SCOM Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 583 764
Rank change year-on-year +78 +181 -261
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 88 80 88
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.26% 1.20% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41 56 86
10th Percentile £33,250 £40,000 £40,595
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,320 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £59,000 £62,500 £61,000
90th Percentile - £67,975 £68,266
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -9.77%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,888 6,645 13,723
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.48% 15.98% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,951 4,694 7,775
10th Percentile £37,101 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -0.79% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%

SCOM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SCOM trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SCOM.

SCOM salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SCOM over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

SCOM salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SCOM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 27 (30.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (14.77%) CMS
3 9 (10.23%) IIS
3 9 (10.23%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.14%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (14.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (38.64%) Azure
2 28 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (20.45%) Entra ID
4 14 (15.91%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (15.91%) Azure Storage
5 6 (6.82%) AWS
6 5 (5.68%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (5.68%) GCP
6 5 (5.68%) Snowflake
7 4 (4.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (36.36%) DHCP
1 32 (36.36%) DNS
2 23 (26.14%) Firewall
3 9 (10.23%) TCP/IP
4 7 (7.95%) SAN
5 6 (6.82%) VPN
6 5 (5.68%) BIG-IP
6 5 (5.68%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (5.68%) Network Security
7 4 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (4.55%) Wireless
8 1 (1.14%) Skype
8 1 (1.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.68%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (5.68%) NoSQL
1 5 (5.68%) Redis
General
1 41 (46.59%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (14.77%) Influencing Skills
2 13 (14.77%) Legal
2 13 (14.77%) Pharmaceutical
3 10 (11.36%) Finance
4 9 (10.23%) Aerospace
5 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.55%) Automotive
8 3 (3.41%) Retail
9 2 (2.27%) Law
10 1 (1.14%) Banking
10 1 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (15.91%) Active Directory Specialist
1 14 (15.91%) Active Directory Support
1 14 (15.91%) Azure Specialist
1 14 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 14 (15.91%) Support Specialist
2 13 (14.77%) Administrator
2 13 (14.77%) Project Manager
2 13 (14.77%) ServiceNow Administrator
3 10 (11.36%) IT Engineer
3 10 (11.36%) Senior
4 9 (10.23%) Systems Engineer
5 7 (7.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Principal Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Infrastructure Architect
7 5 (5.68%) IT Architect
7 5 (5.68%) IT Infrastructure Architect
7 5 (5.68%) IT Operations Manager
7 5 (5.68%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.91%) ARM Templates
2 5 (5.68%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.05%) PKI
2 14 (15.91%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (14.77%) Digital Signage
4 9 (10.23%) Data Centre
5 7 (7.95%) Clustering
6 6 (6.82%) IoT
7 5 (5.68%) Management Information System
7 5 (5.68%) Public Cloud
7 5 (5.68%) Replication
8 4 (4.55%) CMDB
9 1 (1.14%) Blackberry
9 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 57 (64.77%) Windows
2 39 (44.32%) Windows Server
3 37 (42.05%) Linux
4 18 (20.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 18 (20.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (5.68%) Windows 10
7 4 (4.55%) Windows 2000
7 4 (4.55%) Windows NT
7 4 (4.55%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (4.55%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (4.55%) Windows XP
8 3 (3.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (44.32%) ITIL
2 32 (36.36%) Service Management
3 22 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 19 (21.59%) Agile
4 19 (21.59%) DevOps
5 18 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (15.91%) Analytics
6 14 (15.91%) CI/CD
6 14 (15.91%) Identity Management
6 14 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (15.91%) Log Analytics
6 14 (15.91%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 14 (15.91%) Privileged Identity Management
6 14 (15.91%) RBAC
6 14 (15.91%) Release Management
6 14 (15.91%) Risk Management
7 13 (14.77%) Data Analysis
7 13 (14.77%) ITSM
7 13 (14.77%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.55%) PowerShell
2 17 (19.32%) SQL
3 14 (15.91%) Bicep
3 14 (15.91%) C#
3 14 (15.91%) VB
3 14 (15.91%) VBScript
4 13 (14.77%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 40 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 36 (40.91%) DV Cleared
3 31 (35.23%) Degree
4 24 (27.27%) SC Cleared
5 17 (19.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 11 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (5.68%) Azure Certification
7 5 (5.68%) CISSP
7 5 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (5.68%) MCSA
7 5 (5.68%) MCSE
7 5 (5.68%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (4.55%) DBS Check
9 3 (3.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.95%) Good Clinical Practice
2 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (56.82%) Active Directory
2 21 (23.86%) Hyper-V
3 18 (20.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (15.91%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (15.91%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (10.23%) Forefront TMG
5 9 (10.23%) VMware Workstation
6 4 (4.55%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.14%) DFS Replication
7 1 (1.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (39.77%) SCCM
2 33 (37.50%) WSUS
3 19 (21.59%) Kubernetes
4 18 (20.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (6.82%) Ansible
6 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 5 (5.68%) Grafana
7 5 (5.68%) Prometheus
8 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (3.41%) Check_MK
9 3 (3.41%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (3.41%) Nagios
10 1 (1.14%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (1.14%) NetBackup
10 1 (1.14%) OfficeScan
10 1 (1.14%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 55 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 18 (20.45%) Dynatrace
2 18 (20.45%) VMware
3 17 (19.32%) ServiceNow
4 14 (15.91%) HP
5 13 (14.77%) Riverbed
6 11 (12.50%) Oracle
6 11 (12.50%) SolarWinds
7 6 (6.82%) Red Hat
8 5 (5.68%) AppDynamics
8 5 (5.68%) Cisco
8 5 (5.68%) Google
9 1 (1.14%) Altiris
9 1 (1.14%) Dell
9 1 (1.14%) Huawei
9 1 (1.14%) McAfee
9 1 (1.14%) Veritas