SCOM Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 488 736
Rank change year-on-year -84 +248 -98
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 135 194 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.40% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.57% 3.20% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 79 145 113
10th Percentile £33,950 £30,725 £26,450
25th Percentile £45,625 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £39,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £53,000 £51,250
90th Percentile £68,000 £72,250 £63,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £45,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year +14.75% -3.68% -6.62%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,261 6,068 10,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.06% 12.60% 13.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,392 4,054 6,725
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% - +3.85%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -13 49 £56,525 +41.31% 2
Midlands -4 28 £53,500 +12.63% 7
North of England -43 25 £52,500 +52.17%
South West -13 20 £52,500 +5.00% 4
West Midlands +13 19 £75,000 +87.50% 6
Yorkshire +9 17 £31,050 -3.57%
East of England -2 10 £52,500 +11.70%
East Midlands -27 9 £50,000 -4.76% 1
North West -10 6 £52,500 -0.94%
Wales - 3 £36,476 -
North East -11 2 £37,500 -17.13%
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 30 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (7.41%) IIS
3 7 (5.19%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.22%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 60 (44.44%) Azure
2 43 (31.85%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (16.30%) Azure Monitor
4 21 (15.56%) Entra ID
5 16 (11.85%) Azure Storage
6 15 (11.11%) AWS
7 8 (5.93%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (5.93%) IaaS
8 5 (3.70%) GCP
8 5 (3.70%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.96%) Azure Stack
9 4 (2.96%) Cohesity
9 4 (2.96%) OCI
9 4 (2.96%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.74%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.74%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 62 (45.93%) DNS
2 51 (37.78%) DHCP
3 33 (24.44%) Firewall
4 22 (16.30%) SAN
5 13 (9.63%) TCP/IP
6 8 (5.93%) Wireless
7 7 (5.19%) Fibre Channel
7 7 (5.19%) VPN
8 5 (3.70%) BIG-IP
8 5 (3.70%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (3.70%) Network Security
9 4 (2.96%) BGP
9 4 (2.96%) FTP
10 3 (2.22%) Extranet
10 3 (2.22%) Internet
10 3 (2.22%) LAN
10 3 (2.22%) Unified Communications
10 3 (2.22%) WAN
11 2 (1.48%) VLAN
11 2 (1.48%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.15%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (6.67%) Redis
3 5 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.74%) GitLab
General
1 40 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
3 9 (6.67%) Legal
3 9 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 6 (4.44%) Aerospace
5 5 (3.70%) Retail
6 4 (2.96%) Automotive
6 4 (2.96%) Finance
6 4 (2.96%) Police
7 3 (2.22%) Local Government
7 3 (2.22%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (17.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (14.07%) Wintel Engineer
3 16 (11.85%) Active Directory Specialist
3 16 (11.85%) Active Directory Support
3 16 (11.85%) Azure Specialist
3 16 (11.85%) Support Specialist
4 13 (9.63%) Senior
5 9 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 8 (5.93%) 3rd Line Support
6 8 (5.93%) Administrator
7 7 (5.19%) 3rd Line Support Technician
7 7 (5.19%) Developer
7 7 (5.19%) IT Engineer
7 7 (5.19%) Server Engineer
7 7 (5.19%) Support Technician
8 6 (4.44%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) Architect
9 5 (3.70%) IT Infrastructure Architect
9 5 (3.70%) IT Operations Manager
9 5 (3.70%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.85%) ARM Templates
2 5 (3.70%) Middleware
3 4 (2.96%) .NET
3 4 (2.96%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.74%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.81%) PKI
2 16 (11.85%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (11.11%) Clustering
3 15 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 10 (7.41%) Public Cloud
5 7 (5.19%) Replication
6 6 (4.44%) CMDB
7 5 (3.70%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.70%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.22%) Digital Signage
8 3 (2.22%) IoT
8 3 (2.22%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.74%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.74%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 92 (68.15%) Windows
2 68 (50.37%) Windows Server
3 53 (39.26%) Linux
4 36 (26.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 31 (22.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 19 (14.07%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (8.15%) Windows 10
7 11 (8.15%) Windows Server 2008
8 8 (5.93%) Windows XP
9 7 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (5.19%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (2.96%) Windows 2000
10 4 (2.96%) Windows NT
11 3 (2.22%) Unix
12 2 (1.48%) Solaris
13 1 (0.74%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (34.07%) ITIL
2 28 (20.74%) Service Management
3 26 (19.26%) Agile
3 26 (19.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 25 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (16.30%) DevOps
6 21 (15.56%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 18 (13.33%) Identity Management
8 17 (12.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (12.59%) Release Management
9 16 (11.85%) Analytics
9 16 (11.85%) CI/CD
9 16 (11.85%) Log Analytics
9 16 (11.85%) Privileged Identity Management
9 16 (11.85%) RBAC
10 13 (9.63%) Mentoring
11 12 (8.89%) Change Management
11 12 (8.89%) Project Management
12 11 (8.15%) Containerisation
13 10 (7.41%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 55 (40.74%) PowerShell
2 23 (17.04%) SQL
3 17 (12.59%) Bicep
3 17 (12.59%) VBScript
4 16 (11.85%) C#
4 16 (11.85%) VB
5 6 (4.44%) Python
6 3 (2.22%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (49.63%) Security Cleared
2 52 (38.52%) SC Cleared
3 48 (35.56%) DV Cleared
4 42 (31.11%) Degree
5 16 (11.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 11 (8.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (5.19%) Azure Certification
7 7 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (5.19%) DBS Check
8 5 (3.70%) CISSP
8 5 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (2.96%) CCNA
9 4 (2.96%) CCNP
9 4 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.96%) MCSA
10 2 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 93 (68.89%) Active Directory
2 39 (28.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (24.44%) Hyper-V
4 19 (14.07%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (13.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (12.59%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (5.19%) Terminal Services
7 7 (5.19%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (2.96%) VMware Server
9 3 (2.22%) Forefront TMG
9 3 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (1.48%) Firmware
10 2 (1.48%) VMware NSX
10 2 (1.48%) vSphere
11 1 (0.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 80 (59.26%) SCCM
2 36 (26.67%) WSUS
3 24 (17.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 23 (17.04%) Kubernetes
5 21 (15.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (6.67%) Ansible
6 9 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (5.93%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 7 (5.19%) vCenter Server
9 6 (4.44%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 5 (3.70%) Grafana
10 5 (3.70%) NetBackup
10 5 (3.70%) Prometheus
11 4 (2.96%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (2.96%) SCOrch
11 4 (2.96%) vMotion
12 2 (1.48%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (1.48%) Rancher
12 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (1.48%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 81 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 49 (36.30%) VMware
3 18 (13.33%) HP
4 16 (11.85%) Dell
4 16 (11.85%) Oracle
5 14 (10.37%) SolarWinds
6 13 (9.63%) ServiceNow
7 11 (8.15%) Cisco
7 11 (8.15%) Dynatrace
8 10 (7.41%) IBM
9 9 (6.67%) Citrix
9 9 (6.67%) Red Hat
10 8 (5.93%) McAfee
10 8 (5.93%) Veeam
11 6 (4.44%) EMC
11 6 (4.44%) Google
12 5 (3.70%) AppDynamics
13 4 (2.96%) 3PAR
13 4 (2.96%) Extreme Networks
13 4 (2.96%) Palo Alto