SCCM Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 78 71
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 +10
Contract jobs citing SCCM 55 92 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.01% 2.66% 3.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.30% 21.10% 27.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 67 108
10th Percentile £145 £223 £150
25th Percentile £188 £308 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £375 £325
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £456 £441
90th Percentile £575 £538 £520
England median daily rate £300 £350 £375
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 14
10th Percentile - £17.13 £11.23
25th Percentile - £17.72 £13.22
Median hourly rate £15.65 £18.86 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +14.30% -2.94%
75th Percentile - £22.81 £19.84
90th Percentile - £25.12 £21.58
England median hourly rate £22.23 £22.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.22% +7.14% +16.67%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 271 436 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.88% 12.60% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 302 378
10th Percentile £188 £231 £204
25th Percentile £350 £363 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +11.80%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £539
90th Percentile £670 £700 £625
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 18
10th Percentile £21.49 £17.72 £10.68
25th Percentile £25.38 £20.00 £12.63
Median hourly rate £25.77 £21.67 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% +31.33% -5.71%
75th Percentile £40.57 £40.25 £19.94
90th Percentile £55.00 £50.55 £22.70
England median hourly rate £28.50 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.43% +167.44% -7.37%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SCCM in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SCCM in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SCCM in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
West Midlands +27 42 £400 -12.09% 9
East Midlands -15 12 £190 -42.42% 3
SCCM
England

SCCM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 19 (34.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (14.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.64%) IIS
3 2 (3.64%) WordPress
4 1 (1.82%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.82%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 32 (58.18%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (29.09%) Azure
3 4 (7.27%) OneDrive
4 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.82%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.82%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 23 (41.82%) DNS
2 16 (29.09%) DHCP
3 12 (21.82%) TCP/IP
4 9 (16.36%) VPN
5 8 (14.55%) Firewall
6 5 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (7.27%) LAN
7 4 (7.27%) WAN
8 3 (5.45%) SAN
8 3 (5.45%) VLAN
8 3 (5.45%) VoIP
8 3 (5.45%) Wireless
9 2 (3.64%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (3.64%) iSCSI
9 2 (3.64%) NAS
10 1 (1.82%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (1.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.82%) MySQL
General
1 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (5.45%) Legal
4 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.82%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.82%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Support Engineer
2 16 (29.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 7 (12.73%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) 2nd Line Support
3 7 (12.73%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) IT Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) IT Support
4 6 (10.91%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Technical Support
7 3 (5.45%) Technical Support Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Consultant
8 2 (3.64%) Desktop Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Desktop Support
8 2 (3.64%) Junior
8 2 (3.64%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) LAMP
2 1 (1.82%) EDI
2 1 (1.82%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Driving Licence
2 4 (7.27%) iPad
3 3 (5.45%) Clustering
3 3 (5.45%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.64%) Replication
5 1 (1.82%) CCTV
5 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (80.00%) Windows
2 25 (45.45%) Windows Server
3 14 (25.45%) Windows 10
4 10 (18.18%) Linux
5 9 (16.36%) Mac OS
6 8 (14.55%) Apple iOS
7 7 (12.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (12.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (10.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (10.91%) Unix
9 3 (5.45%) Android
9 3 (5.45%) Ubuntu
9 3 (5.45%) Windows 7
10 2 (3.64%) VMS
10 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (16.36%) Customer Service
3 8 (14.55%) Virtual Environments
4 7 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (10.91%) Visualisation
6 5 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (9.09%) Information Management
6 5 (9.09%) Security Hardening
6 5 (9.09%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (9.09%) Server Patching
6 5 (9.09%) SIEM
6 5 (9.09%) Systems Engineering
7 4 (7.27%) Asset Management
8 3 (5.45%) Decision-Making
8 3 (5.45%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (5.45%) Quality Management
8 3 (5.45%) Time Management
9 2 (3.64%) DevOps
9 2 (3.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 8 (14.55%) C#
2 8 (14.55%) Java
3 2 (3.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (30.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.73%) DV Cleared
4 5 (9.09%) Degree
5 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.64%) MCSE
7 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.82%) MCDST
7 1 (1.82%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) NIST
2 2 (3.64%) SLA
3 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 32 (58.18%) Active Directory
2 10 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (14.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (9.09%) VMware NSX
5 4 (7.27%) BitLocker
6 3 (5.45%) Hyper-V
6 3 (5.45%) vSphere
7 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (38.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (16.36%) vCenter Server
3 3 (5.45%) Autotask
3 3 (5.45%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (5.45%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.82%) PaperCut
4 1 (1.82%) SCOM
Vendors
1 24 (43.64%) Microsoft
2 18 (32.73%) VMware
3 8 (14.55%) Veeam
4 6 (10.91%) Apple
5 4 (7.27%) Cisco
6 3 (5.45%) Aruba
6 3 (5.45%) Datto
7 2 (3.64%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.64%) ProCurve
7 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.64%) Synology
7 2 (3.64%) Zerto
8 1 (1.82%) Adobe
8 1 (1.82%) Google
8 1 (1.82%) HP
8 1 (1.82%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.82%) Sage
8 1 (1.82%) WatchGuard