The first table below looks at the demand for SCCM skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCCM over the 3 months to 19 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 South Wales 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
Rank 17 41 -
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -
Contract jobs citing SCCM 22 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 6.128% 0.754% -
As % of the Systems Management category 61.11% 37.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 0
Average daily rate £263 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £288 £275
% change year-on-year
+5.21% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.13 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-9.37% -
All Systems Management
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
36 8 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 10.03% 2.010% 5.412%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 2 10
Average daily rate £406 £283 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+43.80% -29.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £269 £312
10% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £297 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £314
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.08%
SCCM
Wales

SCCM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales SCCM Jobs Demand Trend

SCCM
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SCCM across the South Wales region.

South Wales SCCM Daily Rate Trend

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SCCM across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South Wales SCCM Daily Rate Histogram

SCCM
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SCCM across the South Wales region.

South Wales SCCM Hourly Rate Trend

SCCM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Cardiff +13 12 £190 -
SCCM
Wales

SCCM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing SCCM 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 SCCM.

1 21 (87.50%) Windows
2 19 (79.17%) Active Directory
3 14 (58.33%) Migration
4 12 (50.00%) Windows 7
5 10 (41.67%) Firewall
6 8 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (33.33%) LAN
7 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
7 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
7 7 (29.17%) Novell
7 7 (29.17%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (25.00%) Degree
8 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (25.00%) WAN
9 5 (20.83%) DNS
9 5 (20.83%) Cisco
9 5 (20.83%) MCP
9 5 (20.83%) Load Balancing
9 5 (20.83%) Computer Science
9 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
9 5 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (20.83%) Data Protection
9 5 (20.83%) Citrix
9 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
9 5 (20.83%) Asset Management
9 5 (20.83%) Altiris
9 5 (20.83%) Network Design
9 5 (20.83%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (20.83%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (20.83%) Riverbed

SCCM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing SCCM 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 SCCM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (12.50%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) MS Exchange
1 3 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (4.167%) MS Office
1 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) Firewall
2 8 (33.33%) LAN
3 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
4 6 (25.00%) WAN
5 5 (20.83%) DNS
5 5 (20.83%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (16.67%) SAN
7 1 (4.167%) Wireless
7 1 (4.167%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 1 (4.167%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Administrator
2 6 (25.00%) LAN Administrator
3 5 (20.83%) Coordinator
4 4 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Systems Integration Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) SCCM Specialist
6 1 (4.167%) Deployment Specialist
6 1 (4.167%) Network Administrator
6 1 (4.167%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) Applications Packager
6 1 (4.167%) Architect
6 1 (4.167%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Computer Science
1 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.50%) Clustering
3 1 (4.167%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.167%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 21 (87.50%) Windows
2 12 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 8 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (29.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Migration
2 5 (20.83%) Load Balancing
2 5 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (20.83%) Data Protection
2 5 (20.83%) Asset Management
2 5 (20.83%) Network Design
2 5 (20.83%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (4.167%) Network Management
3 1 (4.167%) Software Deployment
3 1 (4.167%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.167%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Degree
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (20.83%) MCP
2 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.167%) BC Cleared
4 1 (4.167%) MCSE
System Software
1 19 (79.17%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 3 (12.50%) Novell eDirectory
2 3 (12.50%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) ZENworks
1 3 (12.50%) Norton AntiVirus
1 3 (12.50%) Backup Exec
1 3 (12.50%) SCOM
2 1 (4.167%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
1 7 (29.17%) Novell
2 5 (20.83%) Cisco
2 5 (20.83%) Citrix
2 5 (20.83%) Altiris
2 5 (20.83%) Riverbed
3 3 (12.50%) HP
3 3 (12.50%) Symantec
3 3 (12.50%) McAfee
3 3 (12.50%) Open Text
3 3 (12.50%) VMware
3 3 (12.50%) RightFax
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