The first table below looks at the demand for SCCM skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCCM over the 3 months to 21 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 East Midlands 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
Rank 47 50 72
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +22
Contract jobs citing SCCM 39 35 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 3.068% 2.560% 0.811%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.32% 46.05% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 4
Average daily rate £290 £325 £160
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +103.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £125 £95
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £441 £348
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 1
Average hourly rate £27.00 £55.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.90% +175.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-4.10% -8.75%
All Systems Management
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
88 76 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 6.924% 5.560% 4.499%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 37 15
Average daily rate £315 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £165 £121
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £450 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 6
Average hourly rate £27.50 £55.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +175.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.86 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £57.50 £68.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
SCCM
England

SCCM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 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
Nottinghamshire -3 5 £293 +24.46%
Northamptonshire +12 3 £225 +83.67%
Derbyshire -6 2 - -
SCCM
England

SCCM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 42 (91.30%) Windows
2 36 (78.26%) Active Directory
3 34 (73.91%) Microsoft
4 29 (63.04%) Windows 7
5 27 (58.70%) Windows Server 2008
6 24 (52.17%) MS Exchange
7 23 (50.00%) SCOM
8 16 (34.78%) Exchange Server 2010
8 16 (34.78%) SQL
9 15 (32.61%) Security Cleared
10 14 (30.43%) Windows XP
11 13 (28.26%) PowerShell
12 12 (26.09%) SC Cleared
12 12 (26.09%) Migration
13 11 (23.91%) Windows Server 2003
14 10 (21.74%) VMware
15 9 (19.57%) DNS
16 8 (17.39%) Performance Management
16 8 (17.39%) LAN
16 8 (17.39%) Change Management
17 7 (15.22%) MS Excel
17 7 (15.22%) MS Office
17 7 (15.22%) VB
17 7 (15.22%) WAN
17 7 (15.22%) HP
17 7 (15.22%) Windows Vista
17 7 (15.22%) Application Packaging
17 7 (15.22%) Hyper-V
18 6 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2007
18 6 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2003

SCCM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 7 (15.22%) Application Packaging
2 2 (4.348%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 24 (52.17%) MS Exchange
2 16 (34.78%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2007
3 6 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (6.522%) SharePoint
5 2 (4.348%) Office Communications Server
5 2 (4.348%) Lync
5 2 (4.348%) Documentum
5 2 (4.348%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (2.174%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 7 (15.22%) MS Excel
1 7 (15.22%) MS Office
2 2 (4.348%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.57%) DNS
2 8 (17.39%) LAN
3 7 (15.22%) WAN
4 5 (10.87%) DHCP
5 4 (8.696%) SAN
6 3 (6.522%) Wireless
7 2 (4.348%) VPN
7 2 (4.348%) VoIP
7 2 (4.348%) LDAP
7 2 (4.348%) Firewall
7 2 (4.348%) Internet
8 1 (2.174%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (4.348%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) MSI
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Build Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) Designer
3 5 (10.87%) Technical Designer
4 4 (8.696%) Migration Project Manager
4 4 (8.696%) Project Manager
4 4 (8.696%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.522%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (6.522%) Applications Packager
5 3 (6.522%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.522%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.348%) 3rd Line Server Support
6 2 (4.348%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.348%) Rollout Engineer
6 2 (4.348%) Consultant
6 2 (4.348%) Server Support
7 1 (2.174%) Tester
7 1 (2.174%) Desktop Support
7 1 (2.174%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (2.174%) Support Specialist
7 1 (2.174%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Client/Server
2 5 (10.87%) CESG
2 5 (10.87%) PKI
3 3 (6.522%) Clustering
4 2 (4.348%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.174%) Thin Client
5 1 (2.174%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 42 (91.30%) Windows
2 29 (63.04%) Windows 7
3 27 (58.70%) Windows Server 2008
4 14 (30.43%) Windows XP
5 11 (23.91%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (15.22%) Windows Vista
7 4 (8.696%) Windows 2000
8 3 (6.522%) Windows 2000 Server
9 2 (4.348%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) Migration
2 8 (17.39%) Performance Management
2 8 (17.39%) Change Management
3 2 (4.348%) Load Balancing
3 2 (4.348%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (2.174%) E-Commerce
4 1 (2.174%) Software Deployment
4 1 (2.174%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.78%) SQL
2 13 (28.26%) PowerShell
3 7 (15.22%) VB
4 5 (10.87%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 12 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.696%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (8.696%) MCSE
4 3 (6.522%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.174%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.174%) QA
System Software
1 36 (78.26%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.22%) Hyper-V
3 5 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (8.696%) vSphere
5 3 (6.522%) ISA Server
6 2 (4.348%) XenApp
6 2 (4.348%) Forefront TMG
7 1 (2.174%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (2.174%) Terminal Server
7 1 (2.174%) IAG
7 1 (2.174%) UAG
7 1 (2.174%) XenServer
7 1 (2.174%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (50.00%) SCOM
2 3 (6.522%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 3 (6.522%) WSUS
3 1 (2.174%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 34 (73.91%) Microsoft
2 10 (21.74%) VMware
3 7 (15.22%) HP
4 4 (8.696%) Citrix
5 2 (4.348%) Cisco
5 2 (4.348%) EMC
5 2 (4.348%) Oracle
6 1 (2.174%) Wyse
6 1 (2.174%) Symantec
6 1 (2.174%) Hitachi
6 1 (2.174%) Veeam
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