SCCM Contracts in England

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SCCM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SCCM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 166 180
Rank change year-on-year +18 +14 +6
Contract jobs citing SCCM 596 804 1,149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.61% 1.59% 1.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.71% 10.16% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 590 816
10th Percentile £163 £180 £166
25th Percentile £205 £213 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £350 £375
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £488
90th Percentile £608 £613 £575
UK median daily rate £315 £365 £375
% change year-on-year -13.70% -2.67% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 51 75
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.61 £15.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £22.23 £22.41 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +6.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £40.00 £65.00 £23.83
90th Percentile £54.09 £65.75 £23.91
UK median hourly rate £22.23 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.02% +10.00% +11.11%

All Systems Management Skills
England

SCCM 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 4,348 7,914 11,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.76% 15.66% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,145 5,780 8,321
10th Percentile £250 £350 £361
25th Percentile £409 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £680 £675
90th Percentile £700 £755 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 186 161
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.02 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.73 £25.18 £15.25
Median hourly rate £26.38 £57.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.12% +167.44% -10.42%
75th Percentile £50.19 £73.74 £42.20
90th Percentile £70.38 £82.50 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SCCM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SCCM in England

SCCM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCCM in England.

Daily rate trend for SCCM in England

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in England

SCCM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCCM in England.

Hourly rate trend for SCCM in England

SCCM
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SCCM in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SCCM in England

SCCM
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 SCCM within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +38 209 £350 -6.67% 41
South East +67 192 £310 -4.62% 30
Midlands -9 55 £375 - 16
South West -22 55 £179 -55.25% 15
North of England -22 46 £220 -37.14% 15
West Midlands +26 42 £400 -12.09% 11
North West -27 37 £220 -45.00% 10
East of England -22 35 £305 +15.09% 11
East Midlands -15 12 £190 -42.42% 5
Yorkshire +10 6 £400 +73.91% 1
North East +21 4 £131 -41.78% 4
SCCM
UK

SCCM
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
1 130 (21.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (7.55%) SharePoint
3 20 (3.36%) IIS
4 11 (1.85%) Skype for Business
5 4 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.50%) nginx
6 3 (0.50%) WordPress
7 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.17%) Apache
8 1 (0.17%) Confluence
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 118 (19.80%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.50%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.34%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 248 (41.61%) Microsoft 365
2 156 (26.17%) Azure
3 74 (12.42%) Entra ID
4 39 (6.54%) OneDrive
5 28 (4.70%) AWS
6 19 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
7 16 (2.68%) Azure Storage
8 13 (2.18%) OCI
9 11 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.51%) Mimecast
11 6 (1.01%) IaaS
12 5 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.67%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.67%) Nutanix
14 3 (0.50%) SaaS
14 3 (0.50%) WhatsApp
15 2 (0.34%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (0.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 2 (0.34%) Azure Stack
15 2 (0.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 116 (19.46%) DNS
2 107 (17.95%) Firewall
3 92 (15.44%) DHCP
4 58 (9.73%) LAN
5 52 (8.72%) SAN
6 40 (6.71%) WAN
7 37 (6.21%) VPN
8 30 (5.03%) Wireless
9 27 (4.53%) TCP/IP
10 25 (4.19%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (3.52%) Skype
12 13 (2.18%) MPLS
12 13 (2.18%) VLAN
13 12 (2.01%) Remote Desktop
14 11 (1.85%) VoIP
15 10 (1.68%) Cisco IOS
16 8 (1.34%) NAS
17 7 (1.17%) Internet
18 6 (1.01%) NetScaler
18 6 (1.01%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (0.50%) JIRA
1 3 (0.50%) MSI
2 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.17%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.17%) Git
3 1 (0.17%) GitLab
3 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.17%) Subversion
3 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 244 (40.94%) Social Skills
2 65 (10.91%) Finance
3 46 (7.72%) Organisational Skills
4 41 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.03%) Public Sector
6 25 (4.19%) Banking
7 17 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.51%) Legal
8 9 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.34%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.17%) French Language
11 6 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.84%) Front Office
13 4 (0.67%) Billing
13 4 (0.67%) Local Government
14 3 (0.50%) Military
14 3 (0.50%) Multimedia
14 3 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.34%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 136 (22.82%) Support Engineer
2 76 (12.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 71 (11.91%) Desktop Support
4 63 (10.57%) Desktop Engineer
5 58 (9.73%) IT Support
6 54 (9.06%) Windows Engineer
7 48 (8.05%) IT Engineer
8 47 (7.89%) 2nd Line Support
8 47 (7.89%) Analyst
9 46 (7.72%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 31 (5.20%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 31 (5.20%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 30 (5.03%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 30 (5.03%) IT Support Engineer
11 30 (5.03%) Support Specialist
12 28 (4.70%) Technical Support
13 27 (4.53%) SCCM Engineer
14 25 (4.19%) Build Engineer
14 25 (4.19%) Deployment Engineer
14 25 (4.19%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.85%) ARM Templates
2 13 (2.18%) Software Packaging
3 9 (1.51%) .NET
4 4 (0.67%) EDI
5 3 (0.50%) LAMP
5 3 (0.50%) XMPP
6 2 (0.34%) WSH
7 1 (0.17%) Flash
7 1 (0.17%) LDAP
7 1 (0.17%) Middleware
7 1 (0.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.72%) Driving Licence
2 38 (6.38%) Data Centre
3 28 (4.70%) PKI
4 27 (4.53%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (4.36%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.86%) Clustering
7 19 (3.19%) Video Conferencing
8 11 (1.85%) iPad
8 11 (1.85%) iPhone
9 8 (1.34%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.34%) CMDB
9 8 (1.34%) NHS
10 7 (1.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.01%) Replication
11 6 (1.01%) Smartphone
12 5 (0.84%) Handset
12 5 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.84%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.67%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 524 (87.92%) Windows
2 279 (46.81%) Windows 10
3 171 (28.69%) Windows Server
4 85 (14.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 83 (13.93%) Windows Server 2012
6 77 (12.92%) Linux
6 77 (12.92%) Windows Server 2019
7 71 (11.91%) Windows 7
8 40 (6.71%) Mac OS
9 37 (6.21%) Apple iOS
10 32 (5.37%) Unix
11 26 (4.36%) Android
12 21 (3.52%) Windows NT
13 16 (2.68%) Windows XP
14 13 (2.18%) Windows Server 2008
15 11 (1.85%) Windows Server 2003
16 10 (1.68%) Mac OS X
16 10 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 7 (1.17%) VMS
18 6 (1.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (28.02%) ITIL
2 134 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
3 128 (21.48%) Customer Service
4 93 (15.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 62 (10.40%) Service Management
6 56 (9.40%) Mobile Device Management
7 47 (7.89%) Migration
8 46 (7.72%) Release Management
9 42 (7.05%) Disaster Recovery
10 41 (6.88%) Asset Management
11 40 (6.71%) Software Deployment
12 37 (6.21%) Server Management
13 33 (5.54%) Agile
14 32 (5.37%) ITSM
15 30 (5.03%) DevOps
16 29 (4.87%) Deployment Automation
17 27 (4.53%) Project Management
17 27 (4.53%) Service Delivery
17 27 (4.53%) Software Testing
18 26 (4.36%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 146 (24.50%) PowerShell
2 29 (4.87%) VBScript
3 26 (4.36%) C#
4 22 (3.69%) SQL
5 19 (3.19%) VB
6 15 (2.52%) Bicep
7 10 (1.68%) Java
8 6 (1.01%) Python
9 3 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 178 (29.87%) Security Cleared
2 124 (20.81%) Degree
3 122 (20.47%) DV Cleared
4 80 (13.42%) SC Cleared
5 28 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (4.19%) CCNA
6 25 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (3.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 17 (2.85%) CCNP
9 16 (2.68%) MCP
10 14 (2.35%) MCSE
11 10 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.51%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (1.17%) A+ Certification
13 7 (1.17%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (0.84%) MCTS
15 4 (0.67%) MCSA
16 3 (0.50%) CTC Cleared
17 2 (0.34%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.56%) SLA
2 25 (4.19%) QA
3 7 (1.17%) NIST
4 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.67%) GDPR
5 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.17%) COBIT
6 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 368 (61.74%) Active Directory
2 92 (15.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (7.72%) Hyper-V
4 39 (6.54%) Firmware
5 34 (5.70%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (4.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (2.68%) XenApp
9 12 (2.01%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (1.85%) BitLocker
10 11 (1.85%) VMware NSX
10 11 (1.85%) vSphere
11 9 (1.51%) XenDesktop
12 8 (1.34%) VMware Workstation
13 6 (1.01%) Docker
13 6 (1.01%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.17%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 131 (21.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 70 (11.74%) WSUS
3 64 (10.74%) SCOM
4 30 (5.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 28 (4.70%) vCenter Server
6 27 (4.53%) Jamf Pro
7 24 (4.03%) NetBackup
8 21 (3.52%) Sysprep
9 19 (3.19%) Kubernetes
10 17 (2.85%) EMC NetWorker
11 14 (2.35%) Microsoft Clustering
12 10 (1.68%) Failover Clustering
13 9 (1.51%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 8 (1.34%) Nagios
14 8 (1.34%) SCVMM
15 6 (1.01%) Autotask
16 4 (0.67%) AirWatch
17 3 (0.50%) Ansible
17 3 (0.50%) AppManager
17 3 (0.50%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 337 (56.54%) Microsoft
2 132 (22.15%) VMware
3 87 (14.60%) Citrix
4 80 (13.42%) HP
5 60 (10.07%) Cisco
6 49 (8.22%) Apple
7 47 (7.89%) ServiceNow
8 36 (6.04%) EMC
9 35 (5.87%) Veeam
10 25 (4.19%) Dell
11 19 (3.19%) Symantec
12 17 (2.85%) Avaya
13 16 (2.68%) MobileIron
13 16 (2.68%) Palo Alto
13 16 (2.68%) Qualys
14 15 (2.52%) Juniper
15 14 (2.35%) Oracle
16 13 (2.18%) 3PAR
16 13 (2.18%) CheckPoint
16 13 (2.18%) Extreme Networks