Hybrid/Remote SCOM Job Trends

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring SCOM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 414 439
Rank change year-on-year -33 +25 +50
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 2 14 70
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.009% 0.085% 0.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.10% 0.71% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 23
10th Percentile - £61,081 £33,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £62,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +20.37% -4.47%
75th Percentile £52,500 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile - £82,500 -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% - +12.90%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

SCOM falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,915 1,961 2,759
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.47% 11.89% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,413 1,117 1,961
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,467 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,500 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -0.77% +1.56% -4.48%

SCOM
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SCOM and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SCOM job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SCOM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SCOM

SCOM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Server Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Server Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat