The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCOM over the 3 months to 24 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 Surrey 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 60 81 94
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +13
Contract jobs citing SCOM 20 14 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 1.735% 0.869% 0.490%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.78% 9.459% 7.563%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 2
Average daily rate £313 £370 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.54% -15.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £303 £408
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £420 £472
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £357
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Average hourly rate - £15.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.25 £17.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+60.29% -47.69%
All Systems Management
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
72 148 119
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 6.245% 9.187% 6.478%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 75 44
Average daily rate £275 £326 £358
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.70% -8.74%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £235 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £439 £500 £478
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 5
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £31.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.12% -50.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.65 £14.50 £22.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £17.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
SCOM
South East

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey SCOM Hourly Rate Trend

SCOM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 24 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
Guildford - 8 £303 -
Leatherhead - 2 £313 -
Staines - 2 - -
SCOM
South East

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 26 (70.27%) Microsoft
2 14 (37.84%) SCCM
3 13 (35.14%) VMware
3 13 (35.14%) Windows
3 13 (35.14%) MS Excel
4 12 (32.43%) Hyper-V
5 11 (29.73%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (29.73%) Windows Azure
5 11 (29.73%) Release Management
5 11 (29.73%) .NET
5 11 (29.73%) C#
5 11 (29.73%) Active Directory
6 10 (27.03%) Games
6 10 (27.03%) Online Games
7 9 (24.32%) Citrix
8 8 (21.62%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
8 8 (21.62%) MS Exchange
8 8 (21.62%) Scrum
8 8 (21.62%) Python
8 8 (21.62%) VMware Infrastructure
8 8 (21.62%) Ruby
9 7 (18.92%) Exchange Server 2010
10 6 (16.22%) Exchange Server 2007
10 6 (16.22%) SolarWinds
10 6 (16.22%) ITIL
11 5 (13.51%) SQL
11 5 (13.51%) SAN
12 4 (10.81%) Migration
12 4 (10.81%) CommVault

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 11 (29.73%) .NET
2 1 (2.703%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 11 (29.73%) Amazon EC2
1 11 (29.73%) Windows Azure
2 8 (21.62%) MS Exchange
3 7 (18.92%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (16.22%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (8.108%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (5.405%) IIS
6 2 (5.405%) SharePoint
7 1 (2.703%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 13 (35.14%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.703%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) SAN
2 1 (2.703%) SMS
2 1 (2.703%) DHCP
2 1 (2.703%) HTTP
2 1 (2.703%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.703%) DNS
2 1 (2.703%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.108%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (27.03%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Server Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Administrator
2 5 (13.51%) Analyst
2 5 (13.51%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (10.81%) Network Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Consultant
3 4 (10.81%) Server Analyst
4 3 (8.108%) Wintel Engineer
4 3 (8.108%) Architect
5 2 (5.405%) IT Consultant
5 2 (5.405%) Support Consultant
5 2 (5.405%) Technical Support
5 2 (5.405%) IT Administrator
5 2 (5.405%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (2.703%) Citrix Support
6 1 (2.703%) IT Support
6 1 (2.703%) Citrix Architect
6 1 (2.703%) SCCM Administrator
6 1 (2.703%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 1 (2.703%) Citrix Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Online Games
2 3 (8.108%) Clustering
3 1 (2.703%) Mathematics
3 1 (2.703%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.703%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.703%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.703%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (35.14%) Windows
2 3 (8.108%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (5.405%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.703%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.703%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (2.703%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Release Management
2 8 (21.62%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (21.62%) Scrum
3 6 (16.22%) ITIL
4 4 (10.81%) Migration
4 4 (10.81%) Incident Management
5 3 (8.108%) Capacity Management
6 2 (5.405%) Service Delivery
7 1 (2.703%) Load Balancing
7 1 (2.703%) Game Development
7 1 (2.703%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (2.703%) Build Automation
7 1 (2.703%) Change Control
7 1 (2.703%) Project Management
7 1 (2.703%) PRINCE2
7 1 (2.703%) TOGAF
7 1 (2.703%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) C#
2 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
2 8 (21.62%) Python
2 8 (21.62%) Ruby
3 5 (13.51%) SQL
4 3 (8.108%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (8.108%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.405%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.405%) Degree
3 1 (2.703%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.703%) CCEE
3 1 (2.703%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (2.703%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.405%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (32.43%) Hyper-V
2 11 (29.73%) Active Directory
3 8 (21.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (10.81%) XenApp
5 3 (8.108%) XenServer
5 3 (8.108%) XenDesktop
5 3 (8.108%) vSphere
5 3 (8.108%) Forefront TMG
6 2 (5.405%) UAG
6 2 (5.405%) VMware ESX
7 1 (2.703%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (2.703%) IAG
7 1 (2.703%) ISA Server
7 1 (2.703%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 14 (37.84%) SCCM
2 2 (5.405%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (2.703%) Opalis
3 1 (2.703%) MOM
3 1 (2.703%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 26 (70.27%) Microsoft
2 13 (35.14%) VMware
3 9 (24.32%) Citrix
4 6 (16.22%) SolarWinds
5 4 (10.81%) CommVault
5 4 (10.81%) NetApp
6 3 (8.108%) AppSense
6 3 (8.108%) Wyse
7 1 (2.703%) Juniper
7 1 (2.703%) Cisco
7 1 (2.703%) Symantec
Staines, Middlesex
Very strong SCCM and SCOM skills are required for the roles, the Server Engineer should have excellent experience throughout their previous roles. Essential experience for the Server Engineer...
ComputAppoint
Rate: market rates
Posted: 21 May 2013
Staines, Middlesex
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 \ 2008 \ 2012. Microsoft Windows 7 \ 8. Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager 2012... Microsoft Windows Client Unattended Builds. Microsoft SCCM Software Distribution. Microsoft SCOM and...
EarthStream Global
Rate: From £350 to £500 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013