SCOM Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 - 131
Rank change year-on-year - - -35
Contract jobs citing SCOM 37 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.88% - 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.42% - 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 0 3
10th Percentile - - £412
25th Percentile £603 - £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - £555
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.07%
75th Percentile £608 - £608
90th Percentile - - £626
South East median daily rate £605 £590 £600
% change year-on-year +2.54% -1.67% +35.21%
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
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 240 201 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.18% 11.07% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 142 176
10th Percentile £205 £363 £275
25th Percentile £269 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £623
90th Percentile £631 £750 £678
South East median daily rate £475 £543 £500
% change year-on-year -12.52% +8.60% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 3
10th Percentile - £50.53 £20.30
25th Percentile - £58.91 £36.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% +7.44%
75th Percentile - £75.56 £77.50
90th Percentile - £81.98 £83.50
South East median hourly rate £43.00 £61.38 £21.50
% change year-on-year -29.94% +185.47% -10.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCOM in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for SCOM in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCOM in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading - 33 £605 - 3
Newbury - 1 £575 -
SCOM
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 19 (51.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 30 (81.08%) Azure
2 16 (43.24%) Azure Monitor
2 16 (43.24%) Azure Storage
2 16 (43.24%) Entra ID
3 15 (40.54%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (35.14%) OCI
5 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (78.38%) DHCP
1 29 (78.38%) DNS
1 29 (78.38%) Firewall
2 13 (35.14%) SAN
3 4 (10.81%) Skype
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Axure RP
General
1 29 (78.38%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Active Directory Support
1 15 (40.54%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (37.84%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (37.84%) Support Specialist
3 13 (35.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (24.32%) Storage Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) Administrator
5 6 (16.22%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (8.11%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 3 (8.11%) Server Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Support Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (40.54%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.70%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 16 (43.24%) PKI
1 16 (43.24%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (35.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 37 (100.00%) Windows
2 36 (97.30%) Windows Server
3 32 (86.49%) Linux
4 31 (83.78%) Windows Server 2016
4 31 (83.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (35.14%) Windows 10
5 13 (35.14%) Windows Server 2012
5 13 (35.14%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (78.38%) ITIL
2 17 (45.95%) Agile
2 17 (45.95%) Release Management
3 16 (43.24%) Analytics
3 16 (43.24%) DevOps
3 16 (43.24%) Identity Management
3 16 (43.24%) Log Analytics
3 16 (43.24%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 16 (43.24%) Privileged Identity Management
3 16 (43.24%) RBAC
3 16 (43.24%) Service Management
4 15 (40.54%) CI/CD
4 15 (40.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (37.84%) Server Management
6 13 (35.14%) Break/Fix
6 13 (35.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (35.14%) Performance Tuning
6 13 (35.14%) Proactive Monitoring
6 13 (35.14%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (86.49%) PowerShell
2 16 (43.24%) C#
2 16 (43.24%) VB
2 16 (43.24%) VBScript
3 15 (40.54%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 36 (97.30%) Security Cleared
2 34 (91.89%) DV Cleared
3 31 (83.78%) Degree
4 30 (81.08%) SC Cleared
5 16 (43.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (35.14%) CCNA
6 13 (35.14%) CCNP
6 13 (35.14%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 34 (91.89%) Active Directory
2 16 (43.24%) Virtual Desktop
2 16 (43.24%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (35.14%) Hyper-V
3 13 (35.14%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (35.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (10.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (89.19%) SCCM
2 30 (81.08%) WSUS
3 17 (45.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (45.95%) EMC NetWorker
4 16 (43.24%) Kubernetes
4 16 (43.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (35.14%) NetBackup
5 13 (35.14%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (81.08%) Microsoft
2 17 (45.95%) EMC
2 17 (45.95%) VMware
3 13 (35.14%) 3PAR
3 13 (35.14%) Cisco
3 13 (35.14%) Dell
3 13 (35.14%) Extreme Networks
3 13 (35.14%) HP
3 13 (35.14%) Juniper
3 13 (35.14%) Oracle
3 13 (35.14%) Palo Alto
3 13 (35.14%) Symantec
3 13 (35.14%) Veeam
4 4 (10.81%) Citrix
4 4 (10.81%) ServiceNow