The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCOM 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 West Midlands 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 Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 87 96 83
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -13
Contract jobs citing SCOM 8 7 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.485% 0.314% 0.580%
As % of the Systems Management category 10.81% 6.422% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
Average daily rate £303 £350 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.57% +4.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £277 £350 £154
10% offered a daily rate of more than £336 £430 £391
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £364
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -3.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £24.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.25 £17.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+60.29% -51.42%
All Systems Management
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
74 109 105
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 4.482% 4.886% 5.541%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 52 46
Average daily rate £325 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £175 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £375 £424
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 7
Average hourly rate £12.50 £17.50 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% -27.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.75 £12.40 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.75 £24.45 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
SCOM
England

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +6 1 - -
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
SCOM
England

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 15 (88.24%) Windows
1 15 (88.24%) Microsoft
2 11 (64.71%) SCCM
3 8 (47.06%) Citrix
3 8 (47.06%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (41.18%) Windows 7
4 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
5 5 (29.41%) MOM
5 5 (29.41%) SQL
5 5 (29.41%) WSUS
5 5 (29.41%) VMware
5 5 (29.41%) Hyper-V
5 5 (29.41%) XenApp
6 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
6 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
6 4 (23.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 4 (23.53%) HP
7 3 (17.65%) SAN
7 3 (17.65%) MS Exchange
7 3 (17.65%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (17.65%) MSI
7 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
8 2 (11.76%) Performance Management
8 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
8 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
8 2 (11.76%) XenDesktop
8 2 (11.76%) WebCenter
8 2 (11.76%) SharePoint 2010

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 2 (11.76%) Application Packaging
1 2 (11.76%) Software Packaging
1 2 (11.76%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
2 3 (17.65%) MS Exchange
3 2 (11.76%) Documentum
3 2 (11.76%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (5.882%) Lync
4 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (5.882%) IIS
4 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (5.882%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) SAN
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) LDAP
2 2 (11.76%) DHCP
2 2 (11.76%) DNS
3 1 (5.882%) SNMP
3 1 (5.882%) Wireless
3 1 (5.882%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) MSI
General
1 1 (5.882%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Wintel Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Server Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Server Support
3 2 (11.76%) Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Designer
3 2 (11.76%) Wintel Support
3 2 (11.76%) SCCM Administrator
4 1 (5.882%) Server Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Server Support Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Wintel Server Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Wintel Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Wintel Support Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Wintel Server Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Wintel Support Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Specialist
4 1 (5.882%) Server Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 15 (88.24%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (41.18%) Windows 7
4 2 (11.76%) Windows XP
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.76%) Service Management
1 2 (11.76%) Change Management
1 2 (11.76%) Migration
1 2 (11.76%) Performance Management
1 2 (11.76%) Software Deployment
2 1 (5.882%) Project Management
2 1 (5.882%) Change Control
2 1 (5.882%) Business Continuity
2 1 (5.882%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) MCSE
3 1 (5.882%) VCP5
3 1 (5.882%) MCITP
3 1 (5.882%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 5 (29.41%) Hyper-V
2 5 (29.41%) XenApp
3 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (11.76%) XenDesktop
6 1 (5.882%) ISA Server
6 1 (5.882%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) SCCM
2 5 (29.41%) WSUS
2 5 (29.41%) MOM
3 4 (23.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (11.76%) SCVMM
5 1 (5.882%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (5.882%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (5.882%) NetBackup
5 1 (5.882%) WMI
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (47.06%) Citrix
3 5 (29.41%) VMware
4 4 (23.53%) HP
5 2 (11.76%) Oracle
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco
5 2 (11.76%) EMC
6 1 (5.882%) Dell
6 1 (5.882%) Altiris
6 1 (5.882%) Veritas
6 1 (5.882%) Symantec