The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SCOM over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 89 79 -
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 1 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.094% 0.337% -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.408% 6.383% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Average salary £35,500 £45,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.11% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -5.88%
All Systems Management
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
71 47 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 6.654% 5.275% 1.942%
Number of salaries quoted 66 42 17
Average salary £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.27% +3.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £21,500 £34,200
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.50% -
SCOM
East of England

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire SCOM Jobs Demand Trend

SCOM
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SCOM across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire SCOM Salary Trend

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SCOM.

1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 7 (63.64%) DHCP
2 7 (63.64%) DNS
2 7 (63.64%) IIS
2 7 (63.64%) Configuration Management
2 7 (63.64%) PowerShell
2 7 (63.64%) SCCM
3 6 (54.55%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (54.55%) E-Commerce
3 6 (54.55%) Windows
3 6 (54.55%) FTP
4 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
4 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (27.27%) SLA
5 3 (27.27%) ITIL
6 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
6 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
6 2 (18.18%) Service Management
6 2 (18.18%) VMware
6 2 (18.18%) ITSM
6 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
6 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
6 2 (18.18%) Change Control
6 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (18.18%) Software Deployment
7 1 (9.091%) Demand Management
7 1 (9.091%) Capacity Management
7 1 (9.091%) DO-178B

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SCOM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (9.091%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 7 (63.64%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) DHCP
1 7 (63.64%) DNS
2 6 (54.55%) FTP
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Git (software)
1 1 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (9.091%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Service Improvement Manager
2 1 (9.091%) Service Manager
2 1 (9.091%) Problem Manager
2 1 (9.091%) Business Analyst
2 1 (9.091%) Software Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Analyst
2 1 (9.091%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Configuration Management
2 6 (54.55%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (54.55%) E-Commerce
3 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
3 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (27.27%) ITIL
5 2 (18.18%) Service Management
5 2 (18.18%) ITSM
5 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
5 2 (18.18%) Change Control
5 2 (18.18%) Software Deployment
6 1 (9.091%) Demand Management
6 1 (9.091%) Capacity Management
6 1 (9.091%) Multithreading
6 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
6 1 (9.091%) Software Engineering
6 1 (9.091%) Business Analysis
6 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
6 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.091%) C++
3 1 (9.091%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
1 1 (9.091%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
2 1 (9.091%) DO-178B
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.091%) Citrix