Systems Management Server (SMS) Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Systems Management Server (SMS) skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Systems Management Server (SMS) 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 Scotland 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 Systems Management Server (SMS)
Rank 118 89 97
Rank change year-on-year
-29 +8
Contract jobs citing Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 16 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.082% 0.604% 0.606%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.136% 8.556% 6.939%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 1
Average daily rate £350 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £262 £240
% change year-on-year
+0.09% +9.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £16.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.25 £16.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-10.93% -15.78%
All Systems Management
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category		 176 187 245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 7.216% 7.059% 8.734%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 97 91
Average daily rate £370 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.84% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £222 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 8
Average hourly rate £82.89 £25.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+231.54% +21.95%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.77 £16.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £150.00 £35.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Systems Management Server (SMS)
UK

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Systems Management Server (SMS) across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Scotland Systems Management Server (SMS) Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Systems Management Server (SMS) across the Scotland region.

Scotland Systems Management Server (SMS) Daily Rate Trend

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Systems Management Server (SMS) across the Scotland region.

Scotland Systems Management Server (SMS) Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Management Server (SMS) within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -25 1 £400 +45.45%
Systems Management Server (SMS)
UK

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Systems Management Server (SMS) 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 Systems Management Server (SMS).

1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) HP
2 5 (83.33%) MS Excel
3 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (66.67%) DNS
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (50.00%) SCCM
4 3 (50.00%) SCOM
4 3 (50.00%) VMware
4 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (33.33%) WMI
5 2 (33.33%) Network Security
5 2 (33.33%) ServiceCenter
5 2 (33.33%) XenApp
5 2 (33.33%) DFS Replication
5 2 (33.33%) Citrix
5 2 (33.33%) Terminal Services
5 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (33.33%) Tivoli
5 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (33.33%) Windows 2000
5 2 (33.33%) Perl
5 2 (33.33%) MS Access
5 2 (33.33%) VBScript
6 1 (16.67%) VB
6 1 (16.67%) .NET
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (16.67%) IIS

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Systems Management Server (SMS) 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 Systems Management Server (SMS). Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 5 (83.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) LDAP
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) Intranet
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) Extranet
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MS Access
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MSI
1 1 (16.67%) InstallShield
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Support Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Support Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Server Support
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix Support
4 1 (16.67%) Web Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix Support Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Web Hosting Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL
1 1 (16.67%) Project Management
1 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) VBScript
3 1 (16.67%) VB
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Terminal Services
2 2 (33.33%) XenApp
2 2 (33.33%) DFS Replication
3 1 (16.67%) XenServer
3 1 (16.67%) XenDesktop
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
1 3 (50.00%) SCOM
2 2 (33.33%) Tivoli
2 2 (33.33%) WMI
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceCenter
3 1 (16.67%) MOM
3 1 (16.67%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) HP
3 3 (50.00%) VMware
4 2 (33.33%) Citrix
5 1 (16.67%) TIBCO
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