SCOM Job Trends in England

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring SCOM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 590 573
Rank change year-on-year -41 -17 +222
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 19 33 224
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.029% 0.084% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.48% 0.69% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 17 23 150
10th Percentile £38,950 £31,140 £31,125
25th Percentile £41,500 £45,000 £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £75,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £66,300 £77,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £48,306 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% -3.39% +5.23%

All Systems Management Skills
England

SCOM falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,975 4,759 7,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.04% 12.09% 10.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,849 3,262 6,631
10th Percentile £32,450 £40,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,049 £44,319
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £91,868 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

SCOM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SCOM relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

SCOM job vacancy trend in England

SCOM
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SCOM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SCOM

SCOM
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCOM in England over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for SCOM in England

SCOM
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the England region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 12 £47,500 - 6
London +6 6 £44,000 -37.14% 1
SCOM
UK

SCOM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.26%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
1 7 (36.84%) IaaS
2 6 (31.58%) Azure Sentinel
2 6 (31.58%) Entra ID
2 6 (31.58%) PaaS
3 5 (26.32%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) DNS
1 7 (36.84%) Firewall
1 7 (36.84%) VPN
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (10.53%) DHCP
3 2 (10.53%) NAS
3 2 (10.53%) SAN
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (5.26%) LAN
4 1 (5.26%) NetScaler
4 1 (5.26%) PBX
4 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
4 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.26%) VLAN
4 1 (5.26%) VoIP
4 1 (5.26%) WAN
4 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Data Mining
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Subversion
2 3 (15.79%) JIRA
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Support Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 3 (15.79%) Test Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Service Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Storage Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Testing Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (26.32%) Onboarding
2 3 (15.79%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Windows
1 14 (73.68%) Windows Server
2 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (15.79%) Linux
4 2 (10.53%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.26%) Unix
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) ITIL
2 5 (26.32%) Analytics
2 5 (26.32%) Collaborative Culture
2 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (26.32%) ITSM
2 5 (26.32%) Log Analytics
2 5 (26.32%) Migration
2 5 (26.32%) Service Delivery
3 4 (21.05%) Agile
3 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) Manual Testing
3 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
3 4 (21.05%) Service Management
3 4 (21.05%) Software Testing
3 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
3 4 (21.05%) V-Model
3 4 (21.05%) Waterfall
4 3 (15.79%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) PowerShell
2 7 (36.84%) SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Bicep
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (89.47%) Security Cleared
2 13 (68.42%) SC Cleared
3 9 (47.37%) DV Cleared
4 6 (31.58%) Azure Certification
4 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (26.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (15.79%) ISTQB
6 3 (15.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (5.26%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (68.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (31.58%) Hyper-V
4 5 (26.32%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (15.79%) Terminal Server
5 3 (15.79%) vSphere
6 2 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (63.16%) SCCM
2 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 5 (26.32%) vCenter Server
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (10.53%) SCSM
4 1 (5.26%) AirWatch
4 1 (5.26%) Avamar
4 1 (5.26%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 17 (89.47%) VMware
2 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
3 7 (36.84%) McAfee
4 6 (31.58%) SolarWinds
5 5 (26.32%) Cisco
6 4 (21.05%) Juniper
6 4 (21.05%) Veeam
7 2 (10.53%) Citrix
7 2 (10.53%) Trend Micro
8 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
8 1 (5.26%) Commvault
8 1 (5.26%) EMC
8 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
8 1 (5.26%) Meraki
8 1 (5.26%) Mitel
8 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
8 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
8 1 (5.26%) Veritas