SCOM Jobs with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 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 499 559 792
Rank change year-on-year +60 +233 -265
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 94 79 94
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.42% 1.34% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 40 57 91
10th Percentile £33,250 £40,000 £37,775
25th Percentile £50,938 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% +3.00%
75th Percentile £59,000 £63,000 £61,000
90th Percentile - £74,250 £69,032
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.70% +4.44% -7.14%

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 permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,880 5,910 15,193
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.17% 15.37% 20.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,896 4,424 7,902
10th Percentile £36,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,725 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £61,206 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.32% -3.57% +7.69%

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

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SCOM salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SCOM over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

SCOM salary histogram 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 28 (29.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (13.83%) CMS
3 11 (11.70%) IIS
4 9 (9.57%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.06%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.06%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 15 (15.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 38 (40.43%) Azure
2 33 (35.11%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (21.28%) Entra ID
4 17 (18.09%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (18.09%) Azure Storage
5 7 (7.45%) AWS
5 7 (7.45%) IaaS
6 5 (5.32%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (5.32%) GCP
6 5 (5.32%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (40.43%) DHCP
1 38 (40.43%) DNS
2 26 (27.66%) Firewall
3 10 (10.64%) TCP/IP
4 7 (7.45%) SAN
5 6 (6.38%) VPN
6 5 (5.32%) BIG-IP
6 5 (5.32%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (5.32%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (5.32%) Network Security
6 5 (5.32%) Wireless
7 1 (1.06%) Skype
7 1 (1.06%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (5.32%) NoSQL
1 5 (5.32%) Redis
2 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database
General
1 48 (51.06%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.09%) Legal
3 16 (17.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (17.02%) Influencing Skills
3 16 (17.02%) Pharmaceutical
4 11 (11.70%) Finance
5 9 (9.57%) Aerospace
6 6 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.32%) Automotive
8 1 (1.06%) Back Office
8 1 (1.06%) Law
8 1 (1.06%) Publishing
8 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (18.09%) Active Directory Specialist
1 17 (18.09%) Active Directory Support
1 17 (18.09%) Azure Specialist
1 17 (18.09%) Support Specialist
2 16 (17.02%) Project Manager
3 15 (15.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (13.83%) Administrator
4 13 (13.83%) ServiceNow Administrator
5 11 (11.70%) Senior
6 10 (10.64%) Systems Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) IT Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Principal Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) 3rd Line Support
9 5 (5.32%) Infrastructure Architect
9 5 (5.32%) IT Architect
9 5 (5.32%) IT Operations Manager
9 5 (5.32%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.09%) ARM Templates
2 5 (5.32%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.21%) PKI
2 17 (18.09%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (13.83%) Digital Signage
4 8 (8.51%) Clustering
5 7 (7.45%) Data Centre
6 6 (6.38%) IoT
6 6 (6.38%) Public Cloud
6 6 (6.38%) Replication
7 5 (5.32%) Management Information System
8 4 (4.26%) CMDB
9 1 (1.06%) Blackberry
9 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 60 (63.83%) Windows
2 42 (44.68%) Windows Server
3 41 (43.62%) Linux
4 23 (24.47%) Windows Server 2016
4 23 (24.47%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (7.45%) Windows 10
6 6 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (6.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (5.32%) Windows 2000
7 5 (5.32%) Windows NT
7 5 (5.32%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (5.32%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (5.32%) Windows XP
8 2 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (45.74%) ITIL
2 36 (38.30%) Service Management
3 25 (26.60%) Mentoring
4 22 (23.40%) Agile
4 22 (23.40%) DevOps
4 22 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (19.15%) Identity Management
5 18 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (19.15%) Release Management
6 17 (18.09%) Analytics
6 17 (18.09%) CI/CD
6 17 (18.09%) Log Analytics
6 17 (18.09%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 17 (18.09%) Privileged Identity Management
6 17 (18.09%) RBAC
6 17 (18.09%) Risk Management
7 16 (17.02%) Biotechnology
7 16 (17.02%) Collaborative Working
7 16 (17.02%) Creative Thinking
7 16 (17.02%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 32 (34.04%) PowerShell
2 18 (19.15%) Bicep
3 17 (18.09%) C#
3 17 (18.09%) SQL
3 17 (18.09%) VB
3 17 (18.09%) VBScript
4 13 (13.83%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 44 (46.81%) Security Cleared
2 39 (41.49%) DV Cleared
3 36 (38.30%) Degree
4 28 (29.79%) SC Cleared
5 18 (19.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (7.45%) Azure Certification
8 5 (5.32%) CISSP
8 5 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (5.32%) DBS Check
8 5 (5.32%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (2.13%) MCSA
9 2 (2.13%) MCSE
9 2 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.45%) Good Clinical Practice
2 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.06%) NIST
2 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (55.32%) Active Directory
2 22 (23.40%) Hyper-V
3 19 (20.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (18.09%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (18.09%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (9.57%) Forefront TMG
5 9 (9.57%) VMware Workstation
6 5 (5.32%) Terminal Services
7 2 (2.13%) vSphere
8 1 (1.06%) DFS Replication
8 1 (1.06%) Firmware
8 1 (1.06%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (39.36%) SCCM
1 37 (39.36%) WSUS
2 23 (24.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 22 (23.40%) Kubernetes
4 19 (20.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 6 (6.38%) Ansible
7 5 (5.32%) Grafana
7 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Clustering
7 5 (5.32%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.19%) Check_MK
8 3 (3.19%) Nagios
9 1 (1.06%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.06%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.06%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.06%) OfficeScan
9 1 (1.06%) SCOrch
9 1 (1.06%) SCVMM
9 1 (1.06%) Terraform
9 1 (1.06%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 58 (61.70%) Microsoft
2 19 (20.21%) VMware
3 18 (19.15%) Dynatrace
3 18 (19.15%) ServiceNow
4 15 (15.96%) HP
5 13 (13.83%) Riverbed
6 12 (12.77%) Oracle
7 11 (11.70%) SolarWinds
8 6 (6.38%) Red Hat
9 5 (5.32%) AppDynamics
9 5 (5.32%) Cisco
9 5 (5.32%) Google
10 2 (2.13%) Dell
11 1 (1.06%) Altiris
11 1 (1.06%) Commvault
11 1 (1.06%) Huawei
11 1 (1.06%) McAfee
11 1 (1.06%) Sophos
11 1 (1.06%) Veeam
11 1 (1.06%) Veritas