The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bracknell region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCOM over the 3 months to 22 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 Bracknell 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 20 22 23
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +1
Contract jobs citing SCOM 18 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 7.469% 1.961% 1.220%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.86% 15.00% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
Average daily rate £342 - £1,000
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 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+60.29% -47.69%
All Systems Management
Bracknell
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
42 20 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 17.43% 13.07% 9.146%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 4
Average daily rate £321 £350 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.28% +75.00%
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 £182.50 - £41.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
SCOM
Berkshire

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

Bracknell SCOM Daily Rate Trend

SCOM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SCOM across the Bracknell region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Bracknell SCOM Daily Rate Histogram

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 16 (66.67%) SAN
1 16 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 16 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 15 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 13 (54.17%) SQL
4 12 (50.00%) Windows
4 12 (50.00%) Xen
5 11 (45.83%) SCCM
6 10 (41.67%) Active Directory
6 10 (41.67%) Citrix
6 10 (41.67%) Configuration Management
7 9 (37.50%) Blackberry
8 8 (33.33%) VB
8 8 (33.33%) PowerShell
9 7 (29.17%) Windows XP
10 6 (25.00%) UNIX
10 6 (25.00%) MIMEsweeper
10 6 (25.00%) Release Management
11 5 (20.83%) Retail
11 5 (20.83%) Change Control
11 5 (20.83%) CA
11 5 (20.83%) Oracle
12 3 (12.50%) Opalis
12 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
12 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (12.50%) HOOD
12 3 (12.50%) VMware
12 3 (12.50%) E-Commerce
12 3 (12.50%) Linux
13 2 (8.333%) JMS

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 (8.333%) JMS
1 2 (8.333%) J2EE
1 2 (8.333%) HTML
1 2 (8.333%) EJB
1 2 (8.333%) CSS
1 2 (8.333%) JSP
1 2 (8.333%) XML
1 2 (8.333%) JSTL
1 2 (8.333%) WebSphere
1 2 (8.333%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.167%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (4.167%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.167%) SAS
1 1 (4.167%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
1 1 (4.167%) MS Office
1 1 (4.167%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 16 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (4.167%) LAN
2 1 (4.167%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.333%) DB2
2 1 (4.167%) Base SAS
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.333%) JUnit
General
1 5 (20.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Developer
1 4 (16.67%) Systems Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (12.50%) Server Engineer
3 2 (8.333%) Analyst
3 2 (8.333%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
4 1 (4.167%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (4.167%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.167%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (4.167%) Product Specialist
4 1 (4.167%) Server Analyst
4 1 (4.167%) WebSphere Developer
4 1 (4.167%) Team Leader
4 1 (4.167%) Server Support Analyst
4 1 (4.167%) Environment Manager
4 1 (4.167%) 3rd Line Server Support
4 1 (4.167%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (4.167%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (4.167%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.167%) Ontologies
2 1 (4.167%) Semantic Web
2 1 (4.167%) Informatics
2 1 (4.167%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) Windows XP
3 6 (25.00%) UNIX
4 3 (12.50%) Linux
5 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.167%) Windows 7
5 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Configuration Management
2 6 (25.00%) Release Management
3 5 (20.83%) Change Control
4 3 (12.50%) HOOD
4 3 (12.50%) E-Commerce
5 2 (8.333%) ETL
5 2 (8.333%) RAD
5 2 (8.333%) Software Testing
5 2 (8.333%) Automated Testing
5 2 (8.333%) Performance Testing
5 2 (8.333%) System Testing
6 1 (4.167%) Test Scripting
6 1 (4.167%) Information Management
6 1 (4.167%) Logistics
6 1 (4.167%) Use Case
6 1 (4.167%) PRINCE
6 1 (4.167%) Migration
6 1 (4.167%) Service Delivery
6 1 (4.167%) Project Management
6 1 (4.167%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) VB
2 8 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.333%) Java
3 2 (8.333%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 16 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.333%) CCNA
3 2 (8.333%) MCSE
3 2 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.333%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.167%) QA
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Xen
2 10 (41.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (8.333%) VMware ESX
5 1 (4.167%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) SCCM
2 6 (25.00%) MIMEsweeper
3 3 (12.50%) Opalis
Vendors
1 15 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (41.67%) Citrix
3 5 (20.83%) CA
3 5 (20.83%) Oracle
4 3 (12.50%) VMware
5 2 (8.333%) Adobe
5 2 (8.333%) IBM
Bracknell, Berkshire
Located in Bracknell, you will play a key role as a Business Systems Analyst in their Ecommerce Systems Team... You will be responsible for documenting the business requirements...
s-com
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bracknell, Berkshire
You will also be responsible for preparing the requirements specification using the RUP techniques of Business Process Modelling, Use Case Modelling, Data Modelling, UI Specification as well as...
s-com
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013