South West MOM Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Systems Management category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MOM over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Cardiff Cheshire City of London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire King's Lynn Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Norfolk North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rotherham Salisbury Scotland South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Sussex Thames Ditton UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	122	134
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	20	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	16.95 %	18.62 %
Daily rates quoted	6	5
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£260
Average daily rate	£329	£272
% change on same period last year	+21.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£284
UK excluding London average daily rate	£405	£356
% change on same period last year	+13.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.13	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£29.53	£28.25
% change on same period last year	+4.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.94	£31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.96	£29.82
% change on same period last year	-2.89 %
Systems Management South West
Matching contract IT job ads	118	188
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.156 %	0.187 %
Daily rates quoted	53	43
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£307
Average daily rate	£323	£319
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£332
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£357
% change on same period last year	-3.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.11	£21.52
Average hourly rate	£29.20	£23.95
% change on same period last year	+21.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.30	£26.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.41	£26.58
% change on same period last year	+3.13 %
MOM England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MOM across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MOM across the South West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MOM across the South West region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MOM across the South West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MOM across the South West region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MOM within the South West region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Wiltshire	-1	8	£310	-11.17 %
Dorset	-	8	-	-
Bristol	+9	2	-	-
Gloucestershire	-8	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing MOM 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 MOM.

1 20 (66.67 %) Windows 2 15 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 15 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 3 12 (40.00 %) VERITAS 3 12 (40.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 11 (36.67 %) Active Directory 5 9 (30.00 %) BMC 5 9 (30.00 %) VBScript 5 9 (30.00 %) WSUS 6 8 (26.67 %) SMS 6 8 (26.67 %) SAN 7 7 (23.33 %) SCOM 8 6 (20.00 %) SC Cleared 8 6 (20.00 %) NetBackup 8 6 (20.00 %) SQL

9 5 (16.67 %) DHCP 9 5 (16.67 %) DNS 9 5 (16.67 %) Health 9 5 (16.67 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 5 (16.67 %) Technical Architecture 10 4 (13.33 %) SCCM 10 4 (13.33 %) Project Management 10 4 (13.33 %) Firewall 10 4 (13.33 %) Aerospace 10 4 (13.33 %) Government 10 4 (13.33 %) Cisco 10 4 (13.33 %) Juniper 10 4 (13.33 %) SharePoint 10 4 (13.33 %) Windows XP 10 4 (13.33 %) UNIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing MOM 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 MOM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.333 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 5 (16.67 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 4 (13.33 %) SharePoint 3 2 (6.667 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (6.667 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (3.333 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 3 (10.00 %) MS Office 2 2 (6.667 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 8 (26.67 %) SMS 1 8 (26.67 %) SAN 2 5 (16.67 %) DHCP 2 5 (16.67 %) DNS 3 4 (13.33 %) Firewall 4 3 (10.00 %) VPN 4 3 (10.00 %) VLAN 5 1 (3.333 %) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.667 %) SQL Server	General 1 5 (16.67 %) Health 2 4 (13.33 %) Aerospace 2 4 (13.33 %) Government 3 1 (3.333 %) Advertising 3 1 (3.333 %) Electronics 3 1 (3.333 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 7 (23.33 %) Systems Engineer 2 5 (16.67 %) Analyst 3 3 (10.00 %) Consultant 3 3 (10.00 %) Infrastructure Engineer 3 3 (10.00 %) Operations Analyst 3 3 (10.00 %) Technical Lead 4 2 (6.667 %) Integration Engineer 4 2 (6.667 %) Systems Integration Engineer 4 2 (6.667 %) Test Engineer 4 2 (6.667 %) Systems Test Engineer 4 2 (6.667 %) Systems Analyst 4 2 (6.667 %) Technical Consultant 4 2 (6.667 %) Systems Support 5 1 (3.333 %) Support Technician 5 1 (3.333 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (3.333 %) Support Engineer 5 1 (3.333 %) Administrator 5 1 (3.333 %) Operations Manager 5 1 (3.333 %) Server Support 5 1 (3.333 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.667 %) Clustering 2 1 (3.333 %) CLARiiON
Operating Systems 1 20 (66.67 %) Windows 2 12 (40.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (13.33 %) Windows XP 3 4 (13.33 %) UNIX 4 3 (10.00 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (3.333 %) Linux 5 1 (3.333 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (3.333 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (20.00 %) SC Cleared 3 5 (16.67 %) Technical Architecture 4 4 (13.33 %) Project Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (3.333 %) DV Cleared
Programming Languages 1 9 (30.00 %) VBScript 2 6 (20.00 %) SQL 3 1 (3.333 %) C 3 1 (3.333 %) VB	Qualifications 1 3 (10.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (6.667 %) MCSE 2 2 (6.667 %) MCP
System Software 1 11 (36.67 %) Active Directory 2 6 (20.00 %) NetBackup 3 2 (6.667 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (3.333 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (3.333 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 9 (30.00 %) WSUS 2 7 (23.33 %) SCOM 3 4 (13.33 %) SCCM 4 3 (10.00 %) OpenView 4 3 (10.00 %) Tivoli 5 2 (6.667 %) NNM 5 2 (6.667 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 2 (6.667 %) CONTROL-M 5 2 (6.667 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 2 (6.667 %) CiscoWorks 6 1 (3.333 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 6 1 (3.333 %) Unicenter
Vendors 1 15 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 12 (40.00 %) VERITAS 3 9 (30.00 %) BMC 4 4 (13.33 %) Cisco 4 4 (13.33 %) Juniper 5 3 (10.00 %) IBM 5 3 (10.00 %) Sun 5 3 (10.00 %) HP 5 3 (10.00 %) Altiris 6 2 (6.667 %) Symantec 6 2 (6.667 %) McAfee Security 6 2 (6.667 %) VMware 6 2 (6.667 %) Citrix 6 2 (6.667 %) NetApp 7 1 (3.333 %) CA 7 1 (3.333 %) EMC 7 1 (3.333 %) Remedy 7 1 (3.333 %) Red Hat