SCCM Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SCCM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 90 87
Rank change year-on-year -30 -3 +24
Contract jobs citing SCCM 17 29 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.71% 1.54% 1.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.05% 10.07% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 27
10th Percentile £219 £215 £250
25th Percentile £247 £225 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £281 £350
Median % change year-on-year +26.22% -19.64% -22.22%
75th Percentile £550 £564 £488
90th Percentile £656 £624 £606
Central London median daily rate £413 £275 £350
% change year-on-year +50.00% -21.43% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £27.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.00%

All Systems Management Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 281 288 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.80% 15.27% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 197 216
10th Percentile £290 £281 £350
25th Percentile £455 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £658
90th Percentile £725 £775 £755
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £56.73 £30.26 £15.60
25th Percentile £58.11 £35.53 £19.88
Median hourly rate £63.88 £46.11 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.55% +70.77% -25.52%
75th Percentile £71.18 £56.74 -
90th Percentile £73.47 £62.04 -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £28.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +102.68% +5.56% +8.00%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

SCCM job vacancy trend in the City of London

SCCM
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SCCM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SCCM

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in the City of London

SCCM
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SCCM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SCCM

SCCM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) DHCP
1 6 (35.29%) DNS
1 6 (35.29%) VPN
2 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (11.76%) DMZ
3 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (5.88%) Internet
4 1 (5.88%) LAN
4 1 (5.88%) NetScaler
4 1 (5.88%) Network Security
4 1 (5.88%) Wireless
4 1 (5.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Front Office
4 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) IT Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Asset Management Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix Support
4 1 (5.88%) Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Help Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) CMDB
1 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) BYOD
2 1 (5.88%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.88%) Fat Client
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Thin Client
2 1 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Windows 10
3 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (23.53%) ITIL
1 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (17.65%) Migration
2 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (11.76%) Asset Management
3 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
3 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
3 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.88%) Change Management
4 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.88%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) High Availability
4 1 (5.88%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.88%) ITSM
4 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.88%) Visualisation
4 1 (5.88%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) CCA
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.88%) COBIT
2 1 (5.88%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.88%) XenApp
4 1 (5.88%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.76%) FortiGate
2 2 (11.76%) Nessus
2 2 (11.76%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) SCVMM
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) Citrix
3 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
3 4 (23.53%) VMware
4 3 (17.65%) Cisco
5 2 (11.76%) Bloomberg
5 2 (11.76%) Nexthink
5 2 (11.76%) Tenable
5 2 (11.76%) Zscaler
6 1 (5.88%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
6 1 (5.88%) ION Trading
6 1 (5.88%) Refinitiv
6 1 (5.88%) Remedy
6 1 (5.88%) Reuters