The first table below looks at the demand for SCCM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCCM 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 Cambridgeshire 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 Configuration Manager (SCCM)
Rank 44 54 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing SCCM 6 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.097% 1.166% -
As % of the Systems Management category 12.00% 22.86% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £270 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.85% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
+1.66% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-4.10% -8.75%
All Systems Management
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
50 35 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 9.141% 5.102% 4.348%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 13
Average daily rate £325 £350 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +37.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £428 £433 £336
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 - £14.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
SCCM
East of England

SCCM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire SCCM Hourly Rate Trend

SCCM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cambridge +13 3 - -
Peterborough +1 1 £270 -22.85%
SCCM
East of England

SCCM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 20 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (70.00%) Citrix
3 14 (70.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 11 (55.00%) Windows 7
5 9 (45.00%) VMware
5 9 (45.00%) MSI
6 8 (40.00%) InstallShield
6 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (35.00%) SLA
7 7 (35.00%) VBScript
7 7 (35.00%) VB
7 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
8 6 (30.00%) MCSE
8 6 (30.00%) Remedy
8 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (30.00%) Terminal Services
9 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (25.00%) MS Exchange
9 5 (25.00%) Validation
9 5 (25.00%) XenApp
9 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (20.00%) Clustering
10 4 (20.00%) SCOM
10 4 (20.00%) WSUS
10 4 (20.00%) Linux
10 4 (20.00%) AdminStudio
11 3 (15.00%) Blackberry
11 3 (15.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server

SCCM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 Development
1 1 (5.000%) COM
1 1 (5.000%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 5 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (15.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (5.000%) IIS
4 1 (5.000%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Excel
1 1 (5.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (5.000%) Internet
2 1 (5.000%) SAN
2 1 (5.000%) LAN
2 1 (5.000%) WAN
2 1 (5.000%) DHCP
2 1 (5.000%) HTTP
2 1 (5.000%) VPN
2 1 (5.000%) DNS
2 1 (5.000%) Network Security
2 1 (5.000%) VLAN
2 1 (5.000%) NAS
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) MSI
2 8 (40.00%) InstallShield
3 4 (20.00%) AdminStudio
4 1 (5.000%) JIRA
4 1 (5.000%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.000%) Front Office
2 1 (5.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Applications Packager
2 3 (15.00%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (15.00%) Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Desktop Support
4 1 (5.000%) Junior
4 1 (5.000%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Rollout Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.000%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Clustering
2 3 (15.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (15.00%) PKI
3 2 (10.00%) Fat Client
3 2 (10.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (55.00%) Windows 7
3 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (20.00%) Linux
6 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (10.00%) Windows Vista
8 1 (5.000%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Validation
2 3 (15.00%) ITIL
2 3 (15.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (5.000%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (5.000%) Test Scripting
4 1 (5.000%) Release Management
4 1 (5.000%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.000%) Change Management
4 1 (5.000%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) VBScript
1 7 (35.00%) VB
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) MCSE
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.000%) CCA
2 1 (5.000%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (5.000%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (70.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (30.00%) Terminal Services
4 5 (25.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) SCOM
1 4 (20.00%) WSUS
2 1 (5.000%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (70.00%) Citrix
3 9 (45.00%) VMware
4 6 (30.00%) Remedy
5 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (15.00%) Oracle
6 2 (10.00%) Dell
7 1 (5.000%) Symantec
7 1 (5.000%) Lotus