SCOM Contracts in the South East

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 154 210
Rank change year-on-year +15 +56 +35
Contract jobs citing SCOM 13 44 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.79% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.61% 6.12% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 34 5
10th Percentile £250 - -
25th Percentile £367 £603 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.22% +5.22% -3.36%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £590
90th Percentile - £614 £591
England median daily rate £530 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -3.59% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate - £23.05 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -64.54% -

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 360 719 801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.95% 12.95% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 507 585
10th Percentile £323 £213 £309
25th Percentile £425 £370 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -12.04% +8.00%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £625
90th Percentile £663 £650 £699
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 21
10th Percentile £20.77 £14.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £21.98 £23.63 £48.50
Median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.51% -19.15% +170.11%
75th Percentile £25.99 £50.00 £73.71
90th Percentile £27.20 £66.00 £75.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £27.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.92% -50.45% +155.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCOM in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SCOM in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOM in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCOM in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Hampshire +29 7 £538 +3.66%
Thames Valley +3 6 £250 -58.68% 3
Oxfordshire - 3 £250 -
Buckinghamshire +17 2 £550 -12.00% 3
Berkshire -9 1 £605 -
SCOM
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (23.08%) Tomcat
2 2 (15.38%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (15.38%) IIS
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DHCP
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) FTP
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
1 1 (7.69%) LAN
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Operations Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) ICT Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Support
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) BizTalk Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) BizTalk Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Operations Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (15.38%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
3 1 (7.69%) EDI
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) MSMQ
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) WCF
3 1 (7.69%) XML
3 1 (7.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (15.38%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 9 (69.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) ITIL
1 4 (30.77%) Service Management
2 3 (23.08%) ITSM
2 3 (23.08%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
3 2 (15.38%) Patch Management
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) Security Hardening
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (7.69%) Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Capacity Management
4 1 (7.69%) Change Management
4 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (7.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (7.69%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) ActionScript
3 1 (7.69%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (7.69%) Bicep
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) VB
3 1 (7.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) SCCM
2 3 (23.08%) SCSM
2 3 (23.08%) vCenter Server
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) SolarWinds
3 5 (38.46%) ServiceNow
4 2 (15.38%) Dynatrace
4 2 (15.38%) IBM
4 2 (15.38%) McAfee
5 1 (7.69%) SAP
5 1 (7.69%) VMware