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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 340 364
Rank change year-on-year -69 +24 +104
Contract jobs citing SCOM 5 2 29
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.027% 0.017% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.20% 0.11% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 18
10th Percentile £440 - £339
25th Percentile £538 £575 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £650 £515
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +26.21% +3.00%
75th Percentile £850 £725 -
90th Percentile £880 - £526
England median daily rate £515 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +1.43% -7.68% +23.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £22.08
25th Percentile - - £22.13
Median hourly rate - - £23.05
75th Percentile - - £23.80
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £23.05
% change year-on-year - - -64.54%

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 2,520 1,893 2,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.70% 15.67% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,732 1,273 1,625
10th Percentile £355 £363 £325
25th Percentile £434 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £653 £650
90th Percentile £719 £751 £750
England median daily rate £510 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.90% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 33
10th Percentile £22.33 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.75 £27.31 £20.50
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +49.07% +60.26% -62.22%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £54.70 £70.40
England median hourly rate £56.50 £38.75 £28.75
% change year-on-year +45.81% +34.78% -45.68%

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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 4 June 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 4 June 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
South London -12 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
1 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Wintel Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) IT Audit
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Server Building
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds