SCOM Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring SCOM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCOM over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 - 188
Rank change year-on-year - - -29
Contract jobs citing SCOM 14 0 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.47% - 0.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.07% - 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 9
10th Percentile £254 - £433
25th Percentile £304 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 - £520
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.19%
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £543 - £750
England median daily rate £550 £450 £455
% change year-on-year +22.22% -1.04% +7.63%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

SCOM falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 344 420 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.67% 13.05% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 285 340
10th Percentile £205 £275 £206
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +6.38% +11.90%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £550
90th Percentile £645 £700 £632
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 18
10th Percentile £21.49 £17.88 £10.68
25th Percentile £25.38 £20.06 £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £21.97 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.30% +27.33% -
75th Percentile £40.57 £36.81 £21.69
90th Percentile £63.00 £58.28 £23.98
England median hourly rate £30.75 £52.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.90% +146.16% -12.07%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SCOM in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOM in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
East Midlands - 13 £450 - 4
West Midlands - 1 £213 - 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
3 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DHCP
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) WAN
3 2 (14.29%) LAN
4 1 (7.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) GitLab
General
1 8 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Local Government
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 3 (21.43%) IT Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Junior
4 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Exchange Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Messaging Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Grid Computing
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (85.71%) Windows Server
3 6 (42.86%) Linux
4 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (28.57%) Task Automation
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Release Management
5 1 (7.14%) Asset Management
5 1 (7.14%) Coaching
5 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.14%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (7.14%) Data Encryption
5 1 (7.14%) Incident Response
5 1 (7.14%) Project Management
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (57.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (35.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (14.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) SCCM
1 6 (42.86%) SCSM
2 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (14.29%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Microsoft
1 12 (85.71%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) SolarWinds
3 4 (28.57%) Citrix
3 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) Ivanti
4 1 (7.14%) NetApp