The first table below looks at the demand for ZENworks 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 ZENworks over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell ZENworks
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing ZENworks 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.137% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.266% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £185 £425 £210
% change year-on-year
-56.47% +102.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £175.00 £17.04 £21.50
% change year-on-year
+927.14% -20.75%
All Systems Management
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
79 116 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 10.81% 14.54% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 55 69
Average daily rate £325 £363 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.34% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £298 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £488 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
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%
ZENworks
North West

ZENworks
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire ZENworks Jobs Demand Trend

ZENworks
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ZENworks across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire ZENworks Daily Rate Trend

ZENworks
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing ZENworks 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 ZENworks.

1 4 (100.00%) VBScript
1 4 (100.00%) VB
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Novell
1 4 (100.00%) MSI
1 4 (100.00%) InstallShield
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) SCCM
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) XenApp
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 4 (100.00%) Wise Package Studio
1 4 (100.00%) Software Deployment

ZENworks
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing ZENworks 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 ZENworks. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) MSI
1 4 (100.00%) InstallShield
1 4 (100.00%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Applications Packager
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) VBScript
1 4 (100.00%) VB
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Novell
1 4 (100.00%) VMware