WhatsUp Gold Contracts

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WhatsUp Gold skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WhatsUp Gold over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 694 850
Rank change year-on-year +125 +156 -183
Contract jobs citing WhatsUp Gold 10 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.010% 0.011%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.20% 0.062% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £240 - £392
25th Percentile £300 £513 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +20.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £425 £538 £455
90th Percentile - - £463
UK excluding London median daily rate - £525 £450
% change year-on-year - +16.67% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.38 - £41.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 - £47.50
75th Percentile £26.15 - £50.77
90th Percentile - - £51.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.77 - £47.50

All Systems Management Skills
UK

WhatsUp Gold is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,117 9,647 14,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.09% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,658 6,968 10,256
10th Percentile £256 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £565 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.58% -0.03% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 213 188
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.31 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £23.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.14
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +159.71% -34.88%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.50 £47.61
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £44.88 £20.00
% change year-on-year -14.21% +124.38% -9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WhatsUp Gold as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WhatsUp Gold in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WhatsUp Gold.

Daily rate trend for WhatsUp Gold in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WhatsUp Gold over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WhatsUp Gold in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WhatsUp Gold.

Hourly rate trend for WhatsUp Gold in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WhatsUp Gold within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +118 10 £325 -38.10%
UK excluding London +68 5 - -
East Midlands - 4 - -
Midlands - 4 - -
London - 4 £363 -
South West - 1 - -

WhatsUp Gold
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) PSTN
1 4 (40.00%) VoIP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) HSRP
2 2 (20.00%) IPsec
2 2 (20.00%) LAN
2 2 (20.00%) OSPF
2 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (20.00%) SNMP
2 2 (20.00%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) WAN
2 2 (20.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Help Desk Technician
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (20.00%) PKI
1 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL
1 5 (50.00%) Performance Measurement
2 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) Change Management
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (20.00%) Statistics
3 1 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) CCNA
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (20.00%) CCNP
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (20.00%) SonicWALL
3 1 (10.00%) BMC
3 1 (10.00%) Riverbed
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce