SCOM Contracts in England

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 456 423 536
Rank change year-on-year -33 +113 +127
Contract jobs citing SCOM 29 119 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.32% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.77% 2.71% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 95 78
10th Percentile £250 £425 £363
25th Percentile £429 £491 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £556 £608 £621
90th Percentile £680 £629 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 15
10th Percentile - £22.05 -
25th Percentile - £22.08 -
Median hourly rate - £23.05 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -64.54% -
75th Percentile - £26.29 £65.75
90th Percentile - £43.13 -
UK median hourly rate - £23.05 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -64.54% -0.76%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SCOM in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOM in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the England 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
South East +15 13 £525 -13.22% 3
North of England +24 6 £320 +28.00% 7
North West +22 6 £320 +28.00% 3
Midlands +22 3 £525 - 8
South West +18 3 £650 +30.00%
East Midlands +11 3 £525 -3.23% 4
London +11 2 £825 +60.82% 3
East of England +19 1 - -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (20.69%) Skype for Business
2 5 (17.24%) Mattermost
3 3 (10.34%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (10.34%) Tomcat
4 2 (6.90%) Confluence
4 2 (6.90%) IIS
4 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Azure
2 2 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.45%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Stack
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Storage
3 1 (3.45%) Cohesity
3 1 (3.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) Skype
2 5 (17.24%) LAN
2 5 (17.24%) Softphone
2 5 (17.24%) Unified Communications
2 5 (17.24%) WAN
2 5 (17.24%) WebEx
3 3 (10.34%) DHCP
3 3 (10.34%) DNS
3 3 (10.34%) Firewall
4 2 (6.90%) iSCSI
4 2 (6.90%) SAN
5 1 (3.45%) FTP
5 1 (3.45%) HTTP
5 1 (3.45%) Network Security
5 1 (3.45%) SMTP
5 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.45%) VPN
5 1 (3.45%) VSAN
5 1 (3.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.34%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (10.34%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.45%) GIS
3 1 (3.45%) MSDE
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Law
4 1 (3.45%) Automotive
4 1 (3.45%) Military
4 1 (3.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Analyst
1 7 (24.14%) Operations Analyst
2 6 (20.69%) Support Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Messaging Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Messaging Support
3 5 (17.24%) Messaging Support Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Operations Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Operations Support Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Messaging Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Messaging Support Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Operational Support Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Operations Support Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Support Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Administrator
6 2 (6.90%) Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) ICT Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Windows Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) XMPP
2 3 (10.34%) .NET
2 3 (10.34%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (6.90%) Flash
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.45%) EDI
4 1 (3.45%) JSON
4 1 (3.45%) MSMQ
4 1 (3.45%) REST
4 1 (3.45%) SOAP
4 1 (3.45%) WCF
4 1 (3.45%) XML
4 1 (3.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Management Information System
1 5 (17.24%) PKI
2 3 (10.34%) Clustering
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.90%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.45%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.45%) RSA SecurID
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (65.52%) Windows
2 16 (55.17%) Windows Server
3 9 (31.03%) Linux
4 2 (6.90%) VMS
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) ITIL
2 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (24.14%) Service Management
4 6 (20.69%) B2B
5 5 (17.24%) Agile
5 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (17.24%) Problem Management
5 5 (17.24%) Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (17.24%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (13.79%) ITSM
6 4 (13.79%) Proactive Monitoring
7 3 (10.34%) DevOps
7 3 (10.34%) High Availability
7 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
8 2 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (6.90%) Patch Management
8 2 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (6.90%) Security Hardening
8 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (6.90%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) PowerShell
2 12 (41.38%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) ActionScript
3 1 (3.45%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (3.45%) Bicep
3 1 (3.45%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.45%) VB
3 1 (3.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (55.17%) Security Cleared
2 11 (37.93%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.69%) Degree
4 5 (17.24%) DV Cleared
4 5 (17.24%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (6.90%) CCNA
5 2 (6.90%) CCNP
5 2 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (6.90%) Master's Degree
5 2 (6.90%) MCSA
5 2 (6.90%) MCSE
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (48.28%) Active Directory
2 7 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (10.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (6.90%) VMware NSX
4 2 (6.90%) vSphere
5 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (37.93%) SCCM
2 5 (17.24%) vCenter Server
3 3 (10.34%) SCSM
4 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (6.90%) Ansible
4 2 (6.90%) WSUS
5 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.45%) Perfmon
5 1 (3.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (72.41%) Microsoft
2 10 (34.48%) VMware
3 7 (24.14%) Cisco
3 7 (24.14%) SolarWinds
4 6 (20.69%) Red Hat
5 5 (17.24%) ServiceNow
5 5 (17.24%) Splunk
6 2 (6.90%) Atlassian
6 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
6 2 (6.90%) IBM
6 2 (6.90%) McAfee
7 1 (3.45%) HP
7 1 (3.45%) NetApp
7 1 (3.45%) Remedy
7 1 (3.45%) SAP