The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM 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 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 64 80 -
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -
Contract jobs citing SCOM 20 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 1.586% 0.440% -
As % of the Systems Management category 22.73% 7.895% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £341 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £364
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -3.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.25 £17.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+60.29% -51.42%
All Systems Management
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
88 76 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 6.979% 5.568% 4.532%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 36 13
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 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £450 £465
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 £12.58 £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%
SCOM
England

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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
Derbyshire +11 1 - -
SCOM
England

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 30 (88.24%) Active Directory
2 28 (82.35%) Microsoft
3 27 (79.41%) Windows
4 23 (67.65%) SCCM
5 20 (58.82%) Windows Server 2008
6 19 (55.88%) SQL
7 18 (52.94%) MS Exchange
7 18 (52.94%) Windows 7
8 14 (41.18%) Change Management
9 13 (38.24%) PowerShell
10 12 (35.29%) Security Cleared
11 11 (32.35%) Exchange Server 2010
11 11 (32.35%) MS Excel
11 11 (32.35%) VBScript
12 10 (29.41%) VMware
12 10 (29.41%) vSphere
13 9 (26.47%) Windows Server 2003
14 8 (23.53%) Performance Management
14 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
15 7 (20.59%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (20.59%) Windows XP
15 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
15 7 (20.59%) MCSE
15 7 (20.59%) Migration
16 6 (17.65%) Altiris
16 6 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2003
16 6 (17.65%) Clustering
16 6 (17.65%) Oracle
16 6 (17.65%) EMC
16 6 (17.65%) Citrix

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 Development
1 2 (5.882%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 18 (52.94%) MS Exchange
2 11 (32.35%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2003
3 6 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (11.76%) IIS
5 2 (5.882%) Documentum
5 2 (5.882%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (5.882%) Office Communications Server
5 2 (5.882%) Lync
Applications
1 11 (32.35%) MS Excel
2 5 (14.71%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) NetScaler
2 5 (14.71%) SAN
2 5 (14.71%) LAN
2 5 (14.71%) WAN
3 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
4 3 (8.824%) DNS
5 2 (5.882%) HTTP
5 2 (5.882%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.824%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (2.941%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 1 (2.941%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Support Engineer
1 7 (20.59%) Designer
2 6 (17.65%) Build Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Technical Designer
4 4 (11.76%) Systems Support
4 4 (11.76%) DBA
4 4 (11.76%) Project Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Systems Support Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Migration Project Manager
5 3 (8.824%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (5.882%) SQL DBA
6 2 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support
7 1 (2.941%) Server Engineer
7 1 (2.941%) Tester
7 1 (2.941%) Consultant
7 1 (2.941%) Server Support
7 1 (2.941%) Security Designer
7 1 (2.941%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (2.941%) Tivoli Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Clustering
2 5 (14.71%) CESG
2 5 (14.71%) PKI
3 4 (11.76%) Replication
4 2 (5.882%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 27 (79.41%) Windows
2 20 (58.82%) Windows Server 2008
3 18 (52.94%) Windows 7
4 9 (26.47%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (20.59%) Windows XP
6 4 (11.76%) Windows 2000
7 3 (8.824%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Change Management
2 8 (23.53%) Performance Management
3 7 (20.59%) Migration
4 2 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (5.882%) E-Commerce
4 2 (5.882%) Incident Management
4 2 (5.882%) Load Balancing
5 1 (2.941%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) SQL
2 13 (38.24%) PowerShell
3 11 (32.35%) VBScript
4 1 (2.941%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 7 (20.59%) MCSE
3 7 (20.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (11.76%) MCP
5 3 (8.824%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.941%) MCITP
System Software
1 30 (88.24%) Active Directory
2 10 (29.41%) vSphere
3 3 (8.824%) ISA Server
3 3 (8.824%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (8.824%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.882%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 23 (67.65%) SCCM
2 3 (8.824%) WSUS
3 2 (5.882%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (2.941%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.941%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 1 (2.941%) MOM
Vendors
1 28 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 10 (29.41%) VMware
3 6 (17.65%) Altiris
3 6 (17.65%) EMC
3 6 (17.65%) Citrix
3 6 (17.65%) Oracle
4 4 (11.76%) HP
5 1 (2.941%) IBM