SCCM Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SCCM skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 55 44
Rank change year-on-year +3 -11 +10
Contract jobs citing SCCM 18 13 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.28% 1.64% 2.93%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.95% 13.54% 27.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 16
10th Percentile £139 £130 £198
25th Percentile £196 £228 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 £300 £225
Median % change year-on-year +24.50% +33.33% -30.77%
75th Percentile £488 £474 £378
90th Percentile £492 £486 £463
England median daily rate £350 £375 £400
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £18.18
25th Percentile - - £18.86
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - £21.88
90th Percentile - - £23.00
England median hourly rate £18.87 £27.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -30.75% +39.76% -13.34%

All Systems Management Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 82 96 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.39% 12.09% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 69 65
10th Percentile £271 £303 £213
25th Percentile £360 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.36% +2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £588
90th Percentile £605 £622 £700
England median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.41% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - £18.18
25th Percentile - - £18.86
Median hourly rate £21.39 £13.52 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.21% -32.40% +8.11%
75th Percentile - - £21.88
90th Percentile - - £23.00
England median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year -8.13% -21.95% +114.35%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing SCCM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SCCM in the East Midlands

SCCM
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SCCM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SCCM

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in the East Midlands

SCCM
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SCCM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SCCM

SCCM
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
Derbyshire - 6 £134 - 2
Northamptonshire - 6 £483 - 4
Lincolnshire +5 2 £200 -61.90% 1
Nottinghamshire -6 2 - - 6
Leicestershire -8 2 £190 -37.45% 4
SCCM
England

SCCM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
2 5 (27.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) PuTTY
1 3 (16.67%) SSH
1 3 (16.67%) Telnet
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
General
1 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Break Fix Engineer
1 3 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
1 3 (16.67%) Programme Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Support
3 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Junior
3 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Network Support
3 1 (5.56%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Programme Director
3 1 (5.56%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (94.44%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) Windows 10
3 6 (33.33%) Mac OS
4 3 (16.67%) Linux
4 3 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 3 (16.67%) Windows 8
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) User Experience
2 6 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
3 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (27.78%) Data Protection
3 5 (27.78%) Zero Trust
4 4 (22.22%) Break/Fix
4 4 (22.22%) Budgeting
4 4 (22.22%) Business Transformation
4 4 (22.22%) Programme Delivery
4 4 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (16.67%) Application Packaging
5 3 (16.67%) Customer Experience
6 2 (11.11%) Business Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 2 (11.11%) IT Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 5 (27.78%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) GDPR
1 6 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 8 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (16.67%) BitLocker
3 3 (16.67%) Firmware
4 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 8 (44.44%) VMware
3 6 (33.33%) Cisco
3 6 (33.33%) Citrix
4 3 (16.67%) Dell
4 3 (16.67%) Draytek
4 3 (16.67%) McAfee
5 1 (5.56%) Apple
5 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.56%) Okta