The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SCOM over the 3 months to 21 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 126 150 -
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 17 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.646% 0.104% -
As % of the Systems Management category 12.88% 2.857% -
Number of salaries quoted 15 1 0
Average salary £50,000 £52,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £38,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+16.88% -9.41%
All Systems Management
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
132 105 50
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 5.015% 3.657% 1.677%
Number of salaries quoted 102 88 44
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% -
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £30,000 £27,444
10% offered a salary of more than £53,000 £41,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
SCOM
East of England

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire SCOM Salary Trend

SCOM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SCOM across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire SCOM Salary Histogram

SCOM
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +18 16 £50,000 -4.76%
SCOM
East of England

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 44 (83.02%) Microsoft
2 33 (62.26%) Active Directory
3 31 (58.49%) SCCM
4 30 (56.60%) SQL Server
5 26 (49.06%) ITIL
5 26 (49.06%) MS Exchange
5 26 (49.06%) Exchange Server 2010
6 23 (43.40%) Citrix
7 22 (41.51%) Symantec
8 21 (39.62%) MS Excel
9 17 (32.08%) Windows
9 17 (32.08%) DHCP
9 17 (32.08%) DNS
9 17 (32.08%) Blackberry
9 17 (32.08%) Backup Exec
9 17 (32.08%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 17 (32.08%) Windows Server 2008
10 15 (28.30%) SCVMM
11 14 (26.42%) MCITP
12 13 (24.53%) WSUS
12 13 (24.53%) Back Office
13 10 (18.87%) VMware
13 10 (18.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (18.87%) VMware Infrastructure
14 9 (16.98%) Problem Management
14 9 (16.98%) WCF
14 9 (16.98%) ESB
14 9 (16.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (16.98%) Hyper-V
14 9 (16.98%) BizTalk Server

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 9 (16.98%) WCF
1 9 (16.98%) XML
2 8 (15.09%) XML Schema
3 7 (13.21%) WF
Application Platforms
1 26 (49.06%) MS Exchange
1 26 (49.06%) Exchange Server 2010
2 9 (16.98%) ESB
2 9 (16.98%) BizTalk Server
3 5 (9.434%) Lync
4 4 (7.547%) SharePoint
4 4 (7.547%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (1.887%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (1.887%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 21 (39.62%) MS Excel
2 4 (7.547%) MS Office
3 1 (1.887%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (32.08%) DHCP
1 17 (32.08%) DNS
2 4 (7.547%) Unified Communications
3 3 (5.660%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (56.60%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (15.09%) SQL Server 2005
3 8 (15.09%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 13 (24.53%) Back Office
2 2 (3.774%) Finance
3 1 (1.887%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (39.62%) Systems Administrator
1 21 (39.62%) Administrator
2 16 (30.19%) Consultant
3 9 (16.98%) Developer
4 8 (15.09%) BizTalk Developer
5 5 (9.434%) Microsoft Consultant
6 2 (3.774%) Architect
6 2 (3.774%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.774%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (3.774%) Virtualisation Consultant
7 1 (1.887%) Virtualisation Technical Architect
7 1 (1.887%) VMware Consultant
7 1 (1.887%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (1.887%) Virtualisation Architect
7 1 (1.887%) SCCM Consultant
7 1 (1.887%) Systems Manager
7 1 (1.887%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 1 (1.887%) Desktop Engineer
7 1 (1.887%) Senior Technical Consultant
7 1 (1.887%) Business Development Executive
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.08%) Blackberry
2 2 (3.774%) CLARiiON
2 2 (3.774%) Clustering
2 2 (3.774%) FMCG
2 2 (3.774%) EqualLogic
2 2 (3.774%) Celerra
3 1 (1.887%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.887%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 17 (32.08%) Windows
1 17 (32.08%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (15.09%) Windows 7
3 5 (9.434%) Windows 8
4 4 (7.547%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (49.06%) ITIL
2 9 (16.98%) Problem Management
2 9 (16.98%) EAI
2 9 (16.98%) SOA
2 9 (16.98%) ETL
3 8 (15.09%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (15.09%) Incident Management
4 2 (3.774%) PRINCE
4 2 (3.774%) PRINCE2
4 2 (3.774%) MOF
4 2 (3.774%) TOGAF
4 2 (3.774%) High Availability
4 2 (3.774%) Data Protection
5 1 (1.887%) Time Management
5 1 (1.887%) Business Development
5 1 (1.887%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (1.887%) Data Management
5 1 (1.887%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.98%) C#
2 2 (3.774%) C
3 1 (1.887%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (26.42%) MCITP
2 10 (18.87%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (7.547%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (7.547%) MCTS
4 3 (5.660%) NCIE
5 2 (3.774%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (3.774%) NCDA
5 2 (3.774%) CCEE
5 2 (3.774%) CCIA
5 2 (3.774%) HP ASE
5 2 (3.774%) HP MASE
5 2 (3.774%) VCDX
6 1 (1.887%) HP AIS
6 1 (1.887%) VCAP
6 1 (1.887%) MCSE
6 1 (1.887%) CCEA
System Software
1 33 (62.26%) Active Directory
2 10 (18.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (16.98%) Hyper-V
4 8 (15.09%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (11.32%) XenApp
5 6 (11.32%) XenDesktop
6 4 (7.547%) vSphere
7 3 (5.660%) XenServer
8 2 (3.774%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 31 (58.49%) SCCM
2 17 (32.08%) Backup Exec
2 17 (32.08%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 15 (28.30%) SCVMM
4 13 (24.53%) WSUS
5 1 (1.887%) Puppet
5 1 (1.887%) MOM
5 1 (1.887%) OpenView
Vendors
1 44 (83.02%) Microsoft
2 23 (43.40%) Citrix
3 22 (41.51%) Symantec
4 10 (18.87%) VMware
5 5 (9.434%) NetApp
6 4 (7.547%) EMC
7 3 (5.660%) HP
7 3 (5.660%) Dell
8 2 (3.774%) Cisco
8 2 (3.774%) SAP
9 1 (1.887%) 3PAR
9 1 (1.887%) Twitter
9 1 (1.887%) CommVault