SCOM Jobs with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 457 519 820
Rank change year-on-year +62 +301 -260
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 76 60 92
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.45% 1.23% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 28 53 87
10th Percentile £33,250 £40,000 £37,775
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,475 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,150 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% +5.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £59,000 £74,250 £61,000
90th Percentile - - £68,113
UK median annual salary £52,500 £45,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year +14.75% -3.68% -6.62%

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 3,102 4,883 15,860
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.10% 14.88% 20.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,163 3,893 8,081
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% - +3.85%

SCOM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SCOM trend for jobs with a WFH option

SCOM
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SCOM.

SCOM salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SCOM
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SCOM over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

SCOM salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SCOM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 24 (31.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (10.53%) IIS
3 6 (7.89%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.95%) CMS
5 1 (1.32%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.32%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (14.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 40 (52.63%) Azure
2 33 (43.42%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (23.68%) Entra ID
4 17 (22.37%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (21.05%) Azure Storage
6 9 (11.84%) AWS
6 9 (11.84%) IaaS
7 5 (6.58%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (6.58%) GCP
7 5 (6.58%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (51.32%) DHCP
1 39 (51.32%) DNS
2 25 (32.89%) Firewall
3 12 (15.79%) TCP/IP
4 8 (10.53%) SAN
5 7 (9.21%) Fibre Channel
5 7 (9.21%) Wireless
6 6 (7.89%) VPN
7 5 (6.58%) BIG-IP
7 5 (6.58%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (6.58%) Network Security
8 1 (1.32%) Skype
8 1 (1.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (6.58%) NoSQL
1 5 (6.58%) Redis
2 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.32%) GitLab
General
1 30 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.16%) Legal
3 9 (11.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (11.84%) Influencing Skills
3 9 (11.84%) Pharmaceutical
4 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.53%) Finance
5 6 (7.89%) Aerospace
6 4 (5.26%) Automotive
7 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.32%) Back Office
8 1 (1.32%) Law
8 1 (1.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (21.05%) Active Directory Specialist
1 16 (21.05%) Active Directory Support
1 16 (21.05%) Azure Specialist
1 16 (21.05%) Support Specialist
2 11 (14.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (11.84%) Project Manager
4 7 (9.21%) 3rd Line Support
4 7 (9.21%) 3rd Line Support Technician
4 7 (9.21%) IT Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Support Technician
4 7 (9.21%) Systems Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (6.58%) IT Architect
6 5 (6.58%) IT Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (6.58%) IT Manager
6 5 (6.58%) IT Operations Manager
6 5 (6.58%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.05%) ARM Templates
2 5 (6.58%) Middleware
3 1 (1.32%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.68%) PKI
2 16 (21.05%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (11.84%) Clustering
4 8 (10.53%) Replication
5 6 (7.89%) Data Centre
5 6 (7.89%) IoT
5 6 (7.89%) Public Cloud
6 5 (6.58%) Management Information System
7 4 (5.26%) CMDB
8 3 (3.95%) Algorithms
8 3 (3.95%) Digital Signage
9 1 (1.32%) Blackberry
9 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 58 (76.32%) Windows
2 43 (56.58%) Windows Server
3 35 (46.05%) Linux
4 25 (32.89%) Windows Server 2016
4 25 (32.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (11.84%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (9.21%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (7.89%) Windows 10
8 4 (5.26%) Windows 2000
8 4 (5.26%) Windows NT
8 4 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (5.26%) Windows XP
9 1 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (46.05%) ITIL
2 27 (35.53%) Service Management
3 22 (28.95%) DevOps
4 21 (27.63%) Agile
5 18 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (22.37%) Identity Management
6 17 (22.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (22.37%) Release Management
7 16 (21.05%) Analytics
7 16 (21.05%) CI/CD
7 16 (21.05%) Log Analytics
7 16 (21.05%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 16 (21.05%) Privileged Identity Management
7 16 (21.05%) RBAC
8 15 (19.74%) Mentoring
9 11 (14.47%) Containerisation
9 11 (14.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (13.16%) Risk Management
11 9 (11.84%) Biotechnology
11 9 (11.84%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 35 (46.05%) PowerShell
2 17 (22.37%) Bicep
3 16 (21.05%) C#
3 16 (21.05%) VB
3 16 (21.05%) VBScript
4 13 (17.11%) SQL
5 6 (7.89%) Python
6 3 (3.95%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 35 (46.05%) Degree
1 35 (46.05%) Security Cleared
2 25 (32.89%) DV Cleared
3 21 (27.63%) SC Cleared
4 16 (21.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 7 (9.21%) Azure Certification
5 7 (9.21%) DBS Check
5 7 (9.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (6.58%) CISSP
6 5 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (6.58%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.32%) MCSA
7 1 (1.32%) MCSE
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Architect
7 1 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (1.32%) NIST
1 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (69.74%) Active Directory
2 24 (31.58%) Hyper-V
3 19 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (21.05%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (21.05%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (9.21%) Terminal Services
6 6 (7.89%) Forefront TMG
6 6 (7.89%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (2.63%) vSphere
9 1 (1.32%) DFS Replication
9 1 (1.32%) Docker
9 1 (1.32%) Firmware
9 1 (1.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (52.63%) SCCM
2 32 (42.11%) WSUS
3 24 (31.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 21 (27.63%) Kubernetes
5 18 (23.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (9.21%) Ansible
6 7 (9.21%) Microsoft Clustering
6 7 (9.21%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 5 (6.58%) Grafana
7 5 (6.58%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.95%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 1 (1.32%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.32%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (1.32%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.32%) OfficeScan
9 1 (1.32%) SCVMM
9 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.32%) Terraform
9 1 (1.32%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 1 (1.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (71.05%) Microsoft
2 19 (25.00%) VMware
3 12 (15.79%) Oracle
3 12 (15.79%) SolarWinds
4 9 (11.84%) ServiceNow
5 8 (10.53%) Dynatrace
5 8 (10.53%) HP
6 6 (7.89%) Red Hat
7 5 (6.58%) AppDynamics
7 5 (6.58%) Cisco
7 5 (6.58%) Dell
7 5 (6.58%) Google
8 4 (5.26%) McAfee
9 3 (3.95%) IBM
9 3 (3.95%) Riverbed
10 1 (1.32%) Altiris
10 1 (1.32%) Commvault
10 1 (1.32%) Huawei
10 1 (1.32%) Sophos
10 1 (1.32%) Veritas