SCOM Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring SCOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 - 110
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Contract jobs citing SCOM 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.12% - 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.67% - 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 - £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.65%
75th Percentile £369 - £441
90th Percentile £418 - £446
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.64% -

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 447 195 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.45% 13.44% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 125 152
10th Percentile £269 £185 £190
25th Percentile £425 £291 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £525
90th Percentile £673 £700 £645
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile £25.39 £12.18 £19.59
25th Percentile £25.98 £12.94 £25.49
Median hourly rate £50.80 £16.19 £35.33
Median % change year-on-year +213.79% -54.17% +99.35%
75th Percentile £77.31 £17.89 £45.16
90th Percentile £77.43 £18.13 £51.07
England median hourly rate £50.61 £26.00 £42.03
% change year-on-year +94.65% -38.14% -13.34%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SCOM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

SCOM job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SCOM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SCOM

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOM in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SCOM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SCOM

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 February 2026. 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
Coventry - 2 £275 -
Warwickshire - 1 £450 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) 3rd Line Server Support
1 2 (66.67%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (66.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall Support
1 2 (66.67%) Server Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Server Support
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco