The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SCOM over the 3 months to 24 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 138 149 163
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +14
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 2 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.081% 0.040% 0.089%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.212% 0.662% 2.055%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
Average salary £60,250 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £60,050 £45,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,450 £45,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £38,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+16.88% -9.41%
All Systems Management
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
165 151 146
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 6.694% 5.994% 4.328%
Number of salaries quoted 132 125 120
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £33,000 £33,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
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 Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire SCOM Salary Trend

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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Watford +14 1 £60,000 +33.33%
SCOM
East of England

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) SCCM
2 6 (85.71%) MCITP
3 5 (71.43%) MS Exchange
3 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
4 4 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (57.14%) Office 365
4 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
4 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
4 4 (57.14%) MCTS
5 3 (42.86%) Identity Management
5 3 (42.86%) VMware
5 3 (42.86%) SCVMM
5 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (42.86%) Citrix
5 3 (42.86%) SQL
6 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
6 2 (28.57%) MCSA
6 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
6 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (28.57%) Office Communications Server
6 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (28.57%) Android
6 2 (28.57%) Application Packaging
6 2 (28.57%) Migration
6 2 (28.57%) Lync
6 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (28.57%) Windows 7
6 2 (28.57%) vSphere

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 (28.57%) Application Packaging
2 1 (14.29%) SAP PI
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) MS Exchange
2 4 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (28.57%) Office Communications Server
3 2 (28.57%) Lync
3 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Office 365
2 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (14.29%) PABX
1 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
1 1 (14.29%) VoIP
1 1 (14.29%) WLAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) AdminStudio
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Technical Support
3 1 (14.29%) SCCM Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Pre Sales Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Sales Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) iPad
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
1 1 (14.29%) iPhone
1 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (28.57%) Android
3 2 (28.57%) Windows 7
4 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Identity Management
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Product Management
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Software Deployment
3 1 (14.29%) Network Design
3 1 (14.29%) Workflow
3 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) MCITP
2 4 (57.14%) MCTS
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (28.57%) MCSA
5 1 (14.29%) CCEE
5 1 (14.29%) CCAA
5 1 (14.29%) CCA
5 1 (14.29%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (14.29%) MCSE
5 1 (14.29%) CCNA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) vSphere
3 1 (14.29%) XenApp
3 1 (14.29%) XenServer
3 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) SCCM
2 3 (42.86%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) Kaseya
3 1 (14.29%) Metastorm
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) HP