The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire 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 45 53 45
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -8
Contract jobs citing SCOM 3 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 0.673% 0.316% 0.907%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.00% 4.444% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
Average daily rate £475 - £331
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £364
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -3.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.25 £17.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+60.29% -51.42%
All Systems Management
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
25 45 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 5.605% 7.120% 6.715%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 29 23
Average daily rate £465 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.25% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £251 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £522 £450 £449
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £41.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +107.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
SCOM
South West

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire 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
Swindon - 2 £475 -
SCOM
South West

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 13 (72.22%) VBScript
1 13 (72.22%) Finance
2 12 (66.67%) MOM
3 11 (61.11%) VB
4 8 (44.44%) Windows
4 8 (44.44%) PowerShell
4 8 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 5 (27.78%) WMI
7 4 (22.22%) Windows 7
7 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
8 3 (16.67%) Visual Studio
9 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
9 2 (11.11%) Web Services
9 2 (11.11%) ITIL
9 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2
9 2 (11.11%) IIS
9 2 (11.11%) .NET
9 2 (11.11%) Compuware
9 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
9 2 (11.11%) C
9 2 (11.11%) ETL
9 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (11.11%) AppFabric
9 2 (11.11%) WCF
9 2 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (11.11%) Banking
10 1 (5.556%) assyst

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
1 2 (11.11%) Web Services
1 2 (11.11%) WCF
1 2 (11.11%) AppFabric
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) IIS
1 2 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.556%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) DHCP
1 1 (5.556%) DNS
1 1 (5.556%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (72.22%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Consultant
2 5 (27.78%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Coordinator
3 2 (11.11%) Test Coordinator
4 1 (5.556%) Author
4 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Thin Client
1 1 (5.556%) Clustering
1 1 (5.556%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
1 8 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (22.22%) Windows 7
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) ITIL
1 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2
1 2 (11.11%) ETL
1 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (5.556%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) VBScript
2 11 (61.11%) VB
3 8 (44.44%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.11%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.556%) VMware ESX
1 1 (5.556%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (5.556%) XenApp
1 1 (5.556%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) MOM
2 5 (27.78%) WMI
3 1 (5.556%) SCCM
3 1 (5.556%) HP SIM
3 1 (5.556%) ZENworks
3 1 (5.556%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Compuware
3 1 (5.556%) HP
3 1 (5.556%) Dell
3 1 (5.556%) EMC
3 1 (5.556%) Citrix
3 1 (5.556%) Novell
3 1 (5.556%) Sophos
3 1 (5.556%) Wyse
3 1 (5.556%) VMware
Swindon, Wiltshire
Essential Requirements: o Multi-Site Active Directory / DNS / DHCP o Windows Server 2003 / 2008 o VMware (ESX / vSphere) o Microsoft SQL Server (2005 / 2008 / Reporting) o Citrix XenApp...
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Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 13 May 2013