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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 502 575
Rank change year-on-year +50 +73 +208
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 13 88 79
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.068% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.53% 2.26% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8 40 54
10th Percentile £33,199 £33,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £44,529 £49,375 £48,460
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,306 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.99% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £53,105 £59,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 - £69,953
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +12.90% +3.33%

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 2,472 3,889 6,513
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.00% 11.49% 16.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 2,934 4,626
10th Percentile £37,250 £37,101 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £52,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,626 £65,000 £69,474
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% -6.44% -0.75%
75th Percentile £88,750 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -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

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 20 May 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 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
2 2 (15.38%) Skype for Business
3 1 (7.69%) IIS
3 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) SaaS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
3 2 (15.38%) PaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 2 (15.38%) PowerApps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) DHCP
1 8 (61.54%) DNS
2 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
3 2 (15.38%) Firewall
3 2 (15.38%) SAN
3 2 (15.38%) Skype
3 2 (15.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 10 (76.92%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Law
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Web Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Client/Server
1 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
1 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Windows
2 10 (76.92%) Linux
3 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
4 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (15.38%) SUSE
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) ITIL
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (30.77%) IT Strategy
3 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
4 3 (23.08%) High Availability
4 3 (23.08%) Load Balancing
4 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
5 2 (15.38%) Patch Management
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) SIEM
5 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) PowerShell
2 8 (61.54%) Python
3 6 (46.15%) Bash
4 4 (30.77%) SQL
5 2 (15.38%) Perl
6 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) GDPR
2 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) Hyper-V
2 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) SCCM
2 6 (46.15%) SCOrch
3 4 (30.77%) Ansible
4 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
4 2 (15.38%) Puppet
4 2 (15.38%) SCSM
4 2 (15.38%) WSUS
5 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) Ab Initio
3 2 (15.38%) arcserve
3 2 (15.38%) ArcSight
3 2 (15.38%) Aruba
3 2 (15.38%) Avaya
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco
3 2 (15.38%) Citrix
3 2 (15.38%) Linksys
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 2 (15.38%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) F5
4 1 (7.69%) Okta