The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCOM 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 Bristol 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SCOM 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.581% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 9.375% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £355 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £357
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -1.96%
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
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
32 49 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 6.202% 5.861% 6.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 27 16
Average daily rate £320 £288 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.30% -23.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £235 £269
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £327 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
Average hourly rate £9.50 £18.50 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.64% -49.31%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
SCOM
South West

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol 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 Bristol region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Bristol SCOM Daily Rate Histogram

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) SCCM
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (50.00%) vSphere
3 2 (50.00%) EqualLogic
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) CommVault
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) Clustering
3 2 (50.00%) PKI
3 2 (50.00%) Dell
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (50.00%) SonicWALL
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (25.00%) XenApp
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) EqualLogic
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) vSphere
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) XenApp
3 1 (25.00%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) CommVault
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) SonicWALL
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Symantec
3 1 (25.00%) McAfee
3 1 (25.00%) HP
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