SCOM Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring SCOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 37 48
Rank change year-on-year -39 +11 -
Contract jobs citing SCOM 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.23% 0.98% 0.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.35% 8.33% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £480 £438 -
25th Percentile £486 £456 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £508 £531 £638
90th Percentile £512 £543 -
South East median daily rate £515 £525 £605
% change year-on-year -1.90% -13.22% +29.27%

All Systems Management Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 85 36 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 9.58% 11.80% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 10 47
10th Percentile £342 £319 £234
25th Percentile £473 £431 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year +12.25% +13.64% -18.52%
75th Percentile £622 £578 £540
90th Percentile £638 £596 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £30.60
25th Percentile - - £31.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £35.08
Median % change year-on-year - - +84.64%
75th Percentile - - £37.06
90th Percentile - - £37.62
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £32.77 £36.17
% change year-on-year +98.35% -9.39% -34.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

SCOM job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SCOM

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Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SCOM

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Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Milton Keynes -35 2 £499 -0.25% 1
SCOM
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Monitoring Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow