The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCOM over the 3 months to 22 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 Guildford 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 23 - 20
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SCOM 9 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 4.128% - 1.563%
As % of the Systems Management category 69.23% - 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
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 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+60.29% -47.69%
All Systems Management
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
13 2 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 5.963% 1.653% 8.594%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
Average daily rate £300 £475 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.84% +86.27%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
SCOM
Surrey

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford SCOM Hourly Rate Trend

SCOM
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) C#
2 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Azure
3 5 (50.00%) Release Management
3 5 (50.00%) Online Games
3 5 (50.00%) SCCM
3 5 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 5 (50.00%) Games
4 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
4 4 (40.00%) Migration
4 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (40.00%) Citrix
4 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (30.00%) Ruby
5 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (30.00%) Python
5 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) Scrum
5 3 (30.00%) VMware
6 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
6 1 (10.00%) Game Development

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (60.00%) Windows Azure
2 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) MS Excel
General
1 5 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Server Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Server Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Release Management
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Ruby
3 3 (30.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Citrix
3 3 (30.00%) VMware