Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SCOrch skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SCOrch over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 888 969 1203
Rank change year-on-year +81 +234 -340
Permanent jobs citing SCOrch 6 12 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.012% 0.012%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.061% 0.081% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 15
10th Percentile - £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile - £46,250 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +13.86% +12.22%
75th Percentile £77,500 £61,875 £53,250
90th Percentile - £82,500 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +7.95%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SCOrch is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,900 14,738 28,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.98% 14.61% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7,126 9,154 14,048
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,810 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% -3.65% +9.09%

SCOrch
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SCOrch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SCOrch in the UK

SCOrch
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SCOrch.

Salary trend for SCOrch in the UK

SCOrch
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCOrch over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SCOrch in the UK

SCOrch
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCOrch within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +73 6 £50,000 -13.04% 6
London +125 3 £75,000 +30.43% 2
UK excluding London -3 3 £50,000 -4.76% 4
Midlands -10 3 £50,000 -13.04% 3
East Midlands -20 3 £50,000 -13.04% 2
Work from Home +75 1 - - 1

SCOrch
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 6 (100.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (50.00%) IaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Storage
3 2 (33.33%) Nutanix
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (83.33%) SAN
3 3 (50.00%) BGP
3 3 (50.00%) DHCP
4 2 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (33.33%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (50.00%) Redis
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (16.67%) Back Office
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Law
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Storage Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) SAN Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) SAN Storage Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Server Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Virtualisation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) PKI
2 4 (66.67%) Clustering
3 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (33.33%) Replication
5 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (16.67%) Unix
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (50.00%) Server Virtualisation
1 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 3 (50.00%) Threat Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Break/Fix
2 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) BCP
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) Server Management
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) MCSE
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (33.33%) CCNA
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) MCSA
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certified Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) Firmware
2 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Server
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) SCOM
2 3 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (50.00%) vMotion
3 2 (33.33%) HP SIM
3 2 (33.33%) PowerCLI
3 2 (33.33%) vRealize
3 2 (33.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 2 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Splunk
3 2 (33.33%) 3PAR
3 2 (33.33%) Brocade
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix
3 2 (33.33%) Commvault
3 2 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (33.33%) Nimble Storage
3 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 2 (33.33%) Veeam
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow