SCOM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 303 359 446
Rank change year-on-year +56 +87 -75
Contract jobs citing SCOM 95 88 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.38% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.00% 2.60% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 55 39
10th Percentile £460 £381 £250
25th Percentile £493 £413 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £455 £450
Median % change year-on-year +29.67% +1.11% +6.82%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £520
90th Percentile £608 £638 £608
UK median daily rate £550 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +12.82% +2.63% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,375 3,386 4,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.39% 14.78% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,436 2,983
10th Percentile £213 £281 £250
25th Percentile £378 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 121 119
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.23 £12.54
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -12.74%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £26.88
90th Percentile £74.44 £78.00 £50.77
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCOM in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SCOM in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCOM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the UK excluding London 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
South West +24 23 £500 -9.09% 5
East of England -9 12 £550 +29.41% 4
Midlands +33 9 £449 +19.73% 13
East Midlands +17 8 £450 +19.87% 4
North West +17 4 - - 5
North of England +7 4 - - 5
Scotland +37 1 £475 +5.56% 2
West Midlands - 1 £213 - 9
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 25 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
1 25 (26.32%) SharePoint
2 18 (18.95%) Confluence
2 18 (18.95%) SharePoint Server
3 8 (8.42%) IIS
4 2 (2.11%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 65 (68.42%) Azure
2 25 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (23.16%) Entra ID
4 20 (21.05%) Azure Monitor
4 20 (21.05%) Azure Stack
4 20 (21.05%) Azure Storage
5 14 (14.74%) OCI
6 9 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.05%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (58.95%) Firewall
2 38 (40.00%) DHCP
2 38 (40.00%) DNS
3 18 (18.95%) BGP
4 15 (15.79%) SAN
5 8 (8.42%) WAN
6 6 (6.32%) LAN
6 6 (6.32%) TCP/IP
7 4 (4.21%) Wireshark
8 2 (2.11%) Skype
8 2 (2.11%) SMTP
9 1 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (1.05%) DSL
9 1 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.05%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 18 (18.95%) JIRA
2 5 (5.26%) GitLab
3 4 (4.21%) Fiddler
General
1 59 (62.11%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.74%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.11%) Military
5 1 (1.05%) Advertising
5 1 (1.05%) Back Office
5 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.05%) Legal
5 1 (1.05%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 20 (21.05%) Active Directory Support
1 20 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (14.74%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (14.74%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (14.74%) Microsoft Engineer
2 14 (14.74%) Support Specialist
3 11 (11.58%) Support Engineer
4 10 (10.53%) Storage Engineer
5 9 (9.47%) Administrator
5 9 (9.47%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Active Directory Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
7 5 (5.26%) Unix Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Unix Linux Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Applications Support Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Server Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) SharePoint Administrator
8 4 (4.21%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.05%) ARM Templates
2 9 (9.47%) .NET
3 4 (4.21%) .NET Framework
3 4 (4.21%) SAML
4 2 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.16%) PKI
2 20 (21.05%) Private Cloud
2 20 (21.05%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (18.95%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.16%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 78 (82.11%) Windows
2 51 (53.68%) Windows Server
3 46 (48.42%) Linux
4 39 (41.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (17.89%) Windows 10
7 16 (16.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (14.74%) Windows XP
9 5 (5.26%) Solaris
9 5 (5.26%) Unix
10 3 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (67.37%) ITIL
2 42 (44.21%) Service Management
3 29 (30.53%) DevOps
4 26 (27.37%) Agile
5 25 (26.32%) Release Management
6 24 (25.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (21.05%) Analytics
7 20 (21.05%) CI/CD
7 20 (21.05%) Identity Management
7 20 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (21.05%) Log Analytics
7 20 (21.05%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 20 (21.05%) Privileged Identity Management
7 20 (21.05%) RBAC
7 20 (21.05%) Security Monitoring
8 19 (20.00%) Capacity Management
8 19 (20.00%) Network Management
8 19 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (17.89%) Converged Infrastructure
9 17 (17.89%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 47 (49.47%) PowerShell
2 20 (21.05%) Bicep
2 20 (21.05%) C#
2 20 (21.05%) VB
2 20 (21.05%) VBScript
3 4 (4.21%) SQL
4 1 (1.05%) Python
4 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (75.79%) Security Cleared
2 56 (58.95%) DV Cleared
3 43 (45.26%) SC Cleared
4 40 (42.11%) Degree
5 20 (21.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (15.79%) CCNA
6 15 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (14.74%) CCNP
8 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.95%) Government Security Classifications
2 3 (3.16%) SLA
3 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 51 (53.68%) Active Directory
2 30 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (25.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 20 (21.05%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (20.00%) Hyper-V
5 19 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (51.58%) SCCM
2 35 (36.84%) WSUS
3 25 (26.32%) Kubernetes
4 24 (25.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (22.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (16.84%) vCenter Server
7 14 (14.74%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (14.74%) NetBackup
8 8 (8.42%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (7.37%) Ansible
10 5 (5.26%) Rancher
10 5 (5.26%) SCSM
10 5 (5.26%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 4 (4.21%) Dell DRAC
11 4 (4.21%) Nagios
11 4 (4.21%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (2.11%) OPNET
13 1 (1.05%) Puppet
13 1 (1.05%) WhatsUp Gold
13 1 (1.05%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 74 (77.89%) Microsoft
2 36 (37.89%) VMware
3 23 (24.21%) Dell
4 19 (20.00%) HP
5 18 (18.95%) Atlassian
5 18 (18.95%) Cisco
6 14 (14.74%) 3PAR
6 14 (14.74%) EMC
6 14 (14.74%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (14.74%) Juniper
6 14 (14.74%) Oracle
6 14 (14.74%) Palo Alto
6 14 (14.74%) Symantec
6 14 (14.74%) Veeam
7 8 (8.42%) Red Hat
8 5 (5.26%) F5
8 5 (5.26%) IBM
9 4 (4.21%) SolarWinds
10 3 (3.16%) Citrix
11 2 (2.11%) Remedy