The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SolarWinds over the 3 months to 18 June 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 currently tracked.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within SolarWinds.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SolarWinds
Rank 621 699 798
Rank change year-on-year
+78 +99
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 257 204 97
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.233% 0.170% 0.075%
As % of the Vendors category 0.486% 0.356% 0.160%
Number of salaries quoted 227 182 95
Average salary £42,000 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,200 £27,800 £27,700
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,900 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £37,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-2.66% +15.38%
All Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
52856 57310 60604
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 47.91% 47.69% 47.09%
Number of salaries quoted 43357 48290 50506
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000

SolarWinds
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SolarWinds Jobs Demand Trend

SolarWinds
Salary Trend

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

SolarWinds Salary Trend

SolarWinds
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SolarWinds over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 within the UK.

SolarWinds Salary Histogram

SolarWinds
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +75 247 £41,000 -3.52% 21
London +35 108 £46,000 +8.23% 6
South East -12 42 £39,000 -13.33% 4
East of England +32 33 £35,750 -7.14% 2
North West +22 19 £35,000 -9.67% 1
City of London -24 18 £46,000 +31.42%
Hertfordshire - 15 £35,000 -
West Midlands -4 14 £34,360 +43.16% 2
Essex +28 13 £32,500 +30.00% 2
South West +12 12 £27,500 -21.42% 3
Surrey -2 12 £51,250 -10.86% 1
Cheshire - 12 £37,250 -
Hampshire - 12 £35,000 - 2
Hemel Hempstead - 12 £35,750 -
East Midlands +6 9 £44,000 -12.00% 1
Leeds -2 9 £42,500 -10.52% 2
Yorkshire -3 9 £42,500 +25.92% 2
West Yorkshire -6 9 £42,500 -10.52% 2
West Sussex -13 9 £35,250 -21.66%
Macclesfield - 9 £45,000 -
Nottinghamshire +6 8 £44,000 -12.00% 1
Nottingham 0 8 £44,000 -12.00% 1
Cirencester - 8 £27,500 - 1
Gloucestershire - 8 £27,500 - 1
Buckinghamshire -8 7 £42,000 +86.66%
Farnborough - 7 £35,000 - 1
Canary Wharf +6 6 £31,500 -3.07%
Milton Keynes -15 6 £41,500 +84.44%
Wales - 5 £47,500 - 1
South Wales - 5 £47,500 - 1

SolarWinds
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 365 (66.48%) Cisco
2 262 (47.72%) Windows
3 242 (44.08%) Firewall
4 240 (43.72%) Cisco Certification
5 191 (34.79%) VMware
6 171 (31.15%) DNS
7 170 (30.97%) LAN
8 166 (30.24%) WAN
8 166 (30.24%) ITIL
9 158 (28.78%) Microsoft
10 154 (28.05%) CCNP
11 151 (27.50%) HP
12 147 (26.78%) VPN
13 145 (26.41%) Windows Server 2008
14 142 (25.87%) Active Directory
15 141 (25.68%) SolarWinds Orion
16 137 (24.95%) Linux
17 136 (24.77%) CCNA
17 136 (24.77%) Cisco ASA
18 120 (21.86%) Wireless
19 119 (21.68%) Windows Server 2003
20 107 (19.49%) CheckPoint
20 107 (19.49%) BGP
21 106 (19.31%) TCP/IP
21 106 (19.31%) CiscoWorks
22 99 (18.03%) Finance
22 99 (18.03%) VoIP
23 98 (17.85%) MPLS
23 98 (17.85%) OSPF
24 95 (17.30%) Nagios

SolarWinds
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 27 (4.918%) .NET
2 18 (3.279%) XML
3 8 (1.457%) Rendezvous
4 7 (1.275%) SAML
5 5 (0.911%) J2EE
5 5 (0.911%) HTML5
6 4 (0.729%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (0.546%) Middleware
7 3 (0.546%) HTML
7 3 (0.546%) Web Services
8 2 (0.364%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.364%) LAMP
9 1 (0.182%) Application Packaging
9 1 (0.182%) COM
9 1 (0.182%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 61 (11.11%) MS Exchange
2 42 (7.650%) Apache
3 41 (7.468%) Exchange Server 2010
4 39 (7.104%) IIS
4 39 (7.104%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 33 (6.011%) SharePoint
6 24 (4.372%) Exchange Server 2003
7 19 (3.461%) Exchange Server 2007
8 15 (2.732%) Tomcat
9 9 (1.639%) SharePoint Server
10 6 (1.093%) SAS
11 4 (0.729%) Confluence
12 2 (0.364%) DotNetNuke
12 2 (0.364%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.364%) WordPress
12 2 (0.364%) CMS
12 2 (0.364%) Lync
13 1 (0.182%) Force.com
13 1 (0.182%) Windows Azure
13 1 (0.182%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 73 (13.30%) MS Excel
2 22 (4.007%) MS Office
3 18 (3.279%) MS Visio
4 12 (2.186%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (1.457%) RMDS
2 6 (1.093%) assyst
3 4 (0.729%) AWD
4 2 (0.364%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.182%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 242 (44.08%) Firewall
2 171 (31.15%) DNS
3 170 (30.97%) LAN
4 166 (30.24%) WAN
5 147 (26.78%) VPN
6 136 (24.77%) Cisco ASA
7 120 (21.86%) Wireless
8 107 (19.49%) BGP
9 106 (19.31%) TCP/IP
10 99 (18.03%) VoIP
11 98 (17.85%) MPLS
11 98 (17.85%) OSPF
12 89 (16.21%) SAN
13 86 (15.66%) DHCP
14 82 (14.94%) EIGRP
15 69 (12.57%) Cisco IOS
16 67 (12.20%) Cisco Nexus
17 66 (12.02%) Cisco PIX
18 55 (10.02%) FWSM
19 54 (9.836%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (12.93%) MySQL
2 67 (12.20%) SQL Server
3 20 (3.643%) Informix
4 18 (3.279%) SQL Server 2008
5 15 (2.732%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (2.550%) TOAD
7 13 (2.368%) SQL Server 2005
8 10 (1.821%) Crystal Reports
9 7 (1.275%) Oracle 8/8i
10 5 (0.911%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.182%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.182%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 13 (2.368%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 6 (1.093%) Subversion
3 4 (0.729%) JIRA
4 3 (0.546%) Git (software)
4 3 (0.546%) ClearCase
4 3 (0.546%) ClearQuest
General
1 99 (18.03%) Finance
2 34 (6.193%) Banking
3 30 (5.464%) Law
4 28 (5.100%) Telecoms
5 11 (2.004%) Local Government
6 9 (1.639%) Games
7 8 (1.457%) Retail
7 8 (1.457%) Back Office
8 7 (1.275%) Legal
8 7 (1.275%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.093%) Billing
9 6 (1.093%) Marketing
10 5 (0.911%) Advertising
11 4 (0.729%) Publishing
12 2 (0.364%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.182%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.182%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 136 (24.77%) Network Engineer
2 102 (18.58%) Analyst
3 53 (9.654%) Support Engineer
4 47 (8.561%) Network Analyst
5 44 (8.015%) Administrator
6 43 (7.832%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 35 (6.375%) Consultant
8 34 (6.193%) Systems Administrator
9 32 (5.829%) Team Leader
9 32 (5.829%) Network Support
10 30 (5.464%) Senior Network Engineer
11 26 (4.736%) Service Manager
12 25 (4.554%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 24 (4.372%) Network Consultant
13 24 (4.372%) Network Support Engineer
13 24 (4.372%) Server Engineer
13 24 (4.372%) Operations Analyst
14 23 (4.189%) Cisco Engineer
14 23 (4.189%) Network Manager
15 22 (4.007%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.918%) Replication
2 23 (4.189%) Clustering
3 22 (4.007%) Blackberry
4 18 (3.279%) EMC Centera
5 16 (2.914%) Video Conferencing
6 15 (2.732%) Computer Science
7 14 (2.550%) Celerra
8 12 (2.186%) SaaS
8 12 (2.186%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.821%) SecurID
9 10 (1.821%) Learning Management System
9 10 (1.821%) Open Source
10 8 (1.457%) Statistics
11 7 (1.275%) AS400
11 7 (1.275%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.093%) IaaS
13 5 (0.911%) iSeries
13 5 (0.911%) CMDB
14 4 (0.729%) CLARiiON
14 4 (0.729%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 262 (47.72%) Windows
2 145 (26.41%) Windows Server 2008
3 137 (24.95%) Linux
4 119 (21.68%) Windows Server 2003
5 63 (11.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 56 (10.20%) UNIX
7 39 (7.104%) Windows 7
8 31 (5.647%) Solaris
9 22 (4.007%) HPUX
10 12 (2.186%) Ubuntu
10 12 (2.186%) CentOS
11 10 (1.821%) Apple iOS
11 10 (1.821%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (1.821%) Windows XP
11 10 (1.821%) Android
12 9 (1.639%) Windows 2000
13 4 (0.729%) Windows Vista
14 3 (0.546%) FreeBSD
14 3 (0.546%) Tru64
15 2 (0.364%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (30.24%) ITIL
2 82 (14.94%) Network Management
3 51 (9.290%) Change Management
4 50 (9.107%) Project Management
5 37 (6.740%) Network Load Balancing
6 33 (6.011%) Disaster Recovery
7 32 (5.829%) Time Management
8 31 (5.647%) Load Balancing
9 27 (4.918%) Service Delivery
9 27 (4.918%) Network Design
10 26 (4.736%) Problem Management
11 24 (4.372%) Capacity Planning
12 18 (3.279%) Change Control
12 18 (3.279%) Performance Management
12 18 (3.279%) Incident Management
12 18 (3.279%) Agile Software Development
13 15 (2.732%) Migration
13 15 (2.732%) PRINCE
13 15 (2.732%) Fault Management
14 14 (2.550%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 95 (17.30%) SQL
2 56 (10.20%) PowerShell
3 48 (8.743%) Perl
4 38 (6.922%) PHP
5 31 (5.647%) Python
6 30 (5.464%) Ruby
7 25 (4.554%) Java
8 20 (3.643%) C
9 14 (2.550%) Bash shell
10 10 (1.821%) VB
11 7 (1.275%) VBScript
12 6 (1.093%) C++
12 6 (1.093%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 240 (43.72%) Cisco Certification
2 154 (28.05%) CCNP
3 136 (24.77%) CCNA
4 44 (8.015%) Microsoft Certification
5 42 (7.650%) MCSE
6 39 (7.104%) ITIL Certification
7 38 (6.922%) CCIE
8 29 (5.282%) MCITP
9 26 (4.736%) Security Cleared
10 21 (3.825%) Degree
11 19 (3.461%) CCDP
12 18 (3.279%) CCVP
13 13 (2.368%) CCIP
14 11 (2.004%) CCSP
15 10 (1.821%) CCSA
16 9 (1.639%) MCP
17 8 (1.457%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 8 (1.457%) Avaya Certification
17 8 (1.457%) SC Cleared
18 6 (1.093%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.743%) SLA
2 7 (1.275%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.093%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (0.729%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.546%) QA
6 1 (0.182%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 142 (25.87%) Active Directory
2 86 (15.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (12.39%) vSphere
4 33 (6.011%) VMware ESX
5 32 (5.829%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (4.918%) XenApp
7 17 (3.097%) ISA Server
8 12 (2.186%) Sendmail
9 9 (1.639%) Terminal Services
10 6 (1.093%) VMware Server
10 6 (1.093%) Postfix
10 6 (1.093%) NFS
10 6 (1.093%) XenServer
10 6 (1.093%) SpamAssassin
10 6 (1.093%) FreeRADIUS
11 5 (0.911%) DFS Replication
11 5 (0.911%) Hyper-V
11 5 (0.911%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 4 (0.729%) Terminal Server
13 3 (0.546%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 141 (25.68%) SolarWinds Orion
2 106 (19.31%) CiscoWorks
3 95 (17.30%) Nagios
4 55 (10.02%) OpenView
5 41 (7.468%) SCCM
6 33 (6.011%) Tivoli
6 33 (6.011%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 30 (5.464%) WSUS
7 30 (5.464%) Puppet
8 28 (5.100%) Backup Exec
9 23 (4.189%) HP SIM
9 23 (4.189%) HP Data Protector
10 22 (4.007%) Opalis
10 22 (4.007%) AppManager
11 17 (3.097%) Control-M
12 16 (2.914%) Norton AntiVirus
13 15 (2.732%) Netcool
14 14 (2.550%) NetBackup
15 13 (2.368%) Cacti
15 13 (2.368%) SCOM
Vendors
1 365 (66.48%) Cisco
2 191 (34.79%) VMware
3 158 (28.78%) Microsoft
4 151 (27.50%) HP
5 107 (19.49%) CheckPoint
6 88 (16.03%) Juniper
7 76 (13.84%) Red Hat
8 64 (11.66%) NetApp
9 59 (10.75%) Citrix
10 48 (8.743%) Oracle
11 44 (8.015%) F5
12 34 (6.193%) Symantec
13 28 (5.100%) Avaya
14 27 (4.918%) EMC
15 26 (4.736%) Infoblox
16 22 (4.007%) NetIQ
16 22 (4.007%) Sophos
17 20 (3.643%) Sybase
17 20 (3.643%) Riverbed
18 16 (2.914%) Aruba
Leeds, West Yorkshire
You must have extensive experience in developing the existing infrastructure you are working, ensuring the network is ruining as efficiently as possible, maintaining the security of the network...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £30000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Cirencester, Gloucestershire
SQL. CCNA. Desirable SolarWinds. About the role You will be working in a customer facing role on projects for major blue chip customers. Demonstrable understanding of networking products,...
Verelogic IT Recruitment
Salary: £20000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Cheadle, Cheshire
Experience with firewall platforms (fortigate, cisco, netscreen and checkpoint) Experience with user remote access technology (we use Juniper SSL VPN)... Experience in setting up and troubleshooting VPNs (Cisco...
BMI
Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Network design of WAN, IP, MPLS, LAN and Security solutions. Application of CCIP/CCNP level troubleshooting and diagnostics of networking issues. Deliver standard solutions basic BGP; HSRP and...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Health, Pension, 20% Bonus
Posted: 13 June 2013
Essex
Skills/ experience required for this role; Cisco Nexus command line configuration skills. Experience configuring and supporting various firewalls including but not limited to PIX, FWSM, Juniper Netscreens, Palo...
Logic Engagements Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
E-Resourcing
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + 8% bonus + bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + BENEFITS
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
RDF Resources
Salary: £48000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Essex
Logic Engagements Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + over time
Posted: 12 June 2013
Woking, Surrey
Fidessa
Salary: Highly Competitive
Posted: 13 June 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £28,000 to £40,000 per annum dep on exp, plus bonus & benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Canterbury, South East
Sand Resources
Salary: £30000 - £38000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Roc Search
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Roc Search
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + pension, healthcare, 25 days.
Posted: 13 June 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £34,000 to £42,000 per annum dep on exp, plus bonus & benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Wiltshire, South West
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £40000.00 - £55000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Wiltshire
Capita Resourcing - Jobs at Capita
Salary: £40000.00 - £55000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
capital one
Salary: Excellent
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Roc Search
Salary: £37000 - £47000 per annum + benefit
Posted: 17 June 2013
Farnborough, Hampshire
Peopleworks
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
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