The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services 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 SolarWinds over the 3 months to 17 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 City of London region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within SolarWinds.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SolarWinds
Rank 302 294 314
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +20
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 15 32 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.129% 0.243% 0.144%
As % of the Vendors category 0.280% 0.524% 0.332%
Number of salaries quoted 11 32 22
Average salary £44,500 £47,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.31% -20.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,500 £28,000 £46,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Vendors
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
5353 6104 6634
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 45.86% 46.43% 43.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4602 5573 5958
Average salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.54% -4.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
SolarWinds
London

SolarWinds
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London SolarWinds Jobs Demand Trend

SolarWinds
Salary Trend

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

City of London SolarWinds Salary Trend

SolarWinds
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SolarWinds across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London SolarWinds Salary Histogram

SolarWinds
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SolarWinds.

1 34 (80.95%) Cisco
2 31 (73.81%) Cisco Certification
3 28 (66.67%) Firewall
4 24 (57.14%) CCNP
5 22 (52.38%) Windows
5 22 (52.38%) DNS
6 21 (50.00%) VPN
6 21 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
7 20 (47.62%) CiscoWorks
8 19 (45.24%) Wireless
8 19 (45.24%) Cisco ASA
9 17 (40.48%) CheckPoint
10 16 (38.10%) Microsoft
10 16 (38.10%) OSPF
10 16 (38.10%) Cisco PIX
11 14 (33.33%) EIGRP
11 14 (33.33%) BGP
11 14 (33.33%) HP
12 12 (28.57%) TACACS
13 11 (26.19%) Law
13 11 (26.19%) Active Directory
13 11 (26.19%) Network Load Balancing
13 11 (26.19%) Windows Server 2008
14 10 (23.81%) F5
14 10 (23.81%) CCIE
14 10 (23.81%) CCNA
14 10 (23.81%) Windows Server 2003
14 10 (23.81%) WAN
14 10 (23.81%) DHCP
14 10 (23.81%) LAN

SolarWinds
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SolarWinds. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (4.762%) COM
2 1 (2.381%) SAML
2 1 (2.381%) .NET
2 1 (2.381%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 5 (11.90%) SAS
1 5 (11.90%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (7.143%) MS Exchange
2 3 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (2.381%) IIS
3 1 (2.381%) Apache
3 1 (2.381%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (2.381%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.381%) Force.com
3 1 (2.381%) Lync
Applications
1 8 (19.05%) MS Office
2 7 (16.67%) MS Excel
3 5 (11.90%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 28 (66.67%) Firewall
2 22 (52.38%) DNS
3 21 (50.00%) VPN
4 19 (45.24%) Wireless
4 19 (45.24%) Cisco ASA
5 16 (38.10%) Cisco PIX
5 16 (38.10%) OSPF
6 14 (33.33%) BGP
6 14 (33.33%) EIGRP
7 12 (28.57%) TACACS
8 10 (23.81%) LAN
8 10 (23.81%) WAN
8 10 (23.81%) DHCP
9 9 (21.43%) MPLS
9 9 (21.43%) FWSM
10 6 (14.29%) Wireshark
10 6 (14.29%) TCP/IP
11 5 (11.90%) BIG-IP
11 5 (11.90%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (9.524%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.762%) SQL Server
1 2 (4.762%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (4.762%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (4.762%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (2.381%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.381%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 11 (26.19%) Law
2 3 (7.143%) Finance
3 2 (4.762%) Marketing
4 1 (2.381%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.381%) Legal
4 1 (2.381%) Advertising
4 1 (2.381%) Games
4 1 (2.381%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Analyst
2 12 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 10 (23.81%) Consultant
4 9 (21.43%) Network Consultant
5 8 (19.05%) Senior Network Engineer
6 7 (16.67%) Network Analyst
7 6 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
7 6 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 6 (14.29%) Cisco Consultant
7 6 (14.29%) Cisco Network Consultant
8 5 (11.90%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
8 5 (11.90%) Senior Cisco Engineer
9 4 (9.524%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 3 (7.143%) Operations Analyst
10 3 (7.143%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (4.762%) Technical Support
11 2 (4.762%) 3rd Line Support
11 2 (4.762%) Server Support
11 2 (4.762%) Administrator
11 2 (4.762%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Blackberry
2 3 (7.143%) Replication
3 2 (4.762%) Spread Betting
3 2 (4.762%) SaaS
4 1 (2.381%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.381%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.381%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 22 (52.38%) Windows
2 11 (26.19%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (23.81%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (19.05%) Linux
5 5 (11.90%) Solaris
6 2 (4.762%) Windows Vista
7 1 (2.381%) UNIX
7 1 (2.381%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.19%) Network Load Balancing
2 8 (19.05%) ITIL
3 6 (14.29%) Network Management
4 3 (7.143%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (4.762%) Migration
5 2 (4.762%) Business Continuity
5 2 (4.762%) Change Control
5 2 (4.762%) Load Balancing
6 1 (2.381%) Release Management
6 1 (2.381%) Business Transformation
6 1 (2.381%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (2.381%) Incident Management
6 1 (2.381%) Identity Management
6 1 (2.381%) CRM
6 1 (2.381%) Project Management
6 1 (2.381%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.524%) SQL
2 2 (4.762%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.381%) VB
3 1 (2.381%) Java
3 1 (2.381%) Perl
3 1 (2.381%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (73.81%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (57.14%) CCNP
3 10 (23.81%) CCNA
3 10 (23.81%) CCIE
4 8 (19.05%) CCSP
5 5 (11.90%) MCSE
5 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (7.143%) MCITP
6 3 (7.143%) CCVP
7 2 (4.762%) Check Point Certification
7 2 (4.762%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (4.762%) CCSA
7 2 (4.762%) CCDA
8 1 (2.381%) CCDP
8 1 (2.381%) JNCIP
8 1 (2.381%) JNCIE
8 1 (2.381%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) SLA
2 2 (4.762%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.524%) VMware ESX
3 3 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.143%) ISA Server
4 2 (4.762%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.762%) vSphere
5 1 (2.381%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (2.381%) IAG
5 1 (2.381%) UAG
5 1 (2.381%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.381%) XenApp
5 1 (2.381%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 21 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
2 20 (47.62%) CiscoWorks
3 7 (16.67%) HP Data Protector
4 6 (14.29%) Cacti
5 5 (11.90%) OpenView
5 5 (11.90%) HP SIM
6 4 (9.524%) WSUS
7 2 (4.762%) Backup Exec
8 1 (2.381%) WMI
8 1 (2.381%) SCOM
8 1 (2.381%) Tivoli
8 1 (2.381%) Netcool
8 1 (2.381%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 1 (2.381%) Nagios
8 1 (2.381%) MAILsweeper
8 1 (2.381%) Cisco UCCX
8 1 (2.381%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (2.381%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 34 (80.95%) Cisco
2 17 (40.48%) CheckPoint
3 16 (38.10%) Microsoft
4 14 (33.33%) HP
5 10 (23.81%) F5
6 7 (16.67%) VMware
7 4 (9.524%) Citrix
7 4 (9.524%) Juniper
7 4 (9.524%) IronPort
8 3 (7.143%) Riverbed
8 3 (7.143%) Symantec
9 2 (4.762%) McAfee
9 2 (4.762%) Sophos
9 2 (4.762%) Mitel
9 2 (4.762%) CA
9 2 (4.762%) NetApp
9 2 (4.762%) Aruba
9 2 (4.762%) Twitter
10 1 (2.381%) Oracle
10 1 (2.381%) IPFX