SCOM Contracts

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 460 572
Rank change year-on-year -49 +112 +139
Contract jobs citing SCOM 39 126 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.29% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.78% 2.32% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 88 70
10th Percentile £250 £425 £374
25th Percentile £397 £493 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £467
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +17.90% -6.70%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £573
90th Percentile £680 - £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £605 £450
% change year-on-year -13.22% +34.44% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £23.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,999 5,441 8,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 12.56% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,316 3,864 6,189
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -6.36% -3.51%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 102 187
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.30 £19.60
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.08 £25.71
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.25 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.25 £84.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +37.50% -13.38% +130.90%

SCOM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the UK

SCOM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SCOM in the UK

SCOM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOM over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in the UK

SCOM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in the UK

SCOM
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 July 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
England -31 36 £525 -4.55% 35
UK excluding London -13 32 £525 -13.22% 30
South East +11 17 £488 -19.42% 18
North of England +7 10 £425 - 11
North West +10 8 - - 4
Work from Home -3 8 £578 -4.55% 23
London +10 3 £713 +38.35% 5
Midlands +2 2 £530 +18.10% 1
East Midlands -10 2 £530 +17.96% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £425 - 7
South West +26 1 £650 +31.31%
East of England +18 1 - -
Wales - 1 £450 -

SCOM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (25.64%) Skype for Business
2 9 (23.08%) Mattermost
3 4 (10.26%) IIS
4 3 (7.69%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (2.56%) Confluence
5 1 (2.56%) IBM Domino
5 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.64%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.13%) Azure Stack
4 2 (5.13%) GitHub
5 1 (2.56%) AWS
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.56%) Cohesity
5 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.56%) IaaS
5 1 (2.56%) PaaS
5 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.21%) Skype
2 9 (23.08%) Softphone
2 9 (23.08%) Unified Communications
2 9 (23.08%) WebEx
3 4 (10.26%) Firewall
3 4 (10.26%) LAN
3 4 (10.26%) WAN
4 3 (7.69%) DHCP
4 3 (7.69%) DNS
5 1 (2.56%) FTP
5 1 (2.56%) HTTP
5 1 (2.56%) Network Security
5 1 (2.56%) SMTP
5 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.56%) VPN
5 1 (2.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) GitLab
1 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 24 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Law
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Finance
5 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Legal
5 1 (2.56%) Military
5 1 (2.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Support Engineer
2 10 (25.64%) Analyst
2 10 (25.64%) Operations Analyst
3 9 (23.08%) Messaging Engineer
3 9 (23.08%) Messaging Support
3 9 (23.08%) Messaging Support Engineer
4 8 (20.51%) Operations Engineer
4 8 (20.51%) Operations Support Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Messaging Analyst
5 7 (17.95%) Messaging Support Analyst
5 7 (17.95%) Operational Support Analyst
5 7 (17.95%) Operations Support Analyst
5 7 (17.95%) Support Analyst
6 6 (15.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 6 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (12.82%) Wintel Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) Wintel Support
8 4 (10.26%) Wintel Support Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) XMPP
2 3 (7.69%) .NET
3 2 (5.13%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.56%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.56%) EDI
4 1 (2.56%) JSON
4 1 (2.56%) MSMQ
4 1 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) SOAP
4 1 (2.56%) WCF
4 1 (2.56%) XML
4 1 (2.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.69%) PKI
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.13%) Blackberry
3 2 (5.13%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) RSA SecurID
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (51.28%) Windows
2 14 (35.90%) Linux
3 13 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.56%) Android
4 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (38.46%) ITIL
3 10 (25.64%) B2B
3 10 (25.64%) ITSM
4 9 (23.08%) Problem Management
4 9 (23.08%) Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (15.38%) Service Management
6 4 (10.26%) Migration
6 4 (10.26%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (10.26%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (7.69%) Agile
7 3 (7.69%) Change Management
7 3 (7.69%) DevOps
7 3 (7.69%) Integration Patterns
7 3 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (7.69%) Security Hardening
7 3 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (5.13%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (5.13%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (51.28%) PowerShell
2 14 (35.90%) SQL
3 1 (2.56%) ActionScript
3 1 (2.56%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (2.56%) Bicep
3 1 (2.56%) C#
3 1 (2.56%) VB
3 1 (2.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.64%) DV Cleared
3 9 (23.08%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
5 4 (10.26%) Degree
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.56%) MCSA
6 1 (2.56%) MCSE
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) SLA
2 1 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 19 (48.72%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.26%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (41.03%) SCCM
2 4 (10.26%) vCenter Server
3 3 (7.69%) Ansible
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (5.13%) WSUS
5 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (58.97%) Microsoft
2 13 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 10 (25.64%) Cisco
3 10 (25.64%) Red Hat
4 9 (23.08%) Splunk
5 6 (15.38%) ServiceNow
5 6 (15.38%) VMware
6 5 (12.82%) IBM
7 3 (7.69%) Dynatrace
8 2 (5.13%) HP
8 2 (5.13%) McAfee
9 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics
9 1 (2.56%) Citrix
9 1 (2.56%) Dell
9 1 (2.56%) Lotus
9 1 (2.56%) NetApp
9 1 (2.56%) Remedy
9 1 (2.56%) SAP
9 1 (2.56%) Veeam