The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCOM over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Edinburgh 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 60 60 61
Rank change year-on-year
0 +1
Contract jobs citing SCOM 2 4 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.220% 0.375% 0.826%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.985% 4.819% 9.821%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.49% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £16.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year
+90.62% -40.18%
All Systems Management
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
67 83 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 7.379% 7.786% 8.408%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 36 28
Average daily rate £338 £338 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £257 £215 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £314
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.08%
SCOM
Scotland

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh SCOM Daily Rate Trend

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 7 (77.78%) SCCM
2 6 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (55.56%) VPN
3 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (44.44%) 3G
4 4 (44.44%) Wireless
4 4 (44.44%) IPv6
4 4 (44.44%) Broadband
5 3 (33.33%) Smartcard
5 3 (33.33%) Tivoli
6 2 (22.22%) VMware
6 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
7 1 (11.11%) OpenView
7 1 (11.11%) HP
7 1 (11.11%) Citrix
7 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (11.11%) BMC
7 1 (11.11%) CCNA
7 1 (11.11%) DNS
7 1 (11.11%) DHCP
7 1 (11.11%) Perl
7 1 (11.11%) IIS
7 1 (11.11%) ITIL
7 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
7 1 (11.11%) MS Access
7 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
7 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
7 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) VPN
2 4 (44.44%) 3G
2 4 (44.44%) Wireless
2 4 (44.44%) IPv6
2 4 (44.44%) Broadband
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MS Access
General
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Network Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix Support
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL
1 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (11.11%) CCNA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) ISA Server
2 1 (11.11%) Forefront TMG
2 1 (11.11%) XenApp
2 1 (11.11%) XenServer
2 1 (11.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) SCCM
2 3 (33.33%) Tivoli
3 1 (11.11%) OpenView
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceCenter
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (11.11%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) BMC
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