Cardiff Systems Management Server (SMS) Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) skills within the Cardiff region with a comparison to our Systems Management category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Systems Management Server (SMS) over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS)
Location Aberdeen Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bridgend Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Chesterfield City of London Coleraine County Londonderry Coventry Dalkeith Derby Derbyshire Dewsbury Docklands, London Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Hampshire Harrow Hendon Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlothian Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Street Surrey Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Witham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	11.11 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£222	£220
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.98	£23.07
% change on same period last year	+3.95 %
Systems Management Cardiff
Matching contract IT job ads	9	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.010 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£347
% change on same period last year	-2.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.00	-
Average hourly rate	£23.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.37	£27.57
% change on same period last year	+6.53 %
Systems Management Server (SMS) South Wales

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Systems Management Server (SMS) across the Cardiff region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Systems Management Server (SMS) across the Cardiff region.

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing Systems Management Server (SMS) 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 Systems Management Server (SMS).

1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 2 2 (66.67 %) MS Excel 2 2 (66.67 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Tivoli 3 1 (33.33 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 1 (33.33 %) MOM 3 1 (33.33 %) GroupWise 3 1 (33.33 %) Disaster Recovery 3 1 (33.33 %) Migration 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware 3 1 (33.33 %) CLARiiON 3 1 (33.33 %) Clustering

3 1 (33.33 %) PACS 3 1 (33.33 %) Altiris 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (33.33 %) WSUS 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (33.33 %) SCOM 3 1 (33.33 %) Performance Management 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 3 1 (33.33 %) EMC 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) VERITAS 3 1 (33.33 %) NHS

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing Systems Management Server (SMS) 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 Systems Management Server (SMS). Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (33.33 %) GroupWise 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Excel 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Senior Systems Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Lead
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) NHS 1 1 (33.33 %) CLARiiON 1 1 (33.33 %) Clustering 1 1 (33.33 %) PACS	Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Disaster Recovery 1 1 (33.33 %) Migration 1 1 (33.33 %) Performance Management	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) MCP 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) NDS 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Tivoli 1 1 (33.33 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) MOM 1 1 (33.33 %) WSUS 1 1 (33.33 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) EMC 2 1 (33.33 %) VERITAS 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware 2 1 (33.33 %) Altiris