North West MOM Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Systems Management category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MOM over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Derby Derbyshire Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Knutsford Leeds London Manchester Midlands Newbury Norfolk North West Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Rotherham Salisbury Scotland South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Surrey Swindon UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	116	142
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	15	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	15.15 %	2.920 %
Daily rates quoted	13	2
Average minimum daily rate	£482	£305
Average daily rate	£482	£336
% change on same period last year	+43.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£482	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£410	£334
% change on same period last year	+22.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£55.00	£28.98
Average hourly rate	£55.00	£29.48
% change on same period last year	+86.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£55.00	£29.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.02	£27.57
% change on same period last year	+12.53 %
Systems Management North West
Matching contract IT job ads	99	137
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.140 %	0.139 %
Daily rates quoted	36	39
Average minimum daily rate	£405	£301
Average daily rate	£411	£333
% change on same period last year	+23.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£416	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£362
% change on same period last year	-7.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£42.60	£26.85
Average hourly rate	£43.73	£28.25
% change on same period last year	+54.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£44.87	£29.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.62	£27.36
% change on same period last year	+4.59 %
MOM England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MOM across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MOM across the North West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MOM across the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MOM across the North West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MOM across the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MOM within the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cheshire	+13	2	£380	+46.15 %
Manchester	-1	2	-	-

MOM England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing MOM 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 MOM.

1 16 (76.19 %) Windows 2 13 (61.90 %) Finance 3 11 (52.38 %) Release Management 3 11 (52.38 %) Configuration Management 4 9 (42.86 %) Financial Institution 5 7 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 6 6 (28.57 %) Microsoft 6 6 (28.57 %) Active Directory 6 6 (28.57 %) SCOM 7 3 (14.29 %) VMware 7 3 (14.29 %) Tivoli 7 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server 7 3 (14.29 %) IIS 7 3 (14.29 %) SharePoint 7 3 (14.29 %) MS Exchange

7 3 (14.29 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 2 (9.524 %) Project Management 8 2 (9.524 %) OpenView 8 2 (9.524 %) HP 8 2 (9.524 %) Dell 8 2 (9.524 %) Citrix 8 2 (9.524 %) Citrix Certification 8 2 (9.524 %) CCEA 8 2 (9.524 %) Microsoft Certification 8 2 (9.524 %) Lotus 8 2 (9.524 %) Terminal Services 8 2 (9.524 %) Lotus Notes 8 2 (9.524 %) MCSE 8 2 (9.524 %) Windows NT 8 2 (9.524 %) VMware ESX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing MOM 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 MOM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (4.762 %) .NET 1 1 (4.762 %) WMI	Application Platforms 1 3 (14.29 %) SharePoint 1 3 (14.29 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (14.29 %) IIS 2 2 (9.524 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (4.762 %) CMS 3 1 (4.762 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (4.762 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Business Applications 1 1 (4.762 %) SoftGrid	Communications & Networking 1 2 (9.524 %) Firewall 2 1 (4.762 %) IPsec 2 1 (4.762 %) ATM 2 1 (4.762 %) VPN 2 1 (4.762 %) SSL 2 1 (4.762 %) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2 1 (4.762 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 13 (61.90 %) Finance 2 9 (42.86 %) Financial Institution 3 2 (9.524 %) Retail 4 1 (4.762 %) Local Government 4 1 (4.762 %) Telecoms 4 1 (4.762 %) Government 4 1 (4.762 %) Health 4 1 (4.762 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 11 (52.38 %) Architect 2 3 (14.29 %) Microsoft Consultant 2 3 (14.29 %) Consultant 3 2 (9.524 %) Analyst 4 1 (4.762 %) Technical Architect 4 1 (4.762 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst 4 1 (4.762 %) Network Engineer 4 1 (4.762 %) Systems Engineer 4 1 (4.762 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (4.762 %) Senior Systems Engineer 4 1 (4.762 %) 3rd Line Support 4 1 (4.762 %) Technical Consultant 4 1 (4.762 %) Technical Analyst 4 1 (4.762 %) Citrix Consultant	Operating Systems 1 16 (76.19 %) Windows 2 7 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (9.524 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 2 (9.524 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (52.38 %) Configuration Management 1 11 (52.38 %) Release Management 2 2 (9.524 %) Project Management 2 2 (9.524 %) Migration 3 1 (4.762 %) Operations Management 3 1 (4.762 %) Load Balancing 3 1 (4.762 %) ITIL 3 1 (4.762 %) PRINCE	Programming Languages 1 1 (4.762 %) C 1 1 (4.762 %) SQL 1 1 (4.762 %) VBScript 1 1 (4.762 %) VB 1 1 (4.762 %) PowerShell
Qualifications 1 2 (9.524 %) MCSE 1 2 (9.524 %) Citrix Certification 1 2 (9.524 %) CCEA 1 2 (9.524 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (4.762 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)	System Software 1 6 (28.57 %) Active Directory 2 2 (9.524 %) Terminal Services 2 2 (9.524 %) VMware ESX 2 2 (9.524 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 2 2 (9.524 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 2 (9.524 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (4.762 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 6 (28.57 %) SCOM 2 3 (14.29 %) Tivoli 2 3 (14.29 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 2 (9.524 %) OpenView 4 1 (4.762 %) Tivoli Monitoring	Vendors 1 6 (28.57 %) Microsoft 2 3 (14.29 %) VMware 3 2 (9.524 %) IBM 3 2 (9.524 %) HP 3 2 (9.524 %) Dell 3 2 (9.524 %) Citrix 3 2 (9.524 %) Lotus 4 1 (4.762 %) Remedy