The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SolarWinds 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 Vendors for the Coventry region.

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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SolarWinds
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 2 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 0.322% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.595% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £34,360 - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Vendors
Coventry
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
336 165 239
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 54.11% 45.96% 60.20%
Number of salaries quoted 288 146 226
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -26.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £24,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
SolarWinds
West Midlands

SolarWinds
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry SolarWinds Salary Trend

SolarWinds
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) NetApp
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) XenApp
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) XenServer
3 2 (50.00%) vSphere
3 2 (50.00%) Forefront TMG
3 2 (50.00%) IAG
3 2 (50.00%) UAG
3 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (50.00%) Cacti
3 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
3 2 (50.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (50.00%) Symantec
3 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003

SolarWinds
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 (50.00%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Storage Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VBScript
2 1 (25.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCTS
1 1 (25.00%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) XenApp
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) XenServer
3 2 (50.00%) vSphere
3 2 (50.00%) Forefront TMG
3 2 (50.00%) IAG
3 2 (50.00%) UAG
3 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) ISA Server
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Cacti
1 2 (50.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 1 (25.00%) MAILsweeper
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) SCOM
2 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) NetApp
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Symantec
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) EMC
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Knowledge of Protocol Analysers (Wireshark) Wireless LAN Controllers, IPS / IDS. Network monitoring tools (Cacti, Solarwinds, Scrutinizer) Active Directory, GPO, DNS, DHCP, Windows 2003 / 2008 servers / infrastructures... ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS:...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £28,000 to £40,000 per annum dep on exp, plus bonus & benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Microsoft Exchange 2003/ 2007/ 2010,BES & ActiveSync... Firewalls (ISA, TMG, CheckPoint, PIX, ASA, UAG/ IAG) Cisco (routers & switches) Network monitoring tools (Cacti, Solarwinds or similar) WSUS, SCCM and...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £34,000 to £42,000 per annum dep on exp, plus bonus & benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
With a VMware estate of approximately of 170 virtual machines on 18 hosts, it is important to have a very good background in VMware, an awareness of XenApp,...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 34,360
Posted: 21 May 2013