The first table below looks at the demand for SCOM skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SCOM over the 3 months to 19 June 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Rank 141 170 135
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -35
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 61 24 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.157% 0.502% 0.809%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.72% 12.12% 17.68%
Number of salaries quoted 45 23 30
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £46,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.15%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,000 £35,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £54,000 £61,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -5.88%
All Systems Management
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
388 198 198
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 7.357% 4.141% 4.574%
Number of salaries quoted 309 156 172
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £61,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.50% -
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England

SCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands SCOM Jobs Demand Trend

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Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SCOM across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands SCOM Salary Trend

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Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SCOM across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

West Midlands SCOM Salary Histogram

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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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Birmingham +4 34 £50,000 - 5
Shropshire +4 9 £50,000 +47.05% 1
Solihull - 8 £40,000 -
Coventry -19 2 £47,500 -2.56% 2
Warwickshire - 2 £45,000 -
West Bromwich - 1 £37,500 -
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England

SCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 115 (83.33%) SCCM
2 91 (65.94%) Microsoft
3 77 (55.80%) VMware
4 75 (54.35%) Active Directory
5 70 (50.72%) Windows
6 62 (44.93%) VMware Infrastructure
7 58 (42.03%) Hyper-V
8 57 (41.30%) Windows Server 2008
8 57 (41.30%) Citrix
9 46 (33.33%) MS Exchange
10 43 (31.16%) NetApp
11 38 (27.54%) MS Excel
12 35 (25.36%) SQL Server
13 34 (24.64%) SharePoint
14 31 (22.46%) HP
15 28 (20.29%) Microsoft Certification
15 28 (20.29%) Cisco
15 28 (20.29%) SCVMM
16 27 (19.57%) Exchange Server 2010
16 27 (19.57%) Microsoft App-V
17 26 (18.84%) Windows Server 2003
17 26 (18.84%) XenDesktop
18 25 (18.12%) MCITP
18 25 (18.12%) MCSE
19 22 (15.94%) SQL
19 22 (15.94%) DHCP
19 22 (15.94%) DNS
20 21 (15.22%) MSI
20 21 (15.22%) Technical Architecture
21 20 (14.49%) SharePoint 2010

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 13 (9.420%) Application Packaging
2 8 (5.797%) Software Packaging
3 3 (2.174%) COM
4 2 (1.449%) .NET
5 1 (0.725%) MDX
5 1 (0.725%) Silverlight
5 1 (0.725%) CSS
5 1 (0.725%) XML
5 1 (0.725%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.725%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 46 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 34 (24.64%) SharePoint
3 27 (19.57%) Exchange Server 2010
4 20 (14.49%) SharePoint 2010
5 19 (13.77%) Exchange Server 2003
6 15 (10.87%) Lync
7 14 (10.14%) Exchange Server 2007
8 8 (5.797%) Exchange Server 2013
9 5 (3.623%) Office Communications Server
9 5 (3.623%) IIS
10 2 (1.449%) Windows Azure
10 2 (1.449%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (1.449%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.725%) SAS
11 1 (0.725%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 38 (27.54%) MS Excel
2 5 (3.623%) Office 365
3 1 (0.725%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.725%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (5.797%) SAP Business One
2 2 (1.449%) assyst
3 1 (0.725%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.94%) DHCP
1 22 (15.94%) DNS
2 18 (13.04%) SAN
3 16 (11.59%) Firewall
4 9 (6.522%) NAS
5 8 (5.797%) Wireless
6 7 (5.072%) WAN
7 3 (2.174%) Unified Communications
8 2 (1.449%) LAN
9 1 (0.725%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.725%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.725%) HTTP
9 1 (0.725%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (25.36%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.797%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (3.623%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (2.899%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (0.725%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 21 (15.22%) MSI
2 1 (0.725%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.725%) InstallShield
2 1 (0.725%) AdminStudio
General
1 4 (2.899%) Finance
2 3 (2.174%) Advertising
3 2 (1.449%) Automotive
4 1 (0.725%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 43 (31.16%) Architect
2 33 (23.91%) Technical Architect
2 33 (23.91%) Consultant
3 17 (12.32%) Virtualisation Architect
4 16 (11.59%) Virtualisation Technical Architect
5 15 (10.87%) Administrator
5 15 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (9.420%) Technical Consultant
7 12 (8.696%) Technical Specialist
8 11 (7.971%) Server Engineer
9 10 (7.246%) Microsoft Consultant
10 9 (6.522%) Infrastructure Architect
11 8 (5.797%) Infrastructure Consultant
11 8 (5.797%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
11 8 (5.797%) SCCM Administrator
12 6 (4.348%) Senior Systems Administrator
12 6 (4.348%) Systems Administrator
13 5 (3.623%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 4 (2.899%) Team Leader
14 4 (2.899%) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.14%) Clustering
2 3 (2.174%) EqualLogic
3 2 (1.449%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.449%) CLARiiON
3 2 (1.449%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.449%) CMDB
3 2 (1.449%) Celerra
3 2 (1.449%) PKI
4 1 (0.725%) IaaS
4 1 (0.725%) SaaS
4 1 (0.725%) PaaS
4 1 (0.725%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (0.725%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 70 (50.72%) Windows
2 57 (41.30%) Windows Server 2008
3 26 (18.84%) Windows Server 2003
4 19 (13.77%) Windows 7
5 18 (13.04%) UNIX
6 16 (11.59%) Solaris
7 8 (5.797%) Linux
7 8 (5.797%) AIX
7 8 (5.797%) OpenVMS
8 5 (3.623%) Windows 8
9 3 (2.174%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (15.22%) Technical Architecture
2 14 (10.14%) Data Protection
3 13 (9.420%) Service Delivery
3 13 (9.420%) ITIL
4 12 (8.696%) Change Control
4 12 (8.696%) Business Continuity
5 9 (6.522%) Project Management
6 7 (5.072%) Software Deployment
6 7 (5.072%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (4.348%) TOGAF
7 6 (4.348%) Security Architecture
8 5 (3.623%) Migration
9 3 (2.174%) Performance Management
9 3 (2.174%) Identity Management
9 3 (2.174%) Change Management
10 2 (1.449%) Configuration Management
10 2 (1.449%) High Availability
10 2 (1.449%) Capacity Management
10 2 (1.449%) Business Development
11 1 (0.725%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (15.94%) SQL
2 4 (2.899%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.725%) C
3 1 (0.725%) C#
3 1 (0.725%) T-SQL
3 1 (0.725%) VBScript
3 1 (0.725%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (20.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (18.12%) MCITP
2 25 (18.12%) MCSE
3 10 (7.246%) MCSA
4 9 (6.522%) MCTS
5 8 (5.797%) VCP5
6 7 (5.072%) Security Cleared
7 6 (4.348%) SC Cleared
8 5 (3.623%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (3.623%) MCP
9 4 (2.899%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.899%) CCNA
9 4 (2.899%) Degree
10 3 (2.174%) NCIE
11 2 (1.449%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (1.449%) NCDA
11 2 (1.449%) VCDX
11 2 (1.449%) VCP4
11 2 (1.449%) CCEE
11 2 (1.449%) CCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.87%) SLA
System Software
1 75 (54.35%) Active Directory
2 62 (44.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (42.03%) Hyper-V
4 27 (19.57%) Microsoft App-V
5 26 (18.84%) XenDesktop
6 16 (11.59%) XenApp
7 11 (7.971%) ISA Server
8 10 (7.246%) vSphere
9 8 (5.797%) PowerHA
10 7 (5.072%) VMware ESX
11 6 (4.348%) XenServer
12 3 (2.174%) Xen
12 3 (2.174%) Forefront TMG
12 3 (2.174%) UAG
12 3 (2.174%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.725%) Citrix Presentation Server
13 1 (0.725%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 115 (83.33%) SCCM
2 28 (20.29%) SCVMM
3 8 (5.797%) Backup Exec
4 7 (5.072%) NetBackup
5 6 (4.348%) MOM
5 6 (4.348%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (3.623%) WSUS
7 3 (2.174%) Norton AntiVirus
8 2 (1.449%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (1.449%) OpenView
8 2 (1.449%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 1 (0.725%) WMI
9 1 (0.725%) HP Data Protector
9 1 (0.725%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.725%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 1 (0.725%) Nagios
Vendors
1 91 (65.94%) Microsoft
2 77 (55.80%) VMware
3 57 (41.30%) Citrix
4 43 (31.16%) NetApp
5 31 (22.46%) HP
6 28 (20.29%) Cisco
7 13 (9.420%) Dell
8 12 (8.696%) 3PAR
9 11 (7.971%) EMC
10 8 (5.797%) SAP
10 8 (5.797%) Symantec
10 8 (5.797%) Veritas
11 7 (5.072%) IBM
12 4 (2.899%) Veeam
13 3 (2.174%) Juniper
13 3 (2.174%) CommVault
14 2 (1.449%) Altiris
15 1 (0.725%) SolarWinds
15 1 (0.725%) McAfee
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
This role will be broken down as follows: Technical Architecture - 40% (e.g... maintenance of documentation and processes) Knowledge & Experience: You must have good experience of providing Virtualisation...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £55K basic + Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
This role will be broken down as follows: Technical Architecture - 40% (e.g... maintenance of documentation and processes) Knowledge & Experience: You must have good experience of providing Virtualisation...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £55K basic + Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
office365... Windows 7... Virtialisation with Hyper-V, VMWare or Citrix... TOGAF... Key Words: Microsoft, Infrastructure, Technical Architect, Windows 2003 / 2008, Active Directory, SCCM, SCOM, Exchange, Lync, OCS, ISA
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £65K basic + 5K Car Allow + Excellent bonus and Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
SCOM - System Center Operations Manager - Microsoft System Center - SCCM, Cloud, Virtual Machine, Data Centre - Birmingham - £40-70K + Benefits... Job Title: SCOM - System Center Operations Manager - Microsoft System Center...
Pertemps IT
Salary: From £40,000 to £70,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Telford, West Midlands
Responsibilities: Support of DNS/DHCP/Group Policy Management and Active Directory best practices... Experience/ skills required: Essential: Windows Server 2003 / 2008. EMC Business Continuity Volumes Software Components. SCOM...
Harrington Boyd
Posted: 13 June 2013
Coventry, West Midlands
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £40000 per annum
Posted: 7 June 2013
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