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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 100 91
Rank change year-on-year -20 -9 +13
Contract jobs citing SCCM 22 21 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.99% 1.21% 1.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.37% 10.00% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 26
10th Percentile £228 £218 £289
25th Percentile £266 £258 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £306 £350
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -12.50% -22.22%
75th Percentile £550 £557 £499
90th Percentile £647 £616 £545
Central London median daily rate £299 £363 £350
% change year-on-year -17.59% +3.57% -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 263 210 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.81% 12.13% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 157 205
10th Percentile £283 £281 £360
25th Percentile £438 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -1.71%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £12.80 £30.26 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £35.53 £27.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £46.11 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.95% -33.66% +91.72%
75th Percentile £49.50 £56.74 £112.00
90th Percentile £64.80 £62.04 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.50 £27.48 £69.50
% change year-on-year +7.37% -60.47% +91.72%

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 21 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 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (40.91%) VPN
2 8 (36.36%) DHCP
2 8 (36.36%) DNS
3 4 (18.18%) Firewall
3 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
4 3 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (9.09%) DMZ
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (4.55%) Internet
6 1 (4.55%) LAN
6 1 (4.55%) Network Security
6 1 (4.55%) Wireless
6 1 (4.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Front Office
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Law
4 1 (4.55%) Military
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) IT Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Consultant
2 5 (22.73%) IT Support
2 5 (22.73%) Support Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) IT Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Asset Management Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Designer
6 1 (4.55%) IT Support Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Server Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) 802.1X
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) CMDB
1 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 2 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (4.55%) BYOD
2 1 (4.55%) Fat Client
2 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 15 (68.18%) Windows
2 8 (36.36%) Windows 10
3 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
4 2 (9.09%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.55%) Android
5 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.55%) Linux
5 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (22.73%) Migration
3 4 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (18.18%) ITIL
3 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (18.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 3 (13.64%) Asset Management
4 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
4 3 (13.64%) High Availability
4 3 (13.64%) Incident Management
4 3 (13.64%) Patch Management
5 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (9.09%) ITSM
5 2 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 2 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (9.09%) Service Delivery
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (4.55%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) DV Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.55%) COBIT
2 1 (4.55%) GRC
System Software
1 13 (59.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 2 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) FortiGate
2 2 (9.09%) Nessus
2 2 (9.09%) vCenter Server
2 2 (9.09%) WSUS
3 1 (4.55%) AirWatch
3 1 (4.55%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) ServiceNow
3 4 (18.18%) Bloomberg
3 4 (18.18%) Citrix
3 4 (18.18%) VMware
4 3 (13.64%) Cisco
4 3 (13.64%) Refinitiv
5 2 (9.09%) Apple
5 2 (9.09%) Nexthink
5 2 (9.09%) Tenable
5 2 (9.09%) Zscaler
6 1 (4.55%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.55%) ION Trading
6 1 (4.55%) Remedy
6 1 (4.55%) Reuters