SCOM Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 425 544
Rank change year-on-year +124 +119 -83
Contract jobs citing SCOM 48 34 82
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.14% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.91% 0.87% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 24 58
10th Percentile £458 £381 £250
25th Percentile £475 £395 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £472
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -0.42% +14.42%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £538
90th Percentile - £694 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +12.82% +2.63% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.05 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -64.54% -0.76% -

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,648 3,906 7,095
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.25% 16.11% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,239 2,893 5,298
10th Percentile £360 £400 £400
25th Percentile £448 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £564
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -1.15% +7.43%
75th Percentile £629 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 78 45
10th Percentile - £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.01 £20.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.38% +85.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £85.75 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -47.83% +165.71% -45.22%

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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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SCOM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SCOM over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

SCOM daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SCOM
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SCOM hourly rate 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 24 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (35.42%) SharePoint
3 14 (29.17%) Confluence
3 14 (29.17%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (4.17%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (2.08%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 39 (81.25%) Azure
2 23 (47.92%) Azure Monitor
3 21 (43.75%) Entra ID
3 21 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (41.67%) Azure Storage
5 14 (29.17%) Azure Stack
6 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.25%) GitHub
7 2 (4.17%) AWS
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 35 (72.92%) Firewall
2 21 (43.75%) DHCP
2 21 (43.75%) DNS
3 14 (29.17%) BGP
4 1 (2.08%) DSL
4 1 (2.08%) HTTP
4 1 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.08%) Power BI
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (29.17%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) Mercurial
2 1 (2.08%) Subversion
General
1 35 (72.92%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.08%) Back Office
3 1 (2.08%) French Language
Job Titles
1 20 (41.67%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (29.17%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (29.17%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (29.17%) Microsoft Engineer
2 14 (29.17%) Support Specialist
3 7 (14.58%) Active Directory Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Administrator
5 3 (6.25%) Server Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.08%) Consultant
7 1 (2.08%) IT Administrator
7 1 (2.08%) IT Consultant
7 1 (2.08%) Junior
7 1 (2.08%) SharePoint Administrator
7 1 (2.08%) Support Consultant
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (41.67%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.17%) .NET
3 1 (2.08%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 20 (41.67%) PKI
1 20 (41.67%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (29.17%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.25%) Clustering
3 3 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.08%) CMDB
4 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 46 (95.83%) Windows
2 28 (58.33%) Windows Server
3 25 (52.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 23 (47.92%) Linux
5 21 (43.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (2.08%) Unix
8 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (75.00%) ITIL
2 34 (70.83%) Service Management
3 24 (50.00%) Analytics
4 23 (47.92%) CI/CD
4 23 (47.92%) DevOps
4 23 (47.92%) Log Analytics
5 21 (43.75%) Agile
5 21 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (41.67%) Identity Management
6 20 (41.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 20 (41.67%) Privileged Identity Management
6 20 (41.67%) RBAC
6 20 (41.67%) Release Management
7 15 (31.25%) Capacity Management
7 15 (31.25%) ITSM
8 14 (29.17%) Network Management
8 14 (29.17%) Security Monitoring
9 3 (6.25%) Network Load Balancing
9 3 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 27 (56.25%) PowerShell
2 22 (45.83%) C#
3 20 (41.67%) Bicep
3 20 (41.67%) VB
3 20 (41.67%) VBScript
4 6 (12.50%) SQL
5 3 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (2.08%) Python
6 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (77.08%) Security Cleared
2 34 (70.83%) DV Cleared
3 21 (43.75%) Degree
3 21 (43.75%) SC Cleared
4 20 (41.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (29.17%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (43.75%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (41.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (4.17%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (52.08%) SCCM
2 22 (45.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 20 (41.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (41.67%) WSUS
4 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (6.25%) SCVMM
5 2 (4.17%) SCOrch
6 1 (2.08%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (2.08%) Kibana
6 1 (2.08%) logstash
6 1 (2.08%) Nagios
6 1 (2.08%) Puppet
6 1 (2.08%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 14 (29.17%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.25%) VMware
4 2 (4.17%) HP
4 2 (4.17%) Huawei
4 2 (4.17%) Trend Micro
5 1 (2.08%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.08%) Citrix
5 1 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.08%) Ivanti
5 1 (2.08%) NetApp
5 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.08%) Varonis