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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 433 419
Rank change year-on-year +69 -14 +281
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 13 26 57
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.085% 0.14% 0.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.97% 1.05% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 13 12 47
10th Percentile £36,700 £33,379 £42,439
25th Percentile £41,500 £42,500 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £53,250 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +22.07% -5.79% +4.63%
75th Percentile £67,500 £56,858 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,500 £68,786 £74,250
UK median annual salary £50,500 £53,250 £42,920
% change year-on-year -5.16% +24.07% -18.50%

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 1,334 2,470 3,345
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.72% 13.13% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 985 1,467 2,879
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,245
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -2.80%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,750 £102,500 £98,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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

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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 10 December 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) Azure Monitor
3 6 (46.15%) Entra ID
3 6 (46.15%) IaaS
3 6 (46.15%) PaaS
4 5 (38.46%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (15.38%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) DNS
2 5 (38.46%) DHCP
2 5 (38.46%) Firewall
2 5 (38.46%) VPN
3 2 (15.38%) Network Security
4 1 (7.69%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Support Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior
5 2 (15.38%) Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Lead
6 1 (7.69%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Service Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (38.46%) Onboarding
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (7.69%) Clustering
4 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
1 6 (46.15%) Windows Server
2 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) Mentoring
3 5 (38.46%) Analytics
3 5 (38.46%) Collaborative Culture
3 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) ITIL
3 5 (38.46%) Log Analytics
3 5 (38.46%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Client Onboarding
5 2 (15.38%) Coaching
5 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
5 2 (15.38%) High Availability
5 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (15.38%) People Management
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) PowerShell
2 6 (46.15%) Bicep
3 5 (38.46%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) AWS Certification
2 5 (38.46%) Azure Certification
2 5 (38.46%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) Active Directory
1 11 (84.62%) Hyper-V
2 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (38.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) Ansible
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 5 (38.46%) SCCM
2 5 (38.46%) WSUS
3 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) VMware
3 5 (38.46%) Oracle
3 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
4 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
5 1 (7.69%) Dell
5 1 (7.69%) HP