Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SCOrch skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SCOrch over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 679 840
Rank change year-on-year +108 +161 -143
Contract jobs citing SCOrch 8 15 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.026% 0.026%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.16% 0.16% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 15
10th Percentile £439 £400 £313
25th Percentile £450 £484 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +31.25% -21.57%
75th Percentile £519 £735 £513
90th Percentile - £749 £545
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £525 £313
% change year-on-year -2.38% +67.87% -16.60%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,096 9,119 14,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.98% 15.92% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,684 6,541 10,109
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 201 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.76 £22.41 £15.56
Median hourly rate £26.38 £52.50 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year -49.75% +139.84% -45.28%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £44.46
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.00 £58.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.09% +100.25% -13.83%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SCOrch in the UK

SCOrch
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SCOrch in the UK

SCOrch
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOrch within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +110 6 £481 -8.33% 5
Work from Home +111 4 £513 -2.38% 1
London +102 4 £444 +10.94% 2
UK excluding London +46 2 £513 -2.38% 3
South West - 2 £513 - 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 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Internet
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
1 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Runbook
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (25.00%) Data Security
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security Management
3 2 (25.00%) ISMS
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) OWASP
3 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (25.00%) Security Management
3 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) COBIT
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
2 2 (25.00%) CASB
2 2 (25.00%) SCOM
2 2 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) SCVMM
3 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (25.00%) Imperva
3 2 (25.00%) Netskope
3 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (12.50%) Varonis
4 1 (12.50%) VMware