Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 450 561 706
Rank change year-on-year +111 +145 -155
Contract jobs citing SCOM 129 139 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.52% 1.44% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 92 107
10th Percentile £425 £370 £250
25th Percentile £475 £412 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £608 £602 £538
90th Percentile £617 £737 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £488
% change year-on-year +4.55% +12.82% +15.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 4
10th Percentile £22.05 - -
25th Percentile £22.08 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £23.05 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.54% -0.76% -
75th Percentile £26.29 £65.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £43.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,117 9,647 14,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.09% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,658 6,968 10,256
10th Percentile £256 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £565 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.58% -0.03% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 213 188
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.31 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £23.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.14
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +159.71% -34.88%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.50 £47.61
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £44.88 £20.00
% change year-on-year -14.21% +124.38% -9.09%

SCOM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SCOM in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOM over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in the UK

SCOM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SCOM over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SCOM in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England +115 119 £550 +7.32% 17
UK excluding London +65 91 £575 +4.55% 16
Work from Home +124 46 £500 - 8
South East +58 44 £605 +5.22% 11
South West +38 32 £500 -9.09%
London +108 28 £511 +13.56% 1
East of England -15 12 £500 - 3
Midlands +30 3 £525 +40.00% 1
East Midlands +23 2 £543 +44.67% 1
North of England +15 1 £250 -43.18% 1
North West +14 1 £250 -42.86%
West Midlands - 1 £413 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 38 (29.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (28.68%) SharePoint
3 25 (19.38%) Confluence
4 24 (18.60%) SharePoint Server
5 18 (13.95%) IIS
6 2 (1.55%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.78%) Apache
7 1 (0.78%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 82 (63.57%) Azure
2 28 (21.71%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (20.16%) Azure Stack
4 19 (14.73%) Azure Monitor
5 18 (13.95%) Entra ID
6 17 (13.18%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (12.40%) Azure Storage
8 13 (10.08%) OCI
9 10 (7.75%) AWS
10 3 (2.33%) GitHub
10 3 (2.33%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.55%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.55%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.55%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (45.74%) Firewall
2 45 (34.88%) DNS
3 42 (32.56%) DHCP
4 24 (18.60%) BGP
5 16 (12.40%) SAN
6 9 (6.98%) LAN
7 8 (6.20%) Skype
7 8 (6.20%) WAN
8 7 (5.43%) TCP/IP
9 4 (3.10%) Wireshark
10 3 (2.33%) Internet
10 3 (2.33%) SMTP
11 2 (1.55%) DKIM
11 2 (1.55%) DMARC
11 2 (1.55%) Extranet
11 2 (1.55%) NAS
11 2 (1.55%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.55%) Unified Communications
11 2 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.55%) Power BI
3 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (20.16%) JIRA
2 4 (3.10%) Fiddler
3 2 (1.55%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.78%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.78%) Git
4 1 (0.78%) GitLab
4 1 (0.78%) GoCD
4 1 (0.78%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 62 (48.06%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.33%) Finance
5 3 (2.33%) Military
6 2 (1.55%) Automotive
6 2 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.55%) Retail
6 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.78%) Advertising
7 1 (0.78%) Banking
7 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Electronics
7 1 (0.78%) French Language
7 1 (0.78%) Legal
7 1 (0.78%) Local Government
7 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (15.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (13.18%) Microsoft Engineer
3 15 (11.63%) Active Directory Support
3 15 (11.63%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (10.85%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (10.85%) Support Specialist
5 13 (10.08%) Administrator
6 11 (8.53%) Support Engineer
7 9 (6.98%) Senior
7 9 (6.98%) Storage Engineer
7 9 (6.98%) Web Engineer
7 9 (6.98%) Wintel Engineer
8 8 (6.20%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (6.20%) IT Support
8 8 (6.20%) Systems Administrator
9 7 (5.43%) Server Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Applications Support
10 5 (3.88%) Applications Support Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.40%) .NET
2 15 (11.63%) ARM Templates
3 5 (3.88%) .NET Framework
4 4 (3.10%) SAML
5 2 (1.55%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.78%) Kafka
6 1 (0.78%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.71%) PKI
2 27 (20.93%) Private Cloud
3 23 (17.83%) Data Centre
4 16 (12.40%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.33%) Clustering
6 2 (1.55%) CMDB
6 2 (1.55%) Fat Client
6 2 (1.55%) Thin Client
6 2 (1.55%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 111 (86.05%) Windows
2 63 (48.84%) Windows Server
3 42 (32.56%) Linux
4 37 (28.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 32 (24.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 19 (14.73%) Windows 10
6 19 (14.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (10.85%) Unix
8 13 (10.08%) Windows XP
9 4 (3.10%) Solaris
10 3 (2.33%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (2.33%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.78%) Android
11 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.78%) VMS
11 1 (0.78%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (55.04%) ITIL
2 48 (37.21%) Service Management
3 33 (25.58%) Capacity Management
3 33 (25.58%) DevOps
4 28 (21.71%) Agile
5 26 (20.16%) Security Monitoring
6 25 (19.38%) ITSM
6 25 (19.38%) Network Management
7 23 (17.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 23 (17.83%) Server Management
8 22 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (16.28%) Analytics
9 21 (16.28%) Release Management
10 20 (15.50%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (14.73%) Log Analytics
12 18 (13.95%) CI/CD
12 18 (13.95%) Converged Infrastructure
12 18 (13.95%) Project Management
13 16 (12.40%) Identity Management
13 16 (12.40%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 57 (44.19%) PowerShell
2 18 (13.95%) C#
3 17 (13.18%) SQL
3 17 (13.18%) VBScript
4 16 (12.40%) VB
5 15 (11.63%) Bicep
6 3 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.55%) Bash
8 1 (0.78%) C
Qualifications
1 80 (62.02%) Security Cleared
2 59 (45.74%) DV Cleared
3 43 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 42 (32.56%) Degree
5 16 (12.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (11.63%) CCNA
6 15 (11.63%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (10.85%) CCNP
8 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.55%) MCSE
10 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.78%) MCSA
10 1 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.60%) Government Security Classifications
2 5 (3.88%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (52.71%) Active Directory
2 35 (27.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (21.71%) Hyper-V
4 19 (14.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (13.95%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (13.18%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (6.20%) vSphere
8 4 (3.10%) Docker
8 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (3.10%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.55%) BitLocker
9 2 (1.55%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.78%) Firmware
10 1 (0.78%) NFS
10 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 69 (53.49%) SCCM
2 31 (24.03%) WSUS
3 23 (17.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (15.50%) Kubernetes
5 19 (14.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (13.18%) EMC NetWorker
7 16 (12.40%) NetBackup
8 15 (11.63%) vCenter Server
9 10 (7.75%) SCVMM
10 5 (3.88%) Ansible
11 4 (3.10%) Rancher
11 4 (3.10%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (3.10%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (2.33%) OPNET
12 3 (2.33%) SCOrch
13 2 (1.55%) Nagios
13 2 (1.55%) VxRail
14 1 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 84 (65.12%) Microsoft
2 49 (37.98%) VMware
3 27 (20.93%) Dell
4 25 (19.38%) Atlassian
5 21 (16.28%) Cisco
5 21 (16.28%) HP
6 20 (15.50%) EMC
7 15 (11.63%) Juniper
8 14 (10.85%) Veeam
9 13 (10.08%) 3PAR
9 13 (10.08%) Extreme Networks
9 13 (10.08%) Oracle
9 13 (10.08%) Palo Alto
9 13 (10.08%) Symantec
10 10 (7.75%) F5
11 7 (5.43%) ServiceNow
11 7 (5.43%) SolarWinds
12 5 (3.88%) Citrix
12 5 (3.88%) Remedy
13 4 (3.10%) IBM