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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 306 361
Rank change year-on-year -15 +55 +84
Contract jobs citing SCOM 32 95 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.45% 0.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.55% 3.94% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 71 50
10th Percentile £250 £458 £381
25th Percentile £313 £493 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £605 £460
Median % change year-on-year -13.22% +31.52% -0.54%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £550
90th Percentile £573 - £604
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

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 2,064 2,412 3,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.20% 11.35% 14.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,411 1,757 2,378
10th Percentile £231 £218 £300
25th Percentile £381 £396 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £623
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £516 £550
% change year-on-year -0.74% -6.12% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 61 111
10th Percentile £19.84 £14.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.39 £17.72 £21.26
Median hourly rate £57.00 £40.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% -8.57% +118.75%
75th Percentile £71.88 £48.75 £65.88
90th Percentile £83.42 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £31.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +19.05% -45.22% +155.56%

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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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +19 17 £488 -19.42% 7
North of England +23 10 £425 - 11
North West +5 8 - - 2
Midlands 0 2 £530 +18.10% 2
East Midlands -5 2 £530 +17.96% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £425 - 9
South West +33 1 £650 +31.31% 1
East of England +13 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £450 -
SCOM
UK

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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 9 (28.13%) Skype for Business
2 8 (25.00%) Mattermost
3 3 (9.38%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (9.38%) IIS
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (3.13%) Confluence
4 1 (3.13%) IBM Domino
4 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.13%) AWS
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Storage
3 1 (3.13%) Cohesity
3 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.13%) GCP
3 1 (3.13%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (31.25%) Skype
2 8 (25.00%) Softphone
2 8 (25.00%) Unified Communications
2 8 (25.00%) WebEx
3 4 (12.50%) LAN
3 4 (12.50%) WAN
4 2 (6.25%) DHCP
4 2 (6.25%) DNS
4 2 (6.25%) Firewall
5 1 (3.13%) FTP
5 1 (3.13%) HTTP
5 1 (3.13%) Network Security
5 1 (3.13%) SMTP
5 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.13%) VPN
5 1 (3.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) GitLab
1 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 22 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Law
3 1 (3.13%) Legal
3 1 (3.13%) Military
3 1 (3.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Support Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) Analyst
2 10 (31.25%) Operations Analyst
3 8 (25.00%) Messaging Engineer
3 8 (25.00%) Messaging Support
3 8 (25.00%) Messaging Support Engineer
3 8 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
3 8 (25.00%) Operations Support Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) Messaging Analyst
4 7 (21.88%) Messaging Support Analyst
4 7 (21.88%) Operational Support Analyst
4 7 (21.88%) Operations Support Analyst
4 7 (21.88%) Support Analyst
5 6 (18.75%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (15.63%) Wintel Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Wintel Support
7 4 (12.50%) Wintel Support Engineer
8 3 (9.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) XMPP
2 3 (9.38%) .NET
3 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.13%) EDI
4 1 (3.13%) JSON
4 1 (3.13%) MSMQ
4 1 (3.13%) REST
4 1 (3.13%) SOAP
4 1 (3.13%) WCF
4 1 (3.13%) XML
4 1 (3.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.38%) PKI
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.25%) Driving Licence
3 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) RSA SecurID
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (50.00%) Windows
2 10 (31.25%) Linux
3 9 (28.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (40.63%) ITIL
3 10 (31.25%) ITSM
4 9 (28.13%) B2B
5 8 (25.00%) Problem Management
5 8 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (18.75%) Service Management
7 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
9 3 (9.38%) Agile
9 3 (9.38%) Change Management
9 3 (9.38%) Migration
9 3 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (9.38%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (9.38%) Security Hardening
10 2 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (6.25%) Mentoring
10 2 (6.25%) Patch Management
10 2 (6.25%) Project Management
10 2 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 13 (40.63%) SQL
3 1 (3.13%) ActionScript
3 1 (3.13%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (3.13%) Bicep
3 1 (3.13%) C#
3 1 (3.13%) VB
3 1 (3.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (31.25%) DV Cleared
3 8 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.25%) Degree
6 1 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) SLA
2 1 (3.13%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 17 (53.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (43.75%) SCCM
2 4 (12.50%) vCenter Server
3 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (6.25%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.25%) WSUS
4 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (59.38%) Microsoft
2 13 (40.63%) SolarWinds
3 9 (28.13%) Cisco
3 9 (28.13%) Red Hat
4 8 (25.00%) Splunk
5 6 (18.75%) ServiceNow
6 5 (15.63%) IBM
6 5 (15.63%) VMware
7 3 (9.38%) Dynatrace
8 2 (6.25%) HP
8 2 (6.25%) McAfee
9 1 (3.13%) AppDynamics
9 1 (3.13%) Citrix
9 1 (3.13%) Dell
9 1 (3.13%) Lotus
9 1 (3.13%) Remedy
9 1 (3.13%) SAP