The first table below looks at the demand for Systems Management Server (SMS) skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 22 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 South East 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS)
Rank 217 210 193
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -17
Contract jobs citing Systems Management Server (SMS) 12 36 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.151% 0.348% 0.477%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.734% 5.165% 6.863%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 15
Average daily rate £413 £190 £274
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+117.10% -30.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £118 £246
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £300 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £235 £262 £165
% change year-on-year
-10.39% +58.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 3
Average hourly rate £14.25 £15.25 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.55% -39.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.85 £12.50 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.65 £19.25 £29.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.25 £16.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-10.93% -15.78%
All Systems Management
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
692 697 714
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 8.735% 6.738% 6.956%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 327 274
Average daily rate £330 £326 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.14% +8.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £452 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 54 57
Average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% -28.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.30 £13.50 £16.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Systems Management Server (SMS)
England

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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East Systems Management Server (SMS) Daily Rate Trend

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Management Server (SMS) across the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East Systems Management Server (SMS) Daily Rate Histogram

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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 22 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
Buckinghamshire +5 4 £425 +142.85%
Hampshire - 3 £383 -
Berkshire +4 1 - -
Oxfordshire +2 1 - -
Kent - 1 - -
Middlesex - 1 £250 -
Systems Management Server (SMS)
England

Systems Management Server (SMS)
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 19 (95.00%) Windows
2 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (50.00%) HP
3 10 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
4 9 (45.00%) Citrix
5 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
5 8 (40.00%) SAN
5 8 (40.00%) SCCM
5 8 (40.00%) SCOM
5 8 (40.00%) Firewall
5 8 (40.00%) VMware
5 8 (40.00%) Clustering
6 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (35.00%) SQL
7 6 (30.00%) Oracle
7 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (30.00%) StorageTek
7 6 (30.00%) OpenView
7 6 (30.00%) Sun
7 6 (30.00%) MS Exchange
7 6 (30.00%) Cryptography
7 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
7 6 (30.00%) DV Cleared
7 6 (30.00%) NAS
8 5 (25.00%) TOGAF
8 5 (25.00%) Internet
8 5 (25.00%) Windows NT

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 5 (25.00%) SOAP
2 3 (15.00%) JMS
2 3 (15.00%) CSS
3 2 (10.00%) .NET
3 2 (10.00%) DHTML
3 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) Web Services
3 2 (10.00%) XML
3 2 (10.00%) Application Packaging
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (10.00%) HTML5
3 2 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (5.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (5.000%) WinForms
4 1 (5.000%) Ajax
4 1 (5.000%) jQuery
4 1 (5.000%) LINQ
4 1 (5.000%) WCF
4 1 (5.000%) WF
Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (15.00%) Lync
2 3 (15.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (15.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (15.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (15.00%) IIS
3 2 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (5.000%) ESB
4 1 (5.000%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.000%) Photoshop
2 1 (5.000%) MS Office
2 1 (5.000%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) SAN
1 8 (40.00%) Firewall
2 6 (30.00%) NAS
3 5 (25.00%) Internet
4 3 (15.00%) iSCSI
4 3 (15.00%) SMTP
5 2 (10.00%) Ethernet
5 2 (10.00%) SNMP
5 2 (10.00%) Extranet
5 2 (10.00%) Intranet
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (10.00%) FDDI
6 1 (5.000%) Wireless
6 1 (5.000%) Network Security
6 1 (5.000%) DNS
6 1 (5.000%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MSI
1 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.000%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.000%) InstallShield
2 1 (5.000%) AdminStudio
General
1 2 (10.00%) Spanish Language
1 2 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Architect
2 6 (30.00%) Technical Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (20.00%) Administrator
4 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Windows Administrator
4 3 (15.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Applications Packager
6 1 (5.000%) Wintel Systems Administrator
6 1 (5.000%) Wintel Server Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.000%) Wintel Administrator
6 1 (5.000%) Wintel Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.000%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (5.000%) Desktop Support
6 1 (5.000%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Clustering
2 6 (30.00%) Cryptography
3 5 (25.00%) Client/Server
4 2 (10.00%) Thin Client
4 2 (10.00%) Fat Client
5 1 (5.000%) Social Media
5 1 (5.000%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (95.00%) Windows
2 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (25.00%) Windows NT
5 4 (20.00%) Windows XP
5 4 (20.00%) Windows 7
6 3 (15.00%) Windows 2000 Server
6 3 (15.00%) UNIX
7 2 (10.00%) Windows 8
8 1 (5.000%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (15.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (10.00%) ITIL
3 2 (10.00%) Web Development
3 2 (10.00%) Time Management
3 2 (10.00%) Validation
4 1 (5.000%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.000%) Software Architecture
4 1 (5.000%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (5.000%) Software Distribution
4 1 (5.000%) Service Management
4 1 (5.000%) MVC
4 1 (5.000%) Zachman Framework
4 1 (5.000%) Compatibility Testing
4 1 (5.000%) UML
4 1 (5.000%) Project Management
4 1 (5.000%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) VBScript
2 2 (10.00%) C
2 2 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (5.000%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.000%) PHP
3 1 (5.000%) VB
3 1 (5.000%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) MCP
4 3 (15.00%) MCTS
4 3 (15.00%) MCSE
4 3 (15.00%) CCSP
4 3 (15.00%) CCNA
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (15.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (20.00%) XenApp
4 3 (15.00%) VMware ESX
5 2 (10.00%) ISA Server
5 2 (10.00%) Terminal Services
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (5.000%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (5.000%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) SCCM
1 8 (40.00%) SCOM
2 6 (30.00%) OpenView
3 3 (15.00%) MOM
4 2 (10.00%) BladeLogic
4 2 (10.00%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (5.000%) AppDNA
5 1 (5.000%) SCVMM
5 1 (5.000%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (50.00%) HP
3 9 (45.00%) Citrix
4 8 (40.00%) VMware
5 6 (30.00%) Oracle
5 6 (30.00%) StorageTek
5 6 (30.00%) Sun
6 2 (10.00%) McAfee
6 2 (10.00%) Cisco
6 2 (10.00%) Brocade
6 2 (10.00%) Blue Coat
6 2 (10.00%) Altiris
6 2 (10.00%) Lumension
6 2 (10.00%) 3PAR
7 1 (5.000%) Zend
7 1 (5.000%) Adobe