SCOM Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SCOM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 500 485
Rank change year-on-year -23 -15 +140
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 12 22 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.079% 0.36%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.50% 0.82% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 10 15 141
10th Percentile £45,750 £30,625 £31,125
25th Percentile £46,250 £33,199 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,306 £43,190
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +11.85% +7.97%
75th Percentile £51,563 £53,903 £57,500
90th Percentile £54,125 £61,250 £59,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £48,306 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% -3.39% +5.20%

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 2,410 2,696 5,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.54% 9.63% 9.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,693 1,754 4,371
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -4.99%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £70,131
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,769 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

SCOM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

SCOM job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SCOM
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SCOM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SCOM

SCOM
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCOM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

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 14 March 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
South East - 12 £47,500 - 6
SCOM
UK

SCOM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (8.33%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) IaaS
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) NAS
2 1 (8.33%) NetScaler
2 1 (8.33%) PBX
2 1 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) VLAN
2 1 (8.33%) VoIP
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Mining
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Subversion
2 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 3 (25.00%) Test Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Storage Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Testing Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
1 12 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (25.00%) Linux
4 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
5 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (41.67%) ITSM
1 5 (41.67%) Service Delivery
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Service Management
2 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 4 (33.33%) V-Model
2 4 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Release Management
4 2 (16.67%) Requirements Management
4 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 3 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (8.33%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (25.00%) Terminal Server
4 2 (16.67%) vSphere
5 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) SCCM
2 5 (41.67%) vCenter Server
3 2 (16.67%) SCSM
4 1 (8.33%) AirWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Avamar
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) VMware
2 7 (58.33%) McAfee
3 5 (41.67%) SolarWinds
4 4 (33.33%) Cisco
4 4 (33.33%) Juniper
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 3 (25.00%) Veeam
6 2 (16.67%) Trend Micro
7 1 (8.33%) Citrix
7 1 (8.33%) Commvault
7 1 (8.33%) EMC
7 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
7 1 (8.33%) Mitel
7 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
7 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
7 1 (8.33%) Veritas