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 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 138 115 122
Rank change year-on-year -23 +7 +38
Contract jobs citing SCOM 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.54% 0.92% 1.32%
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
Central London median daily rate £578 £496 £475
% change year-on-year +16.55% +4.32% -1.04%

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 259 218 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.33% 12.24% 14.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 158 203
10th Percentile £283 £281 £375
25th Percentile £450 £445 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +2.65% -3.42%
75th Percentile £650 £682 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £757
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.65% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £28.10 £30.26 -
25th Percentile £34.25 £35.53 -
Median hourly rate £47.00 £46.11 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +70.77% -25.52%
75th Percentile £62.25 £56.74 -
90th Percentile £69.90 £62.04 -
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £27.48 £27.00
% change year-on-year +27.39% +1.76% -25.52%

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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:

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