The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SCOM over the 3 months to 23 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 Sheffield region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 53 62 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 5 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 0.954% 0.162% -
As % of the Systems Management category 21.74% 3.226% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 0
Average salary £51,250 £50,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £38,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+16.88% -9.41%
All Systems Management
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
23 31 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 4.389% 5.024% 1.880%
Number of salaries quoted 20 28 9
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £36,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -3.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £26,250 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £71,000 £39,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
SCOM
South Yorkshire

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield SCOM Salary Trend

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (75.00%) SCCM
3 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 5 (62.50%) MS Excel
3 5 (62.50%) Hyper-V
4 4 (50.00%) vSphere
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (37.50%) MCTS
5 3 (37.50%) SCVMM
5 3 (37.50%) MCITP
5 3 (37.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (37.50%) EMC
5 3 (37.50%) Citrix
5 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
5 3 (37.50%) ITIL
5 3 (37.50%) Lync
5 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (25.00%) Windows Azure
6 2 (25.00%) Unified Communications
6 2 (25.00%) VTSP
6 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certified Master
6 2 (25.00%) Office 365
6 2 (25.00%) Windows 8
6 2 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (25.00%) UAG
6 2 (25.00%) 3PAR
6 2 (25.00%) NCIE
6 2 (25.00%) SharePoint 2013

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 1 (12.50%) WCF
1 1 (12.50%) WF
1 1 (12.50%) EDI
1 1 (12.50%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Lync
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Azure
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint 2013
2 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2013
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (12.50%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (12.50%) ESB
3 1 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) MS Excel
2 2 (25.00%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (12.50%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) SNMP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Consultant
1 3 (37.50%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Server Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Server Support
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 8
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 2000
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (25.00%) PRINCE
2 2 (25.00%) MOF
2 2 (25.00%) Data Management
2 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (12.50%) EAI
3 1 (12.50%) SOA
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
1 2 (25.00%) C
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (37.50%) MCTS
2 3 (37.50%) MCITP
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (25.00%) VTSP
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certified Master
3 2 (25.00%) NCIE
4 1 (12.50%) MCSE
4 1 (12.50%) MCP
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Hyper-V
2 4 (50.00%) vSphere
2 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
4 2 (25.00%) UAG
5 1 (12.50%) Terminal Services
5 1 (12.50%) ISA Server
5 1 (12.50%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (12.50%) XenApp
5 1 (12.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) SCCM
2 3 (37.50%) SCVMM
3 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) EMC
3 3 (37.50%) Citrix
4 2 (25.00%) 3PAR
4 2 (25.00%) HP
4 2 (25.00%) CommVault
4 2 (25.00%) NetApp
4 2 (25.00%) Symantec
5 1 (12.50%) Dell
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco