SCOM Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring SCOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 93 76
Rank change year-on-year -21 -17 +39
Contract jobs citing SCOM 5 1 40
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.26% 0.084% 2.03%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.87% 0.58% 17.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 35
10th Percentile £302 - -
25th Percentile £305 £603 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £605 £605
Median % change year-on-year -32.85% - -
75th Percentile £534 £608 £608
90th Percentile £596 - -
South East median daily rate £515 £488 £605
% change year-on-year +5.64% -19.42% +10.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 268 171 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.10% 14.29% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 108 162
10th Percentile £351 £361 £213
25th Percentile £392 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £581 £575 £608
90th Percentile £650 £666 £650
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £26.25 - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +72.23% - -
75th Percentile £35.22 £36.94 -
90th Percentile £66.41 £47.77 -
South East median hourly rate £55.62 £28.00 £37.33
% change year-on-year +98.63% -25.00% -32.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SCOM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

SCOM job vacancy trend in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SCOM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SCOM

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOM in Berkshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SCOM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SCOM

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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 5 July 2026. 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
Wokingham - 3 £306 -
Bracknell - 1 £500 -
Reading - 1 £625 -
SCOM
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Mining
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Wintel Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITSM
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (40.00%) Security Hardening
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Change Control
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) CCA
3 3 (60.00%) Citrix Certification
3 3 (60.00%) MCSA
3 3 (60.00%) MCSE
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (60.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) vSphere
3 3 (60.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) SCCM
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (60.00%) vCenter Server
3 2 (40.00%) vMotion
4 1 (20.00%) NetBackup
4 1 (20.00%) SCSM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) SolarWinds
3 3 (60.00%) Remedy
3 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (20.00%) Splunk
4 1 (20.00%) Trend Micro
4 1 (20.00%) Veeam