SCOM Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SCOM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SCOM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 595 681
Rank change year-on-year +8 +86 -137
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 162 168 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.52% 2.09% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 106 104 139
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,883 £26,450
25th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £40,000 £44,623
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -10.36% +1.42%
75th Percentile £59,000 £52,125 £56,250
90th Percentile - £62,125 £76,000
UK median annual salary £51,250 £47,500 £45,500
% change year-on-year +7.89% +4.40% -9.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

SCOM is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,441 8,036 10,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.20% 13.00% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,440 4,576 6,638
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £76,943
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%

SCOM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the UK excluding London

SCOM
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SCOM in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SCOM in the UK excluding London

SCOM
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCOM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SCOM in the UK excluding London

SCOM
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
South East +57 86 £52,500 +31.25% 11
North of England +30 36 £32,250 +0.16%
Yorkshire +76 33 £32,250 +0.16%
Midlands +16 20 £50,000 -4.76%
East Midlands -16 10 £48,750 -7.14%
West Midlands - 10 £50,000 -
East of England +1 7 £42,500 -26.09% 3
South West -13 7 £61,000 +23.86%
Wales - 5 £36,476 -
North East -1 3 £50,000 +10.50%
Scotland -63 1 - -
SCOM
UK

SCOM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 49 (30.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (13.58%) IIS
3 13 (8.02%) CMS
4 3 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.62%) Apache
5 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (8.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.62%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.62%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.62%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 81 (50.00%) Azure
2 46 (28.40%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (13.58%) Entra ID
4 19 (11.73%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (8.64%) Azure Storage
6 12 (7.41%) OCI
7 10 (6.17%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (5.56%) AWS
9 6 (3.70%) GCP
10 5 (3.09%) IaaS
10 5 (3.09%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.47%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.23%) Nutanix
13 1 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (50.00%) DNS
2 72 (44.44%) DHCP
3 52 (32.10%) Firewall
4 31 (19.14%) SAN
5 15 (9.26%) SNMP
6 11 (6.79%) VPN
7 9 (5.56%) TCP/IP
7 9 (5.56%) Wireless
8 5 (3.09%) BIG-IP
8 5 (3.09%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (3.09%) Extranet
8 5 (3.09%) Internet
8 5 (3.09%) Network Security
8 5 (3.09%) Unified Communications
9 4 (2.47%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (2.47%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.85%) BGP
10 3 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.23%) IPv4
12 1 (0.62%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (4.94%) Redis
2 6 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.09%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.47%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.62%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Chocolatey
1 1 (0.62%) Git
1 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
General
1 61 (37.65%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.64%) Finance
3 13 (8.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (4.94%) Legal
4 8 (4.94%) Pharmaceutical
4 8 (4.94%) Retail
5 7 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.70%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.09%) Automotive
7 5 (3.09%) Law
7 5 (3.09%) Local Government
7 5 (3.09%) Police
7 5 (3.09%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.62%) Back Office
8 1 (0.62%) Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (26.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 23 (14.20%) Senior
3 18 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
3 18 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
4 16 (9.88%) Administrator
5 15 (9.26%) Windows Systems Engineer
6 14 (8.64%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (8.64%) Active Directory Support
6 14 (8.64%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (8.64%) IT Engineer
6 14 (8.64%) Support Specialist
7 13 (8.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (8.02%) ServiceNow Administrator
8 11 (6.79%) 3rd Line Support
8 11 (6.79%) Technical Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) Support Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) VMware Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) PowerShell Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Project Manager
10 8 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.64%) ARM Templates
2 5 (3.09%) Middleware
3 3 (1.85%) .NET
3 3 (1.85%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.62%) Web Services
4 1 (0.62%) XML
4 1 (0.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.05%) Data Centre
2 19 (11.73%) CMDB
3 18 (11.11%) PKI
4 15 (9.26%) Clustering
4 15 (9.26%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (8.02%) Digital Signage
6 9 (5.56%) Public Cloud
7 7 (4.32%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.47%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.47%) Replication
9 3 (1.85%) IoT
9 3 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.62%) EPoS
10 1 (0.62%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.62%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 123 (75.93%) Windows
2 103 (63.58%) Windows Server
3 66 (40.74%) Linux
4 39 (24.07%) Windows Server 2016
5 37 (22.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (15.43%) Windows 10
7 23 (14.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 17 (10.49%) Windows XP
9 8 (4.94%) Windows Server 2003
10 7 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (3.09%) Windows 2000
11 5 (3.09%) Windows 7
11 5 (3.09%) Windows 8
11 5 (3.09%) Windows NT
11 5 (3.09%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (40.12%) ITIL
2 46 (28.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 42 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (24.69%) Service Management
5 36 (22.22%) Agile
6 21 (12.96%) Disaster Recovery
6 21 (12.96%) Release Management
7 20 (12.35%) DevOps
7 20 (12.35%) Project Management
8 19 (11.73%) Configuration Management
8 19 (11.73%) Proactive Monitoring
9 18 (11.11%) Identity Management
9 18 (11.11%) Server Management
10 17 (10.49%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 15 (9.26%) Change Management
11 15 (9.26%) CI/CD
11 15 (9.26%) Customer Experience
11 15 (9.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (9.26%) Waterfall
12 14 (8.64%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 55 (33.95%) PowerShell
2 30 (18.52%) SQL
3 14 (8.64%) Bicep
3 14 (8.64%) C#
3 14 (8.64%) VB
3 14 (8.64%) VBScript
4 13 (8.02%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.70%) Python
6 3 (1.85%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.62%) Bash
7 1 (0.62%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 82 (50.62%) Security Cleared
2 66 (40.74%) SC Cleared
3 63 (38.89%) DV Cleared
4 48 (29.63%) Degree
5 20 (12.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 19 (11.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (7.41%) CCNA
7 12 (7.41%) CCNP
7 12 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (6.79%) Azure Certification
9 7 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (4.32%) MCSA
9 7 (4.32%) MCSE
10 5 (3.09%) CISSP
10 5 (3.09%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (2.47%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.17%) SLA
2 7 (4.32%) Good Clinical Practice
3 2 (1.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 112 (69.14%) Active Directory
2 47 (29.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (27.16%) Hyper-V
4 21 (12.96%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (10.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (9.26%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (7.41%) Firmware
8 4 (2.47%) Terminal Services
8 4 (2.47%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (1.85%) Forefront TMG
9 3 (1.85%) VMware Server
10 2 (1.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (48.77%) SCCM
2 43 (26.54%) WSUS
3 27 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (11.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 19 (11.73%) Kubernetes
4 19 (11.73%) NetBackup
5 12 (7.41%) EMC NetWorker
5 12 (7.41%) vCenter Server
6 11 (6.79%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 8 (4.94%) Failover Clustering
8 7 (4.32%) Ansible
9 5 (3.09%) FortiGate
9 5 (3.09%) Grafana
9 5 (3.09%) Prometheus
10 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.85%) Check_MK
11 3 (1.85%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (1.85%) Nagios
11 3 (1.85%) SCOrch
11 3 (1.85%) vMotion
Vendors
1 130 (80.25%) Microsoft
2 59 (36.42%) VMware
3 37 (22.84%) Dynatrace
4 30 (18.52%) HP
5 26 (16.05%) Cisco
6 24 (14.81%) Oracle
7 22 (13.58%) SolarWinds
8 20 (12.35%) ServiceNow
9 19 (11.73%) Citrix
10 18 (11.11%) Veeam
11 14 (8.64%) Dell
12 13 (8.02%) Riverbed
13 12 (7.41%) 3PAR
13 12 (7.41%) EMC
13 12 (7.41%) Extreme Networks
13 12 (7.41%) Juniper
13 12 (7.41%) Palo Alto
13 12 (7.41%) Symantec
14 10 (6.17%) Kaseya
14 10 (6.17%) McAfee