The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of OPNET products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OPNET over the 3 months to 21 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 South West region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within OPNET Technologies, Inc.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OPNET
Rank 213 212 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Permanent jobs citing OPNET 3 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.057% 0.054% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.135% 0.118% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 0
Average salary £50,000 £60,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -17.24%
All Vendors
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2221 2551 2432
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 42.03% 46.04% 41.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1899 2201 2070
Average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
OPNET
England

OPNET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West OPNET Jobs Demand Trend

OPNET
Salary Trend

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

South West OPNET Salary Trend

OPNET
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OPNET within the South West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Somerset - 3 £50,000 -
OPNET
England

OPNET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing OPNET 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 OPNET.

1 6 (85.71%) OpenView
1 6 (85.71%) HP
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) SolarWinds
2 5 (71.43%) SolarWinds Orion
2 5 (71.43%) Business Development
2 5 (71.43%) F5
2 5 (71.43%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (71.43%) Juniper
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco
3 4 (57.14%) Compuware
3 4 (57.14%) Citrix
3 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 4 (57.14%) Terminal Services
3 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (57.14%) Wireshark
3 4 (57.14%) VMware
4 3 (42.86%) NetScout
4 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
4 3 (42.86%) Time Management
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Management
4 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
4 3 (42.86%) Degree
4 3 (42.86%) Nagios
4 3 (42.86%) BMC
4 3 (42.86%) CA
4 3 (42.86%) Python
4 3 (42.86%) VoIP
4 3 (42.86%) HTML

OPNET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing OPNET 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 OPNET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Wireshark
2 3 (42.86%) VoIP
3 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Consultant
2 4 (57.14%) Applications Consultant
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Analyst
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Management Consultant
3 3 (42.86%) Application Performance Analyst
3 3 (42.86%) Management Consultant
3 3 (42.86%) Analyst
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Support Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Business Development
2 3 (42.86%) Time Management
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Management
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) Perl
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
1 3 (42.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) JNCIP
3 1 (14.29%) JNCIE
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CCIE
3 1 (14.29%) CCNP
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Terminal Services
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) OpenView
2 5 (71.43%) SolarWinds Orion
3 3 (42.86%) Nagios
4 2 (28.57%) CiscoWorks
5 1 (14.29%) Tivoli
5 1 (14.29%) Netcool
5 1 (14.29%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) HP
1 6 (85.71%) SolarWinds
2 5 (71.43%) F5
2 5 (71.43%) Juniper
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco
3 4 (57.14%) Compuware
3 4 (57.14%) Citrix
3 4 (57.14%) VMware
4 3 (42.86%) NetScout
4 3 (42.86%) BMC
4 3 (42.86%) CA
5 1 (14.29%) Riverbed
5 1 (14.29%) Twitter
5 1 (14.29%) IBM
5 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
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