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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 654 654 727
Rank change year-on-year 0 +73 +237
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 36 175 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.073% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.69% 2.08% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 25 106 137
10th Percentile £33,199 £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 £53,825
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +12.90% +3.33%

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 5,242 8,433 13,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.60% 9.77% 14.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,064 6,543 8,330
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £35,490
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.31% -8.52% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £101,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -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 17 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 17 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 +103 15 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Midlands +48 8 £59,500 +19.00% 2
North of England +16 7 £48,306 +38.51% 5
West Midlands +50 5 - -
North West - 4 £48,306 - 1
East of England +44 3 £34,377 -19.11% 4
Yorkshire +35 3 £65,000 +101.55% 4
East Midlands +13 3 £59,500 +22.05% 2
South East 0 3 £31,500 -40.00% 11
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 9 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.56%) IIS
3 2 (5.56%) Skype for Business
4 1 (2.78%) Confluence
4 1 (2.78%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 21 (58.33%) Azure
2 13 (36.11%) AWS
3 9 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 3 (8.33%) SaaS
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.56%) OneDrive
6 2 (5.56%) PaaS
6 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.56%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.78%) GCP
7 1 (2.78%) GitHub
7 1 (2.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (61.11%) DHCP
1 22 (61.11%) DNS
2 14 (38.89%) TCP/IP
3 11 (30.56%) LAN
3 11 (30.56%) WAN
4 6 (16.67%) Firewall
5 3 (8.33%) SAN
6 2 (5.56%) NetScaler
6 2 (5.56%) Network Security
6 2 (5.56%) Skype
6 2 (5.56%) VoIP
6 2 (5.56%) VPN
7 1 (2.78%) Internet
7 1 (2.78%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.56%) Power BI
2 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 15 (41.67%) Finance
2 13 (36.11%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (36.11%) Banking
3 5 (13.89%) Law
3 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Advertising
5 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Legal
5 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (27.78%) Wintel Engineer
3 9 (25.00%) Senior
4 6 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) IT Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
8 2 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior IT Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Support Engineer
9 1 (2.78%) Administrator
9 1 (2.78%) Applications Engineer
9 1 (2.78%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.78%) .NET
2 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.78%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.56%) Client/Server
2 2 (5.56%) Clustering
2 2 (5.56%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (91.67%) Windows
2 27 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 14 (38.89%) Windows Server 2019
4 13 (36.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (33.33%) Linux
6 11 (30.56%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (11.11%) Windows 10
8 2 (5.56%) SUSE
8 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (2.78%) Android
9 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) ITIL
2 14 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence
2 14 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 12 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 11 (30.56%) Incident Management
5 10 (27.78%) Batch Scripting
5 10 (27.78%) Collaborative Working
5 10 (27.78%) Cost Optimisation
5 10 (27.78%) Process Improvement
6 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (19.44%) Customer Service
7 7 (19.44%) ITSM
8 6 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (13.89%) High Availability
10 4 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (11.11%) IT Strategy
10 4 (11.11%) Machine Learning
10 4 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 25 (69.44%) PowerShell
2 8 (22.22%) Python
2 8 (22.22%) SQL
3 6 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (5.56%) Perl
5 1 (2.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (27.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 9 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 9 (25.00%) MCSE
4 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 6 (16.67%) Degree
6 5 (13.89%) DV Cleared
7 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
8 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (33.33%) SLA
2 4 (11.11%) GDPR
3 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (72.22%) Active Directory
2 20 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (52.78%) Hyper-V
4 4 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (5.56%) vSphere
6 1 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (88.89%) SCCM
2 16 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (27.78%) NetBackup
4 6 (16.67%) SCOrch
5 5 (13.89%) Ansible
5 5 (13.89%) vCenter Server
6 4 (11.11%) SCSM
7 3 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
8 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
8 2 (5.56%) Puppet
8 2 (5.56%) WSUS
9 1 (2.78%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (2.78%) VxRail
Vendors
1 32 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 23 (63.89%) VMware
3 13 (36.11%) ServiceNow
3 13 (36.11%) Veeam
4 12 (33.33%) SolarWinds
5 6 (16.67%) Cisco
5 6 (16.67%) Citrix
6 4 (11.11%) Red Hat
7 2 (5.56%) Ab Initio
7 2 (5.56%) arcserve
7 2 (5.56%) ArcSight
7 2 (5.56%) Aruba
7 2 (5.56%) Avaya
7 2 (5.56%) Bloomberg
7 2 (5.56%) Dell
7 2 (5.56%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.56%) Mitel
7 2 (5.56%) NetApp
7 2 (5.56%) Oracle
7 2 (5.56%) Splunk