Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SCVMM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SCVMM over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 711 801
Rank change year-on-year +127 +90 -137
Contract jobs citing SCVMM 10 5 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.008% 0.061%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.20% 0.052% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 49
10th Percentile £399 £451 £411
25th Percentile £400 £452 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -8.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £489 £473 £538
90th Percentile £518 £474 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £425
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £22.04 - -
25th Percentile £22.08 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £22.23 - £32.50
75th Percentile £23.43 - £33.75
90th Percentile £23.80 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SCVMM 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 5,089 9,617 14,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.11% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,944 10,283
10th Percentile £256 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 209 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.48 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £22.75 £15.78
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +156.81% -44.03%
75th Percentile £53.75 £71.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £43.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +118.75% -10.11%

SCVMM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SCVMM in the UK

SCVMM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SCVMM in the UK

SCVMM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCVMM over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCVMM in the UK

SCVMM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SCVMM in the UK

SCVMM
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCVMM within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +121 8 £400 -12.14% 1
London +112 8 £400 -12.14%
Work from Home - 3 £465 - 1

SCVMM
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 4 (40.00%) IIS
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (10.00%) Apache
4 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Mimecast
3 2 (20.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (20.00%) Rubrik
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
1 3 (30.00%) SAN
2 2 (20.00%) DKIM
2 2 (20.00%) DMARC
2 2 (20.00%) Extranet
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) Internet
2 2 (20.00%) LAN
2 2 (20.00%) NAS
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (20.00%) Wireless
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (10.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) IT Support
2 3 (30.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Support Officer
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) IT Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Support Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Software Packaging
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Fat Client
2 2 (20.00%) PKI
2 2 (20.00%) Thin Client
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Unix
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Capacity Management
1 8 (80.00%) Security Hardening
1 8 (80.00%) Server Management
2 4 (40.00%) Patch Management
3 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (30.00%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (30.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (30.00%) Software Deployment
4 2 (20.00%) Application Packaging
4 2 (20.00%) Converged Infrastructure
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Web Filtering
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Hyper-V
1 9 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) BitLocker
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) SCOM
2 9 (90.00%) SCCM
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (30.00%) NetBackup
4 2 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (20.00%) SCOrch
4 2 (20.00%) VxRail
5 1 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (10.00%) Simpana
5 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) Commvault
2 3 (30.00%) Dell
2 3 (30.00%) Dell Compellent
2 3 (30.00%) EMC
2 3 (30.00%) MobileIron
2 3 (30.00%) Proofpoint
3 2 (20.00%) Avaya
3 2 (20.00%) Brocade
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) Equitrac
3 2 (20.00%) F5
3 2 (20.00%) Forcepoint
3 2 (20.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) Juniper
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Mitel
3 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (20.00%) Wyse
4 1 (10.00%) Varonis