The first table below looks at the demand for SCCM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCCM over the 3 months to 18 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 Midlands 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
Rank 10 29 26
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -3
Contract jobs citing SCCM 17 3 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 9.091% 1.172% 2.462%
As % of the Systems Management category 73.91% 16.67% 38.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 1
Average daily rate £375 - £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £290 £275
% change year-on-year
+3.44% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £19.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -
All Systems Management
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
23 18 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 12.30% 7.031% 6.462%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 2
Average daily rate £375 £375 £465
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -19.35%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £315
% change year-on-year
+3.84% +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
Average hourly rate - - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+25.71% -27.08%
SCCM
England

SCCM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands SCCM Jobs Demand Trend

SCCM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Midlands SCCM Daily Rate Trend

SCCM
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SCCM across the Midlands region.

Midlands SCCM Hourly Rate Trend

SCCM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing SCCM 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 SCCM.

1 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 23 (95.83%) Windows Server 2008
3 22 (91.67%) Microsoft
4 19 (79.17%) Windows 7
5 17 (70.83%) Windows Server 2003
6 15 (62.50%) MSI
7 14 (58.33%) Microsoft App-V
8 13 (54.17%) OpenView Configuration Management
8 13 (54.17%) HP
8 13 (54.17%) QA
9 10 (41.67%) Active Directory
10 8 (33.33%) SCOM
11 7 (29.17%) Exchange Server 2010
11 7 (29.17%) SQL
11 7 (29.17%) MS Exchange
12 6 (25.00%) Software Packaging
13 5 (20.83%) MS Excel
13 5 (20.83%) Migration
13 5 (20.83%) MS Office
14 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
15 3 (12.50%) XenApp
15 3 (12.50%) Citrix
16 2 (8.333%) SAN
16 2 (8.333%) Veritas
16 2 (8.333%) EMC
16 2 (8.333%) VB
16 2 (8.333%) SQL Server
16 2 (8.333%) SharePoint
16 2 (8.333%) Client/Server
16 2 (8.333%) Windows XP

SCCM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing SCCM 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 SCCM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (25.00%) Software Packaging
2 2 (8.333%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 7 (29.17%) MS Exchange
1 7 (29.17%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (8.333%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (8.333%) Office Communications Server
2 2 (8.333%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) MS Office
1 5 (20.83%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.333%) DHCP
1 2 (8.333%) DNS
1 2 (8.333%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.333%) SQL Server
1 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 15 (62.50%) MSI
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Applications Packager
2 2 (8.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (8.333%) Server Engineer
3 1 (4.167%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (4.167%) Security Engineer
3 1 (4.167%) Build Engineer
3 1 (4.167%) SCCM Consultant
3 1 (4.167%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) Client/Server
1 2 (8.333%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 23 (95.83%) Windows Server 2008
3 19 (79.17%) Windows 7
4 17 (70.83%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (8.333%) Windows Vista
5 2 (8.333%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) Migration
2 2 (8.333%) Business Continuity
2 2 (8.333%) Incident Management
2 2 (8.333%) Change Control
3 1 (4.167%) Software Distribution
3 1 (4.167%) Data Protection
3 1 (4.167%) Network Architecture
3 1 (4.167%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) SQL
2 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.333%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (8.333%) VCP5
2 1 (4.167%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (54.17%) QA
2 1 (4.167%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft App-V
2 10 (41.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (12.50%) XenApp
4 2 (8.333%) ISA Server
5 1 (4.167%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.167%) XenServer
5 1 (4.167%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 8 (33.33%) SCOM
3 2 (8.333%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (4.167%) Opalis
Vendors
1 22 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (54.17%) HP
3 3 (12.50%) Citrix
4 2 (8.333%) Veritas
4 2 (8.333%) Altiris
4 2 (8.333%) EMC
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