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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 95 83
Rank change year-on-year -27 -12 +29
Contract jobs citing SCCM 20 23 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.88% 1.28% 1.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.72% 10.65% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 20 28
10th Percentile £226 £206 £298
25th Percentile £256 £225 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £281 £350
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% -19.64% -22.22%
75th Percentile £550 £544 £526
90th Percentile £646 £614 £606
Central London median daily rate £299 £281 £350
% change year-on-year +6.22% -19.64% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £27.00

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 259 216 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.36% 12.07% 14.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 158 210
10th Percentile £283 £281 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -4.16%
75th Percentile £650 £682 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £753
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.65% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £28.10 £30.26 -
25th Percentile £34.25 £35.53 -
Median hourly rate £47.00 £46.11 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +70.77% -25.52%
75th Percentile £62.25 £56.74 -
90th Percentile £69.90 £62.04 -
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £27.48 £27.00
% change year-on-year +27.39% +1.76% -25.52%

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 7 September 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 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) DHCP
1 7 (35.00%) DNS
1 7 (35.00%) VPN
2 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (10.00%) DMZ
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (5.00%) Internet
4 1 (5.00%) LAN
4 1 (5.00%) Network Security
4 1 (5.00%) Wireless
4 1 (5.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Front Office
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Military
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Consultant
1 5 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) IT Support
2 4 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Asset Management Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Designer
5 1 (5.00%) Help Desk Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) CMDB
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.00%) BYOD
2 1 (5.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (10.00%) Mac OS
5 1 (5.00%) Android
5 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (20.00%) ITIL
2 4 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (15.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (15.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (10.00%) High Availability
4 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (10.00%) ITSM
4 2 (10.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.00%) Change Management
5 1 (5.00%) Service Management
5 1 (5.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.00%) COBIT
2 1 (5.00%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (10.00%) Nessus
2 2 (10.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (10.00%) WSUS
3 1 (5.00%) AirWatch
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 4 (20.00%) Citrix
3 4 (20.00%) VMware
4 3 (15.00%) Bloomberg
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco
5 2 (10.00%) Apple
5 2 (10.00%) Nexthink
5 2 (10.00%) Refinitiv
5 2 (10.00%) Tenable
5 2 (10.00%) Zscaler
6 1 (5.00%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
6 1 (5.00%) ION Trading
6 1 (5.00%) Remedy
6 1 (5.00%) Reuters