SCOM Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring SCOM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCOM over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Contract jobs citing SCOM 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.34% - 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.41% - 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 - £350
North West median daily rate £320 £250 £438
% change year-on-year +28.00% -42.86% +75.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 81 60 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.04% 11.90% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 37 68
10th Percentile £307 £184 £200
25th Percentile £354 £385 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £454
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +4.68% -2.42%
75th Percentile £501 £538 £571
90th Percentile £638 £582 £641
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £16.72 £12.35
25th Percentile £81.75 £17.49 £14.00
Median hourly rate £83.50 £17.72 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +371.22% -11.40% -
75th Percentile £85.25 - £22.41
90th Percentile - £17.74 £48.41
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £17.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year +252.71% -40.93% +50.00%

SCOM
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in Cheshire

SCOM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for SCOM in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Chester - 5 - - 3
SCOM
North West

SCOM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (83.33%) Mattermost
1 5 (83.33%) Skype for Business
2 1 (16.67%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Skype
1 5 (83.33%) Softphone
1 5 (83.33%) Unified Communications
1 5 (83.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) GIS
1 1 (16.67%) MSDE
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Messaging Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Messaging Support
1 5 (83.33%) Messaging Support Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Operations Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Operations Support Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Messaging Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Messaging Support Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Operational Support Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Operations Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Operations Support Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) DBA
3 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) XMPP
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) B2B
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) Problem Management
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (83.33%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Compliance Management
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
2 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Perfmon
1 1 (16.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 5 (83.33%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) VMware