The first table below looks at the demand for ZABBIX skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ZABBIX over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ZABBIX
Rank 514 576 582
Rank change year-on-year
+62 +6
Contract jobs citing ZABBIX 15 8 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.032% 0.014% 0.003%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.470% 0.224% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 2
Average daily rate £419 £275 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+52.27% -13.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £356 £250 £316
10% offered a daily rate of more than £466 £350 £320
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £250 -
% change year-on-year
+89.80% -
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
3192 3573 3609
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.880% 6.127% 5.912%
Number of daily rates quoted 1794 1824 1718
Average daily rate £375 £350 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -5.40%
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 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 170 236
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.81 £22.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.94% -12.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%

ZABBIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

ZABBIX Jobs Demand Trend

ZABBIX
Daily Rate Trend

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

ZABBIX Daily Rate Trend

ZABBIX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ZABBIX within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

ZABBIX Daily Rate Histogram

ZABBIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ZABBIX Hourly Rate Trend

ZABBIX
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ZABBIX within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +52 14 £413 +50.00%
London +48 14 £413 +22.22%
City of London - 2 £360 -
Scotland - 1 £475 -
Stirlingshire - 1 £475 -
Stirling - 1 £475 -

ZABBIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ZABBIX 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 ZABBIX.

1 25 (80.65%) Linux
2 23 (74.19%) Nagios
3 20 (64.52%) Puppet
4 18 (58.06%) MySQL
5 16 (51.61%) UNIX
6 15 (48.39%) PHP
6 15 (48.39%) Apache
6 15 (48.39%) NoSQL
7 13 (41.94%) LAMP
8 12 (38.71%) Samba
8 12 (38.71%) Tomcat
8 12 (38.71%) Jenkins
8 12 (38.71%) JIRA
9 11 (35.48%) Redis
9 11 (35.48%) NAS
9 11 (35.48%) DNS
9 11 (35.48%) Perl
9 11 (35.48%) Oracle
9 11 (35.48%) SAN
10 10 (32.26%) SSL
10 10 (32.26%) OpenView
10 10 (32.26%) RTP
10 10 (32.26%) Firewall
10 10 (32.26%) SOAP
10 10 (32.26%) HTTP
10 10 (32.26%) JBoss
10 10 (32.26%) CouchDB
10 10 (32.26%) MongoDB
10 10 (32.26%) RightScale
10 10 (32.26%) Open Source

ZABBIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ZABBIX 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 ZABBIX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (41.94%) LAMP
2 10 (32.26%) SOAP
2 10 (32.26%) REST
3 6 (19.35%) Flash
3 6 (19.35%) DHTML
3 6 (19.35%) HTML
3 6 (19.35%) J2EE
3 6 (19.35%) XML
3 6 (19.35%) Ajax
3 6 (19.35%) Java EE
3 6 (19.35%) WSRP
3 6 (19.35%) JSR 168
3 6 (19.35%) HTML5
4 5 (16.13%) .NET
5 2 (6.452%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 15 (48.39%) Apache
2 12 (38.71%) Tomcat
3 6 (19.35%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (19.35%) Amazon AWS
4 3 (9.677%) LiveSite
5 2 (6.452%) Drupal
5 2 (6.452%) nginx
5 2 (6.452%) Rackspace Cloud
Business Applications
1 2 (6.452%) PeopleSoft Financials
Communications & Networking
1 11 (35.48%) NAS
1 11 (35.48%) DNS
1 11 (35.48%) SAN
2 10 (32.26%) SSL
2 10 (32.26%) RTP
2 10 (32.26%) Firewall
2 10 (32.26%) HTTP
2 10 (32.26%) RTSP
2 10 (32.26%) Network Security
3 3 (9.677%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.452%) SMTP
4 2 (6.452%) SNMP
4 2 (6.452%) TACACS
4 2 (6.452%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (58.06%) MySQL
2 15 (48.39%) NoSQL
3 11 (35.48%) Redis
4 10 (32.26%) CouchDB
4 10 (32.26%) MongoDB
5 7 (22.58%) RDBMS
6 6 (19.35%) Oracle 8/8i
6 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
7 4 (12.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (12.90%) Hadoop
8 1 (3.226%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (38.71%) Jenkins
1 12 (38.71%) JIRA
2 10 (32.26%) Hudson
3 8 (25.81%) Git (software)
3 8 (25.81%) Selenium
3 8 (25.81%) Maven
General
1 4 (12.90%) Finance
2 1 (3.226%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Linux Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Web Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (12.90%) Administrator
5 3 (9.677%) Senior Web Engineer
5 3 (9.677%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 3 (9.677%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 3 (9.677%) UNIX Administrator
6 2 (6.452%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.452%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (6.452%) Storage Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.226%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (3.226%) Lead Architect
7 1 (3.226%) Linux Support
7 1 (3.226%) Solaris Administrator
7 1 (3.226%) Architect
7 1 (3.226%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Open Source
2 6 (19.35%) Taxonomies
2 6 (19.35%) Ontologies
3 2 (6.452%) Replication
4 1 (3.226%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (80.65%) Linux
2 16 (51.61%) UNIX
3 8 (25.81%) CentOS
4 5 (16.13%) Solaris
5 3 (9.677%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (9.677%) Windows
6 2 (6.452%) Debian
6 2 (6.452%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Penetration Testing
2 9 (29.03%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (19.35%) SOA
3 6 (19.35%) DRM
3 6 (19.35%) Scrum
3 6 (19.35%) Load Balancing
3 6 (19.35%) Information Architecture
4 5 (16.13%) E-Commerce
5 2 (6.452%) Project Management
6 1 (3.226%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (3.226%) Stress Testing
6 1 (3.226%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.226%) Security Management
6 1 (3.226%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) PHP
2 11 (35.48%) Perl
3 9 (29.03%) Java
4 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
5 4 (12.90%) Python
5 4 (12.90%) Bash shell
6 2 (6.452%) Ruby
7 1 (3.226%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) RHCE
2 2 (6.452%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (38.71%) Samba
2 2 (6.452%) Squid
2 2 (6.452%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 23 (74.19%) Nagios
2 20 (64.52%) Puppet
3 10 (32.26%) OpenView
4 3 (9.677%) Cobbler
4 3 (9.677%) Cacti
5 2 (6.452%) SCOM
5 2 (6.452%) Splunk
6 1 (3.226%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) Oracle
2 10 (32.26%) JBoss
2 10 (32.26%) RightScale
2 10 (32.26%) Rackspace
3 8 (25.81%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.452%) PeopleSoft
4 2 (6.452%) VMware
4 2 (6.452%) Cisco
4 2 (6.452%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.452%) SolarWinds
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