The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the North West 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 North West 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 233 245 233
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -12
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 15 6 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.210% 0.085% 0.117%
As % of the Vendors category 0.455% 0.183% 0.233%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 8
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Vendors
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3294 3280 3433
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 46.20% 46.52% 50.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2715 2825 2985
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West SolarWinds Salary Trend

SolarWinds
Salary Histogram

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

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Cheshire - 9 £45,000 -
Lancashire +2 2 £37,500 -6.25%
Manchester -19 2 - -
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 25 (89.29%) Windows
1 25 (89.29%) Windows Server 2003
2 21 (75.00%) MS Exchange
2 21 (75.00%) Cisco
3 19 (67.86%) VoIP
3 19 (67.86%) IIS
3 19 (67.86%) HP
3 19 (67.86%) Windows Server 2008
4 18 (64.29%) Active Directory
5 17 (60.71%) Microsoft
5 17 (60.71%) VMware
6 15 (53.57%) SolarWinds Orion
6 15 (53.57%) SharePoint
7 14 (50.00%) ITIL
7 14 (50.00%) Linux
7 14 (50.00%) MCSE
7 14 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (50.00%) SAN
7 14 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
8 13 (46.43%) vSphere
8 13 (46.43%) Exchange Server 2003
8 13 (46.43%) SCCM
8 13 (46.43%) Firewall
9 11 (39.29%) NetApp
9 11 (39.29%) MS Excel
10 10 (35.71%) SQL
11 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
11 9 (32.14%) ISA Server
11 9 (32.14%) SharePoint Server
11 9 (32.14%) SQL Server 2005

SolarWinds
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 (7.143%) COM
Application Platforms
1 21 (75.00%) MS Exchange
2 19 (67.86%) IIS
3 15 (53.57%) SharePoint
4 14 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 13 (46.43%) Exchange Server 2003
6 9 (32.14%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (25.00%) Apache
8 6 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (7.143%) Lync
9 2 (7.143%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 11 (39.29%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (21.43%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 19 (67.86%) VoIP
2 14 (50.00%) SAN
3 13 (46.43%) Firewall
4 8 (28.57%) DNS
5 7 (25.00%) SSH
5 7 (25.00%) TACACS
6 6 (21.43%) MRTG
6 6 (21.43%) LAN
6 6 (21.43%) WAN
6 6 (21.43%) TCP/IP
6 6 (21.43%) VPN
7 5 (17.86%) Wireless
8 3 (10.71%) VLAN
9 2 (7.143%) Cisco PIX
9 2 (7.143%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (7.143%) Internet
9 2 (7.143%) DHCP
10 1 (3.571%) PBX
10 1 (3.571%) WLAN
10 1 (3.571%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
1 9 (32.14%) SQL Server 2005
1 9 (32.14%) SQL Server 2008
2 7 (25.00%) MySQL
3 6 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Subversion
General
1 6 (21.43%) Telecoms
1 6 (21.43%) Billing
2 4 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (7.143%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Server Engineer
1 9 (32.14%) Senior Server Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Service Manager
4 4 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (14.29%) Administrator
4 4 (14.29%) Windows Administrator
4 4 (14.29%) Windows Systems Administrator
5 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Storage Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.571%) Analyst
7 1 (3.571%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (3.571%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) Data Centre Manager
7 1 (3.571%) Data Manager
7 1 (3.571%) Network Support Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.143%) Clustering
1 2 (7.143%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (3.571%) Replication
2 1 (3.571%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (89.29%) Windows
1 25 (89.29%) Windows Server 2003
2 19 (67.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (50.00%) Linux
4 7 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (7.143%) Windows 7
5 2 (7.143%) Solaris
6 1 (3.571%) FreeBSD
6 1 (3.571%) Windows XP
6 1 (3.571%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) ITIL
2 8 (28.57%) Performance Management
3 7 (25.00%) Change Control
3 7 (25.00%) Capacity Management
4 6 (21.43%) Time Management
4 6 (21.43%) Project Management
5 3 (10.71%) Change Management
6 2 (7.143%) Migration
6 2 (7.143%) E-Commerce
7 1 (3.571%) Service Management
7 1 (3.571%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 1 (3.571%) Problem Management
7 1 (3.571%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (3.571%) Risk Management
7 1 (3.571%) Communications Security
7 1 (3.571%) Network Architecture
7 1 (3.571%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) SQL
2 8 (28.57%) C
3 7 (25.00%) Perl
3 7 (25.00%) PHP
4 6 (21.43%) C++
5 2 (7.143%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.571%) Bash shell
6 1 (3.571%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (50.00%) MCSE
1 14 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (32.14%) MCITP
3 8 (28.57%) MCP
4 7 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (17.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (7.143%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.143%) SLA
2 1 (3.571%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 13 (46.43%) vSphere
3 9 (32.14%) ISA Server
4 6 (21.43%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 6 (21.43%) SpamAssassin
4 6 (21.43%) FreeRADIUS
4 6 (21.43%) Sendmail
4 6 (21.43%) NFS
5 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (14.29%) Terminal Server
6 2 (7.143%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (53.57%) SolarWinds Orion
2 13 (46.43%) SCCM
3 7 (25.00%) Nagios
4 6 (21.43%) Cacti
4 6 (21.43%) OpenView
5 2 (7.143%) MOM
5 2 (7.143%) SCOM
5 2 (7.143%) WhatsUp Gold
5 2 (7.143%) HP SIM
6 1 (3.571%) Munin
6 1 (3.571%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (3.571%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) Cisco
2 19 (67.86%) HP
3 17 (60.71%) Microsoft
3 17 (60.71%) VMware
4 11 (39.29%) NetApp
5 8 (28.57%) Citrix
6 7 (25.00%) FrontRange
7 2 (7.143%) CheckPoint
7 2 (7.143%) Sophos
7 2 (7.143%) Juniper
8 1 (3.571%) Siemens
8 1 (3.571%) Avaya
8 1 (3.571%) IBM
8 1 (3.571%) Tripwire
8 1 (3.571%) Polycom
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