MOM Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MOM skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MOM over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category.

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.

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012		Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank548527480
Rank change year-on-year
Down-21Down-47
Matching contract IT job ads315456
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.052 %0.088 %0.102 %
As % of the Systems Management category0.852 %1.499 %2.004 %
Number of daily rates quoted162733
Average daily rate£325£220£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+47.72 %-37.14 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£263£195£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£475£405£420
UK excluding London average daily rate£345£222£365
% change year-on-year
+55.40 %-39.17 %
Number of hourly rates quoted068
Average hourly rate-£24.50£24.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--1.01 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate-£20.75£18.50
% change year-on-year
-+12.16 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategoryAll Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category		363936032795
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK6.148 %5.872 %5.076 %
Number of daily rates quoted185016941236
Average daily rate£350£360£338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.77 %+6.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£210£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£300£314
% change year-on-year
+8.33 %-4.38 %
Number of hourly rates quoted173219234
Average hourly rate£19.00£23.44£21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.93 %+9.01 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.50£15.00£14.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£38.75£38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£24.40£20.50
% change year-on-year
-28.27 %+19.02 %

MOM
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MOM within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

MOM Demand Trend

MOM
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MOM within the UK.

MOM Daily Rate Trend

MOM
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MOM within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

MOM Daily Rate Histogram

MOM
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MOM within the UK.

MOM Hourly Rate Trend

MOM
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MOM within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-729£325+46.06 %
LondonUp+3417£320+45.45 %
CheshireUp+75£313-10.71 %
North WestDown-45£313+13.63 %
South EastDown-42--
WiltshireDown-52£405+13.68 %
South WestDown-292£405+52.11 %
SurreyNew entry-2--
East MidlandsDown-31£450-
SwindonDown-91£405+13.68 %
YorkshireDown-111£235-
NottinghamshireNew entry-1£450-
South YorkshireNew entry-1£235-
KnutsfordNew entry-1£275-
RotherhamNew entry-1£235-
South CoastNew entry-1--

MOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

143 (65.15 %)Windows
230 (45.45 %)Windows Server 2008
329 (43.94 %)SCOM
425 (37.88 %)Active Directory
425 (37.88 %)Windows Server 2003
522 (33.33 %)VMware
621 (31.82 %)Microsoft
720 (30.30 %)Finance
815 (22.73 %)MS Exchange
913 (19.70 %)SQL
1012 (18.18 %)HP
1111 (16.67 %)Citrix
1111 (16.67 %)DNS
1210 (15.15 %)VMware Infrastructure
1210 (15.15 %)PowerShell
139 (13.64 %)MCITP
139 (13.64 %)SAN
139 (13.64 %)Migration
148 (12.12 %)DHCP
148 (12.12 %)Oracle
148 (12.12 %)SQL Server
148 (12.12 %)SCCM
157 (10.61 %)ITIL
166 (9.091 %)Altiris
166 (9.091 %)Disaster Recovery
166 (9.091 %)VBScript
166 (9.091 %)MS Excel
166 (9.091 %)Exchange Server 2007
175 (7.576 %)Business Desktop Deployment
175 (7.576 %)Local Government

MOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
15 (7.576 %).NET
21 (1.515 %)ADO.NET Entity Framework
21 (1.515 %)REST
21 (1.515 %)Forefront TMG
21 (1.515 %)LINQ
21 (1.515 %)WPF
21 (1.515 %)Silverlight
21 (1.515 %)NHibernate
21 (1.515 %)Java SE
21 (1.515 %)Java EE
21 (1.515 %)Flash
21 (1.515 %)EJB
21 (1.515 %)JSP
21 (1.515 %)Servlets
21 (1.515 %)XML
21 (1.515 %)XSD
21 (1.515 %)XSLT
21 (1.515 %)Ajax
21 (1.515 %)Spring
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
115 (22.73 %)MS Exchange
26 (9.091 %)Exchange Server 2007
35 (7.576 %)Exchange Server 2010
43 (4.545 %)Exchange Server 2003
43 (4.545 %)SharePoint
51 (1.515 %)MQSeries
51 (1.515 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
16 (9.091 %)MS Excel
24 (6.061 %)MS Visio
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (3.030 %)Lawson M3
21 (1.515 %)Oracle Retail
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
111 (16.67 %)DNS
29 (13.64 %)SAN
38 (12.12 %)DHCP
45 (7.576 %)SMS
45 (7.576 %)Firewall
54 (6.061 %)WAN
54 (6.061 %)VPN
63 (4.545 %)LAN
72 (3.030 %)TCP/IP
81 (1.515 %)NAS
81 (1.515 %)Internet
81 (1.515 %)MPLS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
18 (12.12 %)SQL Server
22 (3.030 %)DB2
22 (3.030 %)SQL Server 2005
22 (3.030 %)SQL Server 2008
31 (1.515 %)SQL Server Integration Services
31 (1.515 %)DB2 UDB
31 (1.515 %)DTS
31 (1.515 %)Oracle 8/8i
31 (1.515 %)Oracle 9i
31 (1.515 %)Oracle Reports
31 (1.515 %)MySQL
31 (1.515 %)TOAD
31 (1.515 %)Oracle 10g
31 (1.515 %)RDBMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (1.515 %)CodeRush
11 (1.515 %)ReSharper
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
120 (30.30 %)Finance
25 (7.576 %)Local Government
34 (6.061 %)Back Office
42 (3.030 %)Banking
42 (3.030 %)Financial Institution
51 (1.515 %)French Language
51 (1.515 %)Corporate Banking
51 (1.515 %)Retail
51 (1.515 %)Front Office
51 (1.515 %)Telecoms
51 (1.515 %)Games
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
115 (22.73 %)Consultant
28 (12.12 %)Architect
28 (12.12 %)Analyst
37 (10.61 %)Technical Consultant
37 (10.61 %)Infrastructure Engineer
45 (7.576 %)Support Specialist
54 (6.061 %)Server Support Technician
54 (6.061 %)Server Specialist
54 (6.061 %)Server Support
54 (6.061 %)Support Technician
54 (6.061 %)Server Technician
54 (6.061 %)Service Desk Engineer
54 (6.061 %)Server Support Specialist
63 (4.545 %)Support Analyst
63 (4.545 %)Infrastructure Analyst
63 (4.545 %)Administrator
63 (4.545 %)Developer
63 (4.545 %)Server Engineer
63 (4.545 %)Infrastructure Support Analyst
72 (3.030 %)Systems Manager
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (4.545 %)Clustering
22 (3.030 %)Management Information System
22 (3.030 %)Thin Client
22 (3.030 %)Fat Client
31 (1.515 %)Computer Science
31 (1.515 %)Derivative
31 (1.515 %)PKI
31 (1.515 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
31 (1.515 %)Mainframe
31 (1.515 %)Replication
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
143 (65.15 %)Windows
230 (45.45 %)Windows Server 2008
325 (37.88 %)Windows Server 2003
43 (4.545 %)UNIX
52 (3.030 %)Windows XP
52 (3.030 %)Windows 7
61 (1.515 %)Windows 2000 Server
61 (1.515 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
61 (1.515 %)Windows Vista
61 (1.515 %)AIX
61 (1.515 %)Linux
61 (1.515 %)MVS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
19 (13.64 %)Migration
27 (10.61 %)ITIL
36 (9.091 %)Disaster Recovery
45 (7.576 %)Change Control
54 (6.061 %)Risk Management
62 (3.030 %)Document Management
62 (3.030 %)ERP
62 (3.030 %)Problem Management
62 (3.030 %)Earned Value Management
71 (1.515 %)Continuous Improvement
71 (1.515 %)CQRS
71 (1.515 %)Memory Management
71 (1.515 %)Multithreading
71 (1.515 %)E-Commerce
71 (1.515 %)OO
71 (1.515 %)Data Modelling
71 (1.515 %)SOA
71 (1.515 %)Data Security
71 (1.515 %)Configuration Management
71 (1.515 %)Project Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
113 (19.70 %)SQL
210 (15.15 %)PowerShell
36 (9.091 %)VBScript
44 (6.061 %)VB
53 (4.545 %)C#
61 (1.515 %)Java
61 (1.515 %)T-SQL
61 (1.515 %)Shell Script
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
19 (13.64 %)MCITP
25 (7.576 %)SC Cleared
25 (7.576 %)Security Cleared
25 (7.576 %)Microsoft Certification
34 (6.061 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
34 (6.061 %)MCSE
41 (1.515 %)Degree
41 (1.515 %)MCP
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (4.545 %)SLA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
125 (37.88 %)Active Directory
210 (15.15 %)VMware Infrastructure
35 (7.576 %)vSphere
41 (1.515 %)Hyper-V
41 (1.515 %)XenApp
41 (1.515 %)XenServer
41 (1.515 %)Oracle RAC
41 (1.515 %)Terminal Server
41 (1.515 %)Terminal Services
41 (1.515 %)ISA Server
41 (1.515 %)VMware ESX
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
129 (43.94 %)SCOM
28 (12.12 %)SCCM
35 (7.576 %)Business Desktop Deployment
35 (7.576 %)Tivoli
44 (6.061 %)Tivoli Monitoring
53 (4.545 %)Control-M
62 (3.030 %)NetBackup
62 (3.030 %)MIMEsweeper
62 (3.030 %)OpenView
62 (3.030 %)WMI
71 (1.515 %)SolarWinds Orion
71 (1.515 %)Data Guard
71 (1.515 %)McAfee ePO
71 (1.515 %)OMEGAMON
71 (1.515 %)WSUS
71 (1.515 %)Tivoli NetView
71 (1.515 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
71 (1.515 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
71 (1.515 %)BMC PATROL
71 (1.515 %)Unicenter
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
122 (33.33 %)VMware
221 (31.82 %)Microsoft
312 (18.18 %)HP
411 (16.67 %)Citrix
58 (12.12 %)Oracle
66 (9.091 %)Altiris
75 (7.576 %)Symantec
75 (7.576 %)IBM
84 (6.061 %)BMC
92 (3.030 %)Lawson
92 (3.030 %)Veeam
101 (1.515 %)SolarWinds
101 (1.515 %)Brocade
101 (1.515 %)Sybase
101 (1.515 %)Veritas
101 (1.515 %)JD Edwards
101 (1.515 %)Dell
101 (1.515 %)EMC
101 (1.515 %)McAfee
101 (1.515 %)Sophos
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