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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 456 568 699
Rank change year-on-year +112 +131 -118
Contract jobs citing SCOM 134 120 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.53% 1.37% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 76 103
10th Percentile £425 £372 £250
25th Percentile £490 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £469
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +3.94% +11.67%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £538
90th Percentile - £650 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £455 £438
% change year-on-year +32.97% +4.00% +3.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 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 £65.38 £67.50
90th Percentile - £65.60 -
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 5,286 8,772 13,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.16% 15.73% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,829 6,261 10,030
10th Percentile £288 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -2.22% +10.29%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 196 183
10th Percentile £14.77 £17.72 £13.28
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.71 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.75 £56.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.33% +155.68% -44.30%
75th Percentile £50.19 £73.72 £44.22
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.38 £61.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -13.83%

SCOM
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 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in the UK

SCOM
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 7 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 +114 126 £550 +23.60% 43
UK excluding London +62 98 £605 +32.97% 36
Work from Home +140 49 £525 +11.70% 16
South East +52 46 £605 +10.00% 10
London +92 29 £515 +3.00% 6
South West +27 22 £500 -9.09% 6
East of England -7 13 £550 +29.41% 5
Midlands +31 12 £449 +19.73% 11
East Midlands +19 11 £450 +19.87% 5
North West +20 4 - - 4
North of England -5 4 - - 4
Scotland +37 1 £475 +5.56% 1
West Midlands - 1 £213 - 6

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 43 (32.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (23.88%) SharePoint
3 17 (12.69%) Confluence
3 17 (12.69%) SharePoint Server
4 15 (11.19%) IIS
5 2 (1.49%) Apache
5 2 (1.49%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 78 (58.21%) Azure
2 40 (29.85%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (18.66%) Entra ID
4 23 (17.16%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (14.93%) Azure Storage
6 19 (14.18%) Azure Stack
7 15 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (10.45%) OCI
9 10 (7.46%) AWS
10 3 (2.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (2.24%) GitHub
10 3 (2.24%) Mimecast
10 3 (2.24%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.24%) Rubrik
11 2 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (0.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 59 (44.03%) Firewall
2 54 (40.30%) DNS
3 51 (38.06%) DHCP
4 18 (13.43%) SAN
5 17 (12.69%) BGP
6 10 (7.46%) LAN
7 9 (6.72%) WAN
8 8 (5.97%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.73%) Wireshark
10 3 (2.24%) DKIM
10 3 (2.24%) DMARC
10 3 (2.24%) Extranet
10 3 (2.24%) Internet
10 3 (2.24%) NAS
10 3 (2.24%) Skype
10 3 (2.24%) SMTP
10 3 (2.24%) VPN
10 3 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.24%) Wireless
11 1 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.46%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.75%) Power BI
3 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (12.69%) JIRA
2 6 (4.48%) GitLab
3 5 (3.73%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.75%) Git
4 1 (0.75%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.75%) Subversion
General
1 63 (47.01%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.69%) Public Sector
3 4 (2.99%) Banking
4 3 (2.24%) Military
4 3 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.49%) Local Government
6 1 (0.75%) Advertising
6 1 (0.75%) Back Office
6 1 (0.75%) French Language
6 1 (0.75%) Legal
6 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (21.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (14.93%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (10.45%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (10.45%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (10.45%) Microsoft Engineer
3 14 (10.45%) Support Engineer
3 14 (10.45%) Support Specialist
4 11 (8.21%) Administrator
4 11 (8.21%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (7.46%) Storage Engineer
6 8 (5.97%) IT Support
6 8 (5.97%) Wintel Engineer
7 7 (5.22%) Active Directory Engineer
7 7 (5.22%) Server Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) SharePoint Administrator
8 6 (4.48%) Unix Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) Unix Linux Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.93%) ARM Templates
2 14 (10.45%) .NET
3 6 (4.48%) .NET Framework
4 5 (3.73%) SAML
5 3 (2.24%) Software Packaging
6 2 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.75%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 35 (26.12%) PKI
2 28 (20.90%) Data Centre
3 20 (14.93%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (14.18%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.99%) CMDB
5 4 (2.99%) Grid Computing
6 3 (2.24%) Clustering
6 3 (2.24%) Fat Client
6 3 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.24%) Thin Client
6 3 (2.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 111 (82.84%) Windows
2 72 (53.73%) Windows Server
3 50 (37.31%) Linux
4 44 (32.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 39 (29.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (14.93%) Windows 10
6 20 (14.93%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (10.45%) Unix
7 14 (10.45%) Windows XP
8 6 (4.48%) Solaris
9 4 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.49%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (52.99%) ITIL
2 43 (32.09%) Service Management
3 35 (26.12%) DevOps
4 32 (23.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 29 (21.64%) Agile
6 27 (20.15%) Analytics
7 26 (19.40%) Capacity Management
8 25 (18.66%) Release Management
9 24 (17.91%) Server Management
10 23 (17.16%) CI/CD
10 23 (17.16%) Log Analytics
10 23 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (16.42%) ITSM
12 21 (15.67%) Disaster Recovery
12 21 (15.67%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (14.93%) Converged Infrastructure
13 20 (14.93%) Identity Management
13 20 (14.93%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 20 (14.93%) Privileged Identity Management
13 20 (14.93%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 62 (46.27%) PowerShell
2 22 (16.42%) C#
3 20 (14.93%) Bicep
3 20 (14.93%) VB
3 20 (14.93%) VBScript
4 12 (8.96%) SQL
5 3 (2.24%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.75%) C
6 1 (0.75%) Python
6 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (56.72%) Security Cleared
2 55 (41.04%) DV Cleared
3 46 (34.33%) SC Cleared
4 43 (32.09%) Degree
5 20 (14.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (11.19%) CCNA
6 15 (11.19%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (10.45%) CCNP
8 9 (6.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.69%) Government Security Classifications
2 7 (5.22%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 72 (53.73%) Active Directory
2 45 (33.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (21.64%) Hyper-V
4 27 (20.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (15.67%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (14.93%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (8.21%) vSphere
8 3 (2.24%) BitLocker
8 3 (2.24%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (2.24%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.75%) Firmware
10 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 66 (49.25%) SCCM
2 35 (26.12%) WSUS
3 29 (21.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 26 (19.40%) Kubernetes
5 24 (17.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (13.43%) vCenter Server
7 17 (12.69%) NetBackup
8 14 (10.45%) EMC NetWorker
9 10 (7.46%) Red Hat Satellite
9 10 (7.46%) SCVMM
10 8 (5.97%) Ansible
10 8 (5.97%) Nagios
11 6 (4.48%) Rancher
11 6 (4.48%) SCSM
11 6 (4.48%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 5 (3.73%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (2.99%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Clustering
14 3 (2.24%) OPNET
14 3 (2.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 95 (70.90%) Microsoft
2 60 (44.78%) VMware
3 36 (26.87%) Dell
4 25 (18.66%) HP
5 22 (16.42%) Cisco
6 17 (12.69%) Atlassian
6 17 (12.69%) EMC
6 17 (12.69%) Juniper
7 14 (10.45%) 3PAR
7 14 (10.45%) Extreme Networks
7 14 (10.45%) Oracle
7 14 (10.45%) Palo Alto
7 14 (10.45%) Symantec
7 14 (10.45%) Veeam
8 10 (7.46%) F5
8 10 (7.46%) Red Hat
8 10 (7.46%) SolarWinds
9 6 (4.48%) IBM
10 4 (2.99%) Citrix
10 4 (2.99%) ServiceNow