Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SCOM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SCOM over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 522 859 882
Rank change year-on-year +337 +23 -281
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 215 216 199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.68% 1.13% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 175 166 162
10th Percentile £29,730 £31,625 £29,900
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,920 £52,650 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% +0.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £56,525 £69,032 £70,000
90th Percentile £71,500 £72,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £48,250
% change year-on-year -5.56% -6.74% +7.22%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SCOM 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 8,015 19,075 21,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.13% 15.53% 16.62%
Number of salaries quoted 6,365 11,409 14,035
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,091 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £84,056 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,525 £57,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year -1.70% +3.60% +5.71%

SCOM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the UK

SCOM
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SCOM in the UK

SCOM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCOM over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for SCOM in the UK

SCOM
Top 14 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 7 December 2023. 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 +345 209 £42,500 -19.28% 51
UK excluding London +298 197 £42,500 -5.56% 43
South East +193 104 £47,460 -5.08% 22
North of England +172 61 £33,000 -8.33% 8
Work from Home +226 56 £56,525 +4.63% 18
Yorkshire +129 50 £33,000 -2.94% 5
London +214 15 £65,000 +7.79% 6
South West +87 13 £61,000 +16.19% 5
East of England +97 9 £42,500 -15.00% 3
West Midlands +132 7 £50,000 +81.08% 3
Midlands +130 7 £50,000 -16.67% 6
North West +118 7 £51,000 +2.00%
North East +47 4 £52,500 +40.00% 3
Wales - 3 £43,190 -

SCOM
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 37 (17.21%) IIS
2 25 (11.63%) MS Exchange
3 10 (4.65%) Apache
3 10 (4.65%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.93%) CMS
5 1 (0.47%) Confluence
5 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.47%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 27 (12.56%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.19%) AutoCAD
2 9 (4.19%) PTC Creo
2 9 (4.19%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 121 (56.28%) Azure
2 71 (33.02%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (18.60%) Entra ID
4 24 (11.16%) Azure Monitor
5 22 (10.23%) Azure Storage
6 17 (7.91%) AWS
7 13 (6.05%) IaaS
8 11 (5.12%) PaaS
9 10 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.72%) GCP
11 4 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.86%) Rubrik
12 3 (1.40%) Nutanix
13 2 (0.93%) Cohesity
13 2 (0.93%) Mimecast
14 1 (0.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 1 (0.47%) Power Platform
14 1 (0.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (39.07%) DNS
2 83 (38.60%) DHCP
3 56 (26.05%) Firewall
4 25 (11.63%) SAN
5 24 (11.16%) SNMP
6 16 (7.44%) VPN
7 15 (6.98%) Wireless
8 10 (4.65%) Skype
8 10 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (2.33%) SMTP
10 4 (1.86%) LAN
10 4 (1.86%) NAS
10 4 (1.86%) NetScaler
10 4 (1.86%) WAN
11 3 (1.40%) Kerberos
11 3 (1.40%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.93%) MPLS
12 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.47%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (14.88%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.58%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.65%) SAP HANA
4 3 (1.40%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.47%) MySQL
5 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (5.12%) Git
2 10 (4.65%) Axure RP
2 10 (4.65%) Chocolatey
2 10 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 91 (42.33%) Social Skills
2 61 (28.37%) Finance
3 15 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (6.98%) Retail
4 10 (4.65%) Back Office
5 9 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (4.19%) Legal
5 9 (4.19%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (3.72%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.26%) Banking
8 4 (1.86%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.86%) Law
9 3 (1.40%) Automotive
9 3 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.40%) Local Government
9 3 (1.40%) Police
10 2 (0.93%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (27.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 37 (17.21%) Support Engineer
3 32 (14.88%) Windows Engineer
4 29 (13.49%) Systems Engineer
5 26 (12.09%) Windows Systems Engineer
6 17 (7.91%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 16 (7.44%) IT Engineer
8 14 (6.51%) 2nd Line Support
8 14 (6.51%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 13 (6.05%) Active Directory Support
10 12 (5.58%) Active Directory Specialist
10 12 (5.58%) Senior
11 10 (4.65%) 3rd Line Support
11 10 (4.65%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (4.65%) Azure Specialist
11 10 (4.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.65%) Support Specialist
12 9 (4.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 9 (4.19%) Administrator
12 9 (4.19%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.51%) ARM Templates
2 10 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (4.65%) Web Services
2 10 (4.65%) XML
2 10 (4.65%) YAML
3 4 (1.86%) LDAP
4 2 (0.93%) Kafka
5 1 (0.47%) HTML
5 1 (0.47%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.02%) PKI
2 25 (11.63%) Data Centre
3 24 (11.16%) CMDB
4 19 (8.84%) Clustering
5 16 (7.44%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (5.12%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (4.19%) EPoS
7 9 (4.19%) Operational Technology
8 8 (3.72%) Public Cloud
9 7 (3.26%) Mainframe
10 6 (2.79%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.40%) Replication
12 3 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.93%) Digital Signage
14 1 (0.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 175 (81.40%) Windows
2 145 (67.44%) Windows Server
3 49 (22.79%) Linux
4 48 (22.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 47 (21.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 42 (19.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 32 (14.88%) Windows 10
8 8 (3.72%) Windows 7
8 8 (3.72%) Windows 8
8 8 (3.72%) Windows XP
9 7 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (3.26%) VMS
10 6 (2.79%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (2.33%) Unix
12 4 (1.86%) CentOS
12 4 (1.86%) Ubuntu
13 3 (1.40%) Windows 2000
13 3 (1.40%) Windows NT
13 3 (1.40%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.93%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (39.53%) ITIL
2 72 (33.49%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (31.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 51 (23.72%) Agile
5 42 (19.53%) High Availability
6 34 (15.81%) Service Management
7 30 (13.95%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 29 (13.49%) Disaster Recovery
9 28 (13.02%) Change Management
9 28 (13.02%) Configuration Management
10 25 (11.63%) DevOps
11 24 (11.16%) Identity Management
11 24 (11.16%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 24 (11.16%) Waterfall
12 23 (10.70%) CI/CD
12 23 (10.70%) Collaborative Working
12 23 (10.70%) Migration
12 23 (10.70%) Release Management
13 21 (9.77%) Log Analytics
13 21 (9.77%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 77 (35.81%) PowerShell
2 54 (25.12%) SQL
3 23 (10.70%) C#
3 23 (10.70%) VB
3 23 (10.70%) VBScript
4 13 (6.05%) Bicep
5 12 (5.58%) Bash
6 9 (4.19%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.93%) Perl
7 2 (0.93%) Python
8 1 (0.47%) C
Qualifications
1 107 (49.77%) Security Cleared
2 77 (35.81%) SC Cleared
3 64 (29.77%) DV Cleared
4 40 (18.60%) Degree
5 35 (16.28%) Azure Certification
6 31 (14.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (12.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 21 (9.77%) MCSA
9 18 (8.37%) MCSE
10 8 (3.72%) AWS Certification
10 8 (3.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.26%) CCNA
11 7 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (3.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (2.79%) HNC
13 5 (2.33%) CCNP
14 2 (0.93%) CCENT
14 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.42%) SLA
2 9 (4.19%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.47%) GDPR
3 1 (0.47%) NIST
3 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 164 (76.28%) Active Directory
2 70 (32.56%) Hyper-V
3 69 (32.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (17.21%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (11.16%) Firmware
6 23 (10.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (9.30%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (5.58%) vSphere
9 10 (4.65%) VMware Workstation
10 6 (2.79%) XenApp
11 5 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (1.86%) VMware NSX
13 3 (1.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.47%) Docker
14 1 (0.47%) Forefront TMG
14 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.47%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 142 (66.05%) SCCM
2 53 (24.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (18.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 34 (15.81%) WSUS
5 25 (11.63%) Kubernetes
6 19 (8.84%) Failover Clustering
6 19 (8.84%) SCSM
7 18 (8.37%) SCVMM
8 15 (6.98%) Ansible
8 15 (6.98%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 14 (6.51%) FortiGate
10 13 (6.05%) NetBackup
11 12 (5.58%) Terraform
12 7 (3.26%) Nagios
12 7 (3.26%) vCenter Server
13 5 (2.33%) EMC NetWorker
13 5 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Clustering
15 3 (1.40%) Ganglia
15 3 (1.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 146 (67.91%) Microsoft
2 90 (41.86%) VMware
3 45 (20.93%) Citrix
4 39 (18.14%) Cisco
5 37 (17.21%) Veeam
6 33 (15.35%) Commvault
7 31 (14.42%) HP
8 29 (13.49%) Kaseya
9 28 (13.02%) Dynatrace
10 19 (8.84%) Oracle
11 16 (7.44%) SolarWinds
12 14 (6.51%) Aruba
12 14 (6.51%) Barracuda Networks
12 14 (6.51%) NetApp
13 11 (5.12%) Red Hat
14 10 (4.65%) IBM
14 10 (4.65%) SAP
14 10 (4.65%) ServiceNow
14 10 (4.65%) TOWER Software
15 9 (4.19%) PTC