SCOM Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SCOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 116 124
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 +66
Contract jobs citing SCOM 2 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% 0.20% 0.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.80% 1.17% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile - £359 £443
25th Percentile £495 £402 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -1.04% -6.34%
75th Percentile £496 £530 -
90th Percentile - £583 £483
Central London median daily rate £496 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +4.32% -1.04% -6.34%

All Systems Management Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 249 341 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.58% 16.82% 14.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 223 269
10th Percentile £357 £351 £363
25th Percentile £430 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £678
90th Percentile £754 £725 £763
Central London median daily rate £546 £575 £535
% change year-on-year -5.00% +7.48% -10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £20.24 - -
25th Percentile £20.34 - -
Median hourly rate £21.31 £112.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -80.97% - -
75th Percentile £22.91 - -
90th Percentile £23.39 - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.87 £112.00 -
% change year-on-year -78.69% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

SCOM job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SCOM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SCOM

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SCOM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SCOM

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Service Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (100.00%) MCITP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle