SCOM Contract Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring SCOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 123 119
Rank change year-on-year -42 -4 +18
Contract jobs citing SCOM 11 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.28% 0.37% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.24% 2.81% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £538 £492 £555
% change year-on-year +9.36% -11.44% +18.59%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 490 285 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.41% 13.15% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 197 155
10th Percentile £243 £258 £209
25th Percentile £396 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% -2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £660 £650 £623
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 6
10th Percentile £21.25 - £27.88
25th Percentile £47.87 £18.87 £33.67
Median hourly rate £75.00 £63.40 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% +37.29% -
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.50 £48.11
90th Percentile £95.00 £84.50 £76.38
England median hourly rate £67.00 £44.48 £37.50
% change year-on-year +50.65% +18.60% -24.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

SCOM job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SCOM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SCOM

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SCOM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SCOM

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
Manchester - 11 £625 - 2
SCOM
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
1 11 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 11 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 10 (90.91%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) MySQL
1 11 (100.00%) Power BI
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) DBA
1 11 (100.00%) SQL DBA
2 8 (72.73%) Lead
3 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared DBA
4 1 (9.09%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Clustering
1 10 (90.91%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
1 10 (90.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) ITIL
2 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (90.91%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Data Integration
3 1 (9.09%) Database Tuning
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Service Management
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
1 11 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 9 (81.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) Azure Certification
1 10 (90.91%) Degree
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft Certification
1 10 (90.91%) SC Cleared
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (81.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 8 (72.73%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 11 (100.00%) ServiceNow