SCOM Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 302 429 538
Rank change year-on-year +127 +109 -95
Contract jobs citing SCOM 45 38 81
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.77% 0.92% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 24 63
10th Percentile £458 £381 £250
25th Percentile £475 £395 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £608 £519 £538
90th Percentile - £593 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £22.30 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -65.69% -0.76% -

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,627 4,141 7,181
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.78% 16.48% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 3,059 5,358
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £443 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -0.80% +9.76%
75th Percentile £627 £675 £656
90th Percentile £700 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 78 50
10th Percentile £20.40 £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £43.28 £52.81 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £66.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.03% +76.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £76.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £62.25 £87.50 £79.13
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.04%

SCOM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SCOM trend for jobs with a WFH option

SCOM
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SCOM.

SCOM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SCOM
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SCOM over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

SCOM daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SCOM
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SCOM.

SCOM hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SCOM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 20 (44.44%) SharePoint
2 19 (42.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (37.78%) Confluence
3 17 (37.78%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (4.44%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (4.44%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 37 (82.22%) Azure
2 19 (42.22%) Azure Monitor
3 17 (37.78%) Azure Stack
4 16 (35.56%) Azure Storage
4 16 (35.56%) Entra ID
4 16 (35.56%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.67%) GitHub
6 2 (4.44%) AWS
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (73.33%) Firewall
2 18 (40.00%) DHCP
2 18 (40.00%) DNS
3 17 (37.78%) BGP
4 2 (4.44%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.44%) Power BI
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (37.78%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) Mercurial
2 1 (2.22%) Subversion
General
1 33 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.22%) French Language
Job Titles
1 17 (37.78%) Microsoft Engineer
2 16 (35.56%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (31.11%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (31.11%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (31.11%) Support Specialist
4 4 (8.89%) Active Directory Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Server Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Administrator
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Support Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Windows Server Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) C# Developer
6 1 (2.22%) Consultant
6 1 (2.22%) Developer
6 1 (2.22%) IT Consultant
6 1 (2.22%) Junior
6 1 (2.22%) Support Consultant
6 1 (2.22%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (35.56%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.44%) .NET
3 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.22%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (37.78%) Private Cloud
2 16 (35.56%) PKI
2 16 (35.56%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.67%) Clustering
3 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 44 (97.78%) Windows
2 23 (51.11%) Windows Server
3 22 (48.89%) Windows Server 2016
4 18 (40.00%) Linux
5 17 (37.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (8.89%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (2.22%) Unix
8 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (73.33%) ITIL
1 33 (73.33%) Service Management
2 19 (42.22%) Analytics
2 19 (42.22%) CI/CD
2 19 (42.22%) DevOps
2 19 (42.22%) Log Analytics
3 18 (40.00%) Capacity Management
4 17 (37.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (37.78%) ITSM
4 17 (37.78%) Network Management
4 17 (37.78%) Security Monitoring
5 16 (35.56%) Agile
5 16 (35.56%) Identity Management
5 16 (35.56%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 16 (35.56%) Privileged Identity Management
5 16 (35.56%) RBAC
5 16 (35.56%) Release Management
6 4 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (6.67%) Change Management
7 3 (6.67%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 24 (53.33%) PowerShell
2 18 (40.00%) C#
3 16 (35.56%) Bicep
3 16 (35.56%) VB
3 16 (35.56%) VBScript
4 5 (11.11%) SQL
5 3 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 36 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 33 (73.33%) DV Cleared
3 17 (37.78%) SC Cleared
4 16 (35.56%) Degree
4 16 (35.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (37.78%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 19 (42.22%) Active Directory
2 17 (37.78%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (35.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (4.44%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (48.89%) SCCM
2 17 (37.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (35.56%) Kubernetes
3 16 (35.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (35.56%) WSUS
4 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (6.67%) SCVMM
5 2 (4.44%) SCOrch
6 1 (2.22%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (2.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (82.22%) Microsoft
2 17 (37.78%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.44%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (4.44%) HP
3 2 (4.44%) Huawei
3 2 (4.44%) Trend Micro
3 2 (4.44%) Varonis
3 2 (4.44%) VMware