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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 351 365
Rank change year-on-year -39 +14 +106
Contract jobs citing SCOM 18 2 26
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.10% 0.016% 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.73% 0.099% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 15
10th Percentile - - £280
25th Percentile £525 £813 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £825 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.70% +83.33% -4.36%
75th Percentile £703 £838 £515
90th Percentile £758 - £516
England median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% +1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £22.00
25th Percentile - - £22.02
Median hourly rate - - £22.15
75th Percentile - - £22.28
90th Percentile - - £28.03
England median hourly rate £119.00 - £22.15
% change year-on-year - - -65.92%

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 2,480 2,018 2,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.30% 15.95% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,688 1,394 1,580
10th Percentile £350 £365 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 42
10th Percentile £22.41 £23.59 £13.62
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £26.45 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +98.49% +2.88% -60.45%
75th Percentile £63.32 £51.75 £59.69
90th Percentile - £63.25 £69.70
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -55.19%

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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 13 April 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 13 April 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 - 3 £650 -
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 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (22.22%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.56%) IaaS
4 1 (5.56%) PaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) DHCP
1 6 (33.33%) DNS
2 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 4 (22.22%) IPv4
3 1 (5.56%) Internet
3 1 (5.56%) LAN
3 1 (5.56%) SAN
3 1 (5.56%) Skype
3 1 (5.56%) Unified Communications
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) VXLAN
3 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Exchange Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Exchange Migration Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Exchange Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Wintel Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) SCCM Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Server Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Wintel Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Data Centre
2 5 (27.78%) Replication
3 3 (16.67%) Clustering
4 2 (11.11%) PKI
5 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
2 9 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) AIX
3 2 (11.11%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (22.22%) Capacity Management
2 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (22.22%) ITSM
2 4 (22.22%) Load Balancing
2 4 (22.22%) Migration
2 4 (22.22%) Service Management
3 3 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
3 3 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 3 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 2 (11.11%) Change Management
4 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Management
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.11%) vSphere
4 1 (5.56%) Firmware
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) SCCM
2 6 (33.33%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.56%) SCOrch
4 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) BMC
2 6 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Dell
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.11%) Remedy
3 2 (11.11%) Splunk
3 2 (11.11%) Trend Micro
3 2 (11.11%) Veeam
4 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft