The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of OPNET products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OPNET 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 Vendors for the Wiltshire 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within OPNET Technologies, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OPNET
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing OPNET 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £550 - £425
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
214 315 221
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 46.83% 51.39% 40.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 175 112
Average daily rate £416 £405 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £290 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 28 29
Average hourly rate £15.50 £23.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.73% +18.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £14.65 £14.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.20 £42.20 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
OPNET
South West

OPNET
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OPNET across the Wiltshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Wiltshire OPNET Jobs Demand Trend

OPNET
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wiltshire OPNET Daily Rate Trend

OPNET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region citing OPNET 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 OPNET.

1 4 (100.00%) HP
1 4 (100.00%) SolarWinds
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Compuware
2 3 (75.00%) OpenView
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) Terminal Services
3 2 (50.00%) Tivoli
3 2 (50.00%) Netcool
3 2 (50.00%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 2 (50.00%) Juniper
3 2 (50.00%) SNMP
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 2 (50.00%) Statistics
3 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
3 2 (50.00%) F5
3 2 (50.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (25.00%) NetScout
4 1 (25.00%) Business Development
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) CiscoWorks
4 1 (25.00%) BMC

OPNET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region citing OPNET 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 OPNET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SNMP
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Business Development
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) OpenView
2 2 (50.00%) Tivoli
2 2 (50.00%) Netcool
2 2 (50.00%) Netcool/OMNIbus
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (25.00%) CiscoWorks
3 1 (25.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) HP
1 4 (100.00%) SolarWinds
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Compuware
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) Juniper
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 2 (50.00%) F5
4 1 (25.00%) NetScout
4 1 (25.00%) BMC
4 1 (25.00%) CA
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