SCOM Contracts in England

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 555 662
Rank change year-on-year +136 +107 -138
Contract jobs citing SCOM 118 96 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.70% 1.28% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 59 80
10th Percentile £425 £360 £250
25th Percentile £493 £391 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £440 £459
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.14% +9.29%
75th Percentile £608 £579 £538
90th Percentile £623 £650 £621
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +19.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 2
10th Percentile £22.08 - -
25th Percentile £22.13 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £23.05 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.54% - -
75th Percentile £23.80 £65.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £44.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £23.05 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -64.54% -0.76% -

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,372 7,479 11,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.02% 15.52% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,202 5,432 8,204
10th Percentile £258 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% - +12.20%
75th Percentile £625 £682 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £561 £565
% change year-on-year -8.38% -0.71% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 176 155
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.30
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £52.32 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.75% +143.33% -11.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.56 £41.51
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.75 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%

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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 16 May 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SCOM in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 16 May 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 +51 44 £605 +10.00% 8
South West +27 30 £500 -9.09% 6
London +107 24 £515 +8.42% 2
East of England -7 13 £525 +23.53% 4
Midlands +32 6 £378 +0.87% 12
East Midlands +17 5 £449 +19.73% 5
North West +15 1 - - 2
North of England +6 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 £213 - 7
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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 36 (30.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (29.66%) SharePoint
3 25 (21.19%) Confluence
4 24 (20.34%) SharePoint Server
5 14 (11.86%) IIS
6 2 (1.69%) Apache
6 2 (1.69%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.85%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 78 (66.10%) Azure
2 30 (25.42%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (22.03%) Azure Stack
4 19 (16.10%) Entra ID
5 17 (14.41%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (14.41%) Azure Storage
6 14 (11.86%) OCI
7 13 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (5.93%) AWS
9 2 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.69%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.69%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.69%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (51.69%) Firewall
2 45 (38.14%) DNS
3 43 (36.44%) DHCP
4 24 (20.34%) BGP
5 16 (13.56%) SAN
6 9 (7.63%) LAN
7 8 (6.78%) TCP/IP
7 8 (6.78%) WAN
8 6 (5.08%) Skype
9 5 (4.24%) Wireshark
10 3 (2.54%) Internet
10 3 (2.54%) SMTP
11 2 (1.69%) DKIM
11 2 (1.69%) DMARC
11 2 (1.69%) Extranet
11 2 (1.69%) NAS
11 2 (1.69%) Unified Communications
11 2 (1.69%) VPN
11 2 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (22.03%) JIRA
2 5 (4.24%) Fiddler
3 4 (3.39%) GitLab
4 1 (0.85%) GoCD
4 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (53.39%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.17%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.93%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.54%) Military
5 2 (1.69%) Banking
5 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.85%) Advertising
6 1 (0.85%) Back Office
6 1 (0.85%) Electronics
6 1 (0.85%) Finance
6 1 (0.85%) Legal
6 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (18.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (14.41%) Active Directory Support
2 17 (14.41%) Microsoft Engineer
3 14 (11.86%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (11.86%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (11.86%) Support Specialist
4 12 (10.17%) Support Engineer
5 11 (9.32%) Administrator
6 10 (8.47%) Storage Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Wintel Engineer
8 8 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) IT Support
9 7 (5.93%) Web Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Senior
10 6 (5.08%) Server Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Systems Administrator
11 5 (4.24%) Applications Support
11 5 (4.24%) Applications Support Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Linux Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.41%) ARM Templates
2 13 (11.02%) .NET
3 5 (4.24%) .NET Framework
3 5 (4.24%) SAML
4 2 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.69%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.85%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 30 (25.42%) PKI
2 27 (22.88%) Private Cloud
3 23 (19.49%) Data Centre
4 17 (14.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.69%) Clustering
5 2 (1.69%) CMDB
5 2 (1.69%) Fat Client
5 2 (1.69%) Thin Client
5 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.85%) Grid Computing
6 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 101 (85.59%) Windows
2 57 (48.31%) Windows Server
3 45 (38.14%) Linux
4 37 (31.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (28.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (15.25%) Windows 10
6 18 (15.25%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (11.86%) Windows XP
8 12 (10.17%) Unix
9 5 (4.24%) Solaris
10 2 (1.69%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (1.69%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.85%) VMS
11 1 (0.85%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (60.17%) ITIL
2 48 (40.68%) Service Management
3 32 (27.12%) Capacity Management
4 31 (26.27%) DevOps
5 27 (22.88%) Agile
6 26 (22.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 26 (22.03%) Security Monitoring
7 25 (21.19%) Network Management
8 23 (19.49%) ITSM
8 23 (19.49%) Server Management
9 22 (18.64%) Release Management
10 20 (16.95%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (16.10%) Analytics
11 19 (16.10%) Converged Infrastructure
11 19 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (14.41%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (14.41%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 17 (14.41%) Performance Monitoring
12 17 (14.41%) Privileged Identity Management
12 17 (14.41%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 50 (42.37%) PowerShell
2 17 (14.41%) Bicep
2 17 (14.41%) C#
2 17 (14.41%) VB
2 17 (14.41%) VBScript
3 11 (9.32%) SQL
4 1 (0.85%) C
Qualifications
1 78 (66.10%) Security Cleared
2 60 (50.85%) DV Cleared
3 44 (37.29%) Degree
3 44 (37.29%) SC Cleared
4 17 (14.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 15 (12.71%) CCNA
5 15 (12.71%) CCNP
5 15 (12.71%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.85%) MCSE
7 1 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.34%) Government Security Classifications
2 6 (5.08%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (53.39%) Active Directory
2 36 (30.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (22.03%) Hyper-V
4 20 (16.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (16.10%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (14.41%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (6.78%) vSphere
8 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (3.39%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (1.69%) BitLocker
9 2 (1.69%) Docker
9 2 (1.69%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.85%) Firmware
10 1 (0.85%) NFS
10 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 61 (51.69%) SCCM
2 33 (27.97%) WSUS
3 23 (19.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 22 (18.64%) Kubernetes
5 19 (16.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (13.56%) EMC NetWorker
6 16 (13.56%) NetBackup
6 16 (13.56%) vCenter Server
7 8 (6.78%) Ansible
8 7 (5.93%) SCVMM
9 6 (5.08%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (4.24%) Rancher
10 5 (4.24%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (4.24%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 3 (2.54%) Nagios
11 3 (2.54%) OPNET
11 3 (2.54%) SCSM
12 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (1.69%) VxRail
13 1 (0.85%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 88 (74.58%) Microsoft
2 51 (43.22%) VMware
3 29 (24.58%) Dell
4 25 (21.19%) Atlassian
5 23 (19.49%) HP
6 22 (18.64%) Cisco
7 18 (15.25%) EMC
8 16 (13.56%) Juniper
9 15 (12.71%) Veeam
10 14 (11.86%) 3PAR
10 14 (11.86%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (11.86%) Oracle
10 14 (11.86%) Palo Alto
10 14 (11.86%) Symantec
11 9 (7.63%) F5
12 6 (5.08%) Red Hat
12 6 (5.08%) SolarWinds
13 5 (4.24%) IBM
14 4 (3.39%) Citrix
14 4 (3.39%) ServiceNow