The first table below looks at the demand for Opalis skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Opalis 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 of the Systems Management category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Opalis
Rank 828 822 805
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -17
Permanent jobs citing Opalis 8 38 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.008% 0.034% 0.054%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.141% 0.716% 1.205%
Number of salaries quoted 7 34 61
Average salary £35,000 £55,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-36.36% +15.78%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,600 £41,300 £41,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £66,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year
-33.33% -
All Systems Management
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
5668 5305 5395
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 5.631% 4.679% 4.520%
Number of salaries quoted 4445 4461 4306
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £61,500 £66,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
Opalis
UK

Opalis
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Opalis Jobs Demand Trend

Opalis
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Opalis across the England region.

England Opalis Salary Trend

Opalis
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Opalis across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Opalis Salary Histogram

Opalis
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Opalis within the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South East -4 5 £35,000 -31.70%
Midlands - 2 £23,250 -
West Midlands -21 1 - -
Opalis
UK

Opalis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Opalis 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 Opalis.

1 54 (80.60%) SCCM
2 40 (59.70%) VMware
3 39 (58.21%) Windows
4 36 (53.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (46.27%) Microsoft
6 29 (43.28%) Nagios
6 29 (43.28%) NetIQ
6 29 (43.28%) AppManager
6 29 (43.28%) Python
6 29 (43.28%) Linux
6 29 (43.28%) Perl
6 29 (43.28%) MySQL
6 29 (43.28%) Oracle
6 29 (43.28%) Ruby
6 29 (43.28%) SolarWinds
6 29 (43.28%) Puppet
7 28 (41.79%) PowerShell
8 25 (37.31%) vSphere
9 24 (35.82%) PHP
9 24 (35.82%) Java
9 24 (35.82%) .NET
9 24 (35.82%) ITIL
9 24 (35.82%) Citrix
9 24 (35.82%) Active Directory
10 23 (34.33%) SQL Server
11 22 (32.84%) SCOM
12 21 (31.34%) Data Protection
12 21 (31.34%) Hyper-V
13 14 (20.90%) Windows Server 2008
13 14 (20.90%) SQL

Opalis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Opalis 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 Opalis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (35.82%) .NET
2 7 (10.45%) Middleware
3 2 (2.985%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.970%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (16.42%) MS PowerPoint
1 11 (16.42%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.42%) DHCP
1 11 (16.42%) DNS
2 7 (10.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (43.28%) MySQL
2 23 (34.33%) SQL Server
3 10 (14.93%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (5.970%) OLAP
4 4 (5.970%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 4 (5.970%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (5.970%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (5.970%) SQL Server Integration Services
Job Titles
1 23 (34.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (32.84%) Consultant
3 11 (16.42%) Data Consultant
3 11 (16.42%) Management Consultant
4 10 (14.93%) Technical Consultant
5 9 (13.43%) Analyst
6 6 (8.955%) Systems Administrator
6 6 (8.955%) Administrator
7 4 (5.970%) Graduate
7 4 (5.970%) Developer
7 4 (5.970%) Report Analyst
7 4 (5.970%) Analyst Developer
7 4 (5.970%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.970%) Linux Administrator
7 4 (5.970%) Automation Analyst
7 4 (5.970%) MI Analyst
8 3 (4.478%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.478%) Microsoft Consultant
8 3 (4.478%) Citrix Engineer
8 3 (4.478%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Clustering
2 2 (2.985%) IaaS
2 2 (2.985%) SaaS
2 2 (2.985%) PaaS
2 2 (2.985%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 39 (58.21%) Windows
2 29 (43.28%) Linux
3 14 (20.90%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (11.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.970%) UNIX
5 4 (5.970%) Ubuntu
5 4 (5.970%) CentOS
6 3 (4.478%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (2.985%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (35.82%) ITIL
2 21 (31.34%) Data Protection
3 11 (16.42%) Service Management
3 11 (16.42%) ITSM
3 11 (16.42%) Migration
4 10 (14.93%) Information Security
4 10 (14.93%) Workflow
4 10 (14.93%) Configuration Management
4 10 (14.93%) Web Development
4 10 (14.93%) Operations Management
4 10 (14.93%) Network Architecture
4 10 (14.93%) Software Distribution
4 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (2.985%) Change Management
6 1 (1.493%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (43.28%) Python
1 29 (43.28%) Perl
1 29 (43.28%) Ruby
2 28 (41.79%) PowerShell
3 24 (35.82%) PHP
3 24 (35.82%) Java
4 14 (20.90%) SQL
5 8 (11.94%) VBScript
6 4 (5.970%) VB
6 4 (5.970%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (4.478%) CCAA
1 3 (4.478%) CCA
1 3 (4.478%) Citrix Certification
1 3 (4.478%) CCEA
2 2 (2.985%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (53.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (37.31%) vSphere
3 24 (35.82%) Active Directory
4 21 (31.34%) Hyper-V
5 13 (19.40%) XenApp
6 10 (14.93%) Microsoft App-V
6 10 (14.93%) XenServer
6 10 (14.93%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (80.60%) SCCM
2 29 (43.28%) Nagios
2 29 (43.28%) AppManager
2 29 (43.28%) Puppet
3 22 (32.84%) SCOM
4 11 (16.42%) SCVMM
5 9 (13.43%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 40 (59.70%) VMware
2 31 (46.27%) Microsoft
3 29 (43.28%) NetIQ
3 29 (43.28%) Oracle
3 29 (43.28%) SolarWinds
4 24 (35.82%) Citrix
5 8 (11.94%) BMC
6 6 (8.955%) Red Hat
7 3 (4.478%) Cisco
8 1 (1.493%) HP
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