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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cacti
Rank 761 767 787
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +20
Permanent jobs citing Cacti 103 133 83
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.095% 0.108% 0.068%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.691% 2.286% 1.464%
Number of salaries quoted 86 115 78
Average salary £50,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £25,332 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £58,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,875 £34,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+12.68% +15.00%
All Systems Management
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
6090 5818 5671
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 5.599% 4.744% 4.639%
Number of salaries quoted 4719 4834 4487
Average salary £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.27% +3.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,275 £29,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £61,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -

Cacti
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Cacti within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Cacti Jobs Demand Trend

Cacti
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Cacti within the UK.

Cacti Salary Trend

Cacti
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Cacti over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

Cacti Salary Histogram

Cacti
Top 28 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cacti within the UK 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
England +14 101 £50,000 +25.00%
London +35 74 £51,500 +21.17%
City of London +27 20 £50,000 +11.11%
East of England +20 12 £39,750 -20.50%
Cambridge - 8 £38,625 -
Cambridgeshire - 8 £38,625 -
South East -4 7 £47,500 +58.33%
West Yorkshire 0 5 £30,000 -25.00%
Leeds -3 5 £30,000 -36.84%
Yorkshire -10 5 £30,000 -25.00%
Osterley - 5 - -
Hertfordshire - 4 £47,500 -
Surrey +15 3 £47,500 +18.75%
Middlesex -2 3 - -
Hemel Hempstead - 3 £47,500 -
Guildford - 3 £47,500 -
Uxbridge +2 2 £40,000 +6.66%
West Midlands -8 2 £39,000 -2.50%
Berkshire -1 1 - -
Scotland -6 1 £32,500 +30.00%
Birmingham -12 1 £40,000 -
North West - 1 - -
Fife - 1 £32,500 -
Kirkcaldy - 1 £32,500 -
St Albans - 1 - -
Salford - 1 - -
Reading - 1 - -
Manchester - 1 - -

Cacti
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Cacti 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 Cacti.

1 164 (84.54%) Linux
2 144 (74.23%) Nagios
3 101 (52.06%) Perl
4 86 (44.33%) Puppet
5 84 (43.30%) MySQL
6 81 (41.75%) Windows
7 76 (39.18%) DNS
8 72 (37.11%) Apache
9 63 (32.47%) Python
9 63 (32.47%) Firewall
9 63 (32.47%) Bash shell
10 61 (31.44%) Cisco
11 58 (29.90%) Red Hat
12 55 (28.35%) VMware
13 54 (27.84%) Open Source
14 49 (25.26%) LAMP
14 49 (25.26%) HP
15 46 (23.71%) PHP
15 46 (23.71%) VMware Infrastructure
16 42 (21.65%) Degree
16 42 (21.65%) SAN
16 42 (21.65%) CentOS
17 41 (21.13%) Ruby
17 41 (21.13%) Debian
18 40 (20.62%) Microsoft
19 38 (19.59%) NFS
19 38 (19.59%) VoIP
19 38 (19.59%) DHCP
20 37 (19.07%) Ubuntu
21 36 (18.56%) SQL

Cacti
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Cacti 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 Cacti. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 49 (25.26%) LAMP
2 13 (6.701%) XML
3 10 (5.155%) WebSphere
4 8 (4.124%) HTML5
4 8 (4.124%) jQuery
4 8 (4.124%) CSS
4 8 (4.124%) Web Services
4 8 (4.124%) HTML
4 8 (4.124%) JSON
5 7 (3.608%) J2EE
5 7 (3.608%) Memcached
6 6 (3.093%) Middleware
7 5 (2.577%) ASP
7 5 (2.577%) DCOM
8 4 (2.062%) JMS
8 4 (2.062%) JMX
9 3 (1.546%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.546%) COM
Application Platforms
1 72 (37.11%) Apache
2 35 (18.04%) nginx
3 30 (15.46%) MS Exchange
4 18 (9.278%) Exchange Server 2010
5 16 (8.247%) Tomcat
6 15 (7.732%) IIS
7 9 (4.639%) SAS
7 9 (4.639%) Lotus Notes
7 9 (4.639%) WebSphere Application Server
7 9 (4.639%) IBM Connections
8 6 (3.093%) Moodle
8 6 (3.093%) WordPress
8 6 (3.093%) Magento
8 6 (3.093%) SharePoint
8 6 (3.093%) Joomla!
9 4 (2.062%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.546%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (1.546%) Exchange Server 2003
11 2 (1.031%) Lync
11 2 (1.031%) Confluence
Applications
1 27 (13.92%) MS Excel
2 13 (6.701%) MS Office
3 8 (4.124%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.093%) assyst
2 1 (0.515%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 76 (39.18%) DNS
2 63 (32.47%) Firewall
3 42 (21.65%) SAN
4 38 (19.59%) VoIP
4 38 (19.59%) DHCP
5 34 (17.53%) TCP/IP
5 34 (17.53%) OSPF
6 33 (17.01%) SNMP
7 31 (15.98%) iSCSI
8 27 (13.92%) VPN
9 25 (12.89%) BGP
9 25 (12.89%) VLAN
10 24 (12.37%) Cisco PIX
10 24 (12.37%) SMTP
11 23 (11.86%) WAN
12 21 (10.82%) LAN
13 20 (10.31%) Cisco ASA
14 18 (9.278%) IMAP
14 18 (9.278%) MRTG
15 17 (8.763%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (43.30%) MySQL
2 14 (7.216%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.216%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.124%) Big Data
3 8 (4.124%) RDBMS
4 7 (3.608%) Sybase ASE
4 7 (3.608%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.608%) Riak
5 6 (3.093%) DB2
6 5 (2.577%) ObjectStore
7 4 (2.062%) Amazon DynamoDB
7 4 (2.062%) SQL Server 2008
7 4 (2.062%) SQL Server 2005
8 3 (1.546%) SQL Server 2000
9 1 (0.515%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.515%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.515%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (11.34%) Subversion
2 15 (7.732%) Git (software)
3 5 (2.577%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.546%) JIRA
4 3 (1.546%) Bazaar
4 3 (1.546%) Hudson
5 1 (0.515%) SVK
5 1 (0.515%) Trac
General
1 32 (16.49%) Finance
2 15 (7.732%) Telecoms
3 12 (6.186%) Music
4 6 (3.093%) Billing
5 4 (2.062%) Games
6 2 (1.031%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 78 (40.21%) Administrator
2 74 (38.14%) Systems Administrator
3 49 (25.26%) Linux Administrator
4 45 (23.20%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 30 (15.46%) Network Engineer
6 23 (11.86%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 16 (8.247%) Systems Engineer
8 15 (7.732%) Cisco Engineer
9 13 (6.701%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 12 (6.186%) Developer
11 11 (5.670%) Linux Engineer
11 11 (5.670%) Systems Manager
11 11 (5.670%) Wintel Engineer
12 9 (4.639%) Exchange Engineer
12 9 (4.639%) Applications Support
13 8 (4.124%) Senior Network Engineer
13 8 (4.124%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
13 8 (4.124%) Senior Cisco Engineer
14 7 (3.608%) Operations Manager
15 6 (3.093%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 54 (27.84%) Open Source
2 22 (11.34%) Clustering
3 18 (9.278%) Computer Science
3 18 (9.278%) EqualLogic
4 15 (7.732%) Hedge funds
5 10 (5.155%) Streaming Media
6 9 (4.639%) Enterprise Storage
7 8 (4.124%) Replication
7 8 (4.124%) Streaming Music
7 8 (4.124%) Mathematics
8 5 (2.577%) SecurID
9 4 (2.062%) Grid Computing
10 2 (1.031%) IPTV
10 2 (1.031%) CMDB
11 1 (0.515%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.515%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 164 (84.54%) Linux
2 81 (41.75%) Windows
3 42 (21.65%) CentOS
4 41 (21.13%) Debian
5 37 (19.07%) Ubuntu
6 24 (12.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (12.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 24 (12.37%) Windows Server 2003
7 23 (11.86%) FreeBSD
8 19 (9.794%) UNIX
9 18 (9.278%) Windows 7
10 15 (7.732%) Solaris
11 7 (3.608%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (3.093%) Windows NT
13 5 (2.577%) Windows 2000
14 3 (1.546%) Fedora
15 2 (1.031%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.515%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (13.92%) Configuration Management
2 26 (13.40%) ITIL
3 25 (12.89%) Load Balancing
3 25 (12.89%) Root Cause Analysis
4 20 (10.31%) Time Management
5 18 (9.278%) Network Design
6 13 (6.701%) Project Management
7 11 (5.670%) Change Control
8 10 (5.155%) Release Management
8 10 (5.155%) Service Management
9 9 (4.639%) Infrastructure Management
10 8 (4.124%) Analytics
10 8 (4.124%) Network Management
10 8 (4.124%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (4.124%) Web Development
11 7 (3.608%) Network Planning
11 7 (3.608%) Change Management
11 7 (3.608%) Risk Analysis
12 5 (2.577%) Statistical Analysis
12 5 (2.577%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 101 (52.06%) Perl
2 63 (32.47%) Python
2 63 (32.47%) Bash shell
3 46 (23.71%) PHP
4 41 (21.13%) Ruby
5 36 (18.56%) SQL
6 31 (15.98%) PowerShell
7 29 (14.95%) Java
8 25 (12.89%) AWK
9 23 (11.86%) sed
10 16 (8.247%) VBScript
11 15 (7.732%) C
12 10 (5.155%) Shell Script
13 8 (4.124%) C#
13 8 (4.124%) JavaScript
13 8 (4.124%) Objective-C
14 7 (3.608%) C++
14 7 (3.608%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.515%) VB
Qualifications
1 42 (21.65%) Degree
2 21 (10.82%) RHCE
3 19 (9.794%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (7.216%) CCNP
5 12 (6.186%) CCSP
6 5 (2.577%) Check Point Certification
7 3 (1.546%) CCNA
7 3 (1.546%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.546%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.031%) CCIE
8 2 (1.031%) MCITP
8 2 (1.031%) MCTS
9 1 (0.515%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.763%) SLA
2 9 (4.639%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.515%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 46 (23.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (19.59%) NFS
3 32 (16.49%) Active Directory
4 16 (8.247%) VMware ESX
5 14 (7.216%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 14 (7.216%) Sendmail
5 14 (7.216%) Xen
6 13 (6.701%) Varnish
7 10 (5.155%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (4.639%) Samba
9 8 (4.124%) vSphere
10 7 (3.608%) VirtualBox
10 7 (3.608%) SpamAssassin
11 6 (3.093%) FreeRADIUS
12 5 (2.577%) XenApp
13 4 (2.062%) UAG
13 4 (2.062%) XenServer
13 4 (2.062%) Hyper-V
14 3 (1.546%) Forefront TMG
14 3 (1.546%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 144 (74.23%) Nagios
2 86 (44.33%) Puppet
3 33 (17.01%) Munin
4 25 (12.89%) OpenView
5 22 (11.34%) SolarWinds Orion
6 21 (10.82%) Zenoss
7 14 (7.216%) OpenNMS
8 12 (6.186%) ZABBIX
9 11 (5.670%) WSUS
9 11 (5.670%) Tivoli
10 9 (4.639%) CiscoWorks
10 9 (4.639%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 9 (4.639%) SCOM
10 9 (4.639%) WhatsUp Gold
11 8 (4.124%) Cisco CUCM
11 8 (4.124%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
11 8 (4.124%) HP SIM
12 7 (3.608%) YUM
12 7 (3.608%) Cobbler
13 6 (3.093%) SCCM
Vendors
1 61 (31.44%) Cisco
2 58 (29.90%) Red Hat
3 55 (28.35%) VMware
4 49 (25.26%) HP
5 40 (20.62%) Microsoft
6 22 (11.34%) Juniper
7 21 (10.82%) Oracle
8 19 (9.794%) SolarWinds
9 18 (9.278%) NetApp
10 13 (6.701%) CheckPoint
11 11 (5.670%) IBM
12 10 (5.155%) Citrix
13 9 (4.639%) Lotus
13 9 (4.639%) Symantec
13 9 (4.639%) JBoss
14 8 (4.124%) Dell
15 7 (3.608%) Sybase
16 5 (2.577%) WatchGuard
16 5 (2.577%) EMC
16 5 (2.577%) ProCurve
London
You will preferably be strong in the Red Hat, Ubuntu or Debian, web servers (Apache, NGINX), Database (MySQL), Scripting (Python, Perl) & Puppet. KeySkills: 1.Ubuntu / Red Hat / Debian...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £50000.00 - £53000.00 per annum + Great Bens!
Posted: 17 May 2013
East London
We work within an ITIL framework including stringent change control processes... Core OSs we support are; Red Hat. CentOS. AIX. VMWare. Exposure to the following tools useful; Nagios...
Coral Racing Ltd
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 2 May 2013
London
You will have at least 8 years experience with RHEL (Redhat), CentOS, Debian, Susse or any other Linux Distribution... You will have experience of KVM (Kernel), XEN Virtualisation...
Gregory James
Salary: £50000 to £60000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Experience and understanding of networking, load balancing and DNS... * Comfortable with scripting in any of the following: Bash, PHP, sed, awk, Perl, Python and Ruby * MySQL or other...
Opilio Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - 55000 Per Annum +Very competitive benefits package
Posted: 20 May 2013
Surrey
Core OSs we support are; - Red Hat - CentOS - AIX - VMWare - Slackware - Debian Exposure to the following tools; - Nagios - Cacti - Splunk - Check_Mk - Puppet - Spacewalk - Apache - Wiki Skills required; - Full...
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £45,000 to £60,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Key Skills: -Linux / LAMP (RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu) -Puppet, Zabbix, Cacti, Nagios -Cloud / Virtualisation - VMware, AWS, RackSpace (including migrations) -Agile -iSCSI, NFS, Zoning -Scripting -Design & Architecture experience If...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £50000.00 - £60000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Due to continued growth and scaling of the high availability web environment, a Linux Systems Engineering Manager is required to join the business... The successful Linux Systems Engineering...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £65000.00 - £75000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Installing, configuring and maintaining LINUX (Redhat) servers... CentOS/RHEL... or XEN... Open Source monitoring tools such as Nagios, Zenoss, Cacti and Munin... , samba, Apache, Samba, Sendmail, OpenLDAP, BIND/...
KV Recruitment
Salary: £1 - £2 per annum + Salary + Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
City of London
Ideal Skill Set: Extensive Windows Engineering experience across OS, server, active directory etc Strong Powershell/perl scripting/automation PXE, DHCP, DNS Patching and Monitoring (eg Cacti) Other desirables...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + Strong Hedgefund Bonus (£100K+ TC)
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
My market leading social networking client is looking for a strong leader to head the Ops team, this fantastic role is very much for a leader, not a "...
Resource Partners Limited
Salary: £75000 - £80001 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
The Network Engineer (Cisco Routers/Switches 6500+, Data Centre) will work in an environment where the vendor of choice is Cisco, although we are always looking at best...
Streamline Connections
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
The Network Engineer (Cisco Routers/Switches 6500+, Data Centre) will work in an environment where the vendor of choice is Cisco, although we are always looking at best...
Streamline IT Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
West London
Apache, Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, mod_perl, JVM. Bash, Perl. Sybase (ASE and RepServer), MySQL, Mongo, Memcached, Riak. Puppet, DHCP, PXE, Kickstart (Cobbler) Heartbeat, LVS. Yum, RPMs... SATA, iSCSI. Nagios,...
Moonfruit
Salary: £50000 - £80000 per annum + Exc Bens
Posted: 15 May 2013
Middlesex
Using various Open Source toolsets and technologies such as Nagios, Apache, Linux, MySQL, PHP & Perl... Knowledge in one or more of: Perl, PHP, SED, AWK, Java, XML, JSON,...
Sky
Salary: Sky Benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
Middlesex, South East
Using various Open Source toolsets and technologies such as Nagios, Apache, Linux, MySQL, PHP & Perl Using enterprise monitoring technologies such as HP SIM, OEM, HP Operations Manager & SCOM...
British Sky Broadcasting
Salary: Sky Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Alness, Ross-Shire
Correlation and Analytics... Log Analytics. Incident & Change Management... ASP.NET MVC development... SNMP, JMX, WMI... Cacti, Nagios, Net-SNMP, RRD) Familiarity with open source configuration management tools (e...
Pentasia Ltd
Salary: From £0 to £0 per annum Flexible
Posted: 20 May 2013