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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank - 89 82
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 0 6 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales - 0.515% 0.383%
As % of the Systems Management category - 6.977% 5.970%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 2
Average salary - £37,750 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +57.29%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £38,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+16.88% -9.41%
All Systems Management
Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
66 86 67
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 5.344% 7.376% 6.418%
Number of salaries quoted 63 81 59
Average salary £28,500 £32,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.30% +3.17%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,350 £20,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £39,900 £38,100
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 Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

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 Wales region.

Wales SCOM Salary Trend

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) SCCM
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) MS Office
3 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (50.00%) SCVMM
3 2 (50.00%) IP Telephony
4 1 (25.00%) MCITP
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) VLAN
4 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) WSUS
4 1 (25.00%) Retail
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) Kaspersky
4 1 (25.00%) Veeam
4 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (25.00%) Lync
4 1 (25.00%) WatchGuard

SCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Lync
3 1 (25.00%) IIS
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
1 2 (50.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) IPv6
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MS Access
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
1 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCITP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) SCCM
2 2 (50.00%) SCVMM
3 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Kaspersky
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam
3 1 (25.00%) WatchGuard
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco