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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 437 450
Rank change year-on-year +42 +13 +310
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 19 41 63
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.12% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.05% 1.64% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 15 13 60
10th Percentile £37,900 £42,000 £42,439
25th Percentile £43,250 £45,000 £52,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £54,000 £62,250
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -13.25% +16.88%
75th Percentile £67,500 £56,525 £74,250
90th Percentile £76,500 £57,991 -
UK median annual salary £50,500 £52,500 £43,190
% change year-on-year -3.81% +21.56% -17.97%

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 1,801 2,501 3,736
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.92% 11.75% 16.00%
Number of salaries quoted 963 1,440 3,247
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £42,178
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,775 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -3.70%

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

SCOM
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
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SCOM over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

SCOM salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
1 2 (10.53%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
3 7 (36.84%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (31.58%) Entra ID
4 6 (31.58%) IaaS
4 6 (31.58%) PaaS
5 5 (26.32%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (10.53%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (84.21%) DNS
2 11 (57.89%) DHCP
3 7 (36.84%) Firewall
4 5 (26.32%) VPN
5 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
6 3 (15.79%) SAN
7 2 (10.53%) Network Security
7 2 (10.53%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (47.37%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Law
4 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 4 (21.05%) Support Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Lead
6 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Service Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Support Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (26.32%) Onboarding
3 4 (21.05%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.26%) Clustering
5 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (63.16%) Windows
1 12 (63.16%) Windows Server
2 9 (47.37%) Linux
2 9 (47.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (47.37%) Collaborative Culture
3 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (36.84%) Containerisation
4 7 (36.84%) ITIL
4 7 (36.84%) Mentoring
5 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (31.58%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (26.32%) Analytics
6 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (26.32%) Log Analytics
7 4 (21.05%) AI
7 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (21.05%) High Availability
7 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
7 4 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (21.05%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 3 (15.79%) Migration
8 3 (15.79%) Scrum
8 3 (15.79%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) PowerShell
2 9 (47.37%) Python
3 6 (31.58%) Bicep
4 3 (15.79%) SQL
5 2 (10.53%) Bash
5 2 (10.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) AWS Certification
3 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
4 5 (26.32%) Azure Certification
4 5 (26.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
6 3 (15.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (15.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) SLA
2 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (78.95%) Active Directory
1 15 (78.95%) Hyper-V
2 8 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (26.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Ansible
1 9 (47.37%) SCCM
2 8 (42.11%) Terraform
3 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 7 (36.84%) WSUS
4 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
5 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
5 2 (10.53%) Puppet
5 2 (10.53%) SCOrch
5 2 (10.53%) SCSM
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Microsoft
2 9 (47.37%) Red Hat
3 8 (42.11%) VMware
4 7 (36.84%) Oracle
5 2 (10.53%) ArcSight
5 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
5 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
5 2 (10.53%) Splunk
6 1 (5.26%) Dell
6 1 (5.26%) HP