Microsoft System Center Service Manager (SCSM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SCSM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SCSM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 895 930 1197
Rank change year-on-year +35 +267 -308
Permanent jobs citing SCSM 1 40 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.001% 0.038% 0.023%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.010% 0.26% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1 37 31
10th Percentile - - £30,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £35,400 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,650 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +2.23% +3.52%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,825 £57,500
90th Percentile - £62,525 £65,813
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £35,400 £30,000
% change year-on-year +55.37% +18.00% -38.30%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SCSM 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 9,961 15,465 27,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.16% 14.78% 17.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,202 9,470 14,208
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £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 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,675 £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%

SCSM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SCSM in the UK

SCSM
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SCSM in the UK

SCSM
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCSM within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +74 1 £55,000 +4.46% 1
South East +16 1 £55,000 +55.37% 1
UK excluding London -1 1 £55,000 +55.37% 1

SCSM
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware