The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCOM over the 3 months to 20 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 Sheffield 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SCOM 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 1.899% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 27.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £313 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.49% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £17.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year
+79.41% -40.35%
All Systems Management
Sheffield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
11 9 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 6.962% 5.521% 2.797%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 3
Average daily rate £325 £450 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.77% +63.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £179 £410 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £490 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Average hourly rate £42.00 £10.33 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+306.77% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.08%
SCOM
South Yorkshire

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield SCOM Hourly Rate Trend

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) SCCM
3 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (40.00%) Intranet
4 2 (40.00%) Internet
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) Replication
5 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (20.00%) XenApp
5 1 (20.00%) Veeam
5 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (20.00%) vSphere
5 1 (20.00%) Lync
5 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (20.00%) High Availability
5 1 (20.00%) Change Control
5 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
5 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (20.00%) Clustering

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 (20.00%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) Lync
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Intranet
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MSI
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) XenApp
2 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Veeam
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
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