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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 367 369
Rank change year-on-year +26 +2 +154
Contract jobs citing SCOM 40 10 40
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.28% 0.064% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.78% 0.44% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 29
10th Percentile £413 £329 £419
25th Percentile £463 £402 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -1.04% +12.94%
75th Percentile £688 £619 £568
90th Percentile £708 £684 £615
England median daily rate £510 £605 £500
% change year-on-year -15.70% +21.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
75th Percentile - - £27.88
90th Percentile - - £31.40
England median hourly rate £114.00 - £48.40
% change year-on-year - - -25.54%

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 2,253 2,294 2,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.76% 14.70% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,509 1,506 2,095
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £429 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £679 £675
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -3.39% -3.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 32
10th Percentile £22.35 £23.07 £21.33
25th Percentile £25.60 £23.80 £26.88
Median hourly rate £50.75 £27.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.96% -54.24% +136.00%
75th Percentile £63.06 £63.50 £67.75
90th Percentile £65.35 £102.40 £84.13
England median hourly rate £39.50 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +21.54% -29.62% +34.83%

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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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 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 London - 18 £425 - 1
Central London +5 2 £496 +4.32%
West London - 1 £675 -
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 12 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 7 (17.50%) Skype for Business
4 6 (15.00%) Mattermost
Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (22.50%) Azure
3 8 (20.00%) OneDrive
4 6 (15.00%) SaaS
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.00%) IaaS
5 2 (5.00%) PaaS
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) Firewall
1 7 (17.50%) Skype
1 7 (17.50%) Unified Communications
2 5 (12.50%) DHCP
2 5 (12.50%) DNS
3 4 (10.00%) IPv4
4 1 (2.50%) LAN
4 1 (2.50%) SAN
4 1 (2.50%) VPN
4 1 (2.50%) VXLAN
4 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 23 (57.50%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.00%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Analyst
1 14 (35.00%) Support Analyst
2 10 (25.00%) Senior
3 8 (20.00%) Operational Support Analyst
3 8 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
3 8 (20.00%) Operations Support Analyst
3 8 (20.00%) SharePoint Analyst
3 8 (20.00%) SharePoint Support
4 6 (15.00%) Messaging Analyst
4 6 (15.00%) Messaging Support
4 6 (15.00%) Messaging Support Analyst
5 5 (12.50%) Senior Wintel Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Wintel Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Exchange Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Senior Exchange Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Exchange Migration Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
7 3 (7.50%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (15.00%) PKI
3 5 (12.50%) Replication
4 4 (10.00%) Clustering
5 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (40.00%) Windows
2 15 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 11 (27.50%) Linux
4 2 (5.00%) AIX
4 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (60.00%) ITIL
2 12 (30.00%) ITSM
2 12 (30.00%) Migration
3 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (20.00%) Change Management
4 8 (20.00%) Information Security
4 8 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 8 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 6 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
5 6 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (10.00%) Capacity Management
6 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (10.00%) Load Balancing
6 4 (10.00%) Service Management
7 3 (7.50%) Customer-Centricity
7 3 (7.50%) Patch Management
8 2 (5.00%) Performance Management
8 2 (5.00%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (5.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 14 (35.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
2 8 (20.00%) Degree
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) MCITP
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) SLA
2 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (65.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.00%) vSphere
3 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.50%) Firmware
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (35.00%) HP SiteScope
2 12 (30.00%) SCCM
3 6 (15.00%) Ansible
4 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.50%) SCOrch
5 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (82.50%) Microsoft
2 18 (45.00%) Splunk
3 12 (30.00%) Remedy
4 9 (22.50%) VMware
5 8 (20.00%) BMC
6 6 (15.00%) Dell
7 4 (10.00%) Trend Micro
8 2 (5.00%) HP
8 2 (5.00%) Oracle
8 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (5.00%) Veeam
9 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
9 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft