SCOM Contracts in England

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 421 540 670
Rank change year-on-year +119 +130 -125
Contract jobs citing SCOM 129 96 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.80% 1.34% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 59 80
10th Percentile £425 £360 £250
25th Percentile £493 £413 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £455
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -1.04% +7.63%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £532
90th Percentile - £650 £602
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £22.08 - -
25th Percentile £22.13 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £23.05 - £65.00
75th Percentile £23.80 - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.05 - £65.50

All Systems Management Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,609 7,176 11,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.29% 15.26% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,370 5,190 8,132
10th Percentile £290 £350 £358
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £684 £675
90th Percentile £700 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 166 155
10th Percentile £15.49 £17.61 £12.93
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.71 £15.25
Median hourly rate £30.75 £52.93 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.90% +146.16% -12.07%
75th Percentile £52.31 £75.00 £27.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.38 £58.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% +161.36% -44.30%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCOM in England.

Daily rate trend for SCOM in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOM in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCOM in England.

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +58 47 £605 +10.00% 10
London +86 28 £515 +0.49% 5
South West +13 20 £500 -9.09% 4
East of England -9 14 £550 +29.41% 1
Midlands - 14 £449 - 8
East Midlands - 13 £450 - 4
North West +19 6 - - 3
North of England -4 6 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 £213 - 4
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 42 (32.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (20.16%) SharePoint
3 16 (12.40%) Confluence
3 16 (12.40%) SharePoint Server
4 14 (10.85%) IIS
5 2 (1.55%) Apache
5 2 (1.55%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 75 (58.14%) Azure
2 40 (31.01%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (19.38%) Entra ID
4 21 (16.28%) Azure Monitor
4 21 (16.28%) Azure Storage
5 18 (13.95%) Azure Stack
6 14 (10.85%) OCI
7 12 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.98%) AWS
9 3 (2.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (2.33%) Mimecast
9 3 (2.33%) Nutanix
9 3 (2.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 56 (43.41%) Firewall
2 53 (41.09%) DNS
3 50 (38.76%) DHCP
4 18 (13.95%) SAN
5 16 (12.40%) BGP
6 8 (6.20%) LAN
7 7 (5.43%) WAN
8 6 (4.65%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.88%) Wireshark
10 3 (2.33%) DKIM
10 3 (2.33%) DMARC
10 3 (2.33%) Extranet
10 3 (2.33%) Internet
10 3 (2.33%) NAS
10 3 (2.33%) VPN
10 3 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.33%) Wireless
11 1 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.78%) SMTP
11 1 (0.78%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (12.40%) JIRA
2 7 (5.43%) GitLab
3 5 (3.88%) Fiddler
General
1 61 (47.29%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.18%) Public Sector
3 4 (3.10%) Banking
4 3 (2.33%) Local Government
4 3 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.78%) Advertising
6 1 (0.78%) Back Office
6 1 (0.78%) Legal
6 1 (0.78%) Military
6 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (24.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (16.28%) Active Directory Support
3 15 (11.63%) Support Engineer
4 14 (10.85%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (10.85%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (10.85%) Support Specialist
5 13 (10.08%) Microsoft Engineer
6 12 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (7.75%) Storage Engineer
8 9 (6.98%) Administrator
9 8 (6.20%) IT Support
10 7 (5.43%) Active Directory Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Active Directory Support Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Systems Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Unix Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Unix Linux Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Server Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Web Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.28%) ARM Templates
2 12 (9.30%) .NET
3 5 (3.88%) .NET Framework
3 5 (3.88%) SAML
4 3 (2.33%) Software Packaging
5 2 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 34 (26.36%) PKI
2 29 (22.48%) Data Centre
3 21 (16.28%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (13.95%) Private Cloud
5 5 (3.88%) Grid Computing
6 4 (3.10%) CMDB
7 3 (2.33%) Fat Client
7 3 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.33%) Thin Client
7 3 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.55%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 104 (80.62%) Windows
2 67 (51.94%) Windows Server
3 52 (40.31%) Linux
4 44 (34.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 41 (31.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (15.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 17 (13.18%) Windows 10
8 15 (11.63%) Unix
9 14 (10.85%) Windows XP
10 7 (5.43%) Solaris
11 5 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (54.26%) ITIL
2 41 (31.78%) Service Management
3 34 (26.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 33 (25.58%) DevOps
5 28 (21.71%) Agile
6 26 (20.16%) Release Management
7 25 (19.38%) Analytics
7 25 (19.38%) Capacity Management
8 24 (18.60%) Server Management
9 21 (16.28%) CI/CD
9 21 (16.28%) Identity Management
9 21 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (16.28%) Log Analytics
9 21 (16.28%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 21 (16.28%) Privileged Identity Management
9 21 (16.28%) RBAC
10 20 (15.50%) Converged Infrastructure
11 19 (14.73%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (14.73%) Performance Tuning
11 19 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 56 (43.41%) PowerShell
2 21 (16.28%) Bicep
2 21 (16.28%) C#
2 21 (16.28%) VB
2 21 (16.28%) VBScript
3 7 (5.43%) SQL
4 1 (0.78%) C
Qualifications
1 73 (56.59%) Security Cleared
2 55 (42.64%) DV Cleared
3 44 (34.11%) SC Cleared
4 42 (32.56%) Degree
5 21 (16.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (11.63%) CCNA
6 15 (11.63%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (10.85%) CCNP
8 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.40%) Government Security Classifications
2 5 (3.88%) SLA
3 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 69 (53.49%) Active Directory
2 45 (34.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (22.48%) Hyper-V
4 27 (20.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (16.28%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (16.28%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (7.75%) vSphere
7 3 (2.33%) BitLocker
7 3 (2.33%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (1.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.78%) Firmware
9 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 64 (49.61%) SCCM
2 36 (27.91%) WSUS
3 28 (21.71%) Kubernetes
4 26 (20.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 25 (19.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (13.18%) NetBackup
6 17 (13.18%) vCenter Server
7 14 (10.85%) EMC NetWorker
8 12 (9.30%) Red Hat Satellite
9 10 (7.75%) Nagios
10 9 (6.98%) Ansible
11 8 (6.20%) SCVMM
12 7 (5.43%) Rancher
12 7 (5.43%) SCSM
12 7 (5.43%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 6 (4.65%) Dell DRAC
14 5 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (2.33%) VxRail
16 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Clustering
17 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 93 (72.09%) Microsoft
2 60 (46.51%) VMware
3 39 (30.23%) Dell
4 26 (20.16%) HP
5 22 (17.05%) Cisco
6 17 (13.18%) EMC
6 17 (13.18%) Juniper
7 16 (12.40%) Atlassian
8 14 (10.85%) 3PAR
8 14 (10.85%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (10.85%) Oracle
8 14 (10.85%) Palo Alto
8 14 (10.85%) Symantec
8 14 (10.85%) Veeam
9 12 (9.30%) Red Hat
10 10 (7.75%) F5
11 9 (6.98%) SolarWinds
12 7 (5.43%) IBM
13 4 (3.10%) Citrix
13 4 (3.10%) ServiceNow