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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 542 677
Rank change year-on-year +123 +135 -160
Contract jobs citing SCOM 123 97 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.73% 1.32% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 60 81
10th Percentile £425 £361 £250
25th Percentile £493 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £445 £456
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -2.31% +8.13%
75th Percentile £608 £577 £530
90th Percentile - £650 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +12.82% +2.63% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £22.08 - -
25th Percentile £22.13 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £23.05 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.54% - -
75th Percentile £23.80 £65.38 £67.50
90th Percentile - £65.60 -
UK median hourly rate £23.05 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -64.54% -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 4,506 7,335 11,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.20% 15.36% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,308 5,306 8,188
10th Percentile £270 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +10.58%
75th Percentile £625 £683 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 159
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.52 £12.98
25th Percentile £20.00 £25.53 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £52.93 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.04% +146.16% -11.89%
75th Percentile £50.25 £73.94 £27.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £57.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -47.83% +165.71% -45.22%

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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 2 June 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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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 2 June 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 +50 46 £605 +10.00% 7
London +108 29 £515 +3.00% 3
South West +24 23 £500 -9.09% 5
East of England -9 12 £550 +29.41% 4
Midlands +33 9 £449 +19.73% 12
East Midlands +17 8 £450 +19.87% 4
North West +17 4 - - 5
North of England +7 4 - - 5
West Midlands - 1 £213 - 8
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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 40 (32.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (24.39%) SharePoint
3 18 (14.63%) Confluence
3 18 (14.63%) SharePoint Server
4 14 (11.38%) IIS
5 2 (1.63%) Apache
5 2 (1.63%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 76 (61.79%) Azure
2 38 (30.89%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (19.51%) Entra ID
4 20 (16.26%) Azure Monitor
4 20 (16.26%) Azure Stack
4 20 (16.26%) Azure Storage
5 14 (11.38%) OCI
6 12 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (7.32%) AWS
8 3 (2.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (2.44%) Mimecast
8 3 (2.44%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.44%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 59 (47.97%) Firewall
2 52 (42.28%) DNS
3 49 (39.84%) DHCP
4 18 (14.63%) BGP
4 18 (14.63%) SAN
5 10 (8.13%) LAN
6 9 (7.32%) WAN
7 8 (6.50%) TCP/IP
8 5 (4.07%) Wireshark
9 3 (2.44%) DKIM
9 3 (2.44%) DMARC
9 3 (2.44%) Extranet
9 3 (2.44%) Internet
9 3 (2.44%) NAS
9 3 (2.44%) Skype
9 3 (2.44%) SMTP
9 3 (2.44%) VPN
9 3 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.44%) Wireless
10 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 18 (14.63%) JIRA
2 5 (4.07%) Fiddler
2 5 (4.07%) GitLab
General
1 63 (51.22%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.38%) Public Sector
3 4 (3.25%) Banking
3 4 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (2.44%) Military
5 2 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.81%) Advertising
6 1 (0.81%) Back Office
6 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.81%) Legal
6 1 (0.81%) Local Government
6 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (21.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (16.26%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (11.38%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (11.38%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (11.38%) Microsoft Engineer
3 14 (11.38%) Support Engineer
3 14 (11.38%) Support Specialist
4 11 (8.94%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (8.13%) Storage Engineer
6 9 (7.32%) Administrator
7 8 (6.50%) IT Support
7 8 (6.50%) Wintel Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Active Directory Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Server Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Web Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) SharePoint Administrator
9 5 (4.07%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.26%) ARM Templates
2 12 (9.76%) .NET
3 5 (4.07%) .NET Framework
3 5 (4.07%) SAML
4 3 (2.44%) Software Packaging
5 2 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 35 (28.46%) PKI
2 27 (21.95%) Data Centre
3 20 (16.26%) Private Cloud
3 20 (16.26%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.25%) CMDB
5 3 (2.44%) Fat Client
5 3 (2.44%) Grid Computing
5 3 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.44%) Thin Client
5 3 (2.44%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.63%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 102 (82.93%) Windows
2 63 (51.22%) Windows Server
3 47 (38.21%) Linux
4 41 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (30.89%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (14.63%) Windows 10
6 18 (14.63%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (11.38%) Windows XP
8 13 (10.57%) Unix
9 5 (4.07%) Solaris
10 3 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (57.72%) ITIL
2 44 (35.77%) Service Management
3 32 (26.02%) DevOps
4 29 (23.58%) Agile
4 29 (23.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 27 (21.95%) Capacity Management
6 25 (20.33%) Release Management
7 24 (19.51%) Analytics
7 24 (19.51%) Server Management
8 22 (17.89%) ITSM
9 21 (17.07%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (16.26%) CI/CD
10 20 (16.26%) Converged Infrastructure
10 20 (16.26%) Identity Management
10 20 (16.26%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (16.26%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 20 (16.26%) Privileged Identity Management
10 20 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (16.26%) RBAC
10 20 (16.26%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 54 (43.90%) PowerShell
2 20 (16.26%) Bicep
2 20 (16.26%) C#
2 20 (16.26%) VB
2 20 (16.26%) VBScript
3 9 (7.32%) SQL
4 1 (0.81%) C
Qualifications
1 74 (60.16%) Security Cleared
2 56 (45.53%) DV Cleared
3 45 (36.59%) SC Cleared
4 43 (34.96%) Degree
5 20 (16.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (12.20%) CCNA
6 15 (12.20%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (11.38%) CCNP
8 9 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.63%) Government Security Classifications
2 7 (5.69%) SLA
3 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 67 (54.47%) Active Directory
2 40 (32.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (21.95%) Hyper-V
4 25 (20.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (16.26%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (15.45%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (8.13%) vSphere
8 3 (2.44%) BitLocker
8 3 (2.44%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (2.44%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.81%) Firmware
10 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 63 (51.22%) SCCM
2 35 (28.46%) WSUS
3 27 (21.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 25 (20.33%) Kubernetes
5 24 (19.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (13.82%) NetBackup
6 17 (13.82%) vCenter Server
7 14 (11.38%) EMC NetWorker
8 8 (6.50%) Nagios
8 8 (6.50%) Red Hat Satellite
8 8 (6.50%) SCVMM
9 7 (5.69%) Ansible
10 5 (4.07%) Rancher
10 5 (4.07%) SCSM
10 5 (4.07%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (4.07%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 4 (3.25%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (2.44%) OPNET
12 3 (2.44%) VxRail
13 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 91 (73.98%) Microsoft
2 55 (44.72%) VMware
3 35 (28.46%) Dell
4 24 (19.51%) HP
5 22 (17.89%) Cisco
6 18 (14.63%) Atlassian
7 17 (13.82%) EMC
7 17 (13.82%) Juniper
8 14 (11.38%) 3PAR
8 14 (11.38%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (11.38%) Oracle
8 14 (11.38%) Palo Alto
8 14 (11.38%) Symantec
8 14 (11.38%) Veeam
9 10 (8.13%) F5
10 8 (6.50%) Red Hat
10 8 (6.50%) SolarWinds
11 5 (4.07%) IBM
12 4 (3.25%) AppDynamics
12 4 (3.25%) ServiceNow