%) HP
3 5 (25.00%) Citrix
4 2 (10.00%) Sophos
4 2 (10.00%) Lotus
5 1 (5.000%) IBM
5 1 (5.000%) Microsoft