The first table below looks at the demand for SNMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SNMP over the 3 months to 23 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 Communications & Networking category for the West Midlands region.

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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Rank 86 103 98
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -5
Contract jobs citing SNMP 11 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.674% 0.089% 0.105%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.583% 0.697% 0.709%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £250 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
Average hourly rate £19.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.25 £52.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-61.42% +52.17%
All Communications & Networking
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
240 287 282
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 14.71% 12.76% 14.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 104 117
Average daily rate £283 £275 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.72% -11.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £143 £150 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £422 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 38 44
Average hourly rate £19.50 £22.50 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.50 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
SNMP
England

SNMP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SNMP across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

West Midlands SNMP Jobs Demand Trend

SNMP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SNMP across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands SNMP Daily Rate Trend

SNMP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SNMP across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands SNMP Hourly Rate Trend

SNMP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SNMP within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 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
Worcestershire - 10 £250 -
Birmingham +11 1 - -
SNMP
England

SNMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing SNMP 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 SNMP.

1 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 15 (88.24%) Cisco
3 11 (64.71%) SMTP
3 11 (64.71%) TCP/IP
3 11 (64.71%) DNS
4 10 (58.82%) Sun
4 10 (58.82%) Compaq
4 10 (58.82%) Dell
4 10 (58.82%) Solaris
5 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
6 6 (35.29%) Linux
7 5 (29.41%) MS Office
7 5 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (29.41%) Juniper
7 5 (29.41%) UNIX
7 5 (29.41%) MPLS
7 5 (29.41%) Project Management
7 5 (29.41%) Management Information System
7 5 (29.41%) Telecoms
7 5 (29.41%) Degree
7 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
7 5 (29.41%) F5
8 4 (23.53%) Network Management
8 4 (23.53%) GCSC
8 4 (23.53%) Firewall
8 4 (23.53%) Six Sigma
8 4 (23.53%) CCNA
8 4 (23.53%) ITIL
9 3 (17.65%) MS Excel
9 3 (17.65%) Internet

SNMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing SNMP 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 SNMP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.882%) JMS
1 1 (5.882%) Java RMI
1 1 (5.882%) JDBC
1 1 (5.882%) SOAP
1 1 (5.882%) Web Services
1 1 (5.882%) XML
1 1 (5.882%) .NET
1 1 (5.882%) JMX
1 1 (5.882%) Middleware
1 1 (5.882%) WebSphere
1 1 (5.882%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Process Server
1 1 (5.882%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (5.882%) ESB
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) MS Office
2 3 (17.65%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) SMTP
1 11 (64.71%) TCP/IP
1 11 (64.71%) DNS
2 5 (29.41%) MPLS
3 4 (23.53%) Firewall
4 3 (17.65%) Internet
4 3 (17.65%) TACACS
5 1 (5.882%) FTP
5 1 (5.882%) HTTP
5 1 (5.882%) HTTPS
5 1 (5.882%) IIOP
5 1 (5.882%) SSL
5 1 (5.882%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.882%) DB2
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 5 (29.41%) Telecoms
2 3 (17.65%) German Language
3 1 (5.882%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Network Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Data Centre Technician
2 4 (23.53%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Implementation Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Data Centre Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Support Technician
4 1 (5.882%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (5.882%) Data Centre Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Data Centre Specialist
4 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Management Information System
1 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 10 (58.82%) Solaris
3 6 (35.29%) Linux
4 5 (29.41%) UNIX
5 1 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Project Management
2 4 (23.53%) Network Management
2 4 (23.53%) Six Sigma
2 4 (23.53%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
3 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (5.882%) SOA
4 1 (5.882%) Data Management
4 1 (5.882%) Migration
4 1 (5.882%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.882%) Java
1 1 (5.882%) SQL
1 1 (5.882%) Jython
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) GCSC
2 4 (23.53%) CCNA
3 1 (5.882%) CCNP
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) WMI
1 1 (5.882%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) Cisco
2 10 (58.82%) Sun
2 10 (58.82%) Compaq
2 10 (58.82%) Dell
3 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
4 5 (29.41%) Juniper
4 5 (29.41%) F5
5 2 (11.76%) IBM
6 1 (5.882%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.882%) VMware
Redditch, Worcestershire
knowledge of hardware, including PC (Compaq, Dell, Sun, etc.), Windows OSs, DNS, SMTP, SNMP, Modems, Disc Packs and Tape drives. Working knowledge of Windows Sun Solaris and their...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: £18 - £20 per hour
Posted: 17 May 2013
Redditch, West Midlands
Knowledge of Hardware, including PC (Compaq, Dell, Sun, etc.), Windows OSs, DNS, SMTP, SNMP, Modems, Disc Packs and Tape drives. "Working knowledge of Windows Sun Solaris and their...
Fulcrum Telecom
Rate: £19.00 - £20.00 per hour
Posted: 18 May 2013