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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 606 584
Rank change year-on-year +47 -22 +104
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 20 157 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.051% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.60% 2.47% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 14 96 112
10th Percentile £30,785 £31,250 £30,073
25th Percentile £36,587 £34,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,306 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +25.00% -10.74%
75th Percentile £60,813 £59,000 £50,063
90th Percentile £65,625 - £62,375
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +5.56%

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 3,354 6,366 7,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.60% 8.99% 12.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,633 4,359 4,461
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.86% -3.65%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -3.57%

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

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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 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SCOM in the UK excluding London

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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 May 2025. 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
Midlands +49 8 £59,500 +19.00% 5
North of England +25 6 £48,306 +49.79% 8
West Midlands +49 5 - - 3
North West - 4 £48,306 - 1
East of England +43 3 £34,377 -19.11% 3
East Midlands +26 3 £59,500 +22.05% 2
South East +17 3 £31,500 -40.00% 8
Yorkshire +47 2 £65,000 +101.55% 7
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 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.00%) IIS
2 2 (10.00%) Skype for Business
3 1 (5.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.00%) OneDrive
3 2 (10.00%) PaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) DHCP
1 12 (60.00%) DNS
2 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (15.00%) Firewall
3 3 (15.00%) SAN
4 2 (10.00%) Skype
4 2 (10.00%) VoIP
5 1 (5.00%) Internet
5 1 (5.00%) LAN
5 1 (5.00%) VSAN
5 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Power BI
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 10 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Law
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Advertising
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Administrator
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
6 1 (5.00%) Web Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (10.00%) Clustering
2 2 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (90.00%) Windows
2 12 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (50.00%) Linux
4 4 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
6 2 (10.00%) SUSE
6 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (5.00%) Android
7 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (40.00%) ITIL
3 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 5 (25.00%) ITSM
5 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 4 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (15.00%) High Availability
6 3 (15.00%) Load Balancing
6 3 (15.00%) Scrum
6 3 (15.00%) Service Management
7 2 (10.00%) Change Management
7 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (10.00%) Project Management
7 2 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (40.00%) Python
3 6 (30.00%) Bash
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) Perl
5 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) Degree
3 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
6 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (35.00%) Hyper-V
2 7 (35.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (10.00%) vSphere
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (90.00%) SCCM
2 6 (30.00%) SCOrch
3 4 (20.00%) Ansible
3 4 (20.00%) SCSM
4 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (10.00%) Puppet
4 2 (10.00%) vCenter Server
4 2 (10.00%) WSUS
5 1 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (5.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (40.00%) VMware
3 4 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (10.00%) Ab Initio
5 2 (10.00%) arcserve
5 2 (10.00%) ArcSight
5 2 (10.00%) Aruba
5 2 (10.00%) Avaya
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco
5 2 (10.00%) Citrix
5 2 (10.00%) Linksys
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle
5 2 (10.00%) Splunk
6 1 (5.00%) Dell
6 1 (5.00%) EMC
6 1 (5.00%) F5
6 1 (5.00%) Okta
6 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.00%) Veeam