Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 11 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 686 550 965
Rank change year-on-year -136 +415 -82
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 104 233 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.38% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.43% 2.55% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 64 196 151
10th Percentile £40,250 £30,725 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £32,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,190 £52,650
Median % change year-on-year +21.56% -17.97% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,181 £69,032
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,250 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £39,644 £45,000
% change year-on-year +32.43% -11.90% +2.27%

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 7,295 9,142 24,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.33% 15.10% 16.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,088 6,958 12,414
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,875 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,056 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £59,526 £56,480
% change year-on-year -3.40% +5.39% +2.69%

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 11 October 2024.

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 11 October 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 -153 104 £52,500 +22.32% 22
UK excluding London -131 92 £52,500 +32.43% 19
Work from Home +2 41 £54,000 -13.25% 15
Midlands -11 32 £52,000 +9.47% 5
West Midlands -5 26 £63,500 +58.75% 4
South East -110 25 £57,025 +3.68% 3
South West -17 18 £52,500 +5.00% 6
London -5 12 £65,000 +8.33% 3
North of England -67 11 £52,500 +52.17% 4
North West -28 6 £52,500 -0.94% 1
East Midlands -32 6 £50,000 -4.76% 1
East of England -47 6 £53,250 +16.39% 1
Yorkshire -30 4 £31,250 -4.21% 3
North East -38 1 £37,500 -28.57%

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 22 (21.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (6.73%) SharePoint
3 6 (5.77%) IIS
4 3 (2.88%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 3 (2.88%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Maximo
1 1 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (45.19%) Azure
2 43 (41.35%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (22.12%) Entra ID
4 17 (16.35%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (15.38%) AWS
6 12 (11.54%) Cohesity
7 10 (9.62%) Azure Storage
7 10 (9.62%) IaaS
8 7 (6.73%) Azure Stack
8 7 (6.73%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.96%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.96%) PaaS
9 1 (0.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (40.38%) DNS
2 31 (29.81%) DHCP
3 20 (19.23%) SAN
4 14 (13.46%) Firewall
5 7 (6.73%) FTP
5 7 (6.73%) LAN
5 7 (6.73%) WAN
6 4 (3.85%) BGP
6 4 (3.85%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.85%) VSAN
6 4 (3.85%) Wireless
7 3 (2.88%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (2.88%) Skype
8 1 (0.96%) NAS
8 1 (0.96%) VLAN
8 1 (0.96%) VPN
8 1 (0.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.85%) Redis
3 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.96%) GitLab
1 1 (0.96%) JIRA
General
1 30 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (9.62%) Influencing Skills
3 10 (9.62%) Legal
4 9 (8.65%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (8.65%) Retail
5 7 (6.73%) Finance
6 4 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.92%) Law
7 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Automotive
8 1 (0.96%) Back Office
8 1 (0.96%) Police
Job Titles
1 22 (21.15%) Wintel Engineer
2 11 (10.58%) Administrator
3 10 (9.62%) Active Directory Specialist
3 10 (9.62%) Active Directory Support
3 10 (9.62%) Azure Specialist
3 10 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (9.62%) Support Specialist
4 9 (8.65%) Project Manager
4 9 (8.65%) Senior
5 8 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (7.69%) Server Engineer
6 7 (6.73%) Developer
6 7 (6.73%) Lead
7 5 (4.81%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (3.85%) Windows Administrator
9 3 (2.88%) 3rd Line Support
9 3 (2.88%) 3rd Line Support Technician
9 3 (2.88%) Analyst
9 3 (2.88%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.62%) ARM Templates
2 4 (3.85%) .NET
2 4 (3.85%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.96%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.23%) Clustering
2 18 (17.31%) PKI
3 11 (10.58%) Data Centre
4 10 (9.62%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (5.77%) Replication
6 5 (4.81%) Algorithms
6 5 (4.81%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.88%) Blackberry
8 2 (1.92%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.96%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 61 (58.65%) Windows
2 49 (47.12%) Windows Server
3 28 (26.92%) Linux
4 25 (24.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (19.23%) Windows Server 2012
6 19 (18.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (9.62%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (6.73%) Windows 10
9 6 (5.77%) Unix
10 3 (2.88%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (1.92%) Solaris
12 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.96%) SUSE
12 1 (0.96%) Windows 2000
12 1 (0.96%) Windows NT
12 1 (0.96%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (30.77%) ITIL
2 24 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (16.35%) Service Management
4 16 (15.38%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 13 (12.50%) Agile
5 13 (12.50%) Change Management
6 12 (11.54%) DevOps
6 12 (11.54%) Risk Management
7 11 (10.58%) Collaborative Working
7 11 (10.58%) Identity Management
7 11 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (10.58%) Release Management
8 10 (9.62%) Analytics
8 10 (9.62%) CI/CD
8 10 (9.62%) Log Analytics
8 10 (9.62%) Mentoring
8 10 (9.62%) Privileged Identity Management
8 10 (9.62%) RBAC
9 9 (8.65%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 47 (45.19%) PowerShell
2 27 (25.96%) SQL
3 12 (11.54%) Bicep
4 11 (10.58%) VBScript
5 10 (9.62%) C#
5 10 (9.62%) VB
6 4 (3.85%) C
7 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.96%) Python
Qualifications
1 40 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 36 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 29 (27.88%) DV Cleared
4 28 (26.92%) Degree
5 13 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (11.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 10 (9.62%) MCSA
8 7 (6.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (2.88%) Azure Certification
10 3 (2.88%) DBS Check
10 3 (2.88%) MCSE
11 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Architect
11 1 (0.96%) VCAP
11 1 (0.96%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.77%) SLA
2 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.96%) NIST
System Software
1 75 (72.12%) Active Directory
2 43 (41.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (19.23%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (13.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (13.46%) vSphere
5 12 (11.54%) Hyper-V
6 11 (10.58%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (6.73%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (6.73%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (3.85%) VMware NSX
8 4 (3.85%) VMware Server
9 3 (2.88%) Terminal Services
9 3 (2.88%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (1.92%) Firmware
11 1 (0.96%) Docker
11 1 (0.96%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 70 (67.31%) SCCM
2 14 (13.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 14 (13.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (12.50%) WSUS
4 12 (11.54%) Kubernetes
5 10 (9.62%) SCOrch
6 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Clustering
7 6 (5.77%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 6 (5.77%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.85%) vMotion
8 4 (3.85%) VxRail
9 3 (2.88%) Ansible
9 3 (2.88%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (2.88%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (2.88%) NetBackup
9 3 (2.88%) OfficeScan
9 3 (2.88%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 2 (1.92%) Rancher
10 2 (1.92%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.92%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 49 (47.12%) Microsoft
2 48 (46.15%) VMware
3 20 (19.23%) Dell
4 13 (12.50%) IBM
5 11 (10.58%) HP
6 9 (8.65%) Citrix
6 9 (8.65%) NetApp
7 8 (7.69%) McAfee
7 8 (7.69%) ServiceNow
8 6 (5.77%) Cisco
8 6 (5.77%) Commvault
8 6 (5.77%) Veeam
9 5 (4.81%) Splunk
10 4 (3.85%) EMC
11 3 (2.88%) Altiris
11 3 (2.88%) Huawei
11 3 (2.88%) Remedy
11 3 (2.88%) SolarWinds
11 3 (2.88%) Veritas
12 2 (1.92%) Red Hat