Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (Microsoft DPM, SCDPM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SCDPM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SCDPM over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 886 996 1204
Rank change year-on-year +110 +208 -317
Permanent jobs citing SCDPM 22 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.002% 0.001%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.22% 0.013% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 1
10th Percentile £30,500 - -
25th Percentile £34,813 £42,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £47,250 £47,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 -
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 10,018 15,764 27,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.31% 14.80% 17.84%
Number of salaries quoted 7,306 9,656 14,280
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% +9.09%

SCDPM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SCDPM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SCDPM in the UK

SCDPM
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SCDPM.

Salary trend for SCDPM in the UK

SCDPM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCDPM over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SCDPM in the UK

SCDPM
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCDPM within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England +152 22 £44,500 -1.11% 1
UK excluding London +41 21 £46,500 +3.33%
South East +19 16 £46,500 -
Work from Home +114 15 £37,500 -16.67%
East of England - 5 £31,000 -
London - 1 £37,500 - 1

SCDPM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) GitHub
2 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) IaaS
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (27.27%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (72.73%) DHCP
1 16 (72.73%) DNS
1 16 (72.73%) VPN
2 15 (68.18%) Firewall
3 10 (45.45%) 5G
4 6 (27.27%) iSCSI
4 6 (27.27%) SAN
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Git
1 10 (45.45%) Jenkins
1 10 (45.45%) JIRA
1 10 (45.45%) Trac
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (45.45%) Telecoms
3 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Support Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Support
3 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support Technician
4 3 (13.64%) IT Support
4 3 (13.64%) IT Support Technician
4 3 (13.64%) IT Technician
4 3 (13.64%) Support Technician
5 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (72.73%) Windows
1 16 (72.73%) Windows Server
2 10 (45.45%) Linux
3 6 (27.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (45.45%) Actionable Insight
3 10 (45.45%) Configuration Management
3 10 (45.45%) DevOps
3 10 (45.45%) Validation
4 7 (31.82%) Customer Service
4 7 (31.82%) ITIL
5 6 (27.27%) Customer Experience
5 6 (27.27%) Patch Management
5 6 (27.27%) Server Monitoring
5 6 (27.27%) Service Delivery
6 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
7 1 (4.55%) B2B
7 1 (4.55%) B2C
7 1 (4.55%) Coaching
7 1 (4.55%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (4.55%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) PowerShell
2 10 (45.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) ITIL Certification
2 6 (27.27%) MCP
3 5 (22.73%) CCNA
3 5 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (77.27%) Active Directory
1 17 (77.27%) Hyper-V
2 16 (72.73%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (45.45%) Docker
3 10 (45.45%) NFS
3 10 (45.45%) pfSense
4 5 (22.73%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (100.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 10 (45.45%) Ansible
2 10 (45.45%) Grafana
2 10 (45.45%) ZABBIX
3 7 (31.82%) SCCM
4 1 (4.55%) Backup Exec
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (72.73%) Veeam
2 16 (72.73%) VMware
3 10 (45.45%) Fortinet
3 10 (45.45%) Juniper
3 10 (45.45%) McAfee
4 6 (27.27%) Dell
4 6 (27.27%) Dell Compellent
5 5 (22.73%) Cisco
5 5 (22.73%) Citrix