SCOM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SCOM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCOM over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 349 442
Rank change year-on-year +56 +93 -64
Contract jobs citing SCOM 98 87 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.38% 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.07% 2.61% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 56 40
10th Percentile £460 £381 £250
25th Percentile £493 £413 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £460 £438
Median % change year-on-year +31.52% +5.14% +4.17%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £520
90th Percentile - £638 £604
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.05 - £65.50

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

SCOM falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,410 3,330 4,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.33% 14.67% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,780 2,394 2,993
10th Percentile £213 £276 £250
25th Percentile £381 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £514 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.55% -2.65% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 115 115
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.24 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.72 £20.22 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -13.83%
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.50 £27.75
90th Percentile £74.61 £78.00 £51.18
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.91% +150.00% -44.30%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCOM in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SCOM in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCOM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
South East +58 46 £605 +10.00% 10
South West +18 20 £500 -9.09% 6
East of England -12 13 £550 +29.41% 1
Midlands +27 12 £449 +19.73% 8
East Midlands +19 11 £450 +19.87% 4
North West +18 6 - - 3
North of England +8 6 - - 3
Scotland +33 1 £475 +5.56% 1
West Midlands - 1 £213 - 4
SCOM
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 26 (26.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (22.45%) SharePoint
3 16 (16.33%) Confluence
3 16 (16.33%) SharePoint Server
4 8 (8.16%) IIS
5 2 (2.04%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 63 (64.29%) Azure
2 26 (26.53%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (22.45%) Entra ID
4 20 (20.41%) Azure Monitor
4 20 (20.41%) Azure Storage
5 18 (18.37%) Azure Stack
6 14 (14.29%) OCI
7 9 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.02%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (54.08%) Firewall
2 38 (38.78%) DHCP
2 38 (38.78%) DNS
3 16 (16.33%) BGP
4 15 (15.31%) SAN
5 7 (7.14%) WAN
6 5 (5.10%) LAN
6 5 (5.10%) TCP/IP
7 4 (4.08%) Wireshark
8 1 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.02%) DSL
8 1 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.02%) Skype
8 1 (1.02%) SMTP
8 1 (1.02%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (16.33%) JIRA
2 6 (6.12%) GitLab
3 4 (4.08%) Fiddler
General
1 57 (58.16%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.04%) Local Government
5 1 (1.02%) Advertising
5 1 (1.02%) Back Office
5 1 (1.02%) Legal
5 1 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (23.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (20.41%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (14.29%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (14.29%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (14.29%) Support Specialist
4 13 (13.27%) Microsoft Engineer
5 11 (11.22%) Support Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Storage Engineer
7 9 (9.18%) Administrator
7 9 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Active Directory Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Monitoring Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Systems Monitoring Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Unix Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Unix Linux Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Systems Administrator
10 4 (4.08%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.41%) ARM Templates
2 9 (9.18%) .NET
3 4 (4.08%) .NET Framework
3 4 (4.08%) SAML
4 2 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.43%) PKI
2 20 (20.41%) Data Centre
2 20 (20.41%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (18.37%) Private Cloud
4 4 (4.08%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 78 (79.59%) Windows
2 53 (54.08%) Windows Server
3 48 (48.98%) Linux
4 40 (40.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 39 (39.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (17.35%) Windows 10
6 17 (17.35%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (14.29%) Windows XP
8 6 (6.12%) Solaris
8 6 (6.12%) Unix
9 4 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (63.27%) ITIL
2 39 (39.80%) Service Management
3 29 (29.59%) DevOps
4 27 (27.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (25.51%) Agile
5 25 (25.51%) Release Management
6 20 (20.41%) Analytics
6 20 (20.41%) CI/CD
6 20 (20.41%) Identity Management
6 20 (20.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (20.41%) Log Analytics
6 20 (20.41%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 20 (20.41%) Privileged Identity Management
6 20 (20.41%) RBAC
7 19 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (18.37%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (18.37%) Security Monitoring
9 17 (17.35%) Capacity Management
9 17 (17.35%) Converged Infrastructure
9 17 (17.35%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (48.98%) PowerShell
2 20 (20.41%) Bicep
2 20 (20.41%) C#
2 20 (20.41%) VB
2 20 (20.41%) VBScript
3 3 (3.06%) SQL
4 1 (1.02%) Python
4 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 54 (55.10%) DV Cleared
3 42 (42.86%) SC Cleared
4 39 (39.80%) Degree
5 20 (20.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (15.31%) CCNA
6 15 (15.31%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (14.29%) CCNP
8 1 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.33%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (2.04%) SLA
3 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.02%) GDPR
System Software
1 52 (53.06%) Active Directory
2 33 (33.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (25.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 20 (20.41%) Hyper-V
4 20 (20.41%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (20.41%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (50.00%) SCCM
2 35 (35.71%) WSUS
3 26 (26.53%) Kubernetes
4 23 (23.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (16.33%) vCenter Server
7 14 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (14.29%) NetBackup
8 10 (10.20%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (8.16%) Ansible
10 6 (6.12%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (6.12%) Nagios
10 6 (6.12%) Rancher
10 6 (6.12%) SCSM
10 6 (6.12%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 4 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (1.02%) Kibana
12 1 (1.02%) logstash
12 1 (1.02%) Puppet
12 1 (1.02%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 74 (75.51%) Microsoft
2 39 (39.80%) VMware
3 26 (26.53%) Dell
4 20 (20.41%) HP
5 18 (18.37%) Cisco
6 16 (16.33%) Atlassian
7 14 (14.29%) 3PAR
7 14 (14.29%) EMC
7 14 (14.29%) Extreme Networks
7 14 (14.29%) Juniper
7 14 (14.29%) Oracle
7 14 (14.29%) Palo Alto
7 14 (14.29%) Symantec
7 14 (14.29%) Veeam
8 10 (10.20%) Red Hat
9 6 (6.12%) IBM
10 5 (5.10%) F5
10 5 (5.10%) SolarWinds
11 4 (4.08%) Citrix
12 1 (1.02%) BMC