SCOM Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 497 587
Rank change year-on-year +64 +90 +167
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 14 89 80
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.080% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.63% 2.28% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 9 41 56
10th Percentile £33,199 £33,250 £40,000
25th Percentile - £50,000 £50,320
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,306 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.99% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,000 - £69,952
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +5.56%

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 2,239 3,901 6,568
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.85% 11.54% 15.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,315 2,951 4,666
10th Percentile £39,000 £37,101 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -6.40% -0.79%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -3.57%

SCOM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SCOM trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing SCOM over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

SCOM salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (14.29%) Skype for Business
3 1 (7.14%) IIS
3 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) SaaS
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 2 (14.29%) OneDrive
4 2 (14.29%) PaaS
4 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) DHCP
1 8 (57.14%) DNS
2 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 3 (21.43%) Firewall
4 2 (14.29%) SAN
4 2 (14.29%) Skype
4 2 (14.29%) VoIP
5 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 10 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Law
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) Senior
1 6 (42.86%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Network Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Web Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Client/Server
1 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Windows
2 10 (71.43%) Linux
3 7 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (14.29%) SUSE
5 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) ITIL
2 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (28.57%) IT Strategy
4 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (21.43%) High Availability
5 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Change Management
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) ITSM
6 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
6 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (14.29%) Service Management
6 2 (14.29%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 9 (64.29%) Python
3 6 (42.86%) Bash
4 4 (28.57%) SQL
5 2 (14.29%) Perl
6 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
2 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (35.71%) Hyper-V
2 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) SCCM
2 6 (42.86%) SCOrch
3 4 (28.57%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 2 (14.29%) Puppet
4 2 (14.29%) SCSM
4 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) VMware
3 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 3 (21.43%) Citrix
5 2 (14.29%) Ab Initio
5 2 (14.29%) arcserve
5 2 (14.29%) ArcSight
5 2 (14.29%) Aruba
5 2 (14.29%) Avaya
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco
5 2 (14.29%) Linksys
5 2 (14.29%) Oracle
5 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 2 (14.29%) Splunk
6 1 (7.14%) F5
6 1 (7.14%) Okta