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 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 690 615 839
Rank change year-on-year -75 +224 +94
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 41 227 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.28% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.73% 2.52% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 27 165 132
10th Percentile £31,816 £31,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,100 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £47,500 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -3.55% -1.99%
75th Percentile £72,500 £59,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,000 £67,500 £69,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,306 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +13.66% +6.25% -11.11%

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 5,639 9,009 16,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.98% 11.01% 15.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,517 7,023 10,279
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £91,000 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £113,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.42% -1.74%

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 6 March 2025.

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 6 March 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
England -75 39 £52,000 +4.00% 8
UK excluding London -55 27 £48,306 +13.66% 10
Work from Home +51 16 £48,306 -7.99% 3
Midlands +19 13 £54,500 +14.74%
London +50 12 £70,000 +7.69% 2
West Midlands +17 10 £45,000 -10.00%
North of England +9 9 £48,306 +49.79%
North West +20 5 £48,306 +7.35%
Yorkshire +26 4 £31,250 -3.10%
East of England +26 4 £34,377 -19.11%
East Midlands +37 3 £59,500 +25.26%
South West +62 1 £52,000 -14.75% 1

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 11 (26.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (9.76%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.88%) IIS
4 1 (2.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (2.44%) Skype for Business
4 1 (2.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (60.98%) Azure
2 22 (53.66%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (19.51%) Entra ID
4 6 (14.63%) AWS
5 5 (12.20%) SaaS
6 4 (9.76%) IaaS
6 4 (9.76%) OneDrive
6 4 (9.76%) PaaS
7 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Stack
8 2 (4.88%) Cohesity
8 2 (4.88%) GitHub
8 2 (4.88%) PowerApps
9 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (53.66%) DNS
2 20 (48.78%) DHCP
3 10 (24.39%) LAN
3 10 (24.39%) WAN
4 8 (19.51%) Firewall
5 7 (17.07%) SAN
6 4 (9.76%) TCP/IP
7 3 (7.32%) VSAN
8 2 (4.88%) FTP
8 2 (4.88%) VoIP
9 1 (2.44%) Internet
9 1 (2.44%) Network Security
9 1 (2.44%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (43.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.88%) Power BI
2 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 9 (21.95%) Finance
1 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Retail
4 4 (9.76%) Banking
4 4 (9.76%) Law
4 4 (9.76%) Legal
5 1 (2.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) Senior
3 8 (19.51%) Administrator
3 8 (19.51%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (12.20%) Wintel Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Operations Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) IT Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Lead
6 3 (7.32%) Operations Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) YAML
2 1 (2.44%) .NET
2 1 (2.44%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.83%) Data Centre
2 8 (19.51%) Clustering
3 4 (9.76%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.88%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.44%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) PKI
5 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (73.17%) Windows
2 26 (63.41%) Windows Server
3 10 (24.39%) Windows Server 2012
4 8 (19.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (17.07%) Windows 10
5 7 (17.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (14.63%) Linux
7 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (4.88%) SUSE
8 2 (4.88%) Unix
9 1 (2.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) ITIL
2 12 (29.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (19.51%) Customer Service
4 8 (19.51%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (17.07%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (17.07%) Incident Management
6 5 (12.20%) ITSM
6 5 (12.20%) Migration
7 4 (9.76%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (9.76%) Batch Scripting
7 4 (9.76%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (9.76%) Document Management
7 4 (9.76%) IT Strategy
7 4 (9.76%) Patch Management
7 4 (9.76%) Process Improvement
7 4 (9.76%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (7.32%) High Availability
8 3 (7.32%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 3 (7.32%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (43.90%) PowerShell
2 16 (39.02%) SQL
3 5 (12.20%) Python
4 4 (9.76%) Bash
5 1 (2.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) Degree
1 11 (26.83%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (21.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (14.63%) MCSE
4 4 (9.76%) Azure Certification
4 4 (9.76%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (9.76%) MCSA
5 2 (4.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.44%) VCAP
6 1 (2.44%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) SLA
2 4 (9.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (68.29%) Active Directory
2 25 (60.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (24.39%) Hyper-V
4 7 (17.07%) vSphere
5 5 (12.20%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (7.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (7.32%) VMware NSX
7 2 (4.88%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (4.88%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (2.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 33 (80.49%) SCCM
2 13 (31.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (12.20%) NetBackup
5 4 (9.76%) SCOrch
6 3 (7.32%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (7.32%) vCenter Server
6 3 (7.32%) VxRail
7 2 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.44%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (2.44%) OfficeScan
8 1 (2.44%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 40 (97.56%) Microsoft
2 27 (65.85%) VMware
3 11 (26.83%) SolarWinds
4 9 (21.95%) Citrix
5 8 (19.51%) Cisco
5 8 (19.51%) Dell
6 7 (17.07%) ServiceNow
6 7 (17.07%) Veeam
7 4 (9.76%) Aruba
7 4 (9.76%) CheckPoint
7 4 (9.76%) iManage
7 4 (9.76%) NetApp
7 4 (9.76%) NetMotion Wireless
8 3 (7.32%) EMC
9 2 (4.88%) Ab Initio
9 2 (4.88%) arcserve
9 2 (4.88%) Avaya
9 2 (4.88%) IBM
9 2 (4.88%) Linksys
10 1 (2.44%) F5