SCOM Jobs in England

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring SCOM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SCOM over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 648 656 690
Rank change year-on-year +8 +34 +301
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 37 188 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.076% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.71% 2.22% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 25 113 148
10th Percentile £37,920 £31,250 £30,725
25th Percentile £48,306 £34,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £63,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +5.56%

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 5,234 8,476 12,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.69% 9.47% 14.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,897 6,489 8,123
10th Percentile £35,300 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.01% -7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,750 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £101,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £61,206 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.28% -9.32% -3.57%

SCOM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in England

SCOM
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SCOM in England.

Salary trend for SCOM in England

SCOM
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCOM in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SCOM in England

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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 30 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +108 16 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Midlands +70 7 £59,500 +19.00% 2
North of England +27 7 £48,306 +38.51% 7
South East +1 5 £38,750 -26.19% 19
West Midlands +50 4 - -
North West +11 4 £48,306 -7.99% 1
East Midlands +38 3 £59,500 +19.00% 2
Yorkshire +36 3 £65,000 +101.55% 6
East of England +39 2 £34,377 -23.61% 2
SCOM
UK

SCOM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.41%) IIS
3 2 (5.41%) Skype for Business
4 1 (2.70%) Confluence
4 1 (2.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 21 (56.76%) Azure
2 15 (40.54%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.41%) SaaS
6 1 (2.70%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.70%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub
6 1 (2.70%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.70%) PaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (56.76%) DHCP
1 21 (56.76%) DNS
2 15 (40.54%) TCP/IP
3 11 (29.73%) LAN
3 11 (29.73%) WAN
4 4 (10.81%) Firewall
5 3 (8.11%) Network Security
6 2 (5.41%) NetScaler
6 2 (5.41%) SAN
6 2 (5.41%) Skype
6 2 (5.41%) VPN
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (2.70%) Internet
7 1 (2.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Subversion
General
1 15 (40.54%) Finance
2 14 (37.84%) Banking
3 12 (32.43%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
5 4 (10.81%) Law
6 2 (5.41%) Advertising
7 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (29.73%) Senior
2 11 (29.73%) Wintel Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) IT Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior IT Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.70%) .NET
2 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.41%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.70%) Clustering
3 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (91.89%) Windows
2 28 (75.68%) Windows Server
3 17 (45.95%) Windows Server 2019
4 13 (35.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (29.73%) Linux
5 11 (29.73%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (5.41%) Windows 10
7 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (2.70%) Android
8 1 (2.70%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) ITIL
2 15 (40.54%) Artificial Intelligence
3 14 (37.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (35.14%) Patch Management
4 13 (35.14%) Root Cause Analysis
5 11 (29.73%) Batch Scripting
5 11 (29.73%) Collaborative Working
5 11 (29.73%) Cost Optimisation
5 11 (29.73%) Incident Management
5 11 (29.73%) Process Improvement
6 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (18.92%) ITSM
8 6 (16.22%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (16.22%) High Availability
9 5 (13.51%) Agile
9 5 (13.51%) Customer Service
9 5 (13.51%) Mentoring
10 4 (10.81%) Collaborative Culture
10 4 (10.81%) IT Strategy
10 4 (10.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 25 (67.57%) PowerShell
2 8 (21.62%) Python
3 7 (18.92%) SQL
4 6 (16.22%) Bash
5 2 (5.41%) Perl
6 1 (2.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (29.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (24.32%) Azure Certification
2 9 (24.32%) MCSE
2 9 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 9 (24.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 7 (18.92%) DV Cleared
4 6 (16.22%) Degree
5 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.41%) ISTQB
7 1 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (35.14%) SLA
2 4 (10.81%) GDPR
3 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (72.97%) Active Directory
2 20 (54.05%) Hyper-V
3 19 (51.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (8.11%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.41%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.70%) Terminal Server
6 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (89.19%) SCCM
2 16 (43.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (29.73%) NetBackup
4 6 (16.22%) SCOrch
5 5 (13.51%) Ansible
6 4 (10.81%) SCSM
6 4 (10.81%) vCenter Server
7 3 (8.11%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
8 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
8 2 (5.41%) Puppet
8 2 (5.41%) WSUS
9 1 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (78.38%) Microsoft
2 23 (62.16%) VMware
3 13 (35.14%) ServiceNow
3 13 (35.14%) SolarWinds
3 13 (35.14%) Veeam
4 5 (13.51%) Cisco
5 4 (10.81%) Citrix
5 4 (10.81%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.41%) ArcSight
6 2 (5.41%) Bloomberg
6 2 (5.41%) FactSet
6 2 (5.41%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.41%) Mitel
6 2 (5.41%) NetApp
6 2 (5.41%) Oracle
6 2 (5.41%) Refinitiv
6 2 (5.41%) Splunk
7 1 (2.70%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.70%) Linksys
7 1 (2.70%) Okta