SCOM Jobs in England

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SCOM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SCOM over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 680 686 1007
Rank change year-on-year +6 +321 -315
Permanent jobs citing SCOM 185 216 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.26% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.17% 1.75% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 112 153 157
10th Percentile £31,450 £30,725 £26,450
25th Percentile £40,250 £35,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -9.77%
75th Percentile £59,000 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,600 £69,032
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.70% +4.44% -7.14%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 8,515 12,370 25,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.36% 14.70% 18.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6,500 8,048 12,508
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £61,206 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.32% -3.57% +7.69%

SCOM
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

SCOM
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SCOM in England.

Salary trend for SCOM in England

SCOM
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCOM in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SCOM in England

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Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +25 90 £52,500 +31.25% 7
North of England -10 30 £37,500 +16.46% 3
Yorkshire +24 25 £29,025 -9.86%
Midlands -3 24 £50,000 -4.76% 11
London +102 22 £65,000 +17.86% 2
West Midlands -2 13 £75,000 +57.89% 7
East Midlands -20 11 £50,000 -4.76% 4
East of England -8 10 £45,000 -5.76% 4
South West -42 9 £52,500 +33.63% 5
North East -9 3 £37,500 -17.13%
North West -9 2 £52,500 -0.94% 3
SCOM
UK

SCOM
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 48 (25.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (14.05%) IIS
3 13 (7.03%) CMS
4 9 (4.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.54%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.54%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 20 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 76 (41.08%) Azure
2 48 (25.95%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (14.05%) Entra ID
4 18 (9.73%) Azure Storage
5 17 (9.19%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (6.49%) AWS
6 12 (6.49%) OCI
7 9 (4.86%) IaaS
8 5 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (2.70%) GCP
8 5 (2.70%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.16%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.62%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.08%) PaaS
12 1 (0.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (0.54%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 78 (42.16%) DNS
2 74 (40.00%) DHCP
3 60 (32.43%) Firewall
4 28 (15.14%) SAN
5 11 (5.95%) TCP/IP
6 10 (5.41%) SNMP
7 7 (3.78%) VPN
8 6 (3.24%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (3.24%) Wireless
9 5 (2.70%) BIG-IP
9 5 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (2.70%) NetScaler
9 5 (2.70%) Network Security
10 4 (2.16%) BGP
11 2 (1.08%) IPv4
11 2 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.54%) Skype
12 1 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (4.86%) Redis
2 8 (4.32%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 68 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.14%) Finance
3 27 (14.59%) Legal
4 16 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (8.65%) Influencing Skills
4 16 (8.65%) Pharmaceutical
5 12 (6.49%) Aerospace
6 8 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.78%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.70%) Automotive
8 5 (2.70%) Retail
9 3 (1.62%) Law
10 1 (0.54%) Back Office
10 1 (0.54%) Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (19.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (14.59%) Systems Engineer
3 23 (12.43%) Administrator
4 21 (11.35%) Senior
5 17 (9.19%) Active Directory Specialist
5 17 (9.19%) Active Directory Support
5 17 (9.19%) Azure Specialist
5 17 (9.19%) Support Specialist
6 16 (8.65%) Project Manager
7 13 (7.03%) ServiceNow Administrator
8 12 (6.49%) 3rd Line Support
8 12 (6.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (5.95%) IT Engineer
9 11 (5.95%) Windows Engineer
10 10 (5.41%) VMware Engineer
10 10 (5.41%) Windows Systems Engineer
11 9 (4.86%) Support Engineer
12 8 (4.32%) Infrastructure Support
12 8 (4.32%) PowerShell Engineer
12 8 (4.32%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.73%) ARM Templates
2 5 (2.70%) Middleware
3 4 (2.16%) .NET
3 4 (2.16%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.22%) Data Centre
2 24 (12.97%) PKI
3 19 (10.27%) Replication
4 17 (9.19%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (8.11%) Clustering
6 14 (7.57%) CMDB
7 13 (7.03%) Digital Signage
8 10 (5.41%) Public Cloud
9 7 (3.78%) Management Information System
10 6 (3.24%) AS400
10 6 (3.24%) IoT
11 4 (2.16%) Driving Licence
11 4 (2.16%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.54%) Blackberry
12 1 (0.54%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 134 (72.43%) Windows
2 98 (52.97%) Windows Server
3 78 (42.16%) Linux
4 42 (22.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 39 (21.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (14.05%) Windows 10
7 21 (11.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 17 (9.19%) Windows XP
9 9 (4.86%) Windows Server 2003
10 7 (3.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (3.24%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (2.70%) Windows 2000
12 5 (2.70%) Windows NT
13 4 (2.16%) Unix
13 4 (2.16%) Windows 7
13 4 (2.16%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.54%) Solaris
14 1 (0.54%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (41.62%) ITIL
2 55 (29.73%) Service Management
3 45 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 36 (19.46%) Agile
6 30 (16.22%) Disaster Recovery
7 26 (14.05%) Mentoring
8 25 (13.51%) Performance Tuning
8 25 (13.51%) Release Management
9 24 (12.97%) ITSM
10 22 (11.89%) DevOps
10 22 (11.89%) Identity Management
11 21 (11.35%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 21 (11.35%) Project Management
12 20 (10.81%) Proactive Monitoring
13 19 (10.27%) Cybersecurity
13 19 (10.27%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (9.73%) Change Management
14 18 (9.73%) CI/CD
14 18 (9.73%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 65 (35.14%) PowerShell
2 34 (18.38%) SQL
3 18 (9.73%) Bicep
3 18 (9.73%) VBScript
4 17 (9.19%) C#
4 17 (9.19%) VB
5 13 (7.03%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.41%) RPG
7 6 (3.24%) Python
8 3 (1.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 94 (50.81%) Security Cleared
2 72 (38.92%) DV Cleared
2 72 (38.92%) SC Cleared
3 54 (29.19%) Degree
4 21 (11.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 16 (8.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (7.03%) CCNA
6 13 (7.03%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (6.49%) CCNP
8 9 (4.86%) Azure Certification
9 7 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.70%) CISSP
10 5 (2.70%) DBS Check
10 5 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.62%) MCSA
11 3 (1.62%) MCSE
11 3 (1.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.78%) Good Clinical Practice
2 6 (3.24%) SLA
3 2 (1.08%) GDPR
4 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 117 (63.24%) Active Directory
2 61 (32.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (26.49%) Hyper-V
4 34 (18.38%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (11.35%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (10.81%) Firmware
6 20 (10.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (5.41%) VMware Workstation
8 9 (4.86%) Forefront TMG
9 7 (3.78%) vSphere
10 5 (2.70%) Terminal Services
11 4 (2.16%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (2.16%) VMware Server
12 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 80 (43.24%) SCCM
2 53 (28.65%) WSUS
3 24 (12.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 23 (12.43%) Kubernetes
4 23 (12.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (10.81%) NetBackup
6 15 (8.11%) vCenter Server
7 12 (6.49%) EMC NetWorker
8 8 (4.32%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 7 (3.78%) Ansible
10 6 (3.24%) SCOrch
11 5 (2.70%) Grafana
11 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (2.70%) Prometheus
11 5 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (2.16%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (2.16%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (2.16%) vMotion
13 3 (1.62%) Check_MK
13 3 (1.62%) Nagios
Vendors
1 122 (65.95%) Microsoft
2 74 (40.00%) VMware
3 32 (17.30%) Dynatrace
4 30 (16.22%) HP
5 29 (15.68%) Dell
6 26 (14.05%) Veeam
7 24 (12.97%) Oracle
8 22 (11.89%) Cisco
8 22 (11.89%) ServiceNow
9 19 (10.27%) SolarWinds
10 13 (7.03%) 3PAR
10 13 (7.03%) NetApp
10 13 (7.03%) Riverbed
11 12 (6.49%) EMC
11 12 (6.49%) Extreme Networks
11 12 (6.49%) Juniper
11 12 (6.49%) McAfee
11 12 (6.49%) Palo Alto
11 12 (6.49%) Symantec
12 11 (5.95%) IBM