SCOM Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 108 126 150
Rank change year-on-year +18 +24 +20
Contract jobs citing SCOM 3 31 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.18% 0.97% 0.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.98% 7.62% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 30 9
10th Percentile £545 £460 £375
25th Percentile £575 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +18.92%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £600
90th Percentile £715 £677 £602
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
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 305 407 605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 18.18% 12.72% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 312 499
10th Percentile £293 £205 £324
25th Percentile £440 £391 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £626 £591 £644
90th Percentile £700 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 21
10th Percentile £31.15 - £53.75
25th Percentile £56.13 - £60.70
Median hourly rate £74.35 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.88% -38.46% +225.00%
75th Percentile £79.77 £72.85 £78.00
90th Percentile £81.68 £76.28 £86.00
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for SCOM in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOM in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Wiltshire +5 3 £650 +30.00%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) iSCSI
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) Skype
2 1 (33.33%) SMTP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) PKI
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) VMS
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) NsoIT
2 2 (66.67%) Power Management
2 2 (66.67%) Server Management
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Matrix Management
3 1 (33.33%) Office Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) CCNA
2 2 (66.67%) CCNP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (66.67%) MCSA
2 2 (66.67%) MCSE
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Atlassian
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Remedy
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds