The first table below looks at the demand for Unicenter skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unicenter over the 3 months to 23 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.

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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CA Unicenter
Rank 518 552 555
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +3
Contract jobs citing Unicenter 23 13 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.050% 0.022% 0.050%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.724% 0.363% 0.844%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 15
Average daily rate £140 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-60.00% -22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £132 £267 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £357 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £140 - £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £34.25 £21.00 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+63.09% -1.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.65 £21.00 £20.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.85 £21.00 £22.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.50 £21.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year
+11.90% -1.17%
All Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
3177 3579 3671
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.856% 6.131% 5.915%
Number of daily rates quoted 1787 1824 1748
Average daily rate £375 £350 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -5.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 170 238
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.63 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.91% -14.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%

Unicenter
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Unicenter Jobs Demand Trend

Unicenter
Daily Rate Trend

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

Unicenter Daily Rate Trend

Unicenter
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Unicenter within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Unicenter Daily Rate Histogram

Unicenter
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Unicenter Hourly Rate Trend

Unicenter
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Unicenter within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Unicenter Hourly Rate Histogram

Unicenter
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unicenter within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +54 23 £140 -60.00%
South East - 10 £140 -
Berkshire - 7 £140 -
Reading - 7 £140 -
London +28 5 - -
Lancashire +18 5 - -
North West +14 5 - -
Lytham St Annes - 5 - -
South West - 2 £320 -
Bristol - 2 £320 -
Surrey - 2 £140 -
Doncaster +4 1 - -
South Yorkshire +2 1 - -
Yorkshire -2 1 - -

Unicenter
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Unicenter 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 Unicenter.

1 27 (79.41%) CA
2 24 (70.59%) Microsoft
3 23 (67.65%) Windows
4 18 (52.94%) HP
5 16 (47.06%) Windows XP
5 16 (47.06%) MS Office
6 14 (41.18%) ITSM
7 13 (38.24%) Incident Management
8 12 (35.29%) Remedy
8 12 (35.29%) Tivoli
8 12 (35.29%) Linux
8 12 (35.29%) Active Directory
9 11 (32.35%) Royalblue
9 11 (32.35%) ITIL
9 11 (32.35%) Internet
9 11 (32.35%) FrontRange
9 11 (32.35%) Windows 7
10 10 (29.41%) Citrix
10 10 (29.41%) MS Excel
10 10 (29.41%) TCP/IP
11 9 (26.47%) LAN
11 9 (26.47%) WAN
11 9 (26.47%) Ethernet
11 9 (26.47%) Windows Server 2003
12 8 (23.53%) Blackberry
12 8 (23.53%) Service Management
12 8 (23.53%) VMware
12 8 (23.53%) VPN
12 8 (23.53%) C
12 8 (23.53%) SCCM

Unicenter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Unicenter 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 Unicenter. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (14.71%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 5.5
2 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (2.941%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.941%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (2.941%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 16 (47.06%) MS Office
2 10 (29.41%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (32.35%) Internet
2 10 (29.41%) TCP/IP
3 9 (26.47%) LAN
3 9 (26.47%) WAN
3 9 (26.47%) Ethernet
4 8 (23.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.941%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (20.59%) Finance
2 3 (8.824%) Military
2 3 (8.824%) Aerospace
2 3 (8.824%) Electronics
2 3 (8.824%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Analyst
1 18 (52.94%) Service Analyst
2 13 (38.24%) Service Desk Analyst
3 12 (35.29%) Technical Consultant
3 12 (35.29%) Consultant
4 7 (20.59%) ITSM Consultant
5 3 (8.824%) Remedy Consultant
5 3 (8.824%) Support Analyst
5 3 (8.824%) Help Desk Support
6 2 (5.882%) Desktop Support
6 2 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (5.882%) Administrator
6 2 (5.882%) Test Leader
7 1 (2.941%) 1st Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Blackberry
2 7 (20.59%) SaaS
2 7 (20.59%) CMDB
3 2 (5.882%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.882%) Chip and PIN
3 2 (5.882%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 23 (67.65%) Windows
2 16 (47.06%) Windows XP
3 12 (35.29%) Linux
4 11 (32.35%) Windows 7
5 9 (26.47%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (20.59%) Windows NT
6 7 (20.59%) UNIX
7 6 (17.65%) Mac OS X
8 5 (14.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (14.71%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (14.71%) AIX
8 5 (14.71%) HPUX
8 5 (14.71%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) ITSM
2 13 (38.24%) Incident Management
3 11 (32.35%) ITIL
4 8 (23.53%) Service Management
5 7 (20.59%) Migration
5 7 (20.59%) Use Case
6 6 (17.65%) Software Distribution
7 4 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (8.824%) Communications Security
8 3 (8.824%) Information Management
9 2 (5.882%) Data Analysis
9 2 (5.882%) Asset Management
9 2 (5.882%) Test Management
10 1 (2.941%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) C
2 7 (20.59%) C++
2 7 (20.59%) Java
3 1 (2.941%) Perl
3 1 (2.941%) SQL
3 1 (2.941%) VB
3 1 (2.941%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.882%) ISEB
4 1 (2.941%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.941%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) SLA
2 2 (5.882%) QA
System Software
1 12 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 7 (20.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (17.65%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 12 (35.29%) Tivoli
2 8 (23.53%) SCCM
3 7 (20.59%) SCOM
3 7 (20.59%) MOM
3 7 (20.59%) Netcool
3 7 (20.59%) BMC PATROL
4 2 (5.882%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 27 (79.41%) CA
2 24 (70.59%) Microsoft
3 18 (52.94%) HP
4 12 (35.29%) Remedy
5 11 (32.35%) Royalblue
5 11 (32.35%) FrontRange
6 10 (29.41%) Citrix
7 8 (23.53%) VMware
8 7 (20.59%) BMC
9 5 (14.71%) Red Hat
10 1 (2.941%) Oracle
10 1 (2.941%) CheckPoint
10 1 (2.941%) Lotus
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TECHNICAL SKILLS Sound understanding of Service Desk toolsets (VMWare Service Manager (VSM), Touchpaper, CA Unicentre, RoyalBlue, Frontrange, Remedy, etc.) Practical experience in supporting at a 1st line level,...
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Posted: 17 May 2013