Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SCOM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SCOM over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 711 738 1033
Rank change year-on-year +27 +295 -329
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 185 215 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.88% 1.49% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 114 150 183
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,725 £26,450
25th Percentile £34,299 £35,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.75% +1.67% -9.55%
75th Percentile £59,000 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £69,032
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% +2.27%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SCOM is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,854 14,460 30,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.76% 14.68% 18.40%
Number of salaries quoted 7,058 8,969 14,039
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.60% - +8.23%

SCOM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the UK

SCOM
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SCOM.

Salary trend for SCOM in the UK

SCOM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCOM over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SCOM in the UK

SCOM
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +67 178 £52,500 +19.32% 35
UK excluding London -4 162 £50,000 +25.00% 35
Work from Home +72 89 £52,500 -2.78% 17
South East +38 87 £52,500 +31.25% 12
North of England +3 32 £34,875 +8.31% 4
Yorkshire +49 28 £32,250 +0.16%
London +108 22 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Midlands 0 22 £50,000 -4.76% 8
East Midlands -8 11 £50,000 -4.76% 3
West Midlands - 11 £62,500 - 5
East of England -1 8 £42,500 -19.43% 4
South West -32 7 £52,500 +48.43% 5
Wales - 5 £36,476 -
North East -5 3 £37,500 -17.13%
North West -4 1 £52,500 +4.48% 4
Scotland -57 1 - - 2

SCOM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 54 (29.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (14.59%) IIS
3 13 (7.03%) CMS
4 9 (4.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.54%) Apache
5 1 (0.54%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.54%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (11.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.54%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.54%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 82 (44.32%) Azure
2 48 (25.95%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (13.51%) Entra ID
4 20 (10.81%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (8.65%) Azure Storage
6 13 (7.03%) AWS
7 12 (6.49%) OCI
8 10 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (4.86%) IaaS
10 6 (3.24%) GCP
11 5 (2.70%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.16%) Google Workspace
13 3 (1.62%) Nutanix
13 3 (1.62%) PaaS
14 1 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (0.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 1 (0.54%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 83 (44.86%) DNS
2 74 (40.00%) DHCP
3 59 (31.89%) Firewall
4 32 (17.30%) SAN
5 11 (5.95%) SNMP
5 11 (5.95%) TCP/IP
6 8 (4.32%) VPN
7 7 (3.78%) Wireless
8 6 (3.24%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (2.70%) BIG-IP
9 5 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (2.70%) Extranet
9 5 (2.70%) Internet
9 5 (2.70%) NetScaler
9 5 (2.70%) Network Security
9 5 (2.70%) Unified Communications
10 4 (2.16%) BGP
11 2 (1.08%) IPv4
11 2 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (4.86%) Redis
2 8 (4.32%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (5.41%) JIRA
2 1 (0.54%) Chocolatey
2 1 (0.54%) Git
2 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
General
1 65 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.22%) Finance
3 24 (12.97%) Legal
4 18 (9.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (7.03%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (7.03%) Pharmaceutical
6 12 (6.49%) Aerospace
7 8 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.32%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.24%) Police
9 5 (2.70%) Automotive
9 5 (2.70%) Local Government
9 5 (2.70%) Retail
10 4 (2.16%) Law
11 1 (0.54%) Back Office
11 1 (0.54%) Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (21.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (15.14%) Systems Engineer
3 26 (14.05%) Senior
4 23 (12.43%) Administrator
5 15 (8.11%) Active Directory Specialist
5 15 (8.11%) Active Directory Support
5 15 (8.11%) Azure Specialist
5 15 (8.11%) Support Specialist
6 13 (7.03%) Project Manager
6 13 (7.03%) ServiceNow Administrator
6 13 (7.03%) Windows Engineer
7 12 (6.49%) 3rd Line Support
7 12 (6.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (5.95%) IT Engineer
8 11 (5.95%) Windows Systems Engineer
9 10 (5.41%) Support Engineer
9 10 (5.41%) VMware Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Technical Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) PowerShell Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.65%) ARM Templates
2 5 (2.70%) Middleware
3 4 (2.16%) .NET
3 4 (2.16%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.54%) Web Services
4 1 (0.54%) XML
4 1 (0.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.46%) Data Centre
2 22 (11.89%) PKI
3 19 (10.27%) Replication
4 16 (8.65%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (8.11%) Clustering
5 15 (8.11%) CMDB
6 13 (7.03%) Digital Signage
7 10 (5.41%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.78%) Management Information System
9 6 (3.24%) AS400
9 6 (3.24%) IoT
10 4 (2.16%) Driving Licence
10 4 (2.16%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.54%) Blackberry
12 1 (0.54%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 141 (76.22%) Windows
2 101 (54.59%) Windows Server
3 75 (40.54%) Linux
4 41 (22.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (20.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (14.59%) Windows 10
7 22 (11.89%) Windows Server 2012
8 17 (9.19%) Windows XP
9 9 (4.86%) Windows Server 2003
10 7 (3.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (3.24%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (2.70%) Windows 2000
12 5 (2.70%) Windows 7
12 5 (2.70%) Windows 8
12 5 (2.70%) Windows NT
13 4 (2.16%) Unix
14 1 (0.54%) Solaris
14 1 (0.54%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (40.54%) ITIL
2 53 (28.65%) Service Management
3 46 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (23.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 35 (18.92%) Agile
6 31 (16.76%) Disaster Recovery
7 25 (13.51%) Performance Tuning
8 24 (12.97%) ITSM
8 24 (12.97%) Mentoring
9 23 (12.43%) Release Management
10 21 (11.35%) DevOps
10 21 (11.35%) Project Management
11 20 (10.81%) High Availability
11 20 (10.81%) Proactive Monitoring
12 19 (10.27%) Cybersecurity
12 19 (10.27%) Identity Management
12 19 (10.27%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 18 (9.73%) Change Management
14 17 (9.19%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (9.19%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.59%) PowerShell
2 34 (18.38%) SQL
3 16 (8.65%) VBScript
4 15 (8.11%) Bicep
4 15 (8.11%) C#
4 15 (8.11%) VB
5 13 (7.03%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.41%) RPG
7 6 (3.24%) Python
8 3 (1.62%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.54%) Bash
9 1 (0.54%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 88 (47.57%) Security Cleared
2 67 (36.22%) DV Cleared
3 66 (35.68%) SC Cleared
4 51 (27.57%) Degree
5 19 (10.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 19 (10.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (7.03%) CCNA
6 13 (7.03%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (6.49%) CCNP
8 10 (5.41%) Azure Certification
9 7 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.70%) CISSP
10 5 (2.70%) DBS Check
10 5 (2.70%) MCSA
10 5 (2.70%) MCSE
10 5 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.32%) SLA
2 7 (3.78%) Good Clinical Practice
3 2 (1.08%) GDPR
4 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 121 (65.41%) Active Directory
2 66 (35.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (26.49%) Hyper-V
4 34 (18.38%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (11.35%) Firmware
6 20 (10.81%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (9.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (5.41%) VMware Workstation
9 9 (4.86%) Forefront TMG
10 7 (3.78%) vSphere
11 5 (2.70%) Terminal Services
12 4 (2.16%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (2.16%) VMware Server
13 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.54%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (43.78%) SCCM
2 51 (27.57%) WSUS
3 27 (14.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (11.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (11.35%) Kubernetes
6 20 (10.81%) NetBackup
7 15 (8.11%) vCenter Server
8 12 (6.49%) EMC NetWorker
9 8 (4.32%) Ansible
9 8 (4.32%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 6 (3.24%) SCOrch
11 5 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (2.70%) Grafana
11 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (2.70%) Prometheus
11 5 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (2.16%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (2.16%) vMotion
13 3 (1.62%) Cisco Prime
13 3 (1.62%) Nagios
Vendors
1 131 (70.81%) Microsoft
2 80 (43.24%) VMware
3 34 (18.38%) HP
4 33 (17.84%) Dynatrace
5 28 (15.14%) Dell
6 26 (14.05%) Veeam
7 25 (13.51%) Oracle
8 23 (12.43%) Cisco
9 22 (11.89%) ServiceNow
10 20 (10.81%) SolarWinds
11 18 (9.73%) NetApp
12 16 (8.65%) Citrix
13 13 (7.03%) 3PAR
13 13 (7.03%) Riverbed
14 12 (6.49%) EMC
14 12 (6.49%) IBM
14 12 (6.49%) Juniper
14 12 (6.49%) McAfee
14 12 (6.49%) Palo Alto
14 12 (6.49%) Symantec