The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire 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 55 68 69
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +1
Contract jobs citing SCOM 14 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 1.724% 0.499% 0.473%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.42% 4.950% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
Average daily rate £325 £251 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.74% +16.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £251 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £393 £251 £218
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
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
76 101 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 9.360% 10.07% 4.348%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 43 16
Average daily rate £288 £300 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.16% +39.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £168 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £325 £352
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 1
Average hourly rate £27.00 £47.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.15% +126.19%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
SCOM
South East

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire SCOM Daily Rate Histogram

SCOM
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SCOM across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire SCOM Hourly 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Milton Keynes +16 14 £325 +29.74%
SCOM
South East

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 10 (52.63%) Windows
3 9 (47.37%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
4 8 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (42.11%) ITIL
4 8 (42.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (42.11%) Clustering
4 8 (42.11%) VMware
5 7 (36.84%) VMware ESX
5 7 (36.84%) Citrix
5 7 (36.84%) SCCM
5 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
6 6 (31.58%) Opalis
6 6 (31.58%) Windows 2000 Server
6 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
6 6 (31.58%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (26.32%) Finance
7 5 (26.32%) MS Excel
7 5 (26.32%) Windows NT
7 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
8 4 (21.05%) BladeLogic
8 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (21.05%) Spanish Language
8 4 (21.05%) IIS
8 4 (21.05%) MCSE
8 4 (21.05%) MS Exchange
8 4 (21.05%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (21.05%) ISA Server
8 4 (21.05%) Terminal Services

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (10.53%) .NET Framework
1 2 (10.53%) XML
1 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 1 (5.263%) SOAP
2 1 (5.263%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 6 (31.58%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (21.05%) IIS
2 4 (21.05%) MS Exchange
3 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
3 3 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (10.53%) Lync
5 1 (5.263%) CMS
5 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (5.263%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) SAN
1 3 (15.79%) NAS
2 1 (5.263%) Internet
2 1 (5.263%) Firewall
2 1 (5.263%) Broadband
2 1 (5.263%) SMTP
2 1 (5.263%) DHCP
2 1 (5.263%) DNS
2 1 (5.263%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Spanish Language
3 1 (5.263%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Administrator
2 5 (26.32%) Consultant
3 4 (21.05%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Consultant
4 3 (15.79%) Windows Administrator
4 3 (15.79%) Windows Systems Administrator
5 2 (10.53%) BizTalk Administrator
5 2 (10.53%) Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.263%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Architect
6 1 (5.263%) Server Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (5.263%) Configuration Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Wintel Systems Administrator
6 1 (5.263%) Wintel Server Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Microsoft Specialist
6 1 (5.263%) SCCM Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Windows Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Wintel Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Clustering
2 1 (5.263%) Cryptography
2 1 (5.263%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
2 9 (47.37%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (42.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (31.58%) Windows 2000 Server
5 5 (26.32%) Windows NT
6 3 (15.79%) Windows 2000
7 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) ITIL
2 3 (15.79%) ITIL V3
3 2 (10.53%) Service Delivery
3 2 (10.53%) Change Management
4 1 (5.263%) Configuration Management
4 1 (5.263%) Project Management
4 1 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.263%) Service Management
4 1 (5.263%) Data Management
4 1 (5.263%) TOGAF
4 1 (5.263%) CRM
4 1 (5.263%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.263%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
4 4 (21.05%) MCSE
4 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (15.79%) Degree
6 1 (5.263%) ISEB
6 1 (5.263%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.263%) CCSP
6 1 (5.263%) CCNA
6 1 (5.263%) MCP
6 1 (5.263%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (36.84%) VMware ESX
3 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
4 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 4 (21.05%) ISA Server
4 4 (21.05%) Terminal Services
5 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
5 3 (15.79%) XenApp
6 1 (5.263%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) SCCM
2 6 (31.58%) Opalis
3 4 (21.05%) BladeLogic
3 4 (21.05%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (10.53%) SCVMM
5 1 (5.263%) MOM
5 1 (5.263%) OpenView
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 8 (42.11%) VMware
3 7 (36.84%) Citrix
4 3 (15.79%) Intel
5 2 (10.53%) HP
6 1 (5.263%) CA
6 1 (5.263%) NetApp
6 1 (5.263%) StorageTek
6 1 (5.263%) Cisco
6 1 (5.263%) Sun
6 1 (5.263%) Oracle
6 1 (5.263%) SolarWinds