SCOM Contract Job Trends in South London

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring SCOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SCOM 18 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 8.82% - 0.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.57% - 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £675
75th Percentile £450 - £713
90th Percentile £536 - -
London median daily rate £525 £500 £480
% change year-on-year +5.00% +4.17% +12.94%

All Systems Management Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 92 30 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 45.10% 12.82% 23.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 19 48
10th Percentile £413 £474 £255
25th Percentile £475 £538 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £566 £731 £638
90th Percentile £645 £764 £675
London median daily rate £525 £565 £570
% change year-on-year -7.08% -0.88% -8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £13.15
25th Percentile £54.55 - £13.16
Median hourly rate £58.94 - £13.16
75th Percentile £63.32 - £26.20
90th Percentile - - £34.02
London median hourly rate £47.50 £40.65 £58.00
% change year-on-year +16.85% -29.91% +132.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

SCOM job vacancy trend in South London

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Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SCOM

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Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOM in South London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in South London

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Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SCOM

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Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Bromley - 18 £425 -
SCOM
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 8 (44.44%) SharePoint
2 6 (33.33%) Mattermost
2 6 (33.33%) Skype for Business
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (66.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) OneDrive
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Skype
1 6 (33.33%) Unified Communications
General
1 18 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (77.78%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Analyst
1 14 (77.78%) Support Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) Operational Support Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) Operations Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) Operations Support Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) SharePoint Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) SharePoint Support
3 6 (33.33%) Messaging Analyst
3 6 (33.33%) Messaging Support
3 6 (33.33%) Messaging Support Analyst
4 4 (22.22%) Exchange Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Senior
4 4 (22.22%) Senior Exchange Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Exchange Migration Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Migration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Clustering
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) ITIL
2 10 (55.56%) Migration
2 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (44.44%) Information Security
3 8 (44.44%) ITSM
3 8 (44.44%) Problem Management
4 7 (38.89%) Service Delivery
5 6 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
5 6 (33.33%) Change Management
5 6 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 14 (77.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (77.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (77.78%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 18 (100.00%) Splunk
2 12 (66.67%) Remedy
3 4 (22.22%) BMC
3 4 (22.22%) Trend Micro