SCOM Contracts in the South East

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 153 211 243
Rank change year-on-year +58 +32 -32
Contract jobs citing SCOM 47 4 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.82% 0.071% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.98% 0.54% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 2 14
10th Percentile - - £114
25th Percentile £603 £525 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £468
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% -10.10%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £600
90th Percentile £608 - £626
England median daily rate £550 £450 £455
% change year-on-year +22.22% -1.04% +7.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.05 - £65.00

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 786 741 1,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.66% 13.08% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 543 745
10th Percentile £225 £309 £251
25th Percentile £413 £450 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £606
90th Percentile £675 £700 £680
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 30
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.50 £48.50 £17.21
Median hourly rate £43.00 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.81% +173.26% -43.05%
75th Percentile £49.06 £73.71 £46.69
90th Percentile £52.70 £75.75 £67.63
England median hourly rate £30.75 £52.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.90% +146.16% -12.07%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCOM in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SCOM in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCOM in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the South East 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
Thames Valley +51 42 £605 - 6
Berkshire +29 39 £605 - 6
Hampshire - 5 £494 - 4
Buckinghamshire - 3 £625 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 21 (44.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 36 (76.60%) Azure
2 21 (44.68%) Azure Monitor
2 21 (44.68%) Azure Storage
2 21 (44.68%) Entra ID
2 21 (44.68%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (29.79%) OCI
4 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 35 (74.47%) DHCP
1 35 (74.47%) DNS
1 35 (74.47%) Firewall
2 14 (29.79%) SAN
3 2 (4.26%) LAN
3 2 (4.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) GitLab
General
1 35 (74.47%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (44.68%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (31.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (29.79%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (29.79%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (29.79%) Support Specialist
4 10 (21.28%) Storage Engineer
5 9 (19.15%) Support Engineer
6 8 (17.02%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (14.89%) Active Directory Engineer
7 7 (14.89%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Administrator
8 4 (8.51%) Server Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (6.38%) Architect
9 3 (6.38%) PowerShell Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (6.38%) VMware Architect
9 3 (6.38%) VMware Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (4.26%) Windows Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (44.68%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.13%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 21 (44.68%) PKI
1 21 (44.68%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (29.79%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.13%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 42 (89.36%) Windows
2 40 (85.11%) Windows Server
3 38 (80.85%) Linux
3 38 (80.85%) Windows Server 2016
3 38 (80.85%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (29.79%) Windows 10
4 14 (29.79%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (29.79%) Windows XP
5 2 (4.26%) Solaris
5 2 (4.26%) Unix
6 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (78.72%) ITIL
2 25 (53.19%) Agile
3 24 (51.06%) Release Management
4 22 (46.81%) DevOps
5 21 (44.68%) Analytics
5 21 (44.68%) CI/CD
5 21 (44.68%) Identity Management
5 21 (44.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (44.68%) Log Analytics
5 21 (44.68%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 21 (44.68%) Privileged Identity Management
5 21 (44.68%) RBAC
5 21 (44.68%) Service Management
6 17 (36.17%) Converged Infrastructure
7 16 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (31.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 15 (31.91%) Performance Tuning
8 15 (31.91%) Server Management
9 14 (29.79%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (29.79%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 38 (80.85%) PowerShell
2 21 (44.68%) Bicep
2 21 (44.68%) C#
2 21 (44.68%) VB
2 21 (44.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (97.87%) Security Cleared
2 39 (82.98%) SC Cleared
3 36 (76.60%) DV Cleared
4 35 (74.47%) Degree
5 21 (44.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (29.79%) CCNA
6 14 (29.79%) CCNP
6 14 (29.79%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 38 (80.85%) Active Directory
2 21 (44.68%) Virtual Desktop
2 21 (44.68%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (40.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (34.04%) Hyper-V
4 16 (34.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (82.98%) SCCM
2 36 (76.60%) WSUS
3 23 (48.94%) Kubernetes
4 22 (46.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (44.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (29.79%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (29.79%) NetBackup
6 14 (29.79%) vCenter Server
7 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (4.26%) Ansible
8 2 (4.26%) Rancher
8 2 (4.26%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 1 (2.13%) SCSM
9 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (85.11%) Microsoft
2 22 (46.81%) VMware
3 17 (36.17%) Cisco
4 16 (34.04%) Dell
4 16 (34.04%) HP
5 14 (29.79%) 3PAR
5 14 (29.79%) EMC
5 14 (29.79%) Extreme Networks
5 14 (29.79%) Juniper
5 14 (29.79%) Oracle
5 14 (29.79%) Palo Alto
5 14 (29.79%) Symantec
5 14 (29.79%) Veeam
6 3 (6.38%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.26%) IBM