The first table below looks at the demand for SCVMM 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 SCVMM 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SCVMM 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.276% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 2.532% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
79 116 111
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 10.91% 14.52% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 55 66
Average daily rate £325 £363 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.34% +0.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £293 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £488 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
Average hourly rate £44.90 - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
SCVMM
North West

SCVMM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire SCVMM Jobs Demand Trend

SCVMM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCVMM within the Cheshire 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
Chester - 2 - -
SCVMM
North West

SCVMM
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing SCVMM 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 SCVMM.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 2000
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Remedy
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Clustering

SCVMM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing SCVMM 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 SCVMM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Wintel Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Virtualisation Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Project Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Wintel Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 2000
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) Remedy