The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SCOM over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category.

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank417434500
Rank change year-on-year
Up+17Up+66
Matching permanent IT job ads586525266
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.486 %0.428 %0.279 %
As % of the Systems Management category10.18 %9.174 %7.478 %
Number of salaries quoted497409215
Average salary£45,000£45,000£49,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
--8.16 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,500£32,050£32,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£62,500£62,500
UK excluding London average salary£38,500£42,500£52,750
% change year-on-year
-9.41 %-19.43 %
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategoryAll Systems Management
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
575457233557
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK4.772 %4.667 %3.726 %
Number of salaries quoted478745422746
Average salary£44,000£42,500£42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.52 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,700£30,000£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£61,500£60,900
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000

SCOM
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SCOM within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

SCOM Demand Trend

SCOM
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SCOM within the UK.

SCOM Salary Trend

SCOM
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SCOM over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

SCOM Salary Histogram

SCOM
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+28530£47,000+4.44 %
LondonUp+41302£52,500+10.52 %
South EastDown-11114£37,500-11.76 %
City of LondonUp+4571£54,000+27.05 %
West YorkshireUp+2740£35,000+16.66 %
YorkshireUp+1640£35,000-3.44 %
LeedsUp+1634£35,000-
ScotlandDown-132£31,500-14.86 %
SurreyDown-4432£37,500-11.76 %
West MidlandsDown-1528£47,500-5.00 %
North WestDown-3527£47,500-5.00 %
BerkshireDown-1122£35,000+11.11 %
ReadingUp+721£35,000+11.11 %
BirminghamDown-820£50,000-2.43 %
East of EnglandUp+1516£38,500-15.84 %
East MidlandsUp+1016£42,500+1.19 %
EdinburghDown-416£31,500-14.86 %
West SussexUp+1415£35,000-39.13 %
KentUp+3511£51,750+54.47 %
ManchesterDown-1911£31,500-47.50 %
HampshireDown-1010£33,500-16.25 %
CheshireDown-1710£47,500-9.52 %
Milton KeynesNew entry-8£22,500-
BuckinghamshireNew entry-8£22,500-
HammersmithNew entry-8£46,000-
Tyne and WearUp+87£36,000-44.61 %
North EastDown-27£36,000-29.06 %
BedfordshireDown-57£41,750-9.72 %
ReigateDown-117£57,500-
WarringtonDown-267£52,500-

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1834 (75.96 %)Windows
2825 (75.14 %)Microsoft
3665 (60.56 %)SCCM
4664 (60.47 %)Active Directory
5577 (52.55 %)VMware
6561 (51.09 %)Windows Server 2008
7401 (36.52 %)Windows Server 2003
8396 (36.07 %)MS Exchange
9394 (35.88 %)VMware Infrastructure
10336 (30.60 %)MS Excel
11332 (30.24 %)SAN
12321 (29.23 %)Citrix
13281 (25.59 %)ITIL
14280 (25.50 %)SQL Server
15275 (25.05 %)DNS
16260 (23.68 %)Microsoft Certification
17248 (22.59 %)SQL
18245 (22.31 %)Exchange Server 2010
19234 (21.31 %)Hyper-V
20212 (19.31 %)Clustering
21193 (17.58 %)HP
22191 (17.40 %)MCSE
22191 (17.40 %)SharePoint
23187 (17.03 %)vSphere
24184 (16.76 %)IIS
25181 (16.48 %)Exchange Server 2007
26174 (15.85 %)MCITP
27169 (15.39 %)Cisco
28158 (14.39 %)TCP/IP
29152 (13.84 %)SCVMM

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
143 (3.916 %)Forefront TMG
227 (2.459 %).NET
317 (1.548 %)WSH
413 (1.184 %)XML
510 (0.911 %)Web Services
69 (0.820 %)Windows SharePoint Services
69 (0.820 %)CSS
69 (0.820 %)ASP.NET
78 (0.729 %)WebSphere
86 (0.546 %)X-Windows
86 (0.546 %)Application Packaging
95 (0.455 %).NET Framework
104 (0.364 %)COM
104 (0.364 %)WCF
113 (0.273 %)Software Packaging
113 (0.273 %)SAML
122 (0.182 %)Ajax
122 (0.182 %)COM+
122 (0.182 %)XSLT
122 (0.182 %)AppFabric
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1396 (36.07 %)MS Exchange
2245 (22.31 %)Exchange Server 2010
3191 (17.40 %)SharePoint
4184 (16.76 %)IIS
5181 (16.48 %)Exchange Server 2007
6130 (11.84 %)Exchange Server 2003
783 (7.559 %)Lync
855 (5.009 %)Office Communications Server
950 (4.554 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1037 (3.370 %)SharePoint 2010
1132 (2.914 %)BizTalk Server
1226 (2.368 %)SharePoint Server
1325 (2.277 %)WorkSite
1418 (1.639 %)Exchange Server 2000
159 (0.820 %)Apache
159 (0.820 %)Tomcat
159 (0.820 %)SharePoint Foundation
166 (0.546 %)Exchange Server 5.5
175 (0.455 %)Lotus Notes
175 (0.455 %)WebLogic
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1336 (30.60 %)MS Excel
2100 (9.107 %)MS Office
317 (1.548 %)MS Visio
413 (1.184 %)Office 365
58 (0.729 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
17 (0.638 %)SoftGrid
26 (0.546 %)Remedy ITSM
35 (0.455 %)Movex
44 (0.364 %)assyst
44 (0.364 %)Dynamics CRM
53 (0.273 %)SunGard AvantGard
62 (0.182 %)Remedy AR System
62 (0.182 %)Oracle Retail
62 (0.182 %)Changepoint
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1332 (30.24 %)SAN
2275 (25.05 %)DNS
3158 (14.39 %)TCP/IP
4150 (13.66 %)DHCP
5104 (9.472 %)Firewall
691 (8.288 %)LAN
785 (7.741 %)WAN
856 (5.100 %)NAS
955 (5.009 %)Internet
1051 (4.645 %)iSCSI
1150 (4.554 %)VLAN
1233 (3.005 %)VPN
1330 (2.732 %)NetScaler
1424 (2.186 %)Unified Communications
1522 (2.004 %)Fibre Channel
1621 (1.913 %)VoIP
1720 (1.821 %)Wireless
1819 (1.730 %)Cisco ASA
1918 (1.639 %)HTTP
2016 (1.457 %)MPLS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1280 (25.50 %)SQL Server
2136 (12.39 %)SQL Server 2008
3118 (10.75 %)SQL Server 2005
440 (3.643 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
526 (2.368 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
619 (1.730 %)SQL Server 2000
716 (1.457 %)SQL Server Integration Services
716 (1.457 %)DTS
815 (1.366 %)Oracle 8/8i
913 (1.184 %)MySQL
106 (0.546 %)Data Warehouse
106 (0.546 %)Data Mining
114 (0.364 %)PostgreSQL
114 (0.364 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
114 (0.364 %)TOAD
123 (0.273 %)RDBMS
132 (0.182 %)ETL
132 (0.182 %)Crystal Reports
132 (0.182 %)Oracle Reports
141 (0.091 %)Oracle 9i
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
124 (2.186 %)Team Foundation Server
212 (1.093 %)ClearCase
212 (1.093 %)ClearQuest
37 (0.638 %)MSI
45 (0.455 %)Visual Studio
52 (0.182 %)TeamCity
52 (0.182 %)JMeter
52 (0.182 %)Hudson
52 (0.182 %)Maven
52 (0.182 %)JIRA
61 (0.091 %)FitNesse
61 (0.091 %)Visual Studio Team System
61 (0.091 %)InstallShield
61 (0.091 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
61 (0.091 %)NUnit
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1131 (11.93 %)Finance
232 (2.914 %)Retail
328 (2.550 %)Games
422 (2.004 %)Law
422 (2.004 %)Back Office
521 (1.913 %)Banking
619 (1.730 %)Legal
715 (1.366 %)Telecoms
813 (1.184 %)Marketing
98 (0.729 %)Advertising
104 (0.364 %)Publishing
104 (0.364 %)French Language
104 (0.364 %)German Language
104 (0.364 %)Financial Institution
104 (0.364 %)Investment Banking
112 (0.182 %)Manufacturing
121 (0.091 %)Multimedia
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1245 (22.31 %)Analyst
2238 (21.68 %)Consultant
3104 (9.472 %)Architect
492 (8.379 %)Support Analyst
573 (6.648 %)Systems Engineer
665 (5.920 %)Infrastructure Engineer
763 (5.738 %)Administrator
861 (5.556 %)Infrastructure Analyst
958 (5.282 %)Technical Analyst
1051 (4.645 %)Support Engineer
1150 (4.554 %)Microsoft Consultant
1249 (4.463 %)Technical Support
1346 (4.189 %)3rd Line Support
1443 (3.916 %)Systems Administrator
1536 (3.279 %)Infrastructure Consultant
1633 (3.005 %)Team Leader
1730 (2.732 %)Infrastructure Architect
1730 (2.732 %)Senior Systems Engineer
1730 (2.732 %)Technical Support Analyst
1829 (2.641 %)Server Support
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1212 (19.31 %)Clustering
272 (6.557 %)Blackberry
346 (4.189 %)Management Information System
441 (3.734 %)Replication
521 (1.913 %)CLARiiON
616 (1.457 %)PKI
715 (1.366 %)EMC Centera
811 (1.002 %)Client/Server
910 (0.911 %)SCORM
109 (0.820 %)Symmetrix
109 (0.820 %)Mathematics
109 (0.820 %)CMDB
109 (0.820 %)Cloud Computing
109 (0.820 %)EqualLogic
118 (0.729 %)iPad
118 (0.729 %)Symmetrix DMX
118 (0.729 %)Computer Science
118 (0.729 %)SecurID
126 (0.546 %)Streaming Video
126 (0.546 %)Thin Client
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1834 (75.96 %)Windows
2561 (51.09 %)Windows Server 2008
3401 (36.52 %)Windows Server 2003
4134 (12.20 %)Windows 7
5100 (9.107 %)Windows XP
654 (4.918 %)Windows Vista
750 (4.554 %)Linux
845 (4.098 %)UNIX
932 (2.914 %)Windows 2000 Server
1020 (1.821 %)Solaris
1119 (1.730 %)Windows 2000
1211 (1.002 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
135 (0.455 %)CentOS
143 (0.273 %)AIX
152 (0.182 %)VMS
152 (0.182 %)Mac OS X
161 (0.091 %)Windows NT
161 (0.091 %)SUSE
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1281 (25.59 %)ITIL
277 (7.013 %)Disaster Recovery
373 (6.648 %)Migration
464 (5.829 %)Change Management
560 (5.464 %)Project Management
649 (4.463 %)Service Delivery
747 (4.281 %)Service Management
845 (4.098 %)Configuration Management
934 (3.097 %)Network Load Balancing
1028 (2.550 %)E-Commerce
1028 (2.550 %)Data Protection
1127 (2.459 %)Change Control
1226 (2.368 %)ITSM
1226 (2.368 %)Problem Management
1322 (2.004 %)PRINCE2
1322 (2.004 %)Load Balancing
1421 (1.913 %)Document Management
1421 (1.913 %)Incident Management
1520 (1.821 %)Capacity Planning
1618 (1.639 %)Continuous Improvement
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1248 (22.59 %)SQL
2141 (12.84 %)PowerShell
3108 (9.836 %)VBScript
431 (2.823 %)C#
529 (2.641 %)VB
626 (2.368 %)T-SQL
719 (1.730 %)Perl
817 (1.548 %)C
97 (0.638 %)Java
106 (0.546 %)Shell Script
115 (0.455 %)Python
124 (0.364 %)Bash shell
124 (0.364 %)PHP
133 (0.273 %)Korn
142 (0.182 %)JavaScript
142 (0.182 %)VB.NET
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1260 (23.68 %)Microsoft Certification
2191 (17.40 %)MCSE
3174 (15.85 %)MCITP
4102 (9.290 %)MCTS
579 (7.195 %)MCP
648 (4.372 %)MCSA
746 (4.189 %)Degree
843 (3.916 %)ITIL Certification
938 (3.461 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1036 (3.279 %)Cisco Certification
1129 (2.641 %)CCNA
1228 (2.550 %)Security Cleared
1326 (2.368 %)Citrix Certification
1422 (2.004 %)SC Cleared
1521 (1.913 %)Microsoft Certified Master
1615 (1.366 %)CCIA
1713 (1.184 %)CCNP
1810 (0.911 %)NCDA
199 (0.820 %)CCA
208 (0.729 %)CCEA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
150 (4.554 %)SLA
24 (0.364 %)ISO/IEC 27001
33 (0.273 %)QA
33 (0.273 %)PCI DSS
41 (0.091 %)BS7799
41 (0.091 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
41 (0.091 %)ISO 9001
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1664 (60.47 %)Active Directory
2394 (35.88 %)VMware Infrastructure
3234 (21.31 %)Hyper-V
4187 (17.03 %)vSphere
5135 (12.30 %)XenApp
6117 (10.66 %)VMware ESX
780 (7.286 %)XenDesktop
848 (4.372 %)XenServer
941 (3.734 %)UAG
1034 (3.097 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1131 (2.823 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1230 (2.732 %)VMware ESXi
1322 (2.004 %)Terminal Services
1421 (1.913 %)Terminal Server
1520 (1.821 %)ISA Server
1619 (1.730 %)vCloud
1716 (1.457 %)PowerConvert
1811 (1.002 %)MetaFrame
198 (0.729 %)WebMarshal
207 (0.638 %)VMware Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1665 (60.56 %)SCCM
2152 (13.84 %)SCVMM
3109 (9.927 %)MOM
465 (5.920 %)Backup Exec
558 (5.282 %)NetBackup
646 (4.189 %)Tivoli
741 (3.734 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
832 (2.914 %)WSUS
926 (2.368 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1025 (2.277 %)vCenter
1124 (2.186 %)Opalis
1218 (1.639 %)Netcool
1315 (1.366 %)Unicenter
1413 (1.184 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
1413 (1.184 %)HP SIM
1512 (1.093 %)McAfee ePO
1512 (1.093 %)OpenView
1512 (1.093 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1512 (1.093 %)Business Desktop Deployment
1512 (1.093 %)HP Data Protector
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1825 (75.14 %)Microsoft
2577 (52.55 %)VMware
3321 (29.23 %)Citrix
4193 (17.58 %)HP
5169 (15.39 %)Cisco
6104 (9.472 %)EMC
798 (8.925 %)IBM
895 (8.652 %)NetApp
988 (8.015 %)Symantec
1068 (6.193 %)Oracle
1159 (5.373 %)Dell
1258 (5.282 %)SolarWinds
1346 (4.189 %)BMC
1443 (3.916 %)Brocade
1537 (3.370 %)Veritas
1632 (2.914 %)CA
1729 (2.641 %)CheckPoint
1827 (2.459 %)Altiris
1925 (2.277 %)CommVault
1925 (2.277 %)Intel