SCOM Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring SCOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 357 362
Rank change year-on-year -74 +5 +72
Contract jobs citing SCOM 12 12 30
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.060% 0.089% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.54% 0.67% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 22
10th Percentile £393 £448 £326
25th Percentile £400 £487 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -0.92% +7.29%
75th Percentile £688 £575 -
90th Percentile £830 £744 £547
England median daily rate £515 £496 £550
% change year-on-year +3.94% -9.91% +18.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
England median hourly rate - £38.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year - +59.66% -51.49%

All Systems Management Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,213 1,781 1,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.03% 13.26% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,489 1,173 1,387
10th Percentile £326 £313 £325
25th Percentile £447 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 27
10th Percentile £30.75 £23.60 £20.50
25th Percentile £35.38 £26.23 £22.15
Median hourly rate £67.00 £30.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +123.33% +20.00% -60.32%
75th Percentile £81.25 £55.13 £60.00
90th Percentile - £62.85 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.24 £55.00 £36.83
% change year-on-year +22.25% +49.32% -25.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SCOM job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SCOM

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOM in London over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SCOM

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
Central London -9 3 £550 +11.00% 1
SCOM
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 6 (50.00%) Confluence
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (8.33%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Internet
2 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (8.33%) NAS
2 1 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 6 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 6 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) DBA
1 4 (33.33%) SQL DBA
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared DBA
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Server Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Wintel Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Server Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Wintel Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Software Packaging
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Clustering
2 6 (50.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (16.67%) Linux
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (8.33%) AIX
5 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (8.33%) VMS
5 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
5 1 (8.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 6 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (50.00%) Migration
3 5 (41.67%) High Availability
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Change Management
5 3 (25.00%) ITIL
5 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
6 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (8.33%) Capacity Management
7 1 (8.33%) Coaching
7 1 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (8.33%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (8.33%) Docker
4 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (25.00%) SCCM
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (8.33%) Grafana
4 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (8.33%) Nagios
4 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (8.33%) SCVMM
4 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) VMware
2 6 (50.00%) BMC
2 6 (50.00%) Commvault
2 6 (50.00%) Remedy
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Juniper
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk
4 1 (8.33%) Veeam