SCOM Contracts in the South East

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 158 205 245
Rank change year-on-year +47 +40 -45
Contract jobs citing SCOM 43 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.78% 0.11% 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.99% 0.77% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 3 12
10th Percentile - - £261
25th Percentile £603 £525 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £608 £581 -
90th Percentile £611 £585 £634
England median daily rate £550 £496 £466
% change year-on-year +11.00% +6.39% +11.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.30 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -65.69% - -

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 718 780 1,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.02% 13.71% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 572 755
10th Percentile £213 £300 £250
25th Percentile £375 £425 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +6.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £614
90th Percentile £650 £698 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.97
25th Percentile £17.91 £52.50 £20.63
Median hourly rate £43.00 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.81% +173.26% -10.42%
75th Percentile £48.75 £73.71 £48.00
90th Percentile £55.25 £75.75 £68.00
England median hourly rate £25.71 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -55.29% +167.44% -10.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for SCOM in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the South East 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
Thames Valley +46 39 £605 - 2
Berkshire +27 36 £605 - 2
Hampshire +1 4 £519 -9.83% 3
Buckinghamshire - 3 £625 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (41.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 31 (72.09%) Azure
2 16 (37.21%) Azure Monitor
2 16 (37.21%) Azure Storage
2 16 (37.21%) Entra ID
2 16 (37.21%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (32.56%) OCI
4 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (69.77%) DHCP
1 30 (69.77%) DNS
1 30 (69.77%) Firewall
2 14 (32.56%) SAN
3 2 (4.65%) LAN
3 2 (4.65%) Skype
3 2 (4.65%) WAN
General
1 30 (69.77%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (37.21%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (32.56%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (32.56%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (32.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (32.56%) Support Specialist
3 10 (23.26%) Storage Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Administrator
4 6 (13.95%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (9.30%) Server Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.98%) VMware Architect
6 3 (6.98%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (37.21%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 16 (37.21%) PKI
1 16 (37.21%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (32.56%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 38 (88.37%) Windows
2 36 (83.72%) Windows Server
3 34 (79.07%) Linux
4 33 (76.74%) Windows Server 2016
4 33 (76.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (32.56%) Windows 10
5 14 (32.56%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (32.56%) Windows XP
6 2 (4.65%) Solaris
6 2 (4.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (74.42%) ITIL
2 20 (46.51%) Agile
3 19 (44.19%) Release Management
4 17 (39.53%) Converged Infrastructure
4 17 (39.53%) DevOps
5 16 (37.21%) Analytics
5 16 (37.21%) CI/CD
5 16 (37.21%) Identity Management
5 16 (37.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (37.21%) Log Analytics
5 16 (37.21%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 16 (37.21%) Privileged Identity Management
5 16 (37.21%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (37.21%) RBAC
5 16 (37.21%) Service Management
6 15 (34.88%) Server Management
7 14 (32.56%) Break/Fix
7 14 (32.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (32.56%) Proactive Monitoring
7 14 (32.56%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (76.74%) PowerShell
2 16 (37.21%) Bicep
2 16 (37.21%) C#
2 16 (37.21%) VB
2 16 (37.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (97.67%) Security Cleared
2 33 (76.74%) DV Cleared
2 33 (76.74%) SC Cleared
3 32 (74.42%) Degree
4 16 (37.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 14 (32.56%) CCNA
5 14 (32.56%) CCNP
5 14 (32.56%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 35 (81.40%) Active Directory
2 18 (41.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (37.21%) Hyper-V
3 16 (37.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (37.21%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (37.21%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (81.40%) SCCM
2 31 (72.09%) WSUS
3 18 (41.86%) Kubernetes
4 17 (39.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (37.21%) EMC NetWorker
5 16 (37.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (32.56%) NetBackup
6 14 (32.56%) vCenter Server
7 2 (4.65%) Ansible
7 2 (4.65%) Rancher
7 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (4.65%) Tivoli Identity Manager
8 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (81.40%) Microsoft
2 23 (53.49%) VMware
3 17 (39.53%) Cisco
4 16 (37.21%) Dell
4 16 (37.21%) EMC
4 16 (37.21%) HP
5 14 (32.56%) 3PAR
5 14 (32.56%) Extreme Networks
5 14 (32.56%) Juniper
5 14 (32.56%) Oracle
5 14 (32.56%) Palo Alto
5 14 (32.56%) Symantec
5 14 (32.56%) Veeam
6 2 (4.65%) Citrix
6 2 (4.65%) IBM
6 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow