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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 416 457
Rank change year-on-year +40 +41 +193
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 8 12 21
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.054% 0.078% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.50% 0.47% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 17
10th Percentile £35,500 £62,773 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +7.69% +13.54%
75th Percentile £88,750 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £81,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £53,930 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.92% +13.54% -9.52%

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 1,590 2,537 3,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.70% 16.48% 15.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,141 1,633 2,641
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £45,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £123,750 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%

SCOM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SCOM job vacancy trend 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 31 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SCOM in London

SCOM
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 31 January 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
Central London +19 1 £80,000 +6.67%
SCOM
England

SCOM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
2 6 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (75.00%) IaaS
2 6 (75.00%) PaaS
3 5 (62.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
1 5 (62.50%) VPN
2 4 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) SAN
4 1 (12.50%) LAN
4 1 (12.50%) NAS
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security
4 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (12.50%) WAN
4 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Service Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (12.50%) Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (62.50%) ITIL
3 4 (50.00%) Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (50.00%) Log Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
5 2 (25.00%) Observability
5 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (12.50%) AIOps
6 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 1 (12.50%) Contract Negotiation
6 1 (12.50%) Event Correlation
6 1 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (62.50%) Bicep
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (62.50%) Hyper-V
3 4 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) SolarWinds
4 1 (12.50%) BMC
4 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) Google
4 1 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (12.50%) Meraki
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (12.50%) Splunk
4 1 (12.50%) Veeam