SCOM Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SCOM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SCOM over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 358 452
Rank change year-on-year +49 +94 -87
Contract jobs citing SCOM 89 97 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.40% 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.77% 2.66% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 64 39
10th Percentile £460 £381 £250
25th Percentile £493 £413 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% +10.00% +18.34%
75th Percentile £608 £612 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £616
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £65.75 £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.05 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -64.54% -0.76% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

SCOM is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,359 3,645 4,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.36% 15.04% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,717 2,661 3,030
10th Percentile £210 £273 £231
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £594
90th Percentile £661 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £570 £563
% change year-on-year -9.65% +1.33% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 143 122
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.90
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.11 £14.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £43.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +118.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £49.38 £65.00 £36.94
90th Percentile £70.25 £75.50 £51.45
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -23.17%

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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 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 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
South East +49 41 £605 +5.22% 9
South West +33 32 £500 -9.09%
East of England -12 12 £500 - 3
Midlands +39 4 £469 +25.00% 4
East Midlands +20 2 £543 +44.67% 2
West Midlands - 2 £413 - 2
North of England +20 1 £250 -43.18% 1
North West +11 1 £250 -42.86%
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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 30 (33.71%) SharePoint
2 25 (28.09%) Confluence
2 25 (28.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (26.97%) SharePoint Server
4 9 (10.11%) IIS
5 1 (1.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 65 (73.03%) Azure
2 26 (29.21%) Azure Stack
3 17 (19.10%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (16.85%) Azure Monitor
4 15 (16.85%) Azure Storage
4 15 (16.85%) Entra ID
5 12 (13.48%) OCI
6 10 (11.24%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.25%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.12%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (60.67%) Firewall
2 32 (35.96%) DNS
3 30 (33.71%) DHCP
4 24 (26.97%) BGP
5 12 (13.48%) SAN
6 7 (7.87%) Skype
6 7 (7.87%) WAN
7 6 (6.74%) LAN
8 5 (5.62%) TCP/IP
9 3 (3.37%) Wireshark
10 2 (2.25%) SMTP
10 2 (2.25%) Unified Communications
11 1 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (1.12%) Internet
11 1 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (29.21%) JIRA
2 3 (3.37%) Fiddler
3 1 (1.12%) Axure RP
3 1 (1.12%) GitLab
3 1 (1.12%) GoCD
3 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (61.80%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.99%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.87%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.25%) Military
6 1 (1.12%) Advertising
6 1 (1.12%) Electronics
6 1 (1.12%) Finance
6 1 (1.12%) Legal
6 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.12%) Marketing
6 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (19.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 17 (19.10%) Microsoft Engineer
2 15 (16.85%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (15.73%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (15.73%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (15.73%) Support Specialist
4 11 (12.36%) Administrator
5 8 (8.99%) Storage Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) Systems Administrator
6 7 (7.87%) Support Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Web Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Applications Support
8 5 (5.62%) Applications Support Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Architect
9 4 (4.49%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Systems Support Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Web Applications Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Web Applications Support
9 4 (4.49%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.73%) ARM Templates
2 10 (11.24%) .NET
3 3 (3.37%) .NET Framework
3 3 (3.37%) SAML
4 1 (1.12%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 27 (30.34%) Private Cloud
2 18 (20.22%) PKI
3 15 (16.85%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (13.48%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 77 (86.52%) Windows
2 42 (47.19%) Windows Server
3 35 (39.33%) Linux
4 31 (34.83%) Windows Server 2019
5 30 (33.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (16.85%) Windows 10
7 14 (15.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (13.48%) Windows XP
9 3 (3.37%) Solaris
9 3 (3.37%) Unix
10 1 (1.12%) Android
10 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.12%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (67.42%) ITIL
2 45 (50.56%) Service Management
3 26 (29.21%) Security Monitoring
4 25 (28.09%) Capacity Management
4 25 (28.09%) DevOps
4 25 (28.09%) Network Management
5 23 (25.84%) Agile
6 21 (23.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (22.47%) Release Management
8 19 (21.35%) ITSM
9 16 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (16.85%) Analytics
10 15 (16.85%) Converged Infrastructure
10 15 (16.85%) Identity Management
10 15 (16.85%) Log Analytics
10 15 (16.85%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 15 (16.85%) Privileged Identity Management
10 15 (16.85%) RBAC
11 14 (15.73%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (15.73%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (42.70%) PowerShell
2 15 (16.85%) C#
2 15 (16.85%) VB
2 15 (16.85%) VBScript
3 14 (15.73%) Bicep
4 6 (6.74%) SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (82.02%) Security Cleared
2 57 (64.04%) DV Cleared
3 38 (42.70%) Degree
3 38 (42.70%) SC Cleared
4 15 (16.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 14 (15.73%) CCNA
5 14 (15.73%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (14.61%) CCNP
7 2 (2.25%) MCSE
7 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.12%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (26.97%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (2.25%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (55.06%) Active Directory
2 22 (24.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (19.10%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (19.10%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (16.85%) Hyper-V
4 15 (16.85%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.49%) Docker
6 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (3.37%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.12%) NFS
Systems Management
1 47 (52.81%) SCCM
2 29 (32.58%) WSUS
3 18 (20.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 18 (20.22%) Kubernetes
4 16 (17.98%) EMC NetWorker
5 15 (16.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (13.48%) NetBackup
6 12 (13.48%) vCenter Server
7 4 (4.49%) Ansible
8 3 (3.37%) Rancher
8 3 (3.37%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (3.37%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 2 (2.25%) OPNET
10 1 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (1.12%) Terraform
10 1 (1.12%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 65 (73.03%) Microsoft
2 30 (33.71%) VMware
3 25 (28.09%) Atlassian
4 17 (19.10%) Cisco
5 16 (17.98%) Dell
5 16 (17.98%) EMC
6 15 (16.85%) HP
7 13 (14.61%) Veeam
8 12 (13.48%) 3PAR
8 12 (13.48%) Extreme Networks
8 12 (13.48%) Juniper
8 12 (13.48%) Oracle
8 12 (13.48%) Palo Alto
8 12 (13.48%) Symantec
9 5 (5.62%) Citrix
9 5 (5.62%) F5
9 5 (5.62%) ServiceNow
10 3 (3.37%) IBM
10 3 (3.37%) Red Hat
10 3 (3.37%) SolarWinds