The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 109 124 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 18 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.956% 0.051% -
As % of the Systems Management category 17.14% 1.408% -
Number of salaries quoted 17 1 0
Average salary £45,000 £52,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £38,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+16.88% -9.41%
All Systems Management
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
105 71 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 5.579% 3.588% 1.559%
Number of salaries quoted 82 64 28
Average salary £42,500 £34,881 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.84% -0.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £31,000 £27,125
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £35,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
SCOM
Cambridgeshire

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge SCOM Salary Trend

SCOM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SCOM across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridge SCOM Salary Histogram

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 42 (91.30%) Microsoft
2 31 (67.39%) Active Directory
3 28 (60.87%) SQL Server
4 26 (56.52%) SCCM
5 25 (54.35%) Exchange Server 2010
5 25 (54.35%) MS Exchange
6 23 (50.00%) ITIL
7 21 (45.65%) Symantec
8 20 (43.48%) MS Excel
8 20 (43.48%) Citrix
9 16 (34.78%) DHCP
9 16 (34.78%) DNS
9 16 (34.78%) Blackberry
9 16 (34.78%) Backup Exec
9 16 (34.78%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
10 15 (32.61%) SCVMM
11 14 (30.43%) Windows
11 14 (30.43%) Windows Server 2008
12 13 (28.26%) MCITP
13 12 (26.09%) Back Office
13 12 (26.09%) WSUS
14 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (17.39%) BizTalk Server
15 8 (17.39%) EAI
15 8 (17.39%) SOA
15 8 (17.39%) ETL
15 8 (17.39%) XML
15 8 (17.39%) C#
15 8 (17.39%) VMware
15 8 (17.39%) Microsoft App-V

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 8 (17.39%) XML
1 8 (17.39%) WCF
1 8 (17.39%) WF
2 7 (15.22%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 25 (54.35%) MS Exchange
1 25 (54.35%) Exchange Server 2010
2 8 (17.39%) BizTalk Server
2 8 (17.39%) ESB
3 5 (10.87%) Lync
4 4 (8.696%) SharePoint
4 4 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (2.174%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (2.174%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 20 (43.48%) MS Excel
2 4 (8.696%) MS Office
3 1 (2.174%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (34.78%) DHCP
1 16 (34.78%) DNS
2 4 (8.696%) Unified Communications
3 3 (6.522%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (60.87%) SQL Server
2 8 (17.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (15.22%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (15.22%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 12 (26.09%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) Systems Administrator
1 20 (43.48%) Administrator
2 15 (32.61%) Consultant
3 8 (17.39%) Developer
3 8 (17.39%) BizTalk Developer
4 4 (8.696%) Microsoft Consultant
5 2 (4.348%) Virtualisation Consultant
5 2 (4.348%) Architect
5 2 (4.348%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.348%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (2.174%) Senior Technical Consultant
6 1 (2.174%) Business Development Executive
6 1 (2.174%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.174%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (2.174%) Virtualisation Architect
6 1 (2.174%) VMware Consultant
6 1 (2.174%) Virtualisation Technical Architect
6 1 (2.174%) SCCM Consultant
6 1 (2.174%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) Blackberry
2 2 (4.348%) CLARiiON
2 2 (4.348%) Clustering
2 2 (4.348%) Celerra
2 2 (4.348%) EqualLogic
3 1 (2.174%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.174%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 14 (30.43%) Windows
1 14 (30.43%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (15.22%) Windows 7
3 4 (8.696%) Windows 8
4 2 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) ITIL
2 8 (17.39%) EAI
2 8 (17.39%) SOA
2 8 (17.39%) ETL
2 8 (17.39%) Incident Management
2 8 (17.39%) Problem Management
3 7 (15.22%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (4.348%) PRINCE2
4 2 (4.348%) PRINCE
4 2 (4.348%) MOF
4 2 (4.348%) Data Protection
4 2 (4.348%) High Availability
4 2 (4.348%) TOGAF
5 1 (2.174%) Business Development
5 1 (2.174%) Identity Management
5 1 (2.174%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.39%) C#
2 2 (4.348%) C
3 1 (2.174%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) MCITP
2 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (8.696%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (8.696%) MCTS
4 3 (6.522%) NCIE
5 2 (4.348%) CCEE
5 2 (4.348%) CCIA
5 2 (4.348%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (4.348%) HP ASE
5 2 (4.348%) HP MASE
5 2 (4.348%) VCDX
5 2 (4.348%) NCDA
6 1 (2.174%) CCEA
6 1 (2.174%) MCSE
6 1 (2.174%) VCAP
6 1 (2.174%) HP AIS
System Software
1 31 (67.39%) Active Directory
2 8 (17.39%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (17.39%) Hyper-V
3 6 (13.04%) XenApp
3 6 (13.04%) XenDesktop
4 4 (8.696%) vSphere
5 3 (6.522%) XenServer
6 2 (4.348%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 26 (56.52%) SCCM
2 16 (34.78%) Backup Exec
2 16 (34.78%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 15 (32.61%) SCVMM
4 12 (26.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (91.30%) Microsoft
2 21 (45.65%) Symantec
3 20 (43.48%) Citrix
4 8 (17.39%) VMware
5 4 (8.696%) EMC
5 4 (8.696%) NetApp
6 3 (6.522%) HP
6 3 (6.522%) Dell
7 2 (4.348%) Cisco
8 1 (2.174%) 3PAR
8 1 (2.174%) CommVault