The first table below looks at the demand for Cacti skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cacti over the 3 months to 24 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 for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cacti
Rank 202 184 174
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -10
Permanent jobs citing Cacti 2 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.040% 0.022% 0.048%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.608% 0.508% 0.901%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
Average salary £39,000 £40,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.50% +45.45%
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £38,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+3.24% +28.33%
All Systems Management
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
329 197 222
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 6.543% 4.322% 5.321%
Number of salaries quoted 260 158 188
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £61,400 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
Cacti
England

Cacti
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Cacti Jobs Demand Trend

Cacti
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands Cacti Salary Trend

Cacti
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Birmingham -18 1 £40,000 -
Cacti
England

Cacti
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
2 3 (75.00%) Internet
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) Symantec
3 2 (50.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) BGP
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) EMC
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Juniper
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) NetApp
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) COM
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) FTP
3 2 (50.00%) SNMP
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP

Cacti
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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 2 (50.00%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (25.00%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
2 3 (75.00%) Internet
3 2 (50.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) BGP
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) FTP
3 2 (50.00%) SNMP
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) H.323
3 2 (50.00%) VLAN
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (50.00%) DMVPN
4 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (25.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Network Management
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VBScript
2 1 (25.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) MCITP
2 1 (25.00%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) XenApp
1 2 (50.00%) XenServer
1 2 (50.00%) Forefront TMG
1 2 (50.00%) IAG
1 2 (50.00%) UAG
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (25.00%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) SCOM
2 1 (25.00%) WSUS
2 1 (25.00%) MAILsweeper
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (50.00%) Symantec
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) EMC
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) NetApp
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Knowledge of Protocol Analysers (Wireshark) Wireless LAN Controllers, IPS / IDS. Network monitoring tools (Cacti, Solarwinds, Scrutinizer) Active Directory, GPO, DNS, DHCP, Windows 2003 / 2008 servers / infrastructures... ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS:...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £28,000 to £40,000 per annum dep on exp, plus bonus & benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Microsoft Exchange 2003/ 2007/ 2010,BES & ActiveSync... Firewalls (ISA, TMG, CheckPoint, PIX, ASA, UAG/ IAG) Cisco (routers & switches) Network monitoring tools (Cacti, Solarwinds or similar) WSUS, SCCM and...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £34,000 to £42,000 per annum dep on exp, plus bonus & benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013