SCOM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 305 357
Rank change year-on-year -2 +52 +98
Contract jobs citing SCOM 27 89 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.43% 0.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.43% 3.81% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 76 65
10th Percentile £250 £475 £381
25th Percentile £385 £493 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +11.90% +13.51%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £608
90th Percentile £621 £638 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £23.05 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -64.54% -0.76%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,888 2,338 3,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.78% 11.30% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,323 1,695 2,644
10th Percentile £235 £211 £275
25th Percentile £393 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £623
90th Percentile £659 £652 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.94% -8.44% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 76 137
10th Percentile £14.93 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.05 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £24.18 £34.25 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.40% -19.41% +112.50%
75th Percentile £42.88 £49.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.48 £70.63 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.48 £28.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -7.91% -50.00% +158.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCOM in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SCOM in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCOM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +5 13 £525 -13.22% 4
North West - 6 £320 - 3
North of England - 6 £320 - 7
Midlands +18 3 £525 - 7
East Midlands +15 3 £525 -3.23% 4
South West +3 3 £650 +30.00%
East of England +27 1 - -
Wales - 1 £450 -
SCOM
UK

SCOM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (22.22%) Skype for Business
2 5 (18.52%) Mattermost
3 3 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (11.11%) Tomcat
4 2 (7.41%) Confluence
4 2 (7.41%) IIS
4 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) Azure
2 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.70%) AWS
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
3 1 (3.70%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) Skype
2 5 (18.52%) LAN
2 5 (18.52%) Softphone
2 5 (18.52%) Unified Communications
2 5 (18.52%) WAN
2 5 (18.52%) WebEx
3 3 (11.11%) DHCP
3 3 (11.11%) DNS
4 2 (7.41%) Firewall
4 2 (7.41%) iSCSI
4 2 (7.41%) SAN
5 1 (3.70%) FTP
5 1 (3.70%) HTTP
5 1 (3.70%) Network Security
5 1 (3.70%) SMTP
5 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.70%) VPN
5 1 (3.70%) VSAN
5 1 (3.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.70%) GIS
3 1 (3.70%) MSDE
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 15 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Automotive
3 1 (3.70%) Law
3 1 (3.70%) Legal
3 1 (3.70%) Military
3 1 (3.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Analyst
1 7 (25.93%) Operations Analyst
2 6 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Messaging Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Messaging Support
3 5 (18.52%) Messaging Support Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Operations Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Operations Support Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Messaging Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Messaging Support Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Operational Support Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Operations Support Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Support Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Administrator
5 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) ICT Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (7.41%) Windows Administrator
6 2 (7.41%) Windows Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) XMPP
2 3 (11.11%) .NET
2 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (7.41%) Flash
4 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.70%) EDI
4 1 (3.70%) JSON
4 1 (3.70%) MSMQ
4 1 (3.70%) REST
4 1 (3.70%) SOAP
4 1 (3.70%) WCF
4 1 (3.70%) XML
4 1 (3.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Management Information System
1 5 (18.52%) PKI
2 3 (11.11%) Clustering
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.41%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.70%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.70%) RSA SecurID
4 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) Windows
2 14 (51.85%) Windows Server
3 7 (25.93%) Linux
4 2 (7.41%) VMS
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) ITIL
2 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (25.93%) Service Management
4 6 (22.22%) B2B
5 5 (18.52%) Agile
5 5 (18.52%) Problem Management
5 5 (18.52%) Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) ITSM
6 4 (14.81%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (11.11%) High Availability
7 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 3 (11.11%) Server Management
8 2 (7.41%) DevOps
8 2 (7.41%) Patch Management
8 2 (7.41%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (7.41%) Power Management
8 2 (7.41%) Security Hardening
8 2 (7.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) SQL
2 11 (40.74%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) ActionScript
3 1 (3.70%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (3.70%) Bicep
3 1 (3.70%) C#
3 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.70%) VB
3 1 (3.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 10 (37.04%) SC Cleared
3 5 (18.52%) Degree
3 5 (18.52%) DV Cleared
3 5 (18.52%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (7.41%) CCNA
4 2 (7.41%) CCNP
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
4 2 (7.41%) MCSA
4 2 (7.41%) MCSE
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (7.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 14 (51.85%) Active Directory
2 6 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (11.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (7.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (7.41%) VMware NSX
4 2 (7.41%) vSphere
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) SCCM
2 5 (18.52%) vCenter Server
3 3 (11.11%) SCSM
4 2 (7.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (7.41%) WSUS
5 1 (3.70%) Ansible
5 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.70%) Perfmon
5 1 (3.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 20 (74.07%) Microsoft
2 9 (33.33%) VMware
3 7 (25.93%) Cisco
3 7 (25.93%) SolarWinds
4 6 (22.22%) Red Hat
5 5 (18.52%) ServiceNow
5 5 (18.52%) Splunk
6 2 (7.41%) Atlassian
6 2 (7.41%) Dynatrace
6 2 (7.41%) IBM
6 2 (7.41%) McAfee
7 1 (3.70%) HP
7 1 (3.70%) Remedy
7 1 (3.70%) SAP