The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 84 77 67
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -10
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 8 16 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.757% 1.194% 2.205%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.69% 24.62% 40.48%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 10
Average salary - £31,500 £34,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -9.35%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £38,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+16.88% -9.41%
All Systems Management
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
51 65 84
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 4.825% 4.851% 5.447%
Number of salaries quoted 25 48 51
Average salary £41,500 £46,250 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.27% +23.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
SCOM
Scotland

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh SCOM Salary Trend

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 15 (78.95%) Windows
1 15 (78.95%) Microsoft
2 14 (73.68%) SCCM
3 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
3 12 (63.16%) MS Excel
3 12 (63.16%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (57.89%) VMware
5 8 (42.11%) Finance
5 8 (42.11%) ITIL
5 8 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (36.84%) vSphere
6 7 (36.84%) MS Exchange
6 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (36.84%) Exchange Server 2007
7 6 (31.58%) Postini
7 6 (31.58%) Degree
7 6 (31.58%) MS PowerPoint
7 6 (31.58%) Lotus
7 6 (31.58%) Service Delivery
7 6 (31.58%) Lotus Notes
7 6 (31.58%) MS Office
7 6 (31.58%) SLA
7 6 (31.58%) MS Visio
7 6 (31.58%) CommVault
7 6 (31.58%) Tivoli
7 6 (31.58%) ITIL V2
7 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
7 6 (31.58%) Time Management
8 5 (26.32%) Perl
8 5 (26.32%) Telecoms

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (10.53%) XML
2 1 (5.263%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 7 (36.84%) MS Exchange
1 7 (36.84%) Exchange Server 2007
2 6 (31.58%) Lotus Notes
3 3 (15.79%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (63.16%) MS Excel
2 6 (31.58%) MS Visio
2 6 (31.58%) MS PowerPoint
2 6 (31.58%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DHCP
1 3 (15.79%) SAN
2 1 (5.263%) Internet
2 1 (5.263%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) MS Access
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Retail
2 5 (26.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Analyst
2 7 (36.84%) Support Analyst
3 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Software Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) IT Support Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) IT Support
6 1 (5.263%) Citrix Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 15 (78.95%) Windows
2 12 (63.16%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (10.53%) Windows XP
5 1 (5.263%) VMS
5 1 (5.263%) UNIX
5 1 (5.263%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) ITIL
2 6 (31.58%) Service Delivery
2 6 (31.58%) Time Management
2 6 (31.58%) ITIL V2
3 4 (21.05%) Software Distribution
4 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (10.53%) Service Management
5 1 (5.263%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Perl
2 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) VBScript
3 2 (10.53%) VB
3 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Degree
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.263%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
2 8 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (36.84%) vSphere
4 2 (10.53%) XenDesktop
5 1 (5.263%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.263%) VMware ESX
5 1 (5.263%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (5.263%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) SCCM
2 6 (31.58%) Tivoli
3 4 (21.05%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (15.79%) BMC PATROL
4 3 (15.79%) OpenView
5 1 (5.263%) SCVMM
5 1 (5.263%) Opalis
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Microsoft
2 11 (57.89%) VMware
3 6 (31.58%) Postini
3 6 (31.58%) CommVault
3 6 (31.58%) Lotus
4 5 (26.32%) Fujitsu
5 4 (21.05%) HP
6 2 (10.53%) EMC
6 2 (10.53%) Citrix
6 2 (10.53%) Symantec
6 2 (10.53%) NetApp
7 1 (5.263%) Cisco
7 1 (5.263%) Brocade
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Lorien Resourcing
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Posted: 14 May 2013
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Salary: offer competitive package
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