SCOM Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 299 435
Rank change year-on-year +2 +136 +113
Contract jobs citing SCOM 7 46 42
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.30% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.46% 2.79% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 40 28
10th Percentile £491 £458 £381
25th Percentile £529 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% - -
75th Percentile £665 £608 £590
90th Percentile £769 - £600
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £23.05 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -64.54% -0.76%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

SCOM falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

SCOM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SCOM trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SCOM
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SCOM.

SCOM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SCOM
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SCOM over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SCOM daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SCOM
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SCOM.

SCOM hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SCOM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (28.57%) IIS
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (14.29%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Stack
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Storage
3 1 (14.29%) Cohesity
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) FTP
2 1 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (14.29%) Skype
2 1 (14.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Support
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) BizTalk Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Mobility Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
1 1 (14.29%) EDI
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) MSMQ
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
1 1 (14.29%) WCF
1 1 (14.29%) XML
1 1 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Blackberry
1 2 (28.57%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) RSA SecurID
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Android
3 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Android Development
2 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (14.29%) Fintech
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Log Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (14.29%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (14.29%) Quantitative Trading
2 1 (14.29%) RBAC
2 1 (14.29%) Security Hardening
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) ActionScript
2 1 (14.29%) ActionScript 2.0
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) VB
2 1 (14.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (14.29%) MCSA
3 1 (14.29%) MCSE
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (28.57%) WSUS
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) NetApp
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Veeam