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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 68 67 73
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +6
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 1 1 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 0.151% 0.133% 0.750%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.348% 3.226% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 6
Average salary £41,500 £47,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.63% +13.09%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £38,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+16.88% -9.41%
All Systems Management
Northamptonshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
23 31 50
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 3.480% 4.117% 6.250%
Number of salaries quoted 21 27 41
Average salary £37,500 £37,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.35% +13.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £55,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
SCOM
East Midlands

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire SCOM Salary Trend

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) SCCM
3 3 (60.00%) MCSE
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (60.00%) Dell
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
4 2 (40.00%) Remedy
4 2 (40.00%) MCSA
4 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (40.00%) MCITP
5 1 (20.00%) Degree
5 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (20.00%) MCTS
5 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
5 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
5 1 (20.00%) SLA
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (20.00%) CCNA
5 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (20.00%) NetApp
5 1 (20.00%) Nokia

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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.

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Support Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Support Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Support
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Support
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) MOF
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) MCSE
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (40.00%) MCSA
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (40.00%) MCITP
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) MCTS
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Dell
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Remedy
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Nokia
3 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec