SCOM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 300 361 451
Rank change year-on-year +61 +90 -82
Contract jobs citing SCOM 94 88 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.38% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.04% 2.54% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 55 37
10th Percentile £460 £381 £249
25th Percentile £493 £413 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £455 £450
Median % change year-on-year +26.37% +1.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £525
90th Percentile £638 £645 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +19.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £65.75 £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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,325 3,468 4,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.46% 15.07% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,718 2,529 2,955
10th Percentile £213 £286 £248
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £514 £561 £565
% change year-on-year -8.38% -0.71% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 129 114
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.65
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.00 £14.44
Median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -11.62%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £27.75
90th Percentile £70.93 £75.10 £51.25
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCOM in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SCOM in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCOM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
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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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 31 (32.98%) SharePoint
2 25 (26.60%) Confluence
3 24 (25.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (25.53%) SharePoint Server
4 9 (9.57%) IIS
5 2 (2.13%) Apache
6 1 (1.06%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 68 (72.34%) Azure
2 26 (27.66%) Azure Stack
3 20 (21.28%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (18.09%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (18.09%) Azure Storage
4 17 (18.09%) Entra ID
5 14 (14.89%) OCI
6 10 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.06%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (61.70%) Firewall
2 34 (36.17%) DHCP
2 34 (36.17%) DNS
3 24 (25.53%) BGP
4 14 (14.89%) SAN
5 7 (7.45%) WAN
6 6 (6.38%) LAN
6 6 (6.38%) TCP/IP
7 5 (5.32%) Skype
8 4 (4.26%) Wireshark
9 2 (2.13%) SMTP
9 2 (2.13%) Unified Communications
10 1 (1.06%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (1.06%) Internet
10 1 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (27.66%) JIRA
2 4 (4.26%) Fiddler
2 4 (4.26%) GitLab
3 1 (1.06%) GoCD
3 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (63.83%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.70%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.45%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.13%) Military
6 1 (1.06%) Advertising
6 1 (1.06%) Back Office
6 1 (1.06%) Electronics
6 1 (1.06%) Finance
6 1 (1.06%) Legal
6 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.06%) Marketing
6 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (19.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (18.09%) Active Directory Support
2 17 (18.09%) Microsoft Engineer
3 14 (14.89%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (14.89%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (14.89%) Support Specialist
4 10 (10.64%) Administrator
4 10 (10.64%) Storage Engineer
5 9 (9.57%) Support Engineer
6 6 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (6.38%) Systems Administrator
7 5 (5.32%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Applications Support
7 5 (5.32%) Applications Support Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Unix Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Unix Linux Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Web Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Server Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.09%) ARM Templates
2 10 (10.64%) .NET
3 4 (4.26%) .NET Framework
3 4 (4.26%) SAML
4 2 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.06%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 27 (28.72%) Private Cloud
2 20 (21.28%) PKI
3 17 (18.09%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (15.96%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.06%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 79 (84.04%) Windows
2 46 (48.94%) Windows Server
3 43 (45.74%) Linux
4 35 (37.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (36.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (18.09%) Windows 10
7 16 (17.02%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (14.89%) Windows XP
9 5 (5.32%) Solaris
9 5 (5.32%) Unix
10 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.06%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (70.21%) ITIL
2 46 (48.94%) Service Management
3 28 (29.79%) DevOps
4 26 (27.66%) Security Monitoring
5 25 (26.60%) Agile
5 25 (26.60%) Capacity Management
5 25 (26.60%) Network Management
6 23 (24.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 22 (23.40%) Release Management
8 19 (20.21%) ITSM
9 18 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (18.09%) Analytics
10 17 (18.09%) CI/CD
10 17 (18.09%) Converged Infrastructure
10 17 (18.09%) Identity Management
10 17 (18.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (18.09%) Log Analytics
10 17 (18.09%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 17 (18.09%) Privileged Identity Management
10 17 (18.09%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 44 (46.81%) PowerShell
2 17 (18.09%) Bicep
2 17 (18.09%) C#
2 17 (18.09%) VB
2 17 (18.09%) VBScript
3 6 (6.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (80.85%) Security Cleared
2 60 (63.83%) DV Cleared
3 42 (44.68%) Degree
3 42 (44.68%) SC Cleared
4 17 (18.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 15 (15.96%) CCNA
5 15 (15.96%) CCNP
5 15 (15.96%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.06%) MCSE
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (25.53%) Government Security Classifications
2 3 (3.19%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (52.13%) Active Directory
2 27 (28.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (20.21%) Hyper-V
3 19 (20.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 19 (20.21%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (18.09%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (3.19%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (2.13%) Docker
7 1 (1.06%) NFS
Systems Management
1 48 (51.06%) SCCM
2 33 (35.11%) WSUS
3 22 (23.40%) Kubernetes
4 20 (21.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (18.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (17.02%) EMC NetWorker
7 15 (15.96%) vCenter Server
8 14 (14.89%) NetBackup
9 8 (8.51%) Ansible
10 6 (6.38%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (5.32%) Rancher
11 5 (5.32%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 4 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (3.19%) SCSM
14 2 (2.13%) OPNET
15 1 (1.06%) Dell DRAC
15 1 (1.06%) Nagios
15 1 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 74 (78.72%) Microsoft
2 35 (37.23%) VMware
3 25 (26.60%) Atlassian
4 20 (21.28%) Dell
5 19 (20.21%) Cisco
5 19 (20.21%) HP
6 16 (17.02%) EMC
7 15 (15.96%) Veeam
8 14 (14.89%) 3PAR
8 14 (14.89%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (14.89%) Juniper
8 14 (14.89%) Oracle
8 14 (14.89%) Palo Alto
8 14 (14.89%) Symantec
9 6 (6.38%) Red Hat
10 5 (5.32%) F5
10 5 (5.32%) IBM
11 4 (4.26%) Citrix
12 3 (3.19%) SolarWinds
13 2 (2.13%) Remedy