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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 691 782
Rank change year-on-year +133 +91 -100
Contract jobs citing SCVMM 11 4 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.007% 0.057%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.21% 0.045% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 46
10th Percentile £377 £451 £358
25th Percentile £399 £452 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £473 £473 £538
90th Percentile £512 £474 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 - £425
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.08 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £22.30 - £32.50
75th Percentile £23.80 - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 5,120 8,950 13,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.02% 15.84% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,714 6,399 10,012
10th Percentile £267 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.07% -1.33% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 206 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.02 £13.67
25th Percentile £18.89 £25.18 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +150.00% -45.00%
75th Percentile £50.13 £70.19 £44.22
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.88 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -13.83%

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 24 May 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 5 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 24 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 +108 9 £400 -12.20% 3
London +95 7 £400 -12.14%
Work from Home - 4 £465 - 3
South West - 2 £375 - 3
UK excluding London - 2 £375 - 3

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 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
2 3 (27.27%) IIS
3 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2013
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) AWS
3 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
3 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (18.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (18.18%) Mimecast
4 2 (18.18%) Nutanix
4 2 (18.18%) Rubrik
5 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) DKIM
2 2 (18.18%) DMARC
2 2 (18.18%) Extranet
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) Internet
2 2 (18.18%) LAN
2 2 (18.18%) NAS
2 2 (18.18%) SAN
2 2 (18.18%) VPN
2 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (18.18%) Wireless
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) FTP
3 1 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) IT Support
2 3 (27.27%) IT Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) IT Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Support Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Support Officer
4 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Software Packaging
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (18.18%) Fat Client
2 2 (18.18%) PKI
2 2 (18.18%) Thin Client
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team
3 1 (9.09%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Unix
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Capacity Management
1 7 (63.64%) Security Hardening
1 7 (63.64%) Server Management
2 3 (27.27%) High Availability
2 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (27.27%) Patch Management
3 2 (18.18%) Application Packaging
3 2 (18.18%) Converged Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) Data Flow Diagram
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (18.18%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (18.18%) Software Deployment
3 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Web Filtering
3 2 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Hyper-V
2 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
4 3 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (18.18%) BitLocker
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (9.09%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) SCCM
2 9 (81.82%) SCOM
3 2 (18.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (18.18%) NetBackup
3 2 (18.18%) SCDPM
3 2 (18.18%) VxRail
3 2 (18.18%) WSUS
4 1 (9.09%) Backup Exec
4 1 (9.09%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (9.09%) HP SIM
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (9.09%) SCOrch
4 1 (9.09%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Commvault
3 3 (27.27%) HP
4 2 (18.18%) Avaya
4 2 (18.18%) Brocade
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco
4 2 (18.18%) Dell
4 2 (18.18%) Dell Compellent
4 2 (18.18%) EMC
4 2 (18.18%) Equitrac
4 2 (18.18%) F5
4 2 (18.18%) Forcepoint
4 2 (18.18%) Juniper
4 2 (18.18%) Mitel
4 2 (18.18%) MobileIron
4 2 (18.18%) Proofpoint
4 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
4 2 (18.18%) Wyse
5 1 (9.09%) Varonis