Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SCOrch skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SCOrch over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 898 970 1191
Rank change year-on-year +72 +221 -326
Permanent jobs citing SCOrch 5 13 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.012% 0.013%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.050% 0.085% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 17
10th Percentile - £38,250 £41,250
25th Percentile - £45,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +12.75% +13.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £61,563 £56,250
90th Percentile - £80,500 £58,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +7.95%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SCOrch 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 10,009 15,262 28,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.16% 14.67% 18.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7,228 9,363 14,193
10th Percentile £32,640 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

SCOrch
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SCOrch in the UK

SCOrch
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SCOrch in the UK

SCOrch
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCOrch over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SCOrch in the UK

SCOrch
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCOrch within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +86 5 £50,000 -13.04% 3
Midlands +3 3 £50,000 -13.04% 2
UK excluding London -3 3 £50,000 -4.76% 3
East Midlands -15 3 £50,000 -13.04% 1
London +122 2 £75,000 +30.43%

SCOrch
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 5 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Storage
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) IaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
3 2 (40.00%) DHCP
3 2 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (40.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (60.00%) Redis
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Specialist
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) SAN Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) SAN Storage Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Server Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) PKI
2 3 (60.00%) Clustering
2 3 (60.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (40.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (60.00%) Server Virtualisation
1 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Threat Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Break/Fix
2 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNA
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) MCSE
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Server
3 2 (40.00%) Firmware
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) SCOM
2 3 (60.00%) vMotion
3 2 (40.00%) HP SIM
3 2 (40.00%) PowerCLI
3 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
3 2 (40.00%) vRealize
3 2 (40.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 2 (40.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Splunk
3 2 (40.00%) 3PAR
3 2 (40.00%) Brocade
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) Commvault
3 2 (40.00%) HP
3 2 (40.00%) Nimble Storage
3 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (40.00%) Veeam