The first table below looks at the demand for SCCM skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCCM 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 South Yorkshire 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 System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
Rank 25 27 37
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +10
Contract jobs citing SCCM 9 6 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 3.358% 2.353% 0.702%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.91% 31.58% 8.696%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
Average daily rate £330 £263 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.71% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £293 £275
% change year-on-year
+4.27% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-4.10% -8.75%
All Systems Management
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
22 19 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 8.209% 7.451% 8.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 10
Average daily rate £343 £325 £233
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.38% +39.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £211 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £401 £460 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
Average hourly rate £22.75 £10.33 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+120.33% -51.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.15 £9.68 £20.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.35 £16.73 £22.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
SCCM
Yorkshire

SCCM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire SCCM Daily Rate Trend

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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
Rotherham +1 5 £330 +25.71%
Sheffield 0 3 £300 -
SCCM
Yorkshire

SCCM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 32 (94.12%) Windows
2 28 (82.35%) Microsoft
3 26 (76.47%) Windows 7
4 23 (67.65%) Windows Server 2008
4 23 (67.65%) Windows Server 2003
5 13 (38.24%) Remedy
5 13 (38.24%) SLA
5 13 (38.24%) MS Excel
6 11 (32.35%) MCSE
6 11 (32.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (32.35%) Symantec
6 11 (32.35%) Software Deployment
7 10 (29.41%) Active Directory
8 9 (26.47%) VMware
9 8 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
9 8 (23.53%) Windows XP
10 7 (20.59%) MSI
11 6 (17.65%) VBScript
12 5 (14.71%) SQL Server
12 5 (14.71%) MS Office
12 5 (14.71%) ITIL
12 5 (14.71%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
12 5 (14.71%) SCOM
12 5 (14.71%) Windows Vista
12 5 (14.71%) WSUS
13 4 (11.76%) Asset Management
13 4 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
13 4 (11.76%) Publishing
14 3 (8.824%) vSphere

SCCM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 Platforms
1 3 (8.824%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.941%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 13 (38.24%) MS Excel
2 5 (14.71%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.941%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.824%) Intranet
1 3 (8.824%) Internet
2 1 (2.941%) SMS
2 1 (2.941%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) MSI
2 2 (5.882%) AdminStudio
General
1 4 (11.76%) Publishing
2 2 (5.882%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.882%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) Support Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) Server Support
3 9 (26.47%) Server Engineer
4 8 (23.53%) Server Support Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Deployment Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support
5 4 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.824%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.824%) Systems Integrator
7 2 (5.882%) IT Support
7 2 (5.882%) SCCM Engineer
7 2 (5.882%) Desktop Engineer
7 2 (5.882%) Technical Specialist
7 2 (5.882%) IT Support Engineer
7 2 (5.882%) Support Specialist
7 2 (5.882%) Rollout Engineer
8 1 (2.941%) Technical Support
8 1 (2.941%) Technical Support Specialist
8 1 (2.941%) SCCM Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.824%) Replication
2 2 (5.882%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 32 (94.12%) Windows
2 26 (76.47%) Windows 7
3 23 (67.65%) Windows Server 2008
3 23 (67.65%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (23.53%) Windows XP
5 5 (14.71%) Windows Vista
6 1 (2.941%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Software Deployment
2 5 (14.71%) ITIL
3 4 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (11.76%) Asset Management
4 3 (8.824%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (5.882%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (5.882%) Compatibility Testing
6 1 (2.941%) CRM
6 1 (2.941%) Service Delivery
6 1 (2.941%) Load Balancing
6 1 (2.941%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) VBScript
2 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.941%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) MCSE
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.882%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.941%) BC Cleared
3 1 (2.941%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (38.24%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Active Directory
2 8 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.824%) Terminal Services
3 3 (8.824%) XenApp
3 3 (8.824%) vSphere
4 1 (2.941%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (2.941%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 5 (14.71%) WSUS
1 5 (14.71%) SCOM
Vendors
1 28 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 13 (38.24%) Remedy
3 11 (32.35%) Symantec
4 9 (26.47%) VMware
5 2 (5.882%) Dell
5 2 (5.882%) Citrix