Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SCOrch skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SCOrch over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 686 891 976
Rank change year-on-year +205 +85 +210
Permanent jobs citing SCOrch 6 5 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.005% 0.013%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.12% 0.050% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 12
10th Percentile - - £38,250
25th Percentile - - £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,306 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% -13.04% +12.75%
75th Percentile - £77,500 £61,563
90th Percentile - - £80,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,306 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.39% -4.76% +10.53%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SCOrch 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 4,978 10,017 15,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.57% 10.17% 14.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,344 7,239 9,373
10th Percentile £37,075 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,150 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

SCOrch
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SCOrch in the UK

SCOrch
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SCOrch in the UK

SCOrch
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCOrch within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +212 6 £48,306 -3.39% 1
England +175 6 £48,306 -3.39% 2
Work from Home - 6 £48,306 - 2
North West - 4 £48,306 -
North of England - 4 £48,306 -
Midlands +81 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 - - 1

SCOrch
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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (33.33%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
1 2 (33.33%) Skype
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) IT Strategy
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Tech Ops
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
2 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) SCCM
1 6 (100.00%) SCOM
2 2 (33.33%) SCSM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware