East Midlands Systems Management Server (SMS) Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Systems Management category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Systems Management Server (SMS) over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chertsey City of London County Antrim Croydon Devon East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Guildford Hampshire High Wycombe Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Rochdale Rotherham Sandwich Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Wolverhampton Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	86	87
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	5	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	9.259 %	2.469 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£225
Average daily rate	£325	£264
% change on same period last year	+23.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£303
UK excluding London average daily rate	£283	£270
% change on same period last year	+4.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.01	£20.80
% change on same period last year	-3.78 %
Systems Management East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	54	81
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.071 %	0.086 %
Daily rates quoted	6	12
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£290
Average daily rate	£341	£301
% change on same period last year	+13.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£351
% change on same period last year	+4.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.46	£20.35
Average hourly rate	£22.02	£20.76
% change on same period last year	+6.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.58	£21.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.90	£26.29
% change on same period last year	-1.48 %
Systems Management Server (SMS) England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Systems Management Server (SMS) across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Systems Management Server (SMS) across the East Midlands region.

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Systems Management Server (SMS) across the East Midlands region.

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Systems Management Server (SMS) within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Northamptonshire	-	3	£325	-
Leicestershire	-	2	-	-

Systems Management Server (SMS) England

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Systems Management Server (SMS) 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 Systems Management Server (SMS).

1 17 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 11 (64.71 %) Windows 2 11 (64.71 %) MS Exchange 3 9 (52.94 %) Citrix 4 6 (35.29 %) Dell 4 6 (35.29 %) EMC 4 6 (35.29 %) SAN 4 6 (35.29 %) NetWare 4 6 (35.29 %) SharePoint 4 6 (35.29 %) Windows 2000 4 6 (35.29 %) BizTalk Server 4 6 (35.29 %) Windows Server 2003 4 6 (35.29 %) SoftGrid 4 6 (35.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 5 (29.41 %) VMware

5 5 (29.41 %) MOM 5 5 (29.41 %) Windows NT 6 4 (23.53 %) SQL 6 4 (23.53 %) MS Office 6 4 (23.53 %) Cisco 6 4 (23.53 %) Novell 6 4 (23.53 %) GroupWise 7 3 (17.65 %) Altiris 7 3 (17.65 %) WSUS 7 3 (17.65 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 3 (17.65 %) DirXML 7 3 (17.65 %) MSI 7 3 (17.65 %) Shell Script 7 3 (17.65 %) AppSense 7 3 (17.65 %) Active Directory

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Systems Management Server (SMS) 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 Systems Management Server (SMS). Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (11.76 %) WMI	Application Platforms 1 11 (64.71 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (35.29 %) BizTalk Server 2 6 (35.29 %) SharePoint 2 6 (35.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (23.53 %) GroupWise 4 1 (5.882 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications 1 4 (23.53 %) MS Office 2 3 (17.65 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 6 (35.29 %) SoftGrid 2 2 (11.76 %) BPCS
Communications & Networking 1 6 (35.29 %) SAN 2 2 (11.76 %) Firewall 2 2 (11.76 %) Wireless 2 2 (11.76 %) VLAN 2 2 (11.76 %) LAN 2 2 (11.76 %) VoIP 2 2 (11.76 %) WAN 2 2 (11.76 %) DHCP 2 2 (11.76 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (11.76 %) VPN 2 2 (11.76 %) WINS 2 2 (11.76 %) DNS 3 1 (5.882 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server 1 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 3 (17.65 %) MSI	General 1 2 (11.76 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 4 (23.53 %) Infrastructure Manager 2 3 (17.65 %) Project Manager 2 3 (17.65 %) 3rd Line Support 3 2 (11.76 %) Consultant 3 2 (11.76 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 3 2 (11.76 %) Systems Engineer 3 2 (11.76 %) Technical Specialist 4 1 (5.882 %) Infrastructure Support Analyst 4 1 (5.882 %) Deployment Engineer 4 1 (5.882 %) Microsoft Consultant 4 1 (5.882 %) Systems Support 4 1 (5.882 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (5.882 %) Technical Support 4 1 (5.882 %) Applications Packager 4 1 (5.882 %) Infrastructure Analyst 4 1 (5.882 %) Software Engineer 4 1 (5.882 %) Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (11.76 %) Thin Client 1 2 (11.76 %) AS400 1 2 (11.76 %) Fat Client 2 1 (5.882 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 11 (64.71 %) Windows 2 6 (35.29 %) Windows 2000 2 6 (35.29 %) NetWare 2 6 (35.29 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (29.41 %) Windows NT 4 2 (11.76 %) Unix 4 2 (11.76 %) OS/400 5 1 (5.882 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (11.76 %) ERP 1 2 (11.76 %) Project Management 1 2 (11.76 %) Migration 1 2 (11.76 %) Business Desktop Deployment 2 1 (5.882 %) Data Protection 2 1 (5.882 %) ITIL 2 1 (5.882 %) Business Continuity 2 1 (5.882 %) BCP
Programming Languages 1 4 (23.53 %) SQL 2 3 (17.65 %) VBScript 2 3 (17.65 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 2 (11.76 %) MCP 1 2 (11.76 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 3 (17.65 %) NDS 1 3 (17.65 %) Active Directory 1 3 (17.65 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 2 (11.76 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 5 (29.41 %) MOM 2 3 (17.65 %) DirXML 2 3 (17.65 %) WSUS 3 2 (11.76 %) SCCM 4 1 (5.882 %) BMC Marimba 4 1 (5.882 %) ZENworks
Vendors 1 17 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 9 (52.94 %) Citrix 3 6 (35.29 %) Dell 3 6 (35.29 %) EMC 4 5 (29.41 %) VMware 5 4 (23.53 %) Cisco 5 4 (23.53 %) Novell 6 3 (17.65 %) AppSense 6 3 (17.65 %) Altiris 7 2 (11.76 %) CheckPoint 7 2 (11.76 %) CA 7 2 (11.76 %) IBM