SCOM Contracts

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 448 581 706
Rank change year-on-year +133 +125 -110
Contract jobs citing SCOM 137 116 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.58% 1.34% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 75 99
10th Percentile £425 £381 £250
25th Percentile £491 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £538
90th Percentile - £650 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £460 £438
% change year-on-year +31.52% +5.14% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £22.08 - -
25th Percentile £22.13 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £23.05 - £65.50
75th Percentile £23.80 - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,313 8,682 13,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.17% 15.63% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,841 6,197 9,951
10th Percentile £290 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.24%
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 97 193 179
10th Percentile £15.43 £17.83 £13.20
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.71 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% +161.36% -44.30%
75th Percentile £53.00 £73.75 £42.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.95 £59.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -13.83%

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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 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in the UK

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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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Top 13 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 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
England +119 129 £550 +22.22% 34
UK excluding London +46 102 £605 +31.52% 28
Work from Home +133 50 £550 +17.02% 12
South East +58 47 £605 +10.00% 9
London +86 28 £515 +0.49% 5
South West +13 20 £500 -9.09% 6
East of England -9 14 £550 +29.41% 1
Midlands - 14 £449 - 8
East Midlands - 13 £450 - 4
North West +19 6 - - 3
North of England -4 6 - - 3
Scotland +45 1 £475 +5.56% 1
West Midlands - 1 £213 - 4

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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 43 (31.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (21.17%) SharePoint
3 16 (11.68%) Confluence
3 16 (11.68%) SharePoint Server
4 15 (10.95%) IIS
5 2 (1.46%) Apache
5 2 (1.46%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 78 (56.93%) Azure
2 40 (29.20%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (18.98%) Entra ID
4 24 (17.52%) Azure Monitor
5 21 (15.33%) Azure Storage
6 18 (13.14%) Azure Stack
7 15 (10.95%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (10.22%) OCI
9 10 (7.30%) AWS
10 3 (2.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (2.19%) GitHub
10 3 (2.19%) Mimecast
10 3 (2.19%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.19%) Rubrik
11 2 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (0.73%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 57 (41.61%) Firewall
2 54 (39.42%) DNS
3 51 (37.23%) DHCP
4 18 (13.14%) SAN
5 16 (11.68%) BGP
6 8 (5.84%) LAN
7 7 (5.11%) WAN
8 6 (4.38%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.65%) Wireshark
10 3 (2.19%) DKIM
10 3 (2.19%) DMARC
10 3 (2.19%) Extranet
10 3 (2.19%) Internet
10 3 (2.19%) NAS
10 3 (2.19%) VPN
10 3 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.19%) Wireless
11 1 (0.73%) DSL
11 1 (0.73%) HTTP
11 1 (0.73%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.03%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.73%) Power BI
3 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (11.68%) JIRA
2 7 (5.11%) GitLab
3 5 (3.65%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.73%) Git
4 1 (0.73%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.73%) Subversion
General
1 61 (44.53%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.14%) Public Sector
3 4 (2.92%) Banking
4 3 (2.19%) Local Government
4 3 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.73%) Advertising
6 1 (0.73%) Back Office
6 1 (0.73%) French Language
6 1 (0.73%) Legal
6 1 (0.73%) Military
6 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (22.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (15.33%) Active Directory Support
3 15 (10.95%) Support Engineer
4 14 (10.22%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (10.22%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (10.22%) Support Specialist
5 13 (9.49%) Microsoft Engineer
6 12 (8.76%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (8.03%) Administrator
8 10 (7.30%) Storage Engineer
9 8 (5.84%) Active Directory Engineer
9 8 (5.84%) IT Support
10 7 (5.11%) Active Directory Support Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Server Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Systems Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Unix Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Unix Linux Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) IT Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.33%) ARM Templates
2 14 (10.22%) .NET
3 6 (4.38%) .NET Framework
4 5 (3.65%) SAML
5 3 (2.19%) Software Packaging
6 2 (1.46%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.73%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 34 (24.82%) PKI
2 30 (21.90%) Data Centre
3 21 (15.33%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (13.14%) Private Cloud
5 5 (3.65%) Grid Computing
6 4 (2.92%) CMDB
7 3 (2.19%) Clustering
7 3 (2.19%) Fat Client
7 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.19%) Thin Client
7 3 (2.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 111 (81.02%) Windows
2 73 (53.28%) Windows Server
3 53 (38.69%) Linux
4 46 (33.58%) Windows Server 2016
5 41 (29.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 21 (15.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 18 (13.14%) Windows 10
8 15 (10.95%) Unix
9 14 (10.22%) Windows XP
10 7 (5.11%) Solaris
11 5 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.73%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (51.09%) ITIL
2 41 (29.93%) Service Management
3 36 (26.28%) DevOps
4 34 (24.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 28 (20.44%) Agile
5 28 (20.44%) Analytics
6 26 (18.98%) Release Management
7 25 (18.25%) Capacity Management
8 24 (17.52%) CI/CD
8 24 (17.52%) Log Analytics
8 24 (17.52%) Server Management
9 22 (16.06%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (15.33%) Identity Management
10 21 (15.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 21 (15.33%) Privileged Identity Management
10 21 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (15.33%) RBAC
11 20 (14.60%) Converged Infrastructure
12 19 (13.87%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (13.87%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 62 (45.26%) PowerShell
2 23 (16.79%) C#
3 21 (15.33%) Bicep
3 21 (15.33%) VB
3 21 (15.33%) VBScript
4 10 (7.30%) SQL
5 3 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.73%) C
6 1 (0.73%) Python
6 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 75 (54.74%) Security Cleared
2 55 (40.15%) DV Cleared
3 45 (32.85%) SC Cleared
4 42 (30.66%) Degree
5 21 (15.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (10.95%) CCNA
6 15 (10.95%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (10.22%) CCNP
8 9 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.68%) Government Security Classifications
2 5 (3.65%) SLA
3 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.73%) GDPR
System Software
1 72 (52.55%) Active Directory
2 46 (33.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (21.90%) Hyper-V
4 27 (19.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 22 (16.06%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (15.33%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (8.03%) vSphere
8 3 (2.19%) BitLocker
8 3 (2.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (1.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.73%) Firmware
10 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.73%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 66 (48.18%) SCCM
2 36 (26.28%) WSUS
3 28 (20.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 28 (20.44%) Kubernetes
4 25 (18.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (13.14%) vCenter Server
6 17 (12.41%) NetBackup
7 14 (10.22%) EMC NetWorker
8 12 (8.76%) Red Hat Satellite
9 10 (7.30%) Nagios
9 10 (7.30%) SCVMM
10 9 (6.57%) Ansible
11 7 (5.11%) Rancher
11 7 (5.11%) SCSM
11 7 (5.11%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 6 (4.38%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (3.65%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Clustering
14 3 (2.19%) VxRail
15 2 (1.46%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 95 (69.34%) Microsoft
2 61 (44.53%) VMware
3 39 (28.47%) Dell
4 26 (18.98%) HP
5 22 (16.06%) Cisco
6 17 (12.41%) EMC
6 17 (12.41%) Juniper
7 16 (11.68%) Atlassian
8 14 (10.22%) 3PAR
8 14 (10.22%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (10.22%) Oracle
8 14 (10.22%) Palo Alto
8 14 (10.22%) Symantec
8 14 (10.22%) Veeam
9 12 (8.76%) Red Hat
10 10 (7.30%) F5
11 9 (6.57%) SolarWinds
12 7 (5.11%) IBM
13 4 (2.92%) Citrix
13 4 (2.92%) ServiceNow