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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 144 192
Rank change year-on-year -3 +48 +56
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SCOM 23 38 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.65% 0.80% 0.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.60% 5.50% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 32 11
10th Percentile £306 £544 £62
25th Percentile £328 £603 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £605 £468
Median % change year-on-year -21.49% +29.27% -8.24%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £615
90th Percentile £556 - -
England median daily rate £492 £555 £468
% change year-on-year -11.44% +18.59% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £48.53
25th Percentile - - £48.73
Median hourly rate - - £49.07
75th Percentile - - £49.40
90th Percentile - - £49.60
England median hourly rate £38.00 £23.80 £49.07
% change year-on-year +59.66% -51.49% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 500 691 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.16% 14.47% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 511 507
10th Percentile £262 £285 £250
25th Percentile £402 £419 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £663
90th Percentile £626 £675 £738
England median daily rate £508 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 17
10th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £18.95
25th Percentile £23.44 £30.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £32.77 £36.17 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% -27.28% +11.75%
75th Percentile £69.00 £40.25 £58.59
90th Percentile £85.65 £53.90 £69.08
England median hourly rate £52.50 £36.17 £49.87
% change year-on-year +45.17% -27.47% +116.80%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SCOM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SCOM

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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 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SCOM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SCOM

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DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +23 15 £500 +6.38% 1
Thames Valley -17 4 £450 -25.62%
Surrey - 4 - - 1
Buckinghamshire +6 2 £450 -28.00%
Berkshire -10 1 £605 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £250 -
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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 4 (17.39%) Mattermost
1 4 (17.39%) Skype for Business
2 2 (8.70%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (8.70%) IIS
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
2 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Skype
2 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) HTTPS
3 1 (4.35%) DHCP
3 1 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) HTTP
3 1 (4.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Support Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) 2nd Line Support
2 7 (30.43%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Messaging Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Messaging Support
4 4 (17.39%) Messaging Support Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Support Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Wintel Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Wintel Support
4 4 (17.39%) Wintel Support Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) BizTalk Consultant
7 1 (4.35%) Consultant
7 1 (4.35%) Design Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Software Design Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) .NET
1 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
1 2 (8.70%) SOAP
2 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.35%) ONNX
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Windows
2 6 (26.09%) Linux
2 6 (26.09%) Windows Server
3 3 (13.04%) VMS
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) ITSM
2 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (26.09%) ITIL
3 6 (26.09%) Service Management
4 5 (21.74%) DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) Validation
5 4 (17.39%) B2B
5 4 (17.39%) Information Security
5 4 (17.39%) Problem Management
6 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
6 3 (13.04%) Proactive Monitoring
6 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
7 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.70%) DevSecOps
7 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (8.70%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) C#
3 1 (4.35%) Bicep
3 1 (4.35%) C
3 1 (4.35%) VB
3 1 (4.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (73.91%) Security Cleared
2 10 (43.48%) DV Cleared
3 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
4 4 (17.39%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (4.35%) Degree
5 1 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (4.35%) OCP
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) SCCM
2 5 (21.74%) Ansible
2 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 5 (21.74%) Rsyslog
3 4 (17.39%) HP SiteScope
4 3 (13.04%) Cilium
4 3 (13.04%) vCenter Server
5 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (4.35%) Terraform
5 1 (4.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) SolarWinds
2 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
3 4 (17.39%) Cisco
3 4 (17.39%) Remedy
3 4 (17.39%) Splunk
4 3 (13.04%) NVIDIA
4 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
5 2 (8.70%) IBM
5 2 (8.70%) McAfee
6 1 (4.35%) Red Hat