The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 64 - 81
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SCOM 6 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.719% - 0.384%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.317% - 2.649%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
Average daily rate £375 - £475
90% offered a daily rate of more than £343 - £415
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 - £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £357
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.25 £17.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+60.29% -47.69%
All Systems Management
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
82 74 151
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 9.820% 6.637% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 34 57
Average daily rate £375 £333 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.78% -2.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £231 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
Average hourly rate £22.50 £15.58 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+44.46% +41.59%
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 Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading SCOM Hourly Rate Trend

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (75.00%) Windows
3 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 8 (66.67%) SCCM
4 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
4 7 (58.33%) VMware
5 6 (50.00%) Retail
5 6 (50.00%) MS Exchange
5 6 (50.00%) SQL
5 6 (50.00%) MS Office
5 6 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2008
6 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
6 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2005
6 5 (41.67%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (41.67%) SharePoint
6 5 (41.67%) Clearswift
7 4 (33.33%) vSphere
7 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
8 3 (25.00%) System Testing
8 3 (25.00%) IDOL
8 3 (25.00%) MS Visio
8 3 (25.00%) HP
8 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (25.00%) ISA Server
9 2 (16.67%) Windows XP
9 2 (16.67%) MS Excel

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 6 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 6 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (41.67%) SharePoint 2010
2 5 (41.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (8.333%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (50.00%) MS Office
2 3 (25.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) IPsec
1 1 (8.333%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (25.00%) IDOL
General
1 6 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.333%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (8.333%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (16.67%) Windows XP
4 2 (16.67%) Windows 7
5 1 (8.333%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) System Testing
2 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (8.333%) Data Protection
3 1 (8.333%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
1 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.333%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (33.33%) vSphere
4 3 (25.00%) ISA Server
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (8.333%) Forefront TMG
6 1 (8.333%) Xen
6 1 (8.333%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) SCCM
2 1 (8.333%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (58.33%) VMware
3 5 (41.67%) Clearswift
4 3 (25.00%) HP
5 1 (8.333%) Lumension
5 1 (8.333%) Meridio
5 1 (8.333%) McAfee
5 1 (8.333%) Websense
Reading, Berkshire
Microsoft certified, MCSE or MCTIP preferred Team player, Outstanding Documentation and presentation capabilities, Motivated and autonomous, Lead and direct consultants on implementations, QA and peer review of deliverables.
Sanderson
Posted: 23 May 2013