The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds 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 SolarWinds over the 3 months to 22 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 SolarWinds.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SolarWinds
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 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 £350 £300 £272
% change year-on-year
+16.66% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -12.50%
All Vendors
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
210 322 217
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 45.75% 51.36% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 178 111
Average daily rate £407 £400 £403
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.62% -0.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £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 9 29 28
Average hourly rate £14.75 £28.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.32% +40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £14.90 £14.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.80 £41.70 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
SolarWinds
South West

SolarWinds
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire SolarWinds Jobs Demand Trend

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wiltshire SolarWinds Daily Rate Trend

SolarWinds
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region citing SolarWinds 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 SolarWinds.

1 4 (100.00%) HP
1 4 (100.00%) OPNET
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%) Wireshark
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
3 2 (50.00%) F5
4 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
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

SolarWinds
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region citing SolarWinds 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 SolarWinds. 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%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
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%) OPNET
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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