SCOM Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 444 563 692
Rank change year-on-year +119 +129 -104
Contract jobs citing SCOM 131 119 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.21% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.51% 1.35% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 74 103
10th Percentile £425 £381 £250
25th Percentile £490 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +2.63% +13.10%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £538
90th Percentile - £650 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £590 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +29.67% +1.11% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £22.08 - -
25th Percentile £22.13 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £23.05 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.54% -0.76% -
75th Percentile £23.80 £65.56 £67.50
90th Percentile - £65.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £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 5,219 8,830 13,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 15.75% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 6,309 9,985
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 202 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.42
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.71 £15.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%
75th Percentile £51.44 £73.74 £43.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -12.74%

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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 1 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 1 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 +111 123 £550 +23.60% 34
UK excluding London +42 95 £590 +29.67% 32
Work from Home +128 48 £525 +12.90% 18
South East +51 46 £605 +10.00% 7
London +104 29 £515 +3.00% 2
South West +19 23 £500 -9.09% 5
East of England -13 12 £550 +29.41% 4
Midlands +31 9 £449 +19.73% 11
East Midlands +19 8 £450 +19.87% 4
North West +21 4 - - 3
North of England 0 4 - - 3
Scotland +33 1 £475 +5.56% 2
West Midlands - 1 £213 - 7

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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 41 (31.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (25.19%) SharePoint
3 18 (13.74%) Confluence
3 18 (13.74%) SharePoint Server
4 15 (11.45%) IIS
5 2 (1.53%) Apache
5 2 (1.53%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 79 (60.31%) Azure
2 38 (29.01%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (19.08%) Entra ID
4 23 (17.56%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (15.27%) Azure Stack
5 20 (15.27%) Azure Storage
6 15 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (10.69%) OCI
8 10 (7.63%) AWS
9 3 (2.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (2.29%) GitHub
9 3 (2.29%) Mimecast
9 3 (2.29%) Nutanix
9 3 (2.29%) Rubrik
10 2 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.53%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 60 (45.80%) Firewall
2 53 (40.46%) DNS
3 50 (38.17%) DHCP
4 18 (13.74%) BGP
4 18 (13.74%) SAN
5 10 (7.63%) LAN
6 9 (6.87%) WAN
7 8 (6.11%) TCP/IP
8 5 (3.82%) Wireshark
9 3 (2.29%) DKIM
9 3 (2.29%) DMARC
9 3 (2.29%) Extranet
9 3 (2.29%) Internet
9 3 (2.29%) NAS
9 3 (2.29%) Skype
9 3 (2.29%) SMTP
9 3 (2.29%) VPN
9 3 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.29%) Wireless
10 1 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.87%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.76%) Power BI
3 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (13.74%) JIRA
2 5 (3.82%) Fiddler
2 5 (3.82%) GitLab
3 1 (0.76%) Git
3 1 (0.76%) Mercurial
3 1 (0.76%) Subversion
General
1 63 (48.09%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.45%) Public Sector
3 4 (3.05%) Banking
3 4 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (2.29%) Military
5 2 (1.53%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.76%) Advertising
6 1 (0.76%) Back Office
6 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.76%) French Language
6 1 (0.76%) Legal
6 1 (0.76%) Local Government
6 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (19.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (15.27%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (10.69%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (10.69%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (10.69%) Microsoft Engineer
3 14 (10.69%) Support Engineer
3 14 (10.69%) Support Specialist
4 11 (8.40%) Administrator
4 11 (8.40%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (7.63%) Storage Engineer
6 8 (6.11%) IT Support
6 8 (6.11%) Wintel Engineer
7 7 (5.34%) Active Directory Engineer
7 7 (5.34%) Server Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) SharePoint Administrator
8 6 (4.58%) Web Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Senior Wintel Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.27%) ARM Templates
2 14 (10.69%) .NET
3 6 (4.58%) .NET Framework
4 5 (3.82%) SAML
5 3 (2.29%) Software Packaging
6 2 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 35 (26.72%) PKI
2 28 (21.37%) Data Centre
3 20 (15.27%) Private Cloud
3 20 (15.27%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.05%) CMDB
5 3 (2.29%) Clustering
5 3 (2.29%) Fat Client
5 3 (2.29%) Grid Computing
5 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.29%) Thin Client
5 3 (2.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 109 (83.21%) Windows
2 69 (52.67%) Windows Server
3 48 (36.64%) Linux
4 43 (32.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (29.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 19 (14.50%) Windows 10
6 19 (14.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (10.69%) Windows XP
8 13 (9.92%) Unix
9 5 (3.82%) Solaris
10 3 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (1.53%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (1.53%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (54.20%) ITIL
2 44 (33.59%) Service Management
3 35 (26.72%) DevOps
4 29 (22.14%) Agile
4 29 (22.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 27 (20.61%) Analytics
5 27 (20.61%) Capacity Management
6 25 (19.08%) Release Management
7 24 (18.32%) Server Management
8 23 (17.56%) CI/CD
8 23 (17.56%) Log Analytics
9 22 (16.79%) ITSM
9 22 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (16.03%) Disaster Recovery
10 21 (16.03%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (15.27%) Identity Management
11 20 (15.27%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 20 (15.27%) Privileged Identity Management
11 20 (15.27%) RBAC
11 20 (15.27%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 60 (45.80%) PowerShell
2 22 (16.79%) C#
3 20 (15.27%) Bicep
3 20 (15.27%) VB
3 20 (15.27%) VBScript
4 12 (9.16%) SQL
5 3 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.76%) C
6 1 (0.76%) Python
6 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (58.02%) Security Cleared
2 56 (42.75%) DV Cleared
3 46 (35.11%) SC Cleared
4 43 (32.82%) Degree
5 20 (15.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (11.45%) CCNA
6 15 (11.45%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (10.69%) CCNP
8 9 (6.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.74%) Government Security Classifications
2 7 (5.34%) SLA
3 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 70 (53.44%) Active Directory
2 41 (31.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (21.37%) Hyper-V
4 25 (19.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (16.03%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (14.50%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (8.40%) vSphere
8 3 (2.29%) BitLocker
8 3 (2.29%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (2.29%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.76%) Firmware
10 1 (0.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 65 (49.62%) SCCM
2 35 (26.72%) WSUS
3 29 (22.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 25 (19.08%) Kubernetes
5 24 (18.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (13.74%) vCenter Server
7 17 (12.98%) NetBackup
8 14 (10.69%) EMC NetWorker
9 10 (7.63%) SCVMM
10 8 (6.11%) Nagios
10 8 (6.11%) Red Hat Satellite
11 7 (5.34%) Ansible
12 5 (3.82%) Rancher
12 5 (3.82%) SCSM
12 5 (3.82%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (3.82%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 4 (3.05%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Clustering
14 3 (2.29%) OPNET
14 3 (2.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 93 (70.99%) Microsoft
2 56 (42.75%) VMware
3 35 (26.72%) Dell
4 24 (18.32%) HP
5 22 (16.79%) Cisco
6 18 (13.74%) Atlassian
7 17 (12.98%) EMC
7 17 (12.98%) Juniper
8 14 (10.69%) 3PAR
8 14 (10.69%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (10.69%) Oracle
8 14 (10.69%) Palo Alto
8 14 (10.69%) Symantec
8 14 (10.69%) Veeam
9 10 (7.63%) F5
10 8 (6.11%) Red Hat
10 8 (6.11%) SolarWinds
11 5 (3.82%) IBM
12 4 (3.05%) AppDynamics
12 4 (3.05%) ServiceNow