SCOM Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring SCOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 129 128
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 +34
Contract jobs citing SCOM 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.16% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.29% 0.81% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £533 - £359
25th Percentile £544 £495 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £496 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.55% +4.32% -1.04%
75th Percentile £599 £496 £530
90th Percentile £604 - £583
London median daily rate £463 £496 £515
% change year-on-year -6.66% -3.79% +7.29%

All Systems Management Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 310 247 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.42% 12.57% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 180 221
10th Percentile £288 £281 £350
25th Percentile £450 £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £713 £775 £775
London median daily rate £538 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +2.38% -2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £26.20 £21.14 -
25th Percentile £29.50 £24.56 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.48 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.39% +1.76% -25.52%
75th Percentile £55.00 £39.08 -
90th Percentile £67.00 £54.98 -
London median hourly rate £62.75 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +109.17% +11.11% -55.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

SCOM job vacancy trend in Central London

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Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SCOM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SCOM

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Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SCOM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SCOM

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
City of London -23 4 £578 +16.55% 1
SCOM
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Confluence
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (75.00%) Power BI
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Server Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (75.00%) Clustering
3 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) VMS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Resilience Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Server Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Korn
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) PowerCLI
2 1 (25.00%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) BMC
2 3 (75.00%) Commvault
2 3 (75.00%) Remedy
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow