The first table below looks at the demand for ServiceCenter skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ServiceCenter over the 3 months to 20 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 Birmingham 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP OpenView ServiceCenter (formerly Peregrine ServiceCenter)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing ServiceCenter 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - -
As % of the Systems Management category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £344 £240
% change year-on-year
- +43.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.11 - £41.60
All Systems Management
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
15 28 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 3.363% 4.509% 5.102%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 16
Average daily rate £315 £293 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -2.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £177 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £352 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £13.50 £17.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.85% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
ServiceCenter
West Midlands

ServiceCenter
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham ServiceCenter Jobs Demand Trend

ServiceCenter
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing ServiceCenter 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 ServiceCenter.

1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Remote Control
1 1 (100.00%) BMC PATROL
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared

ServiceCenter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing ServiceCenter 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 ServiceCenter. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Specialist
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Remote Control
1 1 (100.00%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BMC