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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 59 77 63
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -14
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 2 5 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.447% 0.743% 0.432%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.29% 15.15% 7.407%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 2
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +61.53%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £38,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+16.88% -9.41%
All Systems Management
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
14 33 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 3.132% 4.903% 5.832%
Number of salaries quoted 8 29 18
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £43,503
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -8.05%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,800 £32,528 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
SCOM
North West

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside SCOM Salary Trend

SCOM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SCOM across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool +15 2 £52,500 -
SCOM
North West

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 5 (100.00%) SCCM
1 5 (100.00%) SCVMM
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (80.00%) XenApp
2 4 (80.00%) XenDesktop
2 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Citrix
3 3 (60.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (40.00%) MCTS
4 2 (40.00%) MCITP
5 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco
5 1 (20.00%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (20.00%) SAN
5 1 (20.00%) NetApp
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (20.00%) HP
5 1 (20.00%) Dell
5 1 (20.00%) EMC
5 1 (20.00%) MCSE
5 1 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (20.00%) ITIL
5 1 (20.00%) Celerra

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) Office Communications Server
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (20.00%) Lync
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (20.00%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
1 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Consultant
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (40.00%) SCCM Consultant
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Consultant
4 1 (20.00%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Celerra
1 1 (20.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (60.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (20.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) MCTS
1 2 (40.00%) MCITP
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) MCSE
2 1 (20.00%) HP AIS
2 1 (20.00%) HP ASE
2 1 (20.00%) HP MASE
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (20.00%) VCDX
2 1 (20.00%) NCDA
2 1 (20.00%) NCIE
2 1 (20.00%) VCAP
2 1 (20.00%) CCEE
2 1 (20.00%) CCIA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (80.00%) XenApp
2 4 (80.00%) XenDesktop
2 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESX
3 1 (20.00%) XenServer
3 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) SCCM
1 5 (100.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) EMC