SCOM Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 146 166
Rank change year-on-year +51 +20 -28
Contract jobs citing SCOM 42 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.57% 0.035% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.64% 0.30% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 0 6
10th Percentile - - £418
25th Percentile £603 - £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - £490
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £608 - £611
90th Percentile £609 - £638
South East median daily rate £605 £550 £468
% change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% -10.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 308 332 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.48% 11.54% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 243 262
10th Percentile £213 £309 £240
25th Percentile £402 £416 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £673 £597
90th Percentile £650 £735 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 8
10th Percentile £18.80 £45.50 £10.88
25th Percentile £23.00 £58.91 £12.78
Median hourly rate £30.00 £68.00 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year -55.88% +62.87% +5.70%
75th Percentile £39.38 £75.56 £68.75
90th Percentile £45.00 £81.98 £72.88
South East median hourly rate £43.00 £58.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -26.81% +173.26% -43.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCOM in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SCOM in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCOM in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 June 2024. 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
Berkshire +29 39 £605 - 6
Buckinghamshire - 3 £625 -
SCOM
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 21 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 36 (85.71%) Azure
2 21 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 21 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 21 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 21 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (33.33%) OCI
4 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 35 (83.33%) DHCP
1 35 (83.33%) DNS
1 35 (83.33%) Firewall
2 14 (33.33%) SAN
General
1 35 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (50.00%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (33.33%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (33.33%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (33.33%) Support Specialist
3 10 (23.81%) Storage Engineer
4 9 (21.43%) Support Engineer
5 8 (19.05%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (16.67%) Active Directory Engineer
6 7 (16.67%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) Server Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Architect
8 3 (7.14%) PowerShell Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (7.14%) VMware Architect
8 3 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Administrator
9 2 (4.76%) Systems Administrator
10 1 (2.38%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.38%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 21 (50.00%) PKI
1 21 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 39 (92.86%) Windows
1 39 (92.86%) Windows Server
2 38 (90.48%) Windows Server 2016
2 38 (90.48%) Windows Server 2019
3 35 (83.33%) Linux
4 14 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 14 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (33.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (83.33%) ITIL
2 25 (59.52%) Agile
3 22 (52.38%) DevOps
3 22 (52.38%) Release Management
4 21 (50.00%) Analytics
4 21 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 21 (50.00%) Identity Management
4 21 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (50.00%) Log Analytics
4 21 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 21 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
4 21 (50.00%) RBAC
4 21 (50.00%) Service Management
5 17 (40.48%) Converged Infrastructure
6 16 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (35.71%) Server Management
8 14 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
8 14 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
8 14 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (90.48%) PowerShell
2 21 (50.00%) Bicep
2 21 (50.00%) C#
2 21 (50.00%) VB
2 21 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (97.62%) Security Cleared
2 36 (85.71%) DV Cleared
2 36 (85.71%) SC Cleared
3 35 (83.33%) Degree
4 21 (50.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 14 (33.33%) CCNA
5 14 (33.33%) CCNP
5 14 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 36 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 21 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 21 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 14 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (90.48%) SCCM
2 36 (85.71%) WSUS
3 22 (52.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 21 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 21 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (33.33%) EMC NetWorker
5 14 (33.33%) NetBackup
5 14 (33.33%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (92.86%) Microsoft
2 17 (40.48%) Cisco
2 17 (40.48%) VMware
3 14 (33.33%) 3PAR
3 14 (33.33%) Dell
3 14 (33.33%) EMC
3 14 (33.33%) Extreme Networks
3 14 (33.33%) HP
3 14 (33.33%) Juniper
3 14 (33.33%) Oracle
3 14 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 14 (33.33%) Symantec
3 14 (33.33%) Veeam