Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 455 572 698
Rank change year-on-year +117 +126 -117
Contract jobs citing SCOM 129 124 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.52% 1.36% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 78 102
10th Percentile £425 £371 £250
25th Percentile £490 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +0.96% +18.62%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £538
90th Percentile £613 £650 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £478 £438
% change year-on-year +20.42% +9.14% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 4
10th Percentile £22.08 - -
25th Percentile £22.13 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £23.05 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.54% -0.76% -
75th Percentile £23.80 £65.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £44.40 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,117 9,125 13,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.02% 15.93% 15.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 6,542 10,045
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.86% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 204 184
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.67 £15.69
Median hourly rate £25.77 £54.18 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year -52.44% +143.48% -44.38%
75th Percentile £50.06 £70.00 £44.77
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.85 £59.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -13.83%

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 19 May 2024.

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SCOM over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SCOM in the UK

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Top 12 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 19 May 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
England +129 121 £550 +23.60% 35
UK excluding London +57 95 £575 +20.42% 35
Work from Home +128 48 £500 +11.11% 15
South East +60 44 £605 +10.00% 9
South West +30 31 £500 -9.09% 6
London +100 26 £515 +8.42% 1
East of England -5 13 £525 +23.53% 5
Midlands +28 6 £378 +0.87% 9
East Midlands +22 5 £449 +19.73% 4
North West +10 1 - - 4
North of England +8 1 - - 4
West Midlands - 1 £213 - 5

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 38 (29.46%) SharePoint
2 37 (28.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (19.38%) Confluence
4 24 (18.60%) SharePoint Server
5 16 (12.40%) IIS
6 2 (1.55%) Apache
6 2 (1.55%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.78%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 81 (62.79%) Azure
2 30 (23.26%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (20.16%) Azure Stack
4 20 (15.50%) Azure Monitor
5 19 (14.73%) Entra ID
6 17 (13.18%) Azure Storage
7 16 (12.40%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (10.85%) OCI
9 8 (6.20%) AWS
10 3 (2.33%) GitHub
11 2 (1.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.55%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.55%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.55%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.55%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (47.29%) Firewall
2 47 (36.43%) DNS
3 45 (34.88%) DHCP
4 24 (18.60%) BGP
5 16 (12.40%) SAN
6 9 (6.98%) LAN
7 8 (6.20%) TCP/IP
7 8 (6.20%) WAN
8 6 (4.65%) Skype
9 5 (3.88%) Wireshark
10 3 (2.33%) Internet
10 3 (2.33%) SMTP
11 2 (1.55%) DKIM
11 2 (1.55%) Extranet
11 2 (1.55%) NAS
11 2 (1.55%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.55%) Unified Communications
11 2 (1.55%) VPN
11 2 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.20%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.55%) Power BI
3 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (20.16%) JIRA
2 5 (3.88%) Fiddler
3 4 (3.10%) GitLab
4 1 (0.78%) Git
4 1 (0.78%) GoCD
4 1 (0.78%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 64 (49.61%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.30%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.33%) Military
5 2 (1.55%) Banking
5 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.78%) Advertising
6 1 (0.78%) Back Office
6 1 (0.78%) Electronics
6 1 (0.78%) Finance
6 1 (0.78%) French Language
6 1 (0.78%) Legal
6 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (17.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (13.18%) Active Directory Support
2 17 (13.18%) Microsoft Engineer
3 14 (10.85%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (10.85%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (10.85%) Support Specialist
4 12 (9.30%) Administrator
4 12 (9.30%) Support Engineer
5 10 (7.75%) Storage Engineer
6 9 (6.98%) Wintel Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Server Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) IT Support
8 7 (5.43%) Web Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) Senior
9 6 (4.65%) SharePoint Administrator
9 6 (4.65%) Systems Administrator
10 5 (3.88%) Active Directory Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Applications Support
10 5 (3.88%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.18%) ARM Templates
2 15 (11.63%) .NET
3 6 (4.65%) .NET Framework
4 5 (3.88%) SAML
5 2 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.55%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.78%) Kafka
6 1 (0.78%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 30 (23.26%) PKI
2 27 (20.93%) Private Cloud
3 24 (18.60%) Data Centre
4 17 (13.18%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.10%) CMDB
6 3 (2.33%) Clustering
7 2 (1.55%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.55%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.55%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.78%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 109 (84.50%) Windows
2 63 (48.84%) Windows Server
3 45 (34.88%) Linux
4 40 (31.01%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (26.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (15.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 19 (14.73%) Windows 10
8 14 (10.85%) Windows XP
9 12 (9.30%) Unix
10 5 (3.88%) Solaris
11 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.78%) VMS
12 1 (0.78%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (56.59%) ITIL
2 48 (37.21%) Service Management
3 34 (26.36%) DevOps
4 32 (24.81%) Capacity Management
5 28 (21.71%) Agile
6 26 (20.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 26 (20.16%) Security Monitoring
7 25 (19.38%) ITSM
7 25 (19.38%) Network Management
8 24 (18.60%) Analytics
9 23 (17.83%) Server Management
10 22 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (17.05%) Release Management
11 20 (15.50%) CI/CD
11 20 (15.50%) Disaster Recovery
11 20 (15.50%) Log Analytics
12 19 (14.73%) Converged Infrastructure
13 18 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (13.18%) Privileged Identity Management
14 17 (13.18%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 57 (44.19%) PowerShell
2 19 (14.73%) C#
3 17 (13.18%) Bicep
3 17 (13.18%) VB
3 17 (13.18%) VBScript
4 14 (10.85%) SQL
5 3 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.78%) C
Qualifications
1 81 (62.79%) Security Cleared
2 60 (46.51%) DV Cleared
3 45 (34.88%) Degree
3 45 (34.88%) SC Cleared
4 17 (13.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 16 (12.40%) CCNA
5 16 (12.40%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (11.63%) CCNP
7 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.78%) MCSE
8 1 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.60%) Government Security Classifications
2 6 (4.65%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (51.16%) Active Directory
2 37 (28.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (20.93%) Hyper-V
4 20 (15.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (14.73%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (13.95%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (6.98%) vSphere
8 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (3.10%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (1.55%) BitLocker
9 2 (1.55%) Docker
9 2 (1.55%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.78%) Firmware
10 1 (0.78%) NFS
10 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 64 (49.61%) SCCM
2 33 (25.58%) WSUS
3 24 (18.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 22 (17.05%) Kubernetes
5 19 (14.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (13.18%) vCenter Server
7 16 (12.40%) EMC NetWorker
7 16 (12.40%) NetBackup
8 9 (6.98%) SCVMM
9 8 (6.20%) Ansible
10 6 (4.65%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (3.88%) Nagios
11 5 (3.88%) Rancher
11 5 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (3.88%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (2.33%) OPNET
12 3 (2.33%) SCSM
13 2 (1.55%) SCOrch
13 2 (1.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 91 (70.54%) Microsoft
2 52 (40.31%) VMware
3 29 (22.48%) Dell
4 25 (19.38%) Atlassian
5 23 (17.83%) HP
6 22 (17.05%) Cisco
7 18 (13.95%) EMC
8 16 (12.40%) Juniper
9 15 (11.63%) Veeam
10 14 (10.85%) 3PAR
10 14 (10.85%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (10.85%) Oracle
10 14 (10.85%) Palo Alto
10 14 (10.85%) Symantec
11 9 (6.98%) F5
12 6 (4.65%) Red Hat
12 6 (4.65%) ServiceNow
12 6 (4.65%) SolarWinds
13 5 (3.88%) IBM
14 4 (3.10%) Citrix