The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester 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 Chester 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 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SCOM 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 1.460% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 9.524% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
21 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 15.33% 7.826% 4.375%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
Average daily rate £400 £413 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% +37.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £44.90 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
SCOM
Cheshire

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester SCOM Hourly Rate Trend

SCOM
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 5 (100.00%) Windows NT
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) Clustering
1 5 (100.00%) SCCM
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
3 3 (60.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (20.00%) FMCG
4 1 (20.00%) Active Directory

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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.

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Wintel Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Wintel Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Wintel Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Wintel Server Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 5 (100.00%) Windows NT
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) HP