The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Lancashire 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 Lancashire 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 56 62 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 2 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 0.408% 0.534% -
As % of the Vendors category 1.020% 1.245% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 0
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £34,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+9.48% -2.14%
All Vendors
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
196 241 201
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 40.00% 42.88% 53.89%
Number of salaries quoted 178 221 181
Average salary £31,000 £34,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.14% -8.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,500 £23,400 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £47,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
SolarWinds
North West

SolarWinds
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire SolarWinds Salary Trend

SolarWinds
Salary Histogram

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire 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
Burnley -7 1 £30,000 -25.00%
Blackburn - 1 £45,000 -
SolarWinds
North West

SolarWinds
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) VLAN
2 3 (75.00%) VoIP
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) SLA
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) Juniper
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) NetApp
3 2 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) Internet
3 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (50.00%) C
3 2 (50.00%) IIS
3 2 (50.00%) COM
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Solaris

SolarWinds
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) IIS
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (50.00%) Lync
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) VLAN
2 3 (75.00%) VoIP
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) Internet
4 1 (25.00%) IP Telephony
4 1 (25.00%) Frame Relay
4 1 (25.00%) Openswan
4 1 (25.00%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (25.00%) WPA2
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (25.00%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Storage Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Solaris
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) CentOS
3 1 (25.00%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Communications Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 2 (50.00%) XenApp
1 2 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
1 2 (50.00%) SCOM
1 2 (50.00%) WhatsUp Gold
1 2 (50.00%) HP SIM
2 1 (25.00%) Munin
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) NetApp
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Tripwire
3 1 (25.00%) Avaya