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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 663 714 746
Rank change year-on-year +51 +32 +313
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 39 194 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.69% 1.96% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 27 119 159
10th Percentile £32,611 £31,250 £30,725
25th Percentile £47,528 £35,195 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +12.90% +3.33%
75th Percentile £64,375 £59,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,306 £52,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -7.99% +31.25% -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 5,670 9,873 13,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.15% 9.52% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,113 7,021 8,779
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,200
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £47,595
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,206 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.28% -9.32% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,750 £83,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% +0.89%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +21 37 £50,000 -4.76% 38
UK excluding London +34 21 £48,306 -7.99% 30
London +99 16 £55,000 -15.38% 8
Work from Home +39 12 £48,306 -7.99% 19
Midlands +49 7 £59,500 +19.00% 3
North of England +13 7 £48,306 +38.51% 6
South East -8 5 £38,750 -26.19% 16
West Midlands +48 4 - - 1
North West +4 4 £48,306 -7.99% 1
East Midlands +35 3 £59,500 +19.00% 2
Yorkshire +32 3 £65,000 +101.55% 5
East of England +42 2 £34,377 -23.61% 5

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 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.13%) IIS
3 2 (5.13%) Skype for Business
4 1 (2.56%) Confluence
4 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 23 (58.97%) Azure
2 15 (38.46%) AWS
3 8 (20.51%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (10.26%) SaaS
5 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 3 (7.69%) GitHub
5 3 (7.69%) PaaS
6 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.56%) GCP
7 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (58.97%) DHCP
1 23 (58.97%) DNS
2 15 (38.46%) TCP/IP
3 11 (28.21%) LAN
3 11 (28.21%) WAN
4 4 (10.26%) Firewall
4 4 (10.26%) SAN
5 3 (7.69%) Network Security
6 2 (5.13%) NetScaler
6 2 (5.13%) Skype
6 2 (5.13%) VPN
7 1 (2.56%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (2.56%) Internet
7 1 (2.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Subversion
General
1 15 (38.46%) Finance
2 14 (35.90%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (35.90%) Banking
3 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Law
5 2 (5.13%) Advertising
6 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (28.21%) Senior
2 11 (28.21%) Wintel Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) IT Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (5.13%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior IT Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (5.13%) YAML
2 1 (2.56%) .NET
2 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Client/Server
1 3 (7.69%) Clustering
1 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.13%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (87.18%) Windows
2 28 (71.79%) Windows Server
3 17 (43.59%) Windows Server 2019
4 13 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (28.21%) Linux
5 11 (28.21%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (10.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (5.13%) Windows 10
7 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (2.56%) Android
8 1 (2.56%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) ITIL
2 15 (38.46%) Artificial Intelligence
3 14 (35.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (33.33%) Patch Management
4 13 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 11 (28.21%) Batch Scripting
5 11 (28.21%) Collaborative Working
5 11 (28.21%) Cost Optimisation
5 11 (28.21%) Incident Management
5 11 (28.21%) Process Improvement
6 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (17.95%) ITSM
8 6 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (15.38%) High Availability
9 5 (12.82%) Agile
9 5 (12.82%) Customer Service
9 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
10 4 (10.26%) Collaborative Culture
10 4 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (10.26%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 25 (64.10%) PowerShell
2 8 (20.51%) Python
3 7 (17.95%) SQL
4 6 (15.38%) Bash
5 2 (5.13%) Perl
6 1 (2.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (23.08%) Azure Certification
2 9 (23.08%) MCSE
2 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 7 (17.95%) DV Cleared
4 6 (15.38%) Degree
5 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.13%) ISTQB
7 1 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (33.33%) SLA
2 4 (10.26%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (74.36%) Active Directory
2 22 (56.41%) Hyper-V
3 21 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (12.82%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.13%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.56%) Terminal Server
6 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (89.74%) SCCM
2 18 (46.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (28.21%) NetBackup
4 6 (15.38%) SCOrch
5 5 (12.82%) Ansible
6 4 (10.26%) SCSM
6 4 (10.26%) vCenter Server
7 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
8 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 2 (5.13%) Progress Chef
8 2 (5.13%) Puppet
8 2 (5.13%) WSUS
9 1 (2.56%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (79.49%) Microsoft
2 25 (64.10%) VMware
3 13 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 13 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 13 (33.33%) Veeam
4 7 (17.95%) Cisco
5 4 (10.26%) Citrix
5 4 (10.26%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.69%) Aruba
7 2 (5.13%) ArcSight
7 2 (5.13%) Bloomberg
7 2 (5.13%) FactSet
7 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.13%) Mitel
7 2 (5.13%) NetApp
7 2 (5.13%) Oracle
7 2 (5.13%) Refinitiv
7 2 (5.13%) Splunk
8 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics
8 1 (2.56%) Okta