SCOM Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring SCOM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 248 285
Rank change year-on-year -29 +37 +65
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 10 2 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.071% 0.029% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.90% 0.31% 5.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 76
10th Percentile £44,750 £31,450 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £34,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -23.81% +31.25%
75th Percentile £49,688 £46,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £54,000 £48,550 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% +7.89%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 527 637 1,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.75% 9.32% 10.36%
Number of salaries quoted 411 400 1,322
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

SCOM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

SCOM job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SCOM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SCOM

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCOM in the South East over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for SCOM in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Hampshire -16 6 £47,500 -2.06% 1
Berkshire +8 4 £47,500 +50.79%
Thames Valley -12 4 £47,500 +50.79%
SCOM
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) IaaS
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) NAS
2 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (10.00%) PBX
2 1 (10.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) VLAN
2 1 (10.00%) VoIP
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Subversion
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 3 (30.00%) Test Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Testing Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (10.00%) Unix
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) ITSM
2 4 (40.00%) Manual Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (40.00%) V-Model
2 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 3 (30.00%) Service Management
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Release Management
4 2 (20.00%) Requirements Management
4 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (30.00%) ISTQB
4 3 (30.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (10.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (30.00%) Terminal Server
4 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) SCCM
2 4 (40.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (10.00%) AirWatch
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) SCSM
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) VMware
2 7 (70.00%) McAfee
3 5 (50.00%) SolarWinds
4 4 (40.00%) Cisco
4 4 (40.00%) Juniper
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (20.00%) Veeam
6 1 (10.00%) Citrix
6 1 (10.00%) Commvault
6 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
6 1 (10.00%) Mitel
6 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (10.00%) Trend Micro
6 1 (10.00%) Veritas