SCCM Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring SCCM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 98 92
Rank change year-on-year -32 -6 +9
Contract jobs citing SCCM 18 31 38
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.69% 1.51% 1.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.45% 9.75% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 27
10th Percentile £225 £216 £250
25th Percentile £259 £225 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £281 £350
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -19.64% -12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £488
90th Percentile £656 £660 £606
London median daily rate £382 £388 £375
% change year-on-year -1.42% +3.33% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
London median hourly rate - - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -7.43%

All Systems Management Skills
Central London

SCCM falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 330 318 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.65% 15.49% 14.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 217 233
10th Percentile £320 £279 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £725 £761 £775
London median daily rate £528 £525 £543
% change year-on-year +0.57% -3.23% -9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £39.16 £26.51 £15.60
25th Percentile £45.40 £26.60 £19.88
Median hourly rate £57.77 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.68% +5.56% -67.89%
75th Percentile £67.36 £47.91 -
90th Percentile £71.94 £58.51 -
London median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 £23.99
% change year-on-year +46.25% +66.74% -62.52%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SCCM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

SCCM job vacancy trend in Central London

SCCM
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SCCM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SCCM

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM in Central London over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in Central London

SCCM
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SCCM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SCCM

SCCM
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM within the Central London region over the 6 months to 24 July 2026. 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
City of London -30 17 £355 +23.48% 4
City of Westminster - 1 £525 -
SCCM
London

SCCM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) DHCP
1 6 (33.33%) DNS
1 6 (33.33%) VPN
2 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (11.11%) DMZ
3 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (5.56%) Internet
4 1 (5.56%) LAN
4 1 (5.56%) NetScaler
4 1 (5.56%) Network Security
4 1 (5.56%) Wireless
4 1 (5.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Front Office
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) IT Support
3 2 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix Support
4 1 (5.56%) Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Help Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) CMDB
1 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) BYOD
2 1 (5.56%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.56%) Fat Client
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Thin Client
2 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Windows 10
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (22.22%) ITIL
1 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 3 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (11.11%) Asset Management
3 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.56%) Change Management
4 1 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (5.56%) Configuration Management
4 1 (5.56%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.56%) ITSM
4 1 (5.56%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (5.56%) Task Automation
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (5.56%) Workflow
4 1 (5.56%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) CCA
4 1 (5.56%) CISA
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.56%) COBIT
2 1 (5.56%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.56%) BitLocker
4 1 (5.56%) XenApp
4 1 (5.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 2 (11.11%) Nessus
2 2 (11.11%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) SCVMM
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Citrix
3 4 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 4 (22.22%) VMware
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco
4 3 (16.67%) Zscaler
5 2 (11.11%) Bloomberg
5 2 (11.11%) Nexthink
5 2 (11.11%) Tenable
6 1 (5.56%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
6 1 (5.56%) ION Trading
6 1 (5.56%) Refinitiv
6 1 (5.56%) Remedy
6 1 (5.56%) Reuters