The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 71 76 70
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -6
Contract jobs citing SCOM 4 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.417% 0.405% 0.096%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.250% 5.376% 3.125%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Average daily rate £240 £205 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.07% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.49% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £16.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year
+90.62% -40.18%
All Systems Management
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
64 93 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 6.674% 7.536% 3.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 20
Average daily rate £290 £275 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.45% +57.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £383 £328
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £314
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 3
Average hourly rate £24.75 £15.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+65.00% +7.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.08%
SCOM
North West

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester SCOM Hourly Rate Trend

SCOM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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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
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Job
Vacancies
Rochdale - - - - 1
SCOM
North West

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 11 (91.67%) Windows
1 11 (91.67%) MS Exchange
1 11 (91.67%) Active Directory
1 11 (91.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 9 (75.00%) vSphere
2 9 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 9 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 9 (75.00%) VMware
3 7 (58.33%) NetApp
3 7 (58.33%) Windows XP
3 7 (58.33%) SCCM
4 6 (50.00%) Firewall
4 6 (50.00%) ITIL
4 6 (50.00%) PRINCE2
4 6 (50.00%) Cisco
5 4 (33.33%) CCNP
5 4 (33.33%) CCNA
5 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (25.00%) SQL
6 3 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (16.67%) iSCSI
7 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
7 2 (16.67%) XenDesktop
7 2 (16.67%) IIS
7 2 (16.67%) SAS

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 11 (91.67%) MS Exchange
2 9 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (16.67%) IIS
3 2 (16.67%) SAS
4 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
4 1 (8.333%) SharePoint 2010
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (16.67%) iSCSI
3 2 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (8.333%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Project Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Services Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Service Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Consultant
3 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (8.333%) OpenView Consultant
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
1 11 (91.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 9 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (58.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) ITIL
1 6 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (8.333%) Project Management
3 1 (8.333%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) CCNP
1 4 (33.33%) CCNA
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) BS7799
1 1 (8.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (75.00%) vSphere
3 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (16.67%) XenDesktop
3 2 (16.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) SCCM
2 2 (16.67%) Backup Exec
3 1 (8.333%) MOM
3 1 (8.333%) OpenView
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) VMware
2 7 (58.33%) NetApp
3 6 (50.00%) Cisco
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (16.67%) Citrix
6 1 (8.333%) HP