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

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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SolarWinds
Rank 77 108 -
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 10 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 0.999% 0.071% -
As % of the Vendors category 1.916% 0.134% -
Number of salaries quoted 10 1 0
Average salary £32,000 £25,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £34,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+9.48% -2.14%
All Vendors
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
522 746 640
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 52.15% 53.32% 51.49%
Number of salaries quoted 462 594 502
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% -3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £25,000 £26,525
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
SolarWinds
East of England

SolarWinds
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex SolarWinds Salary Trend

SolarWinds
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SolarWinds across the Essex region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Essex SolarWinds Salary Histogram

SolarWinds
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the Essex region over the 3 months to 22 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
Brentwood - 6 £31,500 -
Basildon -8 1 £30,000 +20.00%
SolarWinds
East of England

SolarWinds
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 21 (95.45%) Active Directory
2 19 (86.36%) Microsoft
3 18 (81.82%) VMware
3 18 (81.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (77.27%) DNS
5 16 (72.73%) Windows
6 13 (59.09%) Citrix
7 12 (54.55%) Finance
8 9 (40.91%) VMware ESX
9 7 (31.82%) Time Management
10 5 (22.73%) Change Control
10 5 (22.73%) Change Management
10 5 (22.73%) DHCP
10 5 (22.73%) IBM
10 5 (22.73%) ITIL
11 4 (18.18%) MS Excel
11 4 (18.18%) HP
11 4 (18.18%) CiscoWorks
11 4 (18.18%) Back Office
11 4 (18.18%) AS400
11 4 (18.18%) AppSense
11 4 (18.18%) Tivoli
11 4 (18.18%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (18.18%) Nagios
11 4 (18.18%) BCP
11 4 (18.18%) HP SIM
11 4 (18.18%) iSeries
11 4 (18.18%) XenApp
11 4 (18.18%) Xen
12 3 (13.64%) CMDB

SolarWinds
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 1 (4.545%) Application Packaging
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) MS Excel
2 3 (13.64%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) AWD
Communications & Networking
1 17 (77.27%) DNS
2 5 (22.73%) DHCP
3 3 (13.64%) SAN
4 2 (9.091%) LDAP
5 1 (4.545%) VLAN
5 1 (4.545%) iSCSI
General
1 12 (54.55%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Back Office
3 2 (9.091%) Banking
4 1 (4.545%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Support Engineer
2 11 (50.00%) Server Support
3 9 (40.91%) Server Engineer
4 8 (36.36%) Server Support Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Support Analyst
5 4 (18.18%) Analyst
5 4 (18.18%) Citrix Support
6 3 (13.64%) Citrix Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Citrix Support Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Data Centre Analyst
6 3 (13.64%) Data Analyst
7 1 (4.545%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (4.545%) Operations Support Analyst
7 1 (4.545%) Systems Support Analyst
7 1 (4.545%) Administrator
7 1 (4.545%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (4.545%) Systems Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) AS400
1 4 (18.18%) iSeries
2 3 (13.64%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 16 (72.73%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (13.64%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Time Management
2 5 (22.73%) Change Control
2 5 (22.73%) Change Management
2 5 (22.73%) ITIL
3 4 (18.18%) BCP
4 2 (9.091%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.091%) VBScript
1 2 (9.091%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (9.091%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (4.545%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (95.45%) Active Directory
2 18 (81.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (40.91%) VMware ESX
4 4 (18.18%) XenApp
4 4 (18.18%) Xen
5 2 (9.091%) MetaFrame
5 2 (9.091%) XenServer
5 2 (9.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (4.545%) VMware Server
6 1 (4.545%) vSphere
6 1 (4.545%) VMFS
6 1 (4.545%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) CiscoWorks
1 4 (18.18%) Tivoli
1 4 (18.18%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 4 (18.18%) Nagios
1 4 (18.18%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 19 (86.36%) Microsoft
2 18 (81.82%) VMware
3 13 (59.09%) Citrix
4 5 (22.73%) IBM
5 4 (18.18%) HP
5 4 (18.18%) AppSense
6 1 (4.545%) NetApp
6 1 (4.545%) Cisco