The first table below looks at the demand for Cacti skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cacti over the 3 months to 21 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 for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cacti
Rank 299 312 320
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cacti 19 12 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.161% 0.091% 0.092%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.726% 1.958% 2.167%
Number of salaries quoted 19 11 14
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £44,500 £37,500 £36,500
10% offered a salary of more than £66,000 £50,000 £51,750
UK excluding London average salary £38,875 £34,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+12.68% +15.00%
All Systems Management
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
697 613 646
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 5.924% 4.666% 4.263%
Number of salaries quoted 597 582 588
Average salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+0.96% +4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £35,000 £36,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £68,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
Cacti
London

Cacti
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Cacti across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

City of London Cacti Jobs Demand Trend

Cacti
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Cacti across the City of London region.

City of London Cacti Salary Trend

Cacti
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Cacti across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Cacti Salary Histogram

Cacti
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Cacti 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Cacti.

1 26 (78.79%) Nagios
2 23 (69.70%) Perl
3 22 (66.67%) Linux
4 18 (54.55%) MySQL
4 18 (54.55%) Bash shell
4 18 (54.55%) Puppet
5 16 (48.48%) Root Cause Analysis
5 16 (48.48%) FreeBSD
5 16 (48.48%) DNS
6 14 (42.42%) Zenoss
7 13 (39.39%) Apache
7 13 (39.39%) Windows
8 11 (33.33%) Configuration Management
8 11 (33.33%) Cisco
8 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
9 10 (30.30%) Python
9 10 (30.30%) SQL
9 10 (30.30%) AWK
9 10 (30.30%) Load Balancing
9 10 (30.30%) Open Source
9 10 (30.30%) sed
10 9 (27.27%) Change Control
10 9 (27.27%) Streaming Media
10 9 (27.27%) Ruby
10 9 (27.27%) Release Management
10 9 (27.27%) PHP
10 9 (27.27%) DHCP
11 8 (24.24%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (24.24%) Red Hat
11 8 (24.24%) Firewall

Cacti
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Cacti also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Cacti. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (21.21%) Web Services
1 7 (21.21%) Memcached
2 4 (12.12%) LAMP
3 1 (3.030%) JMX
3 1 (3.030%) COM
3 1 (3.030%) J2EE
3 1 (3.030%) JMS
3 1 (3.030%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 13 (39.39%) Apache
2 7 (21.21%) nginx
3 6 (18.18%) Tomcat
4 5 (15.15%) SAS
4 5 (15.15%) IIS
5 1 (3.030%) Lync
5 1 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (3.030%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 7 (21.21%) MS Excel
2 5 (15.15%) MS Visio
2 5 (15.15%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 16 (48.48%) DNS
2 9 (27.27%) DHCP
3 8 (24.24%) Firewall
3 8 (24.24%) iSCSI
4 7 (21.21%) OSPF
4 7 (21.21%) BGP
5 6 (18.18%) Wireshark
5 6 (18.18%) Cisco PIX
5 6 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (9.091%) Internet
7 2 (6.061%) SAN
7 2 (6.061%) RIP
7 2 (6.061%) IPv4
7 2 (6.061%) IPv6
7 2 (6.061%) Broadband
7 2 (6.061%) Ethernet
7 2 (6.061%) Network Security
8 1 (3.030%) NetScaler
8 1 (3.030%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (3.030%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (54.55%) MySQL
2 7 (21.21%) Sybase ASE
2 7 (21.21%) Riak
2 7 (21.21%) MongoDB
3 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 4 (12.12%) ObjectStore
5 1 (3.030%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (3.030%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (3.030%) DB2
5 1 (3.030%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (3.030%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.030%) Hudson
General
1 4 (12.12%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Systems Administrator
1 13 (39.39%) Administrator
2 9 (27.27%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 7 (21.21%) Systems Manager
3 7 (21.21%) Operations Manager
4 6 (18.18%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 6 (18.18%) Linux Administrator
5 5 (15.15%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Senior Linux Administrator
5 5 (15.15%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
5 5 (15.15%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Senior Network Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.061%) Network Architect
6 2 (6.061%) Applications Specialist
6 2 (6.061%) Support Specialist
6 2 (6.061%) Architect
7 1 (3.030%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Open Source
2 9 (27.27%) Streaming Media
3 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
4 2 (6.061%) IPTV
5 1 (3.030%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.030%) Grid Computing
5 1 (3.030%) Clustering
5 1 (3.030%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (66.67%) Linux
2 16 (48.48%) FreeBSD
3 13 (39.39%) Windows
4 8 (24.24%) CentOS
5 5 (15.15%) Solaris
6 1 (3.030%) Debian
6 1 (3.030%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (3.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.030%) UNIX
6 1 (3.030%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Root Cause Analysis
2 11 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 10 (30.30%) Load Balancing
4 9 (27.27%) Change Control
4 9 (27.27%) Release Management
5 7 (21.21%) Risk Analysis
5 7 (21.21%) Project Management
5 7 (21.21%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (9.091%) Network Design
7 2 (6.061%) ITIL
7 2 (6.061%) Network Planning
7 2 (6.061%) Resource Management
7 2 (6.061%) Change Management
7 2 (6.061%) Capacity Management
8 1 (3.030%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 23 (69.70%) Perl
2 18 (54.55%) Bash shell
3 10 (30.30%) Python
3 10 (30.30%) SQL
3 10 (30.30%) AWK
3 10 (30.30%) sed
4 9 (27.27%) Ruby
4 9 (27.27%) PHP
5 6 (18.18%) PowerShell
6 5 (15.15%) Java
6 5 (15.15%) T-SQL
6 5 (15.15%) VBScript
7 1 (3.030%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (21.21%) CCNP
3 5 (15.15%) CCSP
4 4 (12.12%) Degree
5 2 (6.061%) RHCE
5 2 (6.061%) CCIE
6 1 (3.030%) MCTS
6 1 (3.030%) MCITP
6 1 (3.030%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) NFS
1 7 (21.21%) VirtualBox
1 7 (21.21%) Varnish
2 2 (6.061%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.061%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.061%) XenApp
3 1 (3.030%) XenServer
3 1 (3.030%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (3.030%) IAG
3 1 (3.030%) UAG
3 1 (3.030%) Samba
3 1 (3.030%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.030%) Xen
3 1 (3.030%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 26 (78.79%) Nagios
2 18 (54.55%) Puppet
3 14 (42.42%) Zenoss
4 7 (21.21%) Cobbler
4 7 (21.21%) YUM
5 5 (15.15%) OpenView
5 5 (15.15%) CiscoWorks
5 5 (15.15%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (3.030%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (3.030%) MAILsweeper
6 1 (3.030%) Munin
6 1 (3.030%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Cisco
1 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (24.24%) Red Hat
3 7 (21.21%) Sybase
4 6 (18.18%) SolarWinds
4 6 (18.18%) HP
5 4 (12.12%) Juniper
6 2 (6.061%) Citrix
6 2 (6.061%) VMware
7 1 (3.030%) F5
7 1 (3.030%) Blue Coat
7 1 (3.030%) Oracle
7 1 (3.030%) JBoss
7 1 (3.030%) EMC
7 1 (3.030%) Sage
7 1 (3.030%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.030%) NetApp
7 1 (3.030%) Symantec
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