The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Maidenhead region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCOM over the 3 months to 24 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 Maidenhead 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank - - 14
Contract jobs citing SCOM 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Maidenhead - - 1.075%
As % of the Systems Management category - - 6.250%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £357
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -1.96%
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
Maidenhead
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
10 0 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Maidenhead 12.82% - 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 9
Average daily rate £325 - £276
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 - £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £327 - £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £20.50 - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
SCOM
Berkshire

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Maidenhead 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 Maidenhead region.

Maidenhead SCOM Daily Rate Trend

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Maidenhead 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) MCSE
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) CCNA
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) MOM
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (100.00%) MCITP
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (100.00%) XenApp
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (66.67%) UAG
2 2 (66.67%) Backup Exec
2 2 (66.67%) ISA Server
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Internet

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Maidenhead 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 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Support Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) MCSE
1 3 (100.00%) CCNA
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (100.00%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (100.00%) XenApp
2 2 (66.67%) UAG
2 2 (66.67%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) MOM
2 2 (66.67%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec