Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SCVMM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SCVMM over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 700 1026 1061
Rank change year-on-year +326 +35 -378
Permanent jobs citing SCVMM 27 64 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.051% 0.033%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.33% 0.32% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 27 60 38
10th Percentile £24,900 £32,375 £28,574
25th Percentile £27,600 £38,750 £29,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £52,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +22.35% -7.61%
75th Percentile £41,000 £60,000 £55,938
90th Percentile £57,500 - £56,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,000 £47,500 £31,200
% change year-on-year -24.21% +52.24% -29.49%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SCVMM is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 8,128 20,073 21,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 15.88% 16.68%
Number of salaries quoted 6,463 11,653 14,050
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,925 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £84,056 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,165 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.29% +3.64% +6.60%

SCVMM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SCVMM in the UK

SCVMM
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SCVMM in the UK

SCVMM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCVMM over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for SCVMM in the UK

SCVMM
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCVMM within the UK over the 6 months to 30 November 2023. 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 +281 26 £36,000 -30.77% 3
UK excluding London +228 25 £36,000 -24.21% 5
North of England +168 20 £33,500 -6.94% 2
Yorkshire +104 20 £33,500 -6.94% 2
Work from Home +249 4 £52,500 +10.53% 3
South East +162 4 £47,500 +46.15%
London +260 2 £55,000 +5.77%
Scotland - 1 £55,000 - 2

SCVMM
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:

Applications
1 20 (74.07%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (96.30%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (88.89%) Azure
3 10 (37.04%) AWS
4 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 13 (48.15%) SAN
2 8 (29.63%) Skype
3 3 (11.11%) DNS
4 2 (7.41%) DHCP
4 2 (7.41%) VPN
4 2 (7.41%) Wireless
5 1 (3.70%) iSCSI
5 1 (3.70%) LAN
5 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (74.07%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
General
1 23 (85.19%) Social Skills
2 19 (70.37%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Advertising
4 1 (3.70%) Law
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 11 (40.74%) Support Engineer
2 9 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 9 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 9 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) IT Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) IT Support
4 2 (7.41%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Clustering
1 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) Life Science
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) PKI
2 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (92.59%) Windows
2 22 (81.48%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (3.70%) Linux
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) ITIL
2 21 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (70.37%) High Availability
4 18 (66.67%) Change Management
5 17 (62.96%) Availability Management
6 12 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (37.04%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 3 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (7.41%) Customer Service
10 1 (3.70%) Collaborative Working
10 1 (3.70%) Data Centre Operations
10 1 (3.70%) Knowledge Transfer
10 1 (3.70%) Mentoring
10 1 (3.70%) Migration
10 1 (3.70%) Observability
10 1 (3.70%) Presales
10 1 (3.70%) Problem Management
10 1 (3.70%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (44.44%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 26 (96.30%) Hyper-V
3 15 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (33.33%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (7.41%) Firmware
5 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (77.78%) SCCM
2 20 (74.07%) SCOM
3 5 (18.52%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (7.41%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.70%) Ansible
5 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.70%) SCSM
5 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (96.30%) VMware
2 23 (85.19%) Microsoft
3 21 (77.78%) Veeam
4 20 (74.07%) Citrix
5 19 (70.37%) Commvault
6 8 (29.63%) Kaseya
7 2 (7.41%) ScienceLogic
8 1 (3.70%) Cisco
8 1 (3.70%) Dell
8 1 (3.70%) Dell Compellent
8 1 (3.70%) Juniper
8 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds