SCOM Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCOM over the 3 months to 17 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 North West 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 103 117 115
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -2
Contract jobs citing SCOM 14 15 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.609% 0.474% 0.552%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.650% 5.226% 7.798%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 10
Average daily rate £240 £313 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.20% -21.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £277 £322
10% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £357 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £364
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -3.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Average hourly rate £18.00 £17.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.25 £17.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+60.29% -51.42%
All Systems Management
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category		 183 287 218
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 7.967% 9.062% 7.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 113 133
Average daily rate £300 £350 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.16% +20.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £216 £254 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £412
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 18 6
Average hourly rate £21.00 £16.82 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.85% -48.24%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.80 £14.45 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.90 £18.80 £42.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
SCOM
England

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Manchester +8 5 £240 -
Lancashire - 4 £240 -
Cheshire +3 3 - -
Merseyside +9 2 - -
SCOM
England

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 32 (88.89%) Windows
2 29 (80.56%) Windows Server 2008
3 25 (69.44%) Active Directory
3 25 (69.44%) VMware
4 22 (61.11%) MS Exchange
4 22 (61.11%) SCCM
5 18 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 17 (47.22%) vSphere
7 15 (41.67%) Citrix
7 15 (41.67%) Cisco
7 15 (41.67%) ITIL
8 14 (38.89%) Hyper-V
9 13 (36.11%) Exchange Server 2010
10 12 (33.33%) Microsoft
11 11 (30.56%) SQL
11 11 (30.56%) Windows XP
12 9 (25.00%) Firewall
13 8 (22.22%) Backup Exec
13 8 (22.22%) NetApp
13 8 (22.22%) IIS
13 8 (22.22%) SAS
13 8 (22.22%) NFS
13 8 (22.22%) Fibre Channel
13 8 (22.22%) PowerShell
13 8 (22.22%) XenDesktop
13 8 (22.22%) iSCSI
13 8 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2007
14 7 (19.44%) Migration
14 7 (19.44%) DNS
14 7 (19.44%) HP

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 Development
1 1 (2.778%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 22 (61.11%) MS Exchange
2 13 (36.11%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2007
3 8 (22.22%) SAS
3 8 (22.22%) IIS
4 5 (13.89%) SharePoint
5 4 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (5.556%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (5.556%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.778%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.00%) Firewall
2 8 (22.22%) iSCSI
2 8 (22.22%) Fibre Channel
3 7 (19.44%) DNS
4 6 (16.67%) SAN
5 5 (13.89%) DHCP
6 3 (8.333%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (5.556%) LDAP
8 1 (2.778%) NAS
8 1 (2.778%) Wireless
8 1 (2.778%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.333%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.778%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (2.778%) MSI
General
1 1 (2.778%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Analyst
2 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Service Manager
3 5 (13.89%) Project Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Technical Services Manager
3 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Manager
3 5 (13.89%) Technical Manager
3 5 (13.89%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
4 4 (11.11%) Wintel Specialist
4 4 (11.11%) Wintel Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Wintel Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Consultant
5 3 (8.333%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 2 (5.556%) Designer
6 2 (5.556%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support
7 1 (2.778%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (2.778%) Service Analyst
7 1 (2.778%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Clustering
2 1 (2.778%) FMCG
2 1 (2.778%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (88.89%) Windows
2 29 (80.56%) Windows Server 2008
3 18 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (30.56%) Windows XP
5 6 (16.67%) Windows 2000
6 5 (13.89%) Windows NT
7 4 (11.11%) Windows 7
8 2 (5.556%) Windows 2000 Server
9 1 (2.778%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (2.778%) Solaris
9 1 (2.778%) UNIX
9 1 (2.778%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) ITIL
2 7 (19.44%) PRINCE2
2 7 (19.44%) Migration
3 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (5.556%) Project Management
5 2 (5.556%) Service Management
5 2 (5.556%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (5.556%) Performance Management
5 2 (5.556%) Change Management
6 1 (2.778%) Data Protection
6 1 (2.778%) Load Balancing
6 1 (2.778%) Change Control
6 1 (2.778%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (2.778%) Capacity Management
6 1 (2.778%) Service Delivery
6 1 (2.778%) Validation
6 1 (2.778%) Information Security
6 1 (2.778%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (30.56%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) CCNP
1 4 (11.11%) CCNA
1 4 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.778%) SLA
1 1 (2.778%) BS7799
1 1 (2.778%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (69.44%) Active Directory
2 17 (47.22%) vSphere
3 14 (38.89%) Hyper-V
4 8 (22.22%) NFS
4 8 (22.22%) XenDesktop
5 4 (11.11%) XenApp
6 3 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (61.11%) SCCM
2 8 (22.22%) Backup Exec
3 2 (5.556%) MOM
3 2 (5.556%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (2.778%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.778%) OpenView
Vendors
1 25 (69.44%) VMware
2 15 (41.67%) Citrix
2 15 (41.67%) Cisco
3 12 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 8 (22.22%) NetApp
5 7 (19.44%) HP
6 3 (8.333%) Oracle
7 2 (5.556%) McAfee
7 2 (5.556%) Dell
8 1 (2.778%) EMC
8 1 (2.778%) Sun
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Posted: 17 May 2013
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