The first table below looks at the demand for SCCM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCCM over the 3 months to 18 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 Cheshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
Rank 50 57 59
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +2
Contract jobs citing SCCM 19 10 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.592% 1.230% 1.389%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.75% 8.475% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 5
Average daily rate £316 £342 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.74% -2.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £275 £236
10% offered a daily rate of more than £354 £350 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £290 £275
% change year-on-year
+3.44% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £43.70 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -
All Systems Management
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
80 118 126
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 10.91% 14.51% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 56 76
Average daily rate £316 £359 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.05% -1.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £295 £264
10% offered a daily rate of more than £461 £488 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £315
% change year-on-year
+3.84% +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £43.70 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+25.71% -27.08%
SCCM
North West

SCCM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire SCCM Daily Rate Trend

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SCCM across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Cheshire SCCM Daily Rate Histogram

SCCM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Chester - 10 £358 -
Macclesfield - - - -
Northwich - - - -
Warrington - - - -
SCCM
North West

SCCM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 37 (100.00%) Windows
2 24 (64.86%) Citrix
3 23 (62.16%) Windows 7
4 18 (48.65%) Microsoft App-V
4 18 (48.65%) Migration
5 16 (43.24%) XenApp
6 15 (40.54%) ITIL
7 14 (37.84%) Windows XP
7 14 (37.84%) VMware
7 14 (37.84%) Windows Server 2008
8 12 (32.43%) PowerShell
9 11 (29.73%) Windows Server 2003
10 10 (27.03%) MSI
11 9 (24.32%) AppSense
11 9 (24.32%) Finance
12 8 (21.62%) Clustering
12 8 (21.62%) DHCP
12 8 (21.62%) DNS
13 7 (18.92%) VB
13 7 (18.92%) Active Directory
13 7 (18.92%) HP
13 7 (18.92%) SCOM
13 7 (18.92%) VMware Infrastructure
13 7 (18.92%) Hyper-V
14 6 (16.22%) Local Government
14 6 (16.22%) Banking
14 6 (16.22%) Symantec
14 6 (16.22%) PRINCE2
14 6 (16.22%) Windows 2000
14 6 (16.22%) Windows NT

SCCM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 5 (13.51%) Application Packaging
2 2 (5.405%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.703%) MS Exchange
1 1 (2.703%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (2.703%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (5.405%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.703%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.703%) MS Project
2 1 (2.703%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.405%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.62%) DHCP
1 8 (21.62%) DNS
2 6 (16.22%) SAN
3 2 (5.405%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.703%) VLAN
4 1 (2.703%) SSL
4 1 (2.703%) HTTP
4 1 (2.703%) SNMP
4 1 (2.703%) LAN
4 1 (2.703%) WAN
4 1 (2.703%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.703%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) MSI
2 5 (13.51%) InstallShield
3 4 (10.81%) Wise Package Studio
4 2 (5.405%) AdminStudio
General
1 9 (24.32%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Banking
2 6 (16.22%) Local Government
3 1 (2.703%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Analyst
2 7 (18.92%) Wintel Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Applications Packager
4 5 (13.51%) Wintel Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Support Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Technical Support
6 3 (8.108%) Technical Engineer
6 3 (8.108%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 3 (8.108%) Technical Support Engineer
6 3 (8.108%) Wintel Specialist
7 2 (5.405%) Wintel Server Engineer
7 2 (5.405%) Senior Technical Support
7 2 (5.405%) Virtualisation Consultant
7 2 (5.405%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 2 (5.405%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
7 2 (5.405%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (5.405%) Consultant
7 2 (5.405%) Senior Support Engineer
7 2 (5.405%) Server Engineer
7 2 (5.405%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Clustering
2 2 (5.405%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.703%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.703%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 37 (100.00%) Windows
2 23 (62.16%) Windows 7
3 14 (37.84%) Windows XP
3 14 (37.84%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (29.73%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (16.22%) Windows 2000
5 6 (16.22%) Windows NT
6 1 (2.703%) Linux
6 1 (2.703%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (2.703%) Windows 8
6 1 (2.703%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) Migration
2 15 (40.54%) ITIL
3 6 (16.22%) PRINCE2
4 5 (13.51%) Software Deployment
5 3 (8.108%) Service Management
5 3 (8.108%) Service Delivery
5 3 (8.108%) Data Analysis
5 3 (8.108%) Incident Management
6 2 (5.405%) Change Management
6 2 (5.405%) CRM
6 2 (5.405%) Business Analysis
7 1 (2.703%) Software Distribution
7 1 (2.703%) PRINCE
7 1 (2.703%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (2.703%) Validation
7 1 (2.703%) Project Planning
7 1 (2.703%) Time Management
7 1 (2.703%) Data Migration
7 1 (2.703%) Software Architecture
7 1 (2.703%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) PowerShell
2 7 (18.92%) VB
3 5 (13.51%) VBScript
4 3 (8.108%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.703%) MCSE
1 1 (2.703%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (2.703%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (2.703%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (2.703%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.703%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.703%) QA
System Software
1 18 (48.65%) Microsoft App-V
2 16 (43.24%) XenApp
3 7 (18.92%) Active Directory
3 7 (18.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (18.92%) Hyper-V
4 5 (13.51%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 3 (8.108%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) SCOM
2 4 (10.81%) ZENworks
3 2 (5.405%) SCVMM
3 2 (5.405%) AppDNA
4 1 (2.703%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 24 (64.86%) Citrix
2 14 (37.84%) VMware
3 9 (24.32%) AppSense
4 7 (18.92%) HP
5 6 (16.22%) Symantec
6 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
6 4 (10.81%) Novell
7 2 (5.405%) Remedy
8 1 (2.703%) McAfee
8 1 (2.703%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.703%) Altiris
8 1 (2.703%) LANDesk