The first table below looks at the demand for SCVMM skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCVMM 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 London 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 Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
Rank 369 399 428
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +29
Contract jobs citing SCVMM 20 6 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.091% 0.022% 0.007%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.530% 0.396% 0.135%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 2
Average daily rate £450 £450 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
1307 1514 1480
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 5.933% 5.611% 4.825%
Number of daily rates quoted 877 854 843
Average daily rate £413 £375 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 38 61
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +9.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.65 £15.40 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.25 £33.80 £38.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
SCVMM
England

SCVMM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London SCVMM Jobs Demand Trend

SCVMM
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SCVMM across the London region.

London SCVMM Daily Rate Trend

SCVMM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SCVMM across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London SCVMM Daily Rate Histogram

SCVMM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCVMM within the London 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
Wembley - 3 £375 -
City of London - 1 - -
SCVMM
England

SCVMM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SCVMM 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 SCVMM.

1 23 (95.83%) Windows
1 23 (95.83%) Hyper-V
2 19 (79.17%) Windows Server 2008
3 18 (75.00%) SCOM
3 18 (75.00%) Microsoft
4 17 (70.83%) Active Directory
5 16 (66.67%) SQL
5 16 (66.67%) SAN
6 13 (54.17%) Dell
6 13 (54.17%) QA
6 13 (54.17%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (50.00%) Broadcom
7 12 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2013
7 12 (50.00%) VLAN
7 12 (50.00%) PowerShell
7 12 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 11 (45.83%) MS Exchange
8 11 (45.83%) DNS
8 11 (45.83%) DHCP
8 11 (45.83%) Symantec
8 11 (45.83%) WSUS
8 11 (45.83%) Exchange Server 2010
9 10 (41.67%) Windows 8
9 10 (41.67%) Network Load Balancing
9 10 (41.67%) Windows XP
9 10 (41.67%) Backup Exec
10 9 (37.50%) SMTP
10 9 (37.50%) Kerberos
10 9 (37.50%) SCCM
10 9 (37.50%) EqualLogic

SCVMM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SCVMM 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 SCVMM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (16.67%) .NET
1 4 (16.67%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 12 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2013
2 11 (45.83%) MS Exchange
2 11 (45.83%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (16.67%) IIS
4 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (8.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 16 (66.67%) SAN
2 12 (50.00%) VLAN
3 11 (45.83%) DNS
3 11 (45.83%) DHCP
4 9 (37.50%) SMTP
4 9 (37.50%) Kerberos
5 7 (29.17%) LAN
5 7 (29.17%) WAN
6 4 (16.67%) Internet
7 3 (12.50%) VPN
8 2 (8.333%) iSCSI
9 1 (4.167%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (4.167%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Subversion
1 4 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (8.333%) Finance
1 2 (8.333%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Applications Support
2 4 (16.67%) Applications Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Consultant
4 2 (8.333%) Network Specialist
4 2 (8.333%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (8.333%) Architect
4 2 (8.333%) Analyst
4 2 (8.333%) Network Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (4.167%) Virtualisation Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) Virtualisation Architect
5 1 (4.167%) EMC Storage Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) IT Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) Storage Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) IT Architect
5 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Storage Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) EqualLogic
2 3 (12.50%) Blackberry
3 2 (8.333%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 23 (95.83%) Windows
2 19 (79.17%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (54.17%) Windows Server 2012
4 12 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 10 (41.67%) Windows 8
5 10 (41.67%) Windows XP
6 1 (4.167%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Network Load Balancing
2 4 (16.67%) Workflow
2 4 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (12.50%) Automated Testing
4 2 (8.333%) Data Management
4 2 (8.333%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (8.333%) Time Management
4 2 (8.333%) Data Protection
5 1 (4.167%) Service Delivery
5 1 (4.167%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) SQL
2 12 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (12.50%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.167%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (16.67%) MCSE
3 2 (8.333%) Degree
4 1 (4.167%) MCSA
4 1 (4.167%) MCT
4 1 (4.167%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (54.17%) QA
System Software
1 23 (95.83%) Hyper-V
2 17 (70.83%) Active Directory
3 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (8.333%) Terminal Services
4 2 (8.333%) VMware ESX
4 2 (8.333%) XenApp
5 1 (4.167%) vSphere
5 1 (4.167%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 18 (75.00%) SCOM
2 11 (45.83%) WSUS
3 10 (41.67%) Backup Exec
4 9 (37.50%) SCCM
5 4 (16.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (8.333%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (54.17%) Dell
3 12 (50.00%) Broadcom
4 11 (45.83%) Symantec
5 5 (20.83%) VMware
6 4 (16.67%) LANDesk
7 3 (12.50%) EMC
8 2 (8.333%) Citrix
8 2 (8.333%) HP
London
Windows 7, App-sense, App-V, MDT, MDOP, Technical Consultant, Architect, MCITP, MCTS, Contract, Interim, VDI, Desktop transformation, Virtualisation, SCVMM, SCOM, Windows Server 2008... -SCCM, SCOM or SCVMM. -...
Woodrow Mercer Recruitment
Rate: From £350 to £450 per day + strong possibility to extend
Posted: 16 May 2013