SCOrch Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SCOrch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 - 120
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SCOrch 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.043% - 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.38% - 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £359
25th Percentile £603 - £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - £444
75th Percentile £608 - £456
90th Percentile - - £468
Central London median daily rate £605 - £444

All Systems Management Skills
City of London

SCOrch 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 261 226 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.23% 12.47% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 163 207
10th Percentile £287 £281 £365
25th Percentile £450 £439 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -3.42%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £760
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%

SCOrch
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

SCOrch job vacancy trend in the City of London

SCOrch
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

SCOrch
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

SCOrch
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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) VMware