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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 420 421
Rank change year-on-year +65 +1 +209
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 8 19 66
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.053% 0.12% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.59% 0.83% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8 8 49
10th Percentile £35,500 £33,199 £42,201
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,050 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £46,653 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -5.69% -17.46% -1.70%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,891 £59,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £74,250
UK median annual salary £50,250 £53,930 £42,920
% change year-on-year -6.82% +25.65% -18.48%

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 1,364 2,298 3,226
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.03% 13.95% 15.22%
Number of salaries quoted 981 1,368 2,765
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,278
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,517 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.82% +6.63% -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 9 January 2026.

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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Azure Monitor
3 6 (75.00%) Entra ID
3 6 (75.00%) IaaS
3 6 (75.00%) PaaS
4 5 (62.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (25.00%) AWS
5 2 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
1 5 (62.50%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Service Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (62.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (12.50%) Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (62.50%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) Collaborative Culture
2 5 (62.50%) ITIL
2 5 (62.50%) Log Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
5 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) High Availability
5 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (25.00%) Observability
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Bicep
2 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Certification
2 5 (62.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (75.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (62.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) HP