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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SolarWinds Orion
Rank 788 848 841
Rank change year-on-year
+60 -7
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds Orion 72 39 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.066% 0.032% 0.025%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.193% 0.680% 0.530%
Number of salaries quoted 57 37 29
Average salary £44,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.22% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,900 £35,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £58,500 £50,000 £53,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £35,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
+21.42% -7.89%
All Systems Management
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
6036 5738 5664
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 5.556% 4.735% 4.641%
Number of salaries quoted 4676 4770 4485
Average salary £45,000 £44,800 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+0.44% +5.41%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £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% -

SolarWinds Orion
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SolarWinds Orion Jobs Demand Trend

SolarWinds Orion
Salary Trend

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

SolarWinds Orion Salary Trend

SolarWinds Orion
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SolarWinds Orion over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

SolarWinds Orion Salary Histogram

SolarWinds Orion
Top 29 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds Orion within the UK 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
England +42 72 £44,000 -2.22%
London +38 30 £47,500 -
South East -3 10 £42,500 +21.42%
North West - 8 £42,500 -
East Midlands - 8 £44,000 -
Nottingham - 8 £44,000 -
Nottinghamshire - 8 £44,000 -
Cheshire - 7 £42,500 -
Macclesfield - 7 £42,500 -
West Midlands -18 6 £41,250 +3.12%
Surrey - 6 £43,875 -
South West +2 5 £50,000 +42.85%
Yorkshire -1 5 £42,500 -10.52%
West Yorkshire -3 5 £42,500 -10.52%
Leeds -8 5 £42,500 -10.52%
City of London -1 4 £52,000 +9.47%
Bath - 3 £50,000 -
Somerset - 3 £50,000 -
Staffordshire -4 2 £42,500 +6.25%
Middlesex -8 2 £42,500 +21.42%
Wiltshire - 2 £36,875 -
Burton-upon-Trent - 2 £42,500 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £41,500 -
Telford - 2 £40,000 -
Staines - 2 £57,500 -
Shropshire - 2 £40,000 -
Milton Keynes - 2 £41,500 -
Manchester - 1 - -
Salford - 1 - -

SolarWinds Orion
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing SolarWinds Orion 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 Orion.

1 166 (91.21%) SolarWinds
2 149 (81.87%) Cisco
3 98 (53.85%) Cisco Certification
4 96 (52.75%) HP
5 90 (49.45%) Firewall
6 89 (48.90%) Windows
7 85 (46.70%) CCNP
8 78 (42.86%) Cisco ASA
9 74 (40.66%) DNS
10 70 (38.46%) CheckPoint
11 64 (35.16%) VPN
12 60 (32.97%) Cisco PIX
13 59 (32.42%) BGP
14 58 (31.87%) Microsoft
15 57 (31.32%) OSPF
16 56 (30.77%) VMware
17 55 (30.22%) Wireless
17 55 (30.22%) Linux
18 53 (29.12%) CiscoWorks
19 49 (26.92%) EIGRP
20 46 (25.27%) ITIL
21 45 (24.73%) Windows Server 2008
22 43 (23.63%) TCP/IP
23 40 (21.98%) VoIP
23 40 (21.98%) TACACS
24 38 (20.88%) Network Load Balancing
25 37 (20.33%) OpenView
25 37 (20.33%) FWSM
26 35 (19.23%) LAN
27 34 (18.68%) SAN

SolarWinds Orion
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing SolarWinds Orion 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 Orion. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (3.846%) SAML
2 3 (1.648%) HTML
3 1 (0.549%) .NET
3 1 (0.549%) J2EE
3 1 (0.549%) COM
Application Platforms
1 16 (8.791%) IIS
2 15 (8.242%) MS Exchange
3 9 (4.945%) SAS
3 9 (4.945%) Exchange Server 2010
4 8 (4.396%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 7 (3.846%) Apache
5 7 (3.846%) SharePoint
5 7 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2003
5 7 (3.846%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.549%) Force.com
Applications
1 19 (10.44%) MS Excel
2 14 (7.692%) MS Office
3 7 (3.846%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.297%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 90 (49.45%) Firewall
2 78 (42.86%) Cisco ASA
3 74 (40.66%) DNS
4 64 (35.16%) VPN
5 60 (32.97%) Cisco PIX
6 59 (32.42%) BGP
7 57 (31.32%) OSPF
8 55 (30.22%) Wireless
9 49 (26.92%) EIGRP
10 43 (23.63%) TCP/IP
11 40 (21.98%) VoIP
11 40 (21.98%) TACACS
12 37 (20.33%) FWSM
13 35 (19.23%) LAN
14 34 (18.68%) SAN
15 30 (16.48%) WAN
16 29 (15.93%) Cisco Nexus
17 22 (12.09%) Cisco IOS
18 21 (11.54%) Wireshark
18 21 (11.54%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.143%) SQL Server
1 13 (7.143%) MySQL
1 13 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
1 13 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (3.297%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.297%) SQL Server 2000
3 5 (2.747%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 10 (5.495%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 6 (3.297%) Subversion
General
1 31 (17.03%) Finance
2 23 (12.64%) Banking
3 11 (6.044%) Telecoms
4 10 (5.495%) Legal
5 7 (3.846%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.297%) Billing
7 4 (2.198%) Law
8 2 (1.099%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.549%) Advertising
9 1 (0.549%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (33.52%) Network Engineer
2 39 (21.43%) Consultant
3 27 (14.84%) Network Consultant
4 26 (14.29%) Team Leader
5 25 (13.74%) Cisco Consultant
6 20 (10.99%) Cisco Network Consultant
7 19 (10.44%) Senior Network Engineer
8 15 (8.242%) Cisco Engineer
8 15 (8.242%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 15 (8.242%) Network Team Leader
9 14 (7.692%) Data Centre Engineer
10 13 (7.143%) Analyst
11 12 (6.593%) Service Manager
12 8 (4.396%) Operations Engineer
12 8 (4.396%) Data Manager
12 8 (4.396%) Data Centre Manager
12 8 (4.396%) Administrator
13 7 (3.846%) Senior Consultant
13 7 (3.846%) Senior Cisco Engineer
13 7 (3.846%) Infrastructure Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.890%) Clustering
2 14 (7.692%) EMC Centera
3 10 (5.495%) Learning Management System
4 9 (4.945%) Replication
4 9 (4.945%) Celerra
5 8 (4.396%) Blackberry
6 7 (3.846%) SaaS
7 6 (3.297%) SecurID
8 5 (2.747%) Computer Science
8 5 (2.747%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.099%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.549%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.549%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 89 (48.90%) Windows
2 55 (30.22%) Linux
3 45 (24.73%) Windows Server 2008
4 30 (16.48%) Windows Server 2003
5 27 (14.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (7.692%) HPUX
7 12 (6.593%) UNIX
8 11 (6.044%) Solaris
9 7 (3.846%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.099%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.549%) AIX
11 1 (0.549%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (25.27%) ITIL
2 38 (20.88%) Network Load Balancing
3 21 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (7.692%) Problem Management
5 11 (6.044%) Network Design
5 11 (6.044%) Time Management
5 11 (6.044%) Performance Management
5 11 (6.044%) Network Management
6 9 (4.945%) Business Continuity
7 8 (4.396%) Infrastructure Management
7 8 (4.396%) Project Management
7 8 (4.396%) Identity Management
8 7 (3.846%) Service Delivery
8 7 (3.846%) Load Balancing
8 7 (3.846%) Business Development
8 7 (3.846%) Capacity Management
8 7 (3.846%) Change Control
9 6 (3.297%) B2B
9 6 (3.297%) CRM
10 5 (2.747%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (12.64%) Perl
1 23 (12.64%) SQL
2 20 (10.99%) PHP
3 13 (7.143%) Ruby
3 13 (7.143%) PowerShell
3 13 (7.143%) Bash shell
4 10 (5.495%) VB
5 8 (4.396%) C
6 6 (3.297%) C++
7 4 (2.198%) Java
8 3 (1.648%) Python
Qualifications
1 98 (53.85%) Cisco Certification
2 85 (46.70%) CCNP
3 30 (16.48%) CCIE
4 27 (14.84%) CCNA
5 18 (9.890%) CCSA
6 17 (9.341%) MCSE
6 17 (9.341%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (8.242%) CCSP
8 14 (7.692%) CCVP
9 13 (7.143%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (7.143%) Security Cleared
10 11 (6.044%) CCDA
11 8 (4.396%) MCP
11 8 (4.396%) Avaya Certification
12 7 (3.846%) SC Cleared
12 7 (3.846%) MCITP
12 7 (3.846%) Degree
13 6 (3.297%) CCSE
14 5 (2.747%) Check Point Certification
15 3 (1.648%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (14.29%) SLA
2 8 (4.396%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (3.846%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.297%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.198%) QA
6 2 (1.099%) COBIT
System Software
1 33 (18.13%) Active Directory
2 13 (7.143%) VMware ESXi
3 11 (6.044%) ISA Server
4 10 (5.495%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (4.945%) vSphere
6 6 (3.297%) SpamAssassin
6 6 (3.297%) FreeRADIUS
6 6 (3.297%) Sendmail
6 6 (3.297%) NFS
7 3 (1.648%) Terminal Services
7 3 (1.648%) ProxySG
8 2 (1.099%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 53 (29.12%) CiscoWorks
2 37 (20.33%) OpenView
3 22 (12.09%) Cacti
4 15 (8.242%) Tivoli
4 15 (8.242%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 15 (8.242%) HP SIM
5 13 (7.143%) Control-M
5 13 (7.143%) HP Data Protector
5 13 (7.143%) Puppet
6 10 (5.495%) Nagios
7 9 (4.945%) SCCM
8 7 (3.846%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (1.099%) MOM
9 2 (1.099%) CA SiteMinder
10 1 (0.549%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.549%) Netcool
10 1 (0.549%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 1 (0.549%) WMI
10 1 (0.549%) SCOM
10 1 (0.549%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 166 (91.21%) SolarWinds
2 149 (81.87%) Cisco
3 96 (52.75%) HP
4 70 (38.46%) CheckPoint
5 58 (31.87%) Microsoft
6 56 (30.77%) VMware
7 31 (17.03%) Juniper
8 27 (14.84%) Red Hat
9 23 (12.64%) NetApp
9 23 (12.64%) F5
10 19 (10.44%) IronPort
11 15 (8.242%) Nokia
11 15 (8.242%) Sophos
12 14 (7.692%) EMC
12 14 (7.692%) Oracle
13 13 (7.143%) Avaya
14 11 (6.044%) Infoblox
15 8 (4.396%) Twitter
15 8 (4.396%) Riverbed
15 8 (4.396%) Citrix
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