SCOM Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 291 424 543
Rank change year-on-year +133 +119 -84
Contract jobs citing SCOM 50 33 80
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.99% 0.86% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 24 54
10th Percentile £458 £381 £250
25th Percentile £475 £395 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £470 £468
Median % change year-on-year +17.02% +0.53% +13.33%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £538
90th Percentile - £694 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +13.10%
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 £23.05 - £65.50

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

SCOM falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,671 3,829 7,036
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.32% 16.04% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,260 2,832 5,257
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £445 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -0.88% +7.62%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 78 45
10th Percentile - £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.01 £20.75
Median hourly rate £48.25 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +85.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £55.63 £75.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £60.88 £85.75 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% +161.36% -44.30%

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 12 June 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 27 (54.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (32.00%) SharePoint
3 13 (26.00%) Confluence
3 13 (26.00%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (4.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (2.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (78.00%) Azure
2 24 (48.00%) Azure Monitor
2 24 (48.00%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (44.00%) Entra ID
4 21 (42.00%) Azure Storage
5 13 (26.00%) Azure Stack
6 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.00%) GitHub
7 2 (4.00%) AWS
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 35 (70.00%) Firewall
2 24 (48.00%) DHCP
2 24 (48.00%) DNS
3 13 (26.00%) BGP
4 1 (2.00%) DSL
4 1 (2.00%) HTTP
4 1 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (26.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) Mercurial
2 1 (2.00%) Subversion
General
1 35 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.00%) Local Government
2 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.00%) Back Office
3 1 (2.00%) French Language
Job Titles
1 21 (42.00%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (28.00%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (28.00%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (28.00%) Support Specialist
3 13 (26.00%) Microsoft Engineer
4 8 (16.00%) Active Directory Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Administrator
6 3 (6.00%) Server Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) IT Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Consultant
8 1 (2.00%) IT Consultant
8 1 (2.00%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (42.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.00%) .NET
3 1 (2.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 21 (42.00%) PKI
1 21 (42.00%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (26.00%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.00%) Clustering
3 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.00%) CMDB
4 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 48 (96.00%) Windows
2 31 (62.00%) Windows Server
3 28 (56.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 24 (48.00%) Linux
4 24 (48.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.00%) Unix
7 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (72.00%) ITIL
2 34 (68.00%) Service Management
3 25 (50.00%) Analytics
4 24 (48.00%) CI/CD
4 24 (48.00%) DevOps
4 24 (48.00%) Log Analytics
5 22 (44.00%) Agile
5 22 (44.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (42.00%) Identity Management
6 21 (42.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 21 (42.00%) Privileged Identity Management
6 21 (42.00%) RBAC
6 21 (42.00%) Release Management
7 14 (28.00%) Capacity Management
7 14 (28.00%) ITSM
8 13 (26.00%) Network Management
8 13 (26.00%) Security Monitoring
9 3 (6.00%) Migration
9 3 (6.00%) Network Load Balancing
9 3 (6.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 30 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 23 (46.00%) C#
3 21 (42.00%) Bicep
3 21 (42.00%) VB
3 21 (42.00%) VBScript
4 6 (12.00%) SQL
5 3 (6.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (2.00%) Python
6 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (74.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (68.00%) DV Cleared
3 22 (44.00%) Degree
3 22 (44.00%) SC Cleared
4 21 (42.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (26.00%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (54.00%) Active Directory
2 23 (46.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 22 (44.00%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (4.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (52.00%) SCCM
2 23 (46.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 21 (42.00%) Kubernetes
3 21 (42.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (42.00%) WSUS
4 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (6.00%) SCVMM
5 2 (4.00%) SCOrch
6 1 (2.00%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (2.00%) Kibana
6 1 (2.00%) logstash
6 1 (2.00%) Nagios
6 1 (2.00%) Puppet
6 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 41 (82.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (26.00%) Atlassian
3 5 (10.00%) VMware
4 2 (4.00%) HP
4 2 (4.00%) Huawei
4 2 (4.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (4.00%) Trend Micro
5 1 (2.00%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.00%) Citrix
5 1 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.00%) Ivanti
5 1 (2.00%) NetApp
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Varonis