The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SCOM over the 3 months to 17 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 77 84 67
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -17
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 6 4 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 0.719% 0.428% 0.489%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.75% 17.39% 11.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 3
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -11.11%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £38,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+16.88% -9.41%
All Systems Management
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
32 23 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 3.832% 2.460% 4.241%
Number of salaries quoted 29 21 21
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £31,000 £30,900
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £72,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
SCOM
Hampshire

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton SCOM Salary Trend

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 (63.64%) ITIL
1 7 (63.64%) SLA
1 7 (63.64%) Fault Management
1 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) Time Management
2 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (36.36%) Windows
3 4 (36.36%) IIS
3 4 (36.36%) MS Exchange
3 4 (36.36%) SAN
3 4 (36.36%) VMware
4 2 (18.18%) MCITP
4 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (18.18%) IMAP
4 2 (18.18%) Network Load Balancing
4 2 (18.18%) French Language
4 2 (18.18%) Firewall
4 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
4 2 (18.18%) Clustering
4 2 (18.18%) NetBackup
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (18.18%) Veritas
4 2 (18.18%) Mac OS X
4 2 (18.18%) SAML
4 2 (18.18%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Web Services
4 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 2 (18.18%) MCSE

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 (18.18%) Web Services
1 2 (18.18%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) IIS
1 4 (36.36%) MS Exchange
1 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (18.18%) Apache
2 2 (18.18%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) SAN
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) IMAP
2 2 (18.18%) iSCSI
2 2 (18.18%) NAS
2 2 (18.18%) SMTP
2 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 2 (18.18%) VPN
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) LDAP
3 1 (9.091%) WAN
General
1 2 (18.18%) French Language
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Manager
2 4 (36.36%) Support Manager
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 4 (36.36%) Team Leader
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Support Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Support Team Leader
4 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
1 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Mac OS X
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) ITIL
1 7 (63.64%) Fault Management
2 6 (54.55%) Time Management
3 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
3 2 (18.18%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) MCSE
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (18.18%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (18.18%) vSphere
2 2 (18.18%) Shibboleth
2 2 (18.18%) Forefront TMG
2 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (18.18%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 2 (18.18%) NetBackup
1 2 (18.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Veeam
2 2 (18.18%) Isilon
2 2 (18.18%) F5
2 2 (18.18%) IBM
2 2 (18.18%) Intel
2 2 (18.18%) Veritas