Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SCOM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SCOM over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 710 767 1038
Rank change year-on-year +57 +271 -348
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 182 210 206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.85% 1.44% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 112 145 181
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,725 £26,450
25th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +3.33% -9.55%
75th Percentile £59,000 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £64,000 £69,032
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% +2.27%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,851 14,586 29,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.86% 14.71% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,078 9,021 14,016
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,250 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.17% -0.46% +8.23%

SCOM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the UK

SCOM
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SCOM.

Salary trend for SCOM in the UK

SCOM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCOM over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SCOM in the UK

SCOM
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +63 175 £52,500 +17.98% 33
UK excluding London -44 158 £50,000 +25.00% 33
Work from Home +84 88 £52,500 -0.94% 15
South East +33 87 £52,500 +31.25% 9
North of England +19 33 £37,500 +16.46% 3
Yorkshire +53 29 £32,250 +0.16%
London +102 23 £65,000 +20.76% 1
Midlands 0 22 £50,000 -4.76% 8
West Midlands - 12 £50,000 - 5
East Midlands -11 10 £48,750 -7.14% 3
East of England -7 6 £42,500 -19.43% 5
Wales - 5 £36,476 -
North East -4 4 £43,750 -3.31%
South West -46 4 £32,500 -8.11% 6
Scotland -62 1 - - 2

SCOM
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 54 (29.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (15.38%) IIS
3 13 (7.14%) CMS
4 9 (4.95%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.55%) Apache
5 1 (0.55%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.55%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (10.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.55%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.55%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 82 (45.05%) Azure
2 46 (25.27%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 19 (10.44%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (8.79%) Azure Storage
6 12 (6.59%) AWS
6 12 (6.59%) OCI
7 10 (5.49%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (4.95%) IaaS
9 6 (3.30%) GCP
10 5 (2.75%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.20%) Google Workspace
11 4 (2.20%) Nutanix
12 3 (1.65%) PaaS
13 2 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 1 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (0.55%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 82 (45.05%) DNS
2 74 (40.66%) DHCP
3 59 (32.42%) Firewall
4 32 (17.58%) SAN
5 12 (6.59%) SNMP
6 10 (5.49%) TCP/IP
7 8 (4.40%) VPN
8 6 (3.30%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (3.30%) NetScaler
8 6 (3.30%) Wireless
9 5 (2.75%) BIG-IP
9 5 (2.75%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (2.75%) Extranet
9 5 (2.75%) Internet
9 5 (2.75%) Network Security
9 5 (2.75%) Unified Communications
10 3 (1.65%) BGP
11 2 (1.10%) IPv4
11 2 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (4.40%) Redis
2 7 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.75%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (5.49%) JIRA
2 1 (0.55%) Chocolatey
2 1 (0.55%) Git
2 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
General
1 64 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.48%) Finance
3 24 (13.19%) Legal
4 18 (9.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
6 12 (6.59%) Aerospace
7 8 (4.40%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (3.30%) Law
9 6 (3.30%) Police
9 6 (3.30%) Retail
10 5 (2.75%) Local Government
11 4 (2.20%) Automotive
12 2 (1.10%) Banking
13 1 (0.55%) Back Office
13 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (15.93%) Systems Engineer
3 24 (13.19%) Senior
4 23 (12.64%) Administrator
5 16 (8.79%) Windows Engineer
6 14 (7.69%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (7.69%) Active Directory Support
6 14 (7.69%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (7.69%) Support Specialist
7 13 (7.14%) Project Manager
7 13 (7.14%) ServiceNow Administrator
8 12 (6.59%) IT Engineer
8 12 (6.59%) Windows Systems Engineer
9 11 (6.04%) 3rd Line Support
9 11 (6.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (5.49%) Support Engineer
10 10 (5.49%) Technical Engineer
10 10 (5.49%) VMware Engineer
11 8 (4.40%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 8 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.79%) ARM Templates
2 5 (2.75%) Middleware
3 3 (1.65%) .NET
3 3 (1.65%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.55%) Web Services
4 1 (0.55%) XML
4 1 (0.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (20.33%) Data Centre
2 21 (11.54%) PKI
3 19 (10.44%) Replication
4 16 (8.79%) CMDB
5 15 (8.24%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (7.69%) Clustering
7 13 (7.14%) Digital Signage
8 9 (4.95%) Public Cloud
9 7 (3.85%) Management Information System
10 6 (3.30%) AS400
10 6 (3.30%) IoT
11 4 (2.20%) Driving Licence
11 4 (2.20%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.55%) Blackberry
13 1 (0.55%) Client/Server
13 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.55%) Operational Technology
13 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 141 (77.47%) Windows
2 102 (56.04%) Windows Server
3 72 (39.56%) Linux
4 39 (21.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 36 (19.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (14.29%) Windows 10
7 20 (10.99%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (8.79%) Windows XP
9 8 (4.40%) Windows Server 2003
10 7 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (2.75%) Windows 7
11 5 (2.75%) Windows 8
12 4 (2.20%) Windows 2000
12 4 (2.20%) Windows NT
12 4 (2.20%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (1.65%) Unix
14 1 (0.55%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (39.01%) ITIL
2 51 (28.02%) Service Management
3 45 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (23.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 33 (18.13%) Agile
6 31 (17.03%) Disaster Recovery
7 26 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
8 24 (13.19%) ITSM
8 24 (13.19%) Mentoring
9 22 (12.09%) Release Management
10 20 (10.99%) DevOps
10 20 (10.99%) High Availability
10 20 (10.99%) Proactive Monitoring
10 20 (10.99%) Project Management
11 19 (10.44%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (9.89%) Identity Management
12 18 (9.89%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 18 (9.89%) Server Management
13 17 (9.34%) Configuration Management
14 16 (8.79%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (33.52%) PowerShell
2 36 (19.78%) SQL
3 15 (8.24%) VBScript
4 14 (7.69%) Bicep
4 14 (7.69%) C#
4 14 (7.69%) VB
5 13 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.49%) RPG
7 6 (3.30%) Python
8 3 (1.65%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.55%) Bash
9 1 (0.55%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 84 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 63 (34.62%) DV Cleared
3 62 (34.07%) SC Cleared
4 49 (26.92%) Degree
5 23 (12.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (10.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 14 (7.69%) CCNA
7 14 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (6.59%) CCNP
9 10 (5.49%) Azure Certification
10 9 (4.95%) MCSE
11 8 (4.40%) MCSA
12 7 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (2.75%) CISSP
13 5 (2.75%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (2.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (2.20%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
15 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.40%) SLA
2 7 (3.85%) Good Clinical Practice
3 2 (1.10%) GDPR
4 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 120 (65.93%) Active Directory
2 64 (35.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (25.82%) Hyper-V
4 33 (18.13%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (12.09%) Firmware
6 20 (10.99%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (9.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (5.49%) VMware Workstation
9 9 (4.95%) Forefront TMG
10 7 (3.85%) vSphere
11 5 (2.75%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (2.20%) Terminal Services
13 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (1.65%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.55%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.55%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 78 (42.86%) SCCM
2 50 (27.47%) WSUS
3 26 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (10.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (10.99%) NetBackup
5 19 (10.44%) Kubernetes
6 16 (8.79%) vCenter Server
7 12 (6.59%) EMC NetWorker
8 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 7 (3.85%) Ansible
10 6 (3.30%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (3.30%) SCOrch
10 6 (3.30%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (2.75%) Grafana
11 5 (2.75%) Prometheus
12 4 (2.20%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Clustering
13 3 (1.65%) Check_MK
13 3 (1.65%) Cisco Prime
13 3 (1.65%) vMotion
Vendors
1 132 (72.53%) Microsoft
2 78 (42.86%) VMware
3 34 (18.68%) Dynatrace
3 34 (18.68%) HP
4 27 (14.84%) Dell
4 27 (14.84%) Veeam
5 25 (13.74%) Oracle
6 24 (13.19%) Cisco
7 22 (12.09%) ServiceNow
8 21 (11.54%) SolarWinds
9 18 (9.89%) NetApp
10 17 (9.34%) Citrix
11 14 (7.69%) 3PAR
12 13 (7.14%) Riverbed
13 12 (6.59%) EMC
13 12 (6.59%) Extreme Networks
13 12 (6.59%) Juniper
13 12 (6.59%) Palo Alto
13 12 (6.59%) Symantec
14 11 (6.04%) IBM