Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SCOM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 766 641 686
Rank change year-on-year -125 +45 -111
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 23 46 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.021% 0.092% 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.39% 0.83% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 19 36 71
10th Percentile £32,611 £42,250 £40,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,875 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -2.86% +12.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £59,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.81% -3.81% +32.43%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,914 5,512 7,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.52% 10.99% 8.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4,273 3,314 4,983
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.45%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

SCOM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SCOM job vacancy trend in the UK

SCOM
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SCOM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SCOM

SCOM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCOM over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for SCOM in the UK

SCOM
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the UK over the 6 months to 17 August 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
England -95 20 £60,000 +17.65% 9
UK excluding London -111 17 £60,000 +18.81% 8
East of England -20 6 £62,500 +21.36% 2
London -62 4 £70,000 +27.27% 1
South West - 4 £60,000 - 1
Yorkshire -35 3 £27,500 -57.69% 1
Work from Home -55 3 £50,000 -23.08% 3
North of England -60 3 £27,500 -57.69% 1
South East -48 2 £50,000 +8.70% 5
East Midlands -20 1 - -
Midlands -30 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £50,871 -

SCOM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Azure
1 4 (17.39%) IaaS
2 2 (8.70%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.70%) PaaS
2 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
2 2 (8.70%) SaaS
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.35%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) DHCP
1 8 (34.78%) DNS
2 3 (13.04%) SAN
2 3 (13.04%) VSAN
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (4.35%) LAN
3 1 (4.35%) NAS
3 1 (4.35%) Unified Communications
3 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) Subversion
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Aerospace
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Local Government
4 1 (4.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (26.09%) Wintel Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Lead
2 3 (13.04%) Lead Software Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) IT Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) ICT Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Operations Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Server Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Testing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.04%) Clustering
2 3 (13.04%) Fat Client
2 3 (13.04%) Thin Client
3 2 (8.70%) Client/Server
3 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.35%) PKI
4 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (86.96%) Windows
2 18 (78.26%) Windows Server
3 8 (34.78%) Windows Server 2016
3 8 (34.78%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (30.43%) Linux
5 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.35%) CentOS
6 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (30.43%) Change Management
2 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (30.43%) ITIL
3 5 (21.74%) Configuration Management
3 5 (21.74%) Software License Management
3 5 (21.74%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (17.39%) Agile
4 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (17.39%) Project Delivery
4 4 (17.39%) Software Testing
4 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
5 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
5 3 (13.04%) Patch Management
5 3 (13.04%) Risk Analysis
5 3 (13.04%) Risk Management
5 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.04%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 13 (56.52%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) NIST
1 3 (13.04%) RMADS
2 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) Active Directory
2 15 (65.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (52.17%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (39.13%) Hyper-V
5 5 (21.74%) vSphere
6 3 (13.04%) VMware NSX
7 1 (4.35%) Firmware
7 1 (4.35%) Terminal Server
7 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (69.57%) SCCM
2 5 (21.74%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 4 (17.39%) Ansible
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 3 (13.04%) SCOrch
5 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (8.70%) WSUS
6 1 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (4.35%) Nessus
6 1 (4.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) VMware
2 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
3 7 (30.43%) HP
3 7 (30.43%) McAfee
4 6 (26.09%) Dell
4 6 (26.09%) IBM
5 2 (8.70%) Aruba
5 2 (8.70%) Citrix
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle
5 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.35%) Cisco
6 1 (4.35%) Juniper
6 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds