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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 499 552
Rank change year-on-year +50 +53 +256
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 15 86 65
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.074% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.64% 2.31% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 10 36 52
10th Percentile £48,306 £33,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,855 £49,688 £47,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £53,250 £55,150
Median % change year-on-year +22.07% -3.45% +5.05%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,000 £70,000
90th Percentile - - £74,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -

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 2,341 3,724 5,423
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.59% 10.80% 15.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,186 2,689 4,178
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,500 £42,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £52,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,250 £84,919 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -0.84%

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

SCOM
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 1 July 2025.

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 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (13.33%) Skype for Business
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
2 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) DHCP
1 11 (73.33%) DNS
2 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (13.33%) Firewall
3 2 (13.33%) SAN
3 2 (13.33%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Law
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
5 1 (6.67%) Web Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (80.00%) Linux
2 12 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
3 5 (33.33%) ITIL
4 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 3 (20.00%) High Availability
5 3 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (20.00%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
6 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (13.33%) SIEM
6 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) PowerShell
2 12 (80.00%) Python
3 5 (33.33%) Bash
4 2 (13.33%) Perl
4 2 (13.33%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) AWS Certification
2 5 (33.33%) Degree
3 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (60.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (86.67%) SCCM
2 9 (60.00%) Ansible
3 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 7 (46.67%) WSUS
4 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 5 (33.33%) SCOrch
5 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
5 2 (13.33%) Puppet
5 2 (13.33%) SCSM
6 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 7 (46.67%) Oracle
4 2 (13.33%) ArcSight
4 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (13.33%) Splunk
4 2 (13.33%) VMware
5 1 (6.67%) F5
5 1 (6.67%) Okta