The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM 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 SCOM over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 58 61 64
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +3
Contract jobs citing SCOM 3 6 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.416% 0.743% 0.905%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.750% 5.128% 7.895%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 7
Average daily rate - £313 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -21.87%
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 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+60.29% -51.42%
All Systems Management
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
80 117 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 11.08% 14.48% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 57 72
Average daily rate £325 £359 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.40% +8.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £300 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £467 £488 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Average hourly rate £43.70 - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
SCOM
North West

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire SCOM Daily Rate Trend

SCOM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Chester - 2 - -
SCOM
North West

SCOM
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 6 (75.00%) ITIL
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) SCCM
2 5 (62.50%) Citrix
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (62.50%) Migration
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) Clustering
2 5 (62.50%) Windows 2000
2 5 (62.50%) Windows NT
2 5 (62.50%) DHCP
2 5 (62.50%) DNS
3 4 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (50.00%) SAN
4 3 (37.50%) HP
5 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (12.50%) FMCG
6 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
6 1 (12.50%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
6 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DHCP
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
2 4 (50.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Wintel Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Wintel Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Wintel Server Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
4 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows 2000
2 5 (62.50%) Windows NT
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) ITIL
2 5 (62.50%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Citrix
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft