The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCOM over the 3 months to 17 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 Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 25 35 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing SCOM 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 2.703% 0.355% -
As % of the Systems Management category 29.41% 10.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
Average daily rate £325 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £364
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -3.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.25 £17.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+60.29% -51.42%
All Systems Management
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
17 10 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 9.189% 3.546% 6.122%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 8
Average daily rate £325 £320 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% +60.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £256 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £384 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £17.50 - £10.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
SCOM
East of England

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SCOM across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Bedfordshire SCOM Jobs Demand Trend

SCOM
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SCOM across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire SCOM Daily Rate Trend

SCOM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton - 5 £325 -
SCOM
East of England

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SCOM 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited SCOM.

1 6 (75.00%) IIS
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (75.00%) DHCP
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
2 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
2 5 (62.50%) FTP
2 5 (62.50%) ITIL
2 5 (62.50%) Publishing
2 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (62.50%) MS Excel
2 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (25.00%) COM
3 2 (25.00%) HTTP
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) SLA
4 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) MS Project
4 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
4 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
4 1 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (12.50%) SAN

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SCOM also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SCOM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (25.00%) COM
Application Platforms
1 6 (75.00%) IIS
2 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) MS Excel
2 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (12.50%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
1 6 (75.00%) DHCP
2 5 (62.50%) FTP
3 2 (25.00%) HTTP
4 1 (12.50%) SAN
4 1 (12.50%) DMZ
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall
General
1 5 (62.50%) Publishing
2 1 (12.50%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) ITIL
1 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (12.50%) NetBackup
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) SCVMM
1 1 (12.50%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) Symantec
2 1 (12.50%) VMware