SCOM Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 160 184 205
Rank change year-on-year +24 +21 +10
Contract jobs citing SCOM 6 1 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.021% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.98% 0.19% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £389
25th Percentile - £225 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £250 £440
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -43.18% +76.00%
75th Percentile - £275 £465
90th Percentile - - £494
England median daily rate £530 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -3.59% +7.32% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
England median hourly rate - £23.05 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -64.54% -

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 612 538 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.57% 11.28% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 379 635
10th Percentile £254 £239 £325
25th Percentile £379 £400 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -12.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £564 £580 £638
90th Percentile £650 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 22 52
10th Percentile £45.45 £16.89 £17.53
25th Percentile £51.38 £17.72 £22.34
Median hourly rate £62.50 £22.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +177.78% -40.00% +87.50%
75th Percentile £74.50 £48.75 £50.17
90th Percentile £80.95 £80.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SCOM in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +22 6 £320 +28.00% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (83.33%) Mattermost
1 5 (83.33%) Skype for Business
2 1 (16.67%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Skype
1 5 (83.33%) Softphone
1 5 (83.33%) Unified Communications
1 5 (83.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) GIS
1 1 (16.67%) MSDE
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Messaging Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Messaging Support
1 5 (83.33%) Messaging Support Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Operations Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Operations Support Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Messaging Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Messaging Support Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Operational Support Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Operations Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Operations Support Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) DBA
3 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) XMPP
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) B2B
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) Problem Management
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (83.33%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Compliance Management
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
2 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Perfmon
1 1 (16.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 5 (83.33%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) VMware