SCOM Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for SCOM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SCOM over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 151 159
Rank change year-on-year +55 +8 -26
Contract jobs citing SCOM 40 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.50% 0.035% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.38% 0.29% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 0 4
10th Percentile - - £427
25th Percentile £603 - £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - £590
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.11%
75th Percentile £608 - £638
90th Percentile £614 - -
South East median daily rate £605 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.33% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £65.00 - £65.00

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 323 348 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.15% 12.01% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 263 283
10th Percentile £205 £303 £238
25th Percentile £303 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £606
90th Percentile £650 £723 £655
South East median daily rate £475 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +8.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 7
10th Percentile £20.58 £52.10 £16.20
25th Percentile £26.81 £58.91 £21.84
Median hourly rate £47.50 £68.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.15% +8.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £56.88 £75.56 £68.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £81.98 £74.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £58.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -19.15% +173.26% -33.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCOM in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SCOM in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCOM in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +31 37 £605 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 3 £625 -
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 18 (45.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 32 (80.00%) Azure
2 17 (42.50%) Azure Monitor
2 17 (42.50%) Azure Storage
2 17 (42.50%) Entra ID
3 16 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (35.00%) OCI
5 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (77.50%) DHCP
1 31 (77.50%) DNS
1 31 (77.50%) Firewall
2 14 (35.00%) SAN
3 2 (5.00%) Skype
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Axure RP
General
1 31 (77.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (37.50%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (35.00%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (35.00%) Support Specialist
4 10 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Administrator
5 4 (10.00%) Server Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (7.50%) Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.50%) VMware Architect
6 3 (7.50%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (40.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 17 (42.50%) PKI
1 17 (42.50%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (35.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 37 (92.50%) Windows
2 36 (90.00%) Windows Server
3 33 (82.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 33 (82.50%) Windows Server 2019
4 32 (80.00%) Linux
5 14 (35.00%) Windows 10
5 14 (35.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (35.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (77.50%) ITIL
2 21 (52.50%) Agile
3 18 (45.00%) Release Management
4 17 (42.50%) Analytics
4 17 (42.50%) Converged Infrastructure
4 17 (42.50%) DevOps
4 17 (42.50%) Identity Management
4 17 (42.50%) Log Analytics
4 17 (42.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 17 (42.50%) Privileged Identity Management
4 17 (42.50%) RBAC
4 17 (42.50%) Service Management
5 16 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 16 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (37.50%) Server Management
7 14 (35.00%) Break/Fix
7 14 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (35.00%) Proactive Monitoring
7 14 (35.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (85.00%) PowerShell
2 17 (42.50%) C#
2 17 (42.50%) VB
2 17 (42.50%) VBScript
3 16 (40.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 39 (97.50%) Security Cleared
2 34 (85.00%) DV Cleared
3 32 (80.00%) Degree
3 32 (80.00%) SC Cleared
4 17 (42.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 14 (35.00%) CCNA
5 14 (35.00%) CCNP
5 14 (35.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 34 (85.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (42.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 17 (42.50%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (35.00%) Hyper-V
3 14 (35.00%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (35.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (90.00%) SCCM
2 32 (80.00%) WSUS
3 18 (45.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (42.50%) Kubernetes
4 17 (42.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (40.00%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (35.00%) NetBackup
6 14 (35.00%) vCenter Server
7 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 19 (47.50%) VMware
3 17 (42.50%) Cisco
4 16 (40.00%) EMC
5 14 (35.00%) 3PAR
5 14 (35.00%) Dell
5 14 (35.00%) Extreme Networks
5 14 (35.00%) HP
5 14 (35.00%) Juniper
5 14 (35.00%) Oracle
5 14 (35.00%) Palo Alto
5 14 (35.00%) Symantec
5 14 (35.00%) Veeam
6 2 (5.00%) Citrix
6 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow