SCOM Job Trends in London

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring SCOM skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 449 460
Rank change year-on-year +73 +11 +338
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 20 12 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.062% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.08% 0.42% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 18 7 27
10th Percentile £38,650 £59,046 £51,250
25th Percentile £45,625 £62,500 £52,613
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% -4.65%
75th Percentile £81,250 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £73,500 £103,500
England median annual salary £50,500 £52,500 £42,920
% change year-on-year -3.81% +22.32% -18.25%

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,844 2,844 3,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.43% 14.75% 16.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,303 1,823 3,067
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £117,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £66,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -6.02% +1.76% -6.64%

SCOM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in London

SCOM
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SCOM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SCOM

SCOM
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCOM in London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for SCOM in London

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Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the London region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Central London +36 5 £80,000 +23.08%
SCOM
England

SCOM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (60.00%) AWS
3 8 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
3 8 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (30.00%) IaaS
4 6 (30.00%) PaaS
5 5 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (15.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (5.00%) GCP
8 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) DNS
2 9 (45.00%) LAN
2 9 (45.00%) WAN
3 8 (40.00%) DHCP
3 8 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 7 (35.00%) Firewall
4 7 (35.00%) VPN
5 5 (25.00%) Network Security
6 2 (10.00%) NetScaler
6 2 (10.00%) SAN
7 1 (5.00%) NAS
7 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
7 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 10 (50.00%) Banking
3 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Senior
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) IT Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior IT Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Service Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Service Desk Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Windows
2 12 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) ITIL
2 11 (55.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (40.00%) Batch Scripting
4 8 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 8 (40.00%) Incident Management
4 8 (40.00%) Patch Management
4 8 (40.00%) Process Improvement
5 7 (35.00%) Mentoring
6 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (20.00%) Analytics
7 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (20.00%) Log Analytics
7 4 (20.00%) Observability
8 3 (15.00%) DevOps
8 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (25.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (30.00%) MCSE
2 6 (30.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (45.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 16 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (75.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (15.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (50.00%) SCCM
3 8 (40.00%) NetBackup
3 8 (40.00%) Terraform
4 2 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (10.00%) vCenter Server
5 1 (5.00%) FortiGate
5 1 (5.00%) Grafana
5 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) VMware
2 14 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 13 (65.00%) SolarWinds
4 11 (55.00%) Veeam
5 8 (40.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (15.00%) Cisco
6 3 (15.00%) Citrix
7 2 (10.00%) Bloomberg
7 2 (10.00%) FactSet
7 2 (10.00%) Fortinet
7 2 (10.00%) Mitel
7 2 (10.00%) NetApp
7 2 (10.00%) Refinitiv
8 1 (5.00%) BMC
8 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
8 1 (5.00%) Google
8 1 (5.00%) HP
8 1 (5.00%) Meraki
8 1 (5.00%) Oracle
8 1 (5.00%) Splunk