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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 646 643 794
Rank change year-on-year -3 +151 +176
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 32 224 202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.24% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.69% 2.32% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 25 148 136
10th Percentile £32,611 £31,125 £32,100
25th Percentile £46,750 £34,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £59,000 £57,125
90th Percentile £76,500 £67,500 £66,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,306 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +7.35% +12.50% -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 4,668 9,665 16,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.25% 10.47% 14.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,396 7,264 10,043
10th Percentile £38,500 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,530
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.09% -4.17%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -29 30 £55,000 +6.28% 21
UK excluding London +28 17 £48,306 +7.35% 22
London +82 13 £70,000 +7.69% 9
Work from Home +79 9 £48,306 -7.99% 2
North of England +56 7 £48,306 +46.38% 5
North West +48 5 £48,306 +7.35% 2
Midlands +47 5 £59,500 +25.26% 1
East of England +57 4 £34,377 -19.11%
East Midlands +47 3 £59,500 +25.26%
West Midlands +33 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +27 2 £31,250 -3.10% 2
South East -10 1 £48,500 -7.62% 6

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 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.25%) IIS
2 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (68.75%) Azure
2 14 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (21.88%) AWS
4 5 (15.63%) SaaS
5 4 (12.50%) IaaS
5 4 (12.50%) PaaS
6 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (6.25%) GitHub
7 2 (6.25%) OneDrive
7 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
7 2 (6.25%) PowerApps
8 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (50.00%) DHCP
1 16 (50.00%) DNS
2 10 (31.25%) LAN
2 10 (31.25%) WAN
3 7 (21.88%) Firewall
4 6 (18.75%) TCP/IP
5 4 (12.50%) SAN
6 2 (6.25%) VoIP
6 2 (6.25%) VSAN
7 1 (3.13%) Internet
7 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Power BI
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 9 (28.13%) Finance
2 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
4 6 (18.75%) Banking
5 4 (12.50%) Law
5 4 (12.50%) Legal
6 1 (3.13%) Games
6 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Senior
4 6 (18.75%) Wintel Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) IT Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Administrator
7 2 (6.25%) Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Operations Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) YAML
2 1 (3.13%) .NET
2 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Clustering
2 4 (12.50%) Client/Server
2 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.25%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (84.38%) Windows
2 23 (71.88%) Windows Server
3 10 (31.25%) Windows Server 2012
4 9 (28.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (18.75%) Linux
6 6 (18.75%) Windows 10
7 2 (6.25%) SUSE
7 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (3.13%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) ITIL
2 12 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 8 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 6 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (18.75%) Batch Scripting
4 6 (18.75%) Cost Optimisation
4 6 (18.75%) Customer Service
4 6 (18.75%) Patch Management
4 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (18.75%) Process Improvement
4 6 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (15.63%) ITSM
6 4 (12.50%) Document Management
6 4 (12.50%) IT Strategy
6 4 (12.50%) Migration
7 3 (9.38%) High Availability
8 2 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (6.25%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) PowerShell
2 7 (21.88%) SQL
3 5 (15.63%) Python
4 4 (12.50%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (18.75%) Azure Certification
2 6 (18.75%) MCSE
3 4 (12.50%) Degree
4 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
5 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) SLA
2 4 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 20 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 17 (53.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (37.50%) Hyper-V
4 4 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (6.25%) VMware NSX
5 2 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (78.13%) SCCM
2 14 (43.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (18.75%) NetBackup
4 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (12.50%) SCOrch
6 3 (9.38%) vCenter Server
7 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (6.25%) VxRail
8 1 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 30 (93.75%) Microsoft
2 20 (62.50%) VMware
3 13 (40.63%) SolarWinds
4 8 (25.00%) Cisco
4 8 (25.00%) ServiceNow
4 8 (25.00%) Veeam
5 7 (21.88%) Citrix
6 4 (12.50%) Aruba
6 4 (12.50%) CheckPoint
6 4 (12.50%) iManage
6 4 (12.50%) NetMotion Wireless
7 2 (6.25%) Ab Initio
7 2 (6.25%) arcserve
7 2 (6.25%) Avaya
7 2 (6.25%) Dell
7 2 (6.25%) EMC
7 2 (6.25%) Linksys
8 1 (3.13%) F5
8 1 (3.13%) Okta