The first table below looks at the demand for SCCM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCCM over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cambridge 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
Rank 31 46 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Contract jobs citing SCCM 5 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.608% 0.673% -
As % of the Systems Management category 14.29% 10.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £165 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £288 £275
% change year-on-year
+5.21% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.13 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-9.37% -
All Systems Management
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
35 28 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 11.25% 6.278% 2.431%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 5
Average daily rate £325 £315 £306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £277 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £329 £335
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £314
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.08%
SCCM
Cambridgeshire

SCCM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge SCCM Jobs Demand Trend

SCCM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge SCCM Daily Rate Trend

SCCM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge SCCM Hourly Rate Trend

SCCM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing SCCM 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 SCCM.

1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (66.67%) XenApp
2 4 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (50.00%) NetScaler
3 3 (50.00%) Clustering
3 3 (50.00%) PKI
3 3 (50.00%) WSUS
3 3 (50.00%) SCOM
3 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (50.00%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) MS Exchange
3 3 (50.00%) Blackberry
3 3 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (33.33%) SLA
4 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
4 2 (33.33%) MS Office
4 2 (33.33%) Finance
5 1 (16.67%) Thin Client

SCCM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing SCCM 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 SCCM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (16.67%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) NetScaler
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Rollout Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Clustering
1 3 (50.00%) PKI
1 3 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (16.67%) Thin Client
2 1 (16.67%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows 7
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MCTS
1 1 (16.67%) CCA
1 1 (16.67%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (66.67%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) WSUS
1 3 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix
3 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Lotus
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