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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 89 86 81
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -5
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 1 6 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 0.097% 0.613% 0.542%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.724% 7.407% 8.333%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 3
Average salary £32,500 £37,750 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.90% +37.27%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £38,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+16.88% -9.41%
All Systems Management
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
58 81 60
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 5.626% 8.274% 6.508%
Number of salaries quoted 55 80 57
Average salary £30,000 £32,500 £34,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% -5.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,200 £20,000 £29,750
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,000 £38,250
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
SCOM
Wales

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales 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 South Wales region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cardiff -23 1 £32,500 -13.90%
SCOM
Wales

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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%) MS Exchange
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) SCCM
1 5 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
3 3 (60.00%) SAN
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (60.00%) SCVMM
3 3 (60.00%) IP Telephony
3 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (40.00%) MS Office
4 2 (40.00%) HP
4 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) IPv6
5 1 (20.00%) Terminal Services
5 1 (20.00%) Site Server
5 1 (20.00%) Project Management
5 1 (20.00%) Service Management
5 1 (20.00%) Firewall
5 1 (20.00%) Back Office
5 1 (20.00%) Replication
5 1 (20.00%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco
5 1 (20.00%) VPN

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 5 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 5 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (20.00%) Site Server
3 1 (20.00%) IIS
3 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (20.00%) Lync
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
2 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
1 3 (60.00%) IP Telephony
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) IPv6
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MS Access
General
1 1 (20.00%) Back Office
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Support Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Project Management
1 1 (20.00%) Service Management
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) MCSE
1 1 (20.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) Terminal Services
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) SCCM
2 3 (60.00%) SCVMM
3 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Kaspersky
3 1 (20.00%) Veeam
3 1 (20.00%) WatchGuard