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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 131 126 121
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -5
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 22 29 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.699% 0.839% 1.091%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.89% 14.01% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6 15 15
Average salary £38,625 £31,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.61% -14.86%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £38,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+16.88% -9.41%
All Systems Management
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
185 207 228
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 5.879% 5.991% 6.544%
Number of salaries quoted 96 126 167
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% -3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
SCOM
UK

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland SCOM Salary Trend

SCOM
Salary Histogram

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

Scotland 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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh 0 8 - -
Aberdeen +6 6 £40,000 -
Glasgow -22 4 £33,000 +20.00%
Highlands - 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire +1 1 £39,250 +4.31%
West Lothian -4 1 - -
SCOM
UK

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 32 (86.49%) Windows
2 31 (83.78%) SCCM
3 27 (72.97%) Microsoft
4 26 (70.27%) Active Directory
5 24 (64.86%) Windows Server 2008
6 21 (56.76%) VMware
7 19 (51.35%) Windows Server 2003
8 14 (37.84%) MS Exchange
8 14 (37.84%) MS Excel
8 14 (37.84%) ITIL
9 13 (35.14%) VMware Infrastructure
10 11 (29.73%) vSphere
10 11 (29.73%) Finance
11 10 (27.03%) Exchange Server 2007
11 10 (27.03%) HP
11 10 (27.03%) Citrix
12 8 (21.62%) Tivoli
13 7 (18.92%) Lotus
13 7 (18.92%) Service Delivery
13 7 (18.92%) DNS
13 7 (18.92%) SLA
13 7 (18.92%) IIS
13 7 (18.92%) Lotus Notes
14 6 (16.22%) MS Office
14 6 (16.22%) MS Visio
14 6 (16.22%) DHCP
14 6 (16.22%) CommVault
14 6 (16.22%) MS PowerPoint
14 6 (16.22%) Degree
14 6 (16.22%) Postini

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 (5.405%) XML
2 1 (2.703%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 14 (37.84%) MS Exchange
2 10 (27.03%) Exchange Server 2007
3 7 (18.92%) IIS
3 7 (18.92%) Lotus Notes
4 4 (10.81%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (8.108%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (8.108%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (5.405%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (37.84%) MS Excel
2 6 (16.22%) MS Office
2 6 (16.22%) MS Visio
2 6 (16.22%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) DNS
2 6 (16.22%) DHCP
3 5 (13.51%) SAN
4 2 (5.405%) IPv4
5 1 (2.703%) Internet
5 1 (2.703%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) MS Access
2 2 (5.405%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.405%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.405%) Base SAS
2 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 11 (29.73%) Finance
2 5 (13.51%) Retail
2 5 (13.51%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.405%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Analyst
2 8 (21.62%) Support Analyst
2 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 3 (8.108%) Software Analyst
4 3 (8.108%) Technical Specialist
4 3 (8.108%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (8.108%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 3 (8.108%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (8.108%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.108%) Consultant
5 2 (5.405%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (5.405%) Capacity Manager
6 1 (2.703%) Major Incident Analyst
6 1 (2.703%) IT Support
6 1 (2.703%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (2.703%) Incident Analyst
6 1 (2.703%) Infrastructure Team Leader
6 1 (2.703%) IT Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Clustering
2 3 (8.108%) Statistics
2 3 (8.108%) Blackberry
3 2 (5.405%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.405%) CLARiiON
3 2 (5.405%) e-Health
3 2 (5.405%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (2.703%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 32 (86.49%) Windows
2 24 (64.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 19 (51.35%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (8.108%) UNIX
5 2 (5.405%) Windows XP
5 2 (5.405%) zOS
5 2 (5.405%) VME
6 1 (2.703%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.703%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) ITIL
2 7 (18.92%) Service Delivery
3 6 (16.22%) Time Management
3 6 (16.22%) ITIL V2
4 5 (13.51%) Service Management
5 4 (10.81%) Change Management
5 4 (10.81%) Software Distribution
6 2 (5.405%) Project Management
6 2 (5.405%) Statistical Analysis
6 2 (5.405%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (5.405%) ITIL V3
6 2 (5.405%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (5.405%) Capacity Management
7 1 (2.703%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (2.703%) Incident Management
7 1 (2.703%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (2.703%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) Perl
2 4 (10.81%) SQL
2 4 (10.81%) VBScript
3 3 (8.108%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.405%) VB
4 2 (5.405%) JCL
4 2 (5.405%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Degree
1 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.108%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.703%) MCTS
3 1 (2.703%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.92%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (70.27%) Active Directory
2 13 (35.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (29.73%) vSphere
4 4 (10.81%) Hyper-V
4 4 (10.81%) XenApp
4 4 (10.81%) XenServer
5 2 (5.405%) XenDesktop
6 1 (2.703%) Forefront TMG
6 1 (2.703%) Xen
6 1 (2.703%) VMware ESX
6 1 (2.703%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (2.703%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 31 (83.78%) SCCM
2 8 (21.62%) Tivoli
3 5 (13.51%) BMC PATROL
3 5 (13.51%) OpenView
4 4 (10.81%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (8.108%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (8.108%) SCVMM
6 2 (5.405%) Unicenter
6 2 (5.405%) WSUS
6 2 (5.405%) OMEGAMON
6 2 (5.405%) HP SIM
7 1 (2.703%) Opalis
7 1 (2.703%) Backup Exec
7 1 (2.703%) MOM
Vendors
1 27 (72.97%) Microsoft
2 21 (56.76%) VMware
3 10 (27.03%) HP
3 10 (27.03%) Citrix
4 7 (18.92%) Lotus
5 6 (16.22%) CommVault
5 6 (16.22%) Postini
6 5 (13.51%) Fujitsu
7 4 (10.81%) McAfee
8 3 (8.108%) Symantec
8 3 (8.108%) NetApp
9 2 (5.405%) BMC
9 2 (5.405%) EMC
9 2 (5.405%) IBM
9 2 (5.405%) ICL
10 1 (2.703%) Brocade
10 1 (2.703%) Cisco
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