SCOM Contracts in England

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SCOM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SCOM over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 439 537 664
Rank change year-on-year +98 +127 -141
Contract jobs citing SCOM 116 108 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.22% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.66% 1.42% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 68 80
10th Percentile £425 £363 £250
25th Percentile £493 £409 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £496 £466
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% +6.39% +11.22%
75th Percentile £608 £602 £539
90th Percentile £628 £675 £604
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 2
10th Percentile £22.05 - -
25th Percentile £22.08 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £22.30 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.69% - -
75th Percentile £23.80 £65.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £40.28 - -
UK median hourly rate £22.30 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -65.69% -0.76% -

All Systems Management Skills
England

SCOM is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,354 7,622 11,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.82% 15.52% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,158 5,559 8,248
10th Percentile £252 £350 £358
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.75%
75th Percentile £625 £680 £675
90th Percentile £700 £755 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 183 159
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.73 £13.77
25th Percentile £17.72 £24.13 £15.38
Median hourly rate £25.71 £57.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.29% +167.44% -10.42%
75th Percentile £48.75 £73.11 £42.98
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.50 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCOM in England.

Daily rate trend for SCOM in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOM in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCOM in England.

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SCOM in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SCOM in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the England region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +47 43 £605 +10.00% 6
South West +34 30 £500 -9.09% 1
London +101 28 £513 +9.03%
East of England -17 12 £500 +17.65% 3
Midlands +33 3 £525 +40.00% 6
East Midlands +20 2 £543 +44.67% 3
West Midlands - 1 £413 - 3
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 36 (31.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (29.31%) SharePoint
3 25 (21.55%) Confluence
4 24 (20.69%) SharePoint Server
5 16 (13.79%) IIS
6 2 (1.72%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.86%) Apache
7 1 (0.86%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.86%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 80 (68.97%) Azure
2 29 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (22.41%) Azure Stack
4 18 (15.52%) Entra ID
5 16 (13.79%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (13.79%) Azure Storage
6 14 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (12.07%) OCI
7 9 (7.76%) AWS
8 3 (2.59%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.72%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.72%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.86%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (51.72%) Firewall
2 45 (38.79%) DNS
3 42 (36.21%) DHCP
4 24 (20.69%) BGP
5 17 (14.66%) SAN
6 9 (7.76%) LAN
7 8 (6.90%) WAN
8 7 (6.03%) TCP/IP
9 6 (5.17%) Skype
10 4 (3.45%) Wireshark
11 3 (2.59%) Internet
11 3 (2.59%) SMTP
12 2 (1.72%) DKIM
12 2 (1.72%) DMARC
12 2 (1.72%) Extranet
12 2 (1.72%) NAS
12 2 (1.72%) Unified Communications
12 2 (1.72%) VPN
12 2 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (1.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (22.41%) JIRA
2 4 (3.45%) Fiddler
3 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.86%) GitLab
4 1 (0.86%) GoCD
4 1 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (52.59%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.76%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.03%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.59%) Military
6 2 (1.72%) Banking
6 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.86%) Advertising
7 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.86%) Electronics
7 1 (0.86%) Finance
7 1 (0.86%) Legal
7 1 (0.86%) Local Government
7 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (14.66%) Microsoft Engineer
3 16 (13.79%) Active Directory Support
4 14 (12.07%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (12.07%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (12.07%) Support Specialist
5 11 (9.48%) Support Engineer
6 10 (8.62%) Administrator
6 10 (8.62%) Storage Engineer
7 9 (7.76%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (7.76%) Web Engineer
7 9 (7.76%) Wintel Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) IT Support
9 7 (6.03%) Senior
10 6 (5.17%) Server Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Systems Administrator
11 5 (4.31%) Applications Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Applications Support
11 5 (4.31%) Applications Support Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Senior Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.79%) ARM Templates
2 14 (12.07%) .NET
3 4 (3.45%) .NET Framework
3 4 (3.45%) SAML
4 2 (1.72%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.86%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (25.00%) PKI
2 27 (23.28%) Private Cloud
3 23 (19.83%) Data Centre
4 16 (13.79%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.72%) Clustering
5 2 (1.72%) CMDB
5 2 (1.72%) Fat Client
5 2 (1.72%) Thin Client
5 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 101 (87.07%) Windows
2 57 (49.14%) Windows Server
3 42 (36.21%) Linux
4 36 (31.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (29.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (15.52%) Windows 10
6 18 (15.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (12.07%) Unix
7 14 (12.07%) Windows XP
8 4 (3.45%) Solaris
9 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.86%) VMS
10 1 (0.86%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (60.34%) ITIL
2 47 (40.52%) Service Management
3 33 (28.45%) Capacity Management
4 31 (26.72%) DevOps
5 28 (24.14%) Agile
6 26 (22.41%) Security Monitoring
7 25 (21.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 25 (21.55%) ITSM
7 25 (21.55%) Network Management
8 24 (20.69%) Server Management
9 21 (18.10%) Disaster Recovery
9 21 (18.10%) Release Management
10 20 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (16.38%) Converged Infrastructure
11 19 (16.38%) Project Management
12 18 (15.52%) Analytics
13 17 (14.66%) Performance Monitoring
13 17 (14.66%) Proactive Monitoring
14 16 (13.79%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 16 (13.79%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (43.97%) PowerShell
2 17 (14.66%) VBScript
3 16 (13.79%) Bicep
3 16 (13.79%) C#
3 16 (13.79%) VB
4 14 (12.07%) SQL
5 2 (1.72%) Bash
6 1 (0.86%) C
Qualifications
1 76 (65.52%) Security Cleared
2 58 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 43 (37.07%) Degree
3 43 (37.07%) SC Cleared
4 16 (13.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 15 (12.93%) CCNA
5 15 (12.93%) CCNP
5 15 (12.93%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.86%) MCSE
7 1 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.69%) Government Security Classifications
2 5 (4.31%) SLA
System Software
1 64 (55.17%) Active Directory
2 35 (30.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (22.41%) Hyper-V
4 19 (16.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (15.52%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (14.66%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (6.90%) vSphere
8 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.72%) BitLocker
9 2 (1.72%) Docker
9 2 (1.72%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.86%) Firmware
10 1 (0.86%) NFS
10 1 (0.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 61 (52.59%) SCCM
2 32 (27.59%) WSUS
3 22 (18.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (17.24%) Kubernetes
5 19 (16.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (14.66%) NetBackup
7 16 (13.79%) EMC NetWorker
8 15 (12.93%) vCenter Server
9 8 (6.90%) SCVMM
10 5 (4.31%) Ansible
11 4 (3.45%) Rancher
11 4 (3.45%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (3.45%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 3 (2.59%) OPNET
13 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Clustering
13 2 (1.72%) Nagios
13 2 (1.72%) VxRail
14 1 (0.86%) Simpana
14 1 (0.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 83 (71.55%) Microsoft
2 48 (41.38%) VMware
3 28 (24.14%) Dell
4 25 (21.55%) Atlassian
5 22 (18.97%) Cisco
5 22 (18.97%) HP
6 19 (16.38%) EMC
7 16 (13.79%) Juniper
8 15 (12.93%) Veeam
9 14 (12.07%) 3PAR
9 14 (12.07%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (12.07%) Oracle
9 14 (12.07%) Palo Alto
9 14 (12.07%) Symantec
10 10 (8.62%) F5
11 6 (5.17%) SolarWinds
12 5 (4.31%) Remedy
13 4 (3.45%) IBM
13 4 (3.45%) Red Hat
13 4 (3.45%) ServiceNow