SCCM Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SCCM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 198 169
Rank change year-on-year -134 -29 -5
Contract jobs citing SCCM 317 386 497
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 1.39% 1.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.24% 8.97% 11.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 265 379
10th Percentile £183 £200 £180
25th Percentile £240 £210 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £375 £380
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -1.32% -3.80%
75th Percentile £525 £530 £530
90th Percentile £618 £588 £608
UK median daily rate £384 £325 £380
% change year-on-year +18.00% -14.47% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 15
10th Percentile - - £19.10
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £17.50 £28.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +3.70% +38.46%
75th Percentile £21.76 £59.00 £46.25
90th Percentile £23.28 £59.60 £75.30
UK median hourly rate £20.55 £13.77 £27.00
% change year-on-year +49.20% -49.00% +36.71%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,047 4,304 4,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.28% 15.50% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,128 2,862 3,243
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -8.22%
75th Percentile £613 £609 £625
90th Percentile £694 £695 £700
UK median daily rate £516 £503 £520
% change year-on-year +2.74% -3.37% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 55 66
10th Percentile £20.09 £19.88 £20.50
25th Percentile £38.50 £26.45 £23.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +56.77% -33.18%
75th Percentile £70.11 £66.04 £65.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.78 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +65.33% +15.38% -43.48%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SCCM job vacancy trend in England

SCCM
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SCCM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SCCM

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM in England over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in England

SCCM
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SCCM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SCCM

SCCM
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM within the England region over the 6 months to 2 August 2026. 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
London -66 121 £400 +6.67% 27
Midlands -47 54 £330 +12.63% 11
South East -93 54 £450 -2.76% 16
West Midlands -53 39 £288 +0.52% 4
North of England -84 38 £314 +47.65% 19
South West -35 31 £413 +3.13% 5
North West -52 29 £335 +57.65% 14
East Midlands -17 13 £355 +18.33% 7
East of England -50 13 £450 -18.18% 8
Yorkshire -55 6 £220 -12.00% 1
North East -44 3 £200 -11.11% 4
SCCM
UK

SCCM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 40 (12.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (9.46%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.84%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.58%) IIS
5 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 35 (11.04%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (6.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.32%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 116 (36.59%) Microsoft 365
2 105 (33.12%) Azure
3 71 (22.40%) Entra ID
4 27 (8.52%) OneDrive
5 15 (4.73%) Power Platform
6 13 (4.10%) SaaS
7 10 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (3.15%) Datadog
7 10 (3.15%) IaaS
7 10 (3.15%) PaaS
8 9 (2.84%) AWS
9 8 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.52%) Google Workspace
10 7 (2.21%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (1.89%) Cohesity
11 6 (1.89%) GitHub
12 5 (1.58%) Rubrik
13 4 (1.26%) Mimecast
14 3 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (0.95%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 59 (18.61%) DNS
2 50 (15.77%) VPN
3 49 (15.46%) DHCP
4 36 (11.36%) Firewall
5 27 (8.52%) TCP/IP
5 27 (8.52%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (4.73%) Skype
7 14 (4.42%) SAN
8 11 (3.47%) VLAN
9 10 (3.15%) LAN
9 10 (3.15%) WAN
10 9 (2.84%) DMZ
10 9 (2.84%) Network Security
11 6 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (1.89%) Wireless
12 5 (1.58%) Internet
13 4 (1.26%) NetScaler
13 4 (1.26%) SSH
14 3 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (0.95%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.05%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.84%) Power BI
3 3 (0.95%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 19 (5.99%) MSI
2 12 (3.79%) InstallShield
3 10 (3.15%) Chocolatey
4 7 (2.21%) AdminStudio
5 6 (1.89%) JIRA
6 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.32%) WiX
General
1 115 (36.28%) Social Skills
2 50 (15.77%) Finance
3 43 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.62%) Banking
5 15 (4.73%) Legal
5 15 (4.73%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.79%) Front Office
7 11 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.21%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.26%) Law
10 4 (1.26%) Police
10 4 (1.26%) Retail
11 3 (0.95%) Billing
11 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.63%) Advertising
12 2 (0.63%) Local Government
12 2 (0.63%) Military
12 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (11.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 35 (11.04%) Support Engineer
2 34 (10.73%) Desktop Engineer
3 31 (9.78%) Analyst
3 31 (9.78%) Senior
4 20 (6.31%) Desktop Support
5 18 (5.68%) Administrator
6 16 (5.05%) IT Support
7 15 (4.73%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 14 (4.42%) 2nd Line Support
8 14 (4.42%) IT Analyst
8 14 (4.42%) IT Engineer
8 14 (4.42%) Lead
8 14 (4.42%) Windows Engineer
9 13 (4.10%) Consultant
10 12 (3.79%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 12 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (3.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.15%) Applications Packager
12 10 (3.15%) Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.73%) Software Packaging
2 7 (2.21%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.26%) ADO
3 4 (1.26%) JSON
4 3 (0.95%) 802.1X
4 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.63%) .NET
5 2 (0.63%) OpenGL
5 2 (0.63%) Qt
5 2 (0.63%) REST
6 1 (0.32%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 45 (14.20%) Onboarding
2 13 (4.10%) CMDB
2 13 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (3.79%) Driving Licence
3 12 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (3.15%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (2.84%) Smartphone
6 8 (2.52%) iPhone
6 8 (2.52%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.21%) ARM Cortex
7 7 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.89%) Client/Server
8 6 (1.89%) Smartcard
8 6 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (1.89%) YubiKey
9 5 (1.58%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.58%) PKI
10 4 (1.26%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 253 (79.81%) Windows
2 86 (27.13%) Windows 10
3 64 (20.19%) Windows Server
4 27 (8.52%) Mac OS
5 25 (7.89%) Linux
6 17 (5.36%) Android
6 17 (5.36%) Apple iOS
7 11 (3.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (3.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (2.84%) Windows 7
10 8 (2.52%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.32%) AIX
11 1 (0.32%) Debian
11 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.32%) Unix
11 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (26.81%) ITIL
2 77 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (19.24%) ITSM
4 54 (17.03%) Service Management
5 48 (15.14%) Application Packaging
6 45 (14.20%) Migration
7 41 (12.93%) Customer Service
8 39 (12.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 35 (11.04%) User Experience
10 34 (10.73%) Asset Management
11 33 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (8.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (8.52%) Patch Management
14 26 (8.20%) Service Delivery
15 23 (7.26%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 20 (6.31%) Problem Management
17 18 (5.68%) Incident Management
17 18 (5.68%) Task Automation
18 17 (5.36%) Agile
18 17 (5.36%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 96 (30.28%) PowerShell
2 14 (4.42%) VBScript
3 11 (3.47%) Bash
4 9 (2.84%) VB
5 7 (2.21%) Bicep
5 7 (2.21%) Python
5 7 (2.21%) SQL
6 2 (0.63%) C#
6 2 (0.63%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 99 (31.23%) Security Cleared
2 62 (19.56%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.36%) Degree
4 33 (10.41%) DV Cleared
5 20 (6.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (2.84%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.89%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (1.89%) MCSA
9 6 (1.89%) MCSE
9 6 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.26%) CCA
10 4 (1.26%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.63%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.41%) SLA
2 8 (2.52%) QA
3 5 (1.58%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.63%) COBIT
5 2 (0.63%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.63%) NIST
6 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.32%) GRC
System Software
1 159 (50.16%) Active Directory
2 41 (12.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (6.94%) Hyper-V
4 18 (5.68%) BitLocker
5 17 (5.36%) Microsoft App-V
5 17 (5.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (4.42%) vSphere
7 9 (2.84%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.26%) Firmware
9 4 (1.26%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.95%) Docker
10 3 (0.95%) XenApp
11 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 106 (33.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (5.99%) WSUS
3 15 (4.73%) SCOM
4 14 (4.42%) Terraform
5 13 (4.10%) Ansible
6 11 (3.47%) Nessus
7 10 (3.15%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (1.89%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.58%) AirWatch
10 4 (1.26%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.95%) Backup Exec
11 3 (0.95%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (0.95%) SCSM
12 2 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.63%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.63%) Packer
12 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.63%) vMotion
12 2 (0.63%) WMI
13 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 203 (64.04%) Microsoft
2 59 (18.61%) ServiceNow
3 55 (17.35%) VMware
4 35 (11.04%) Citrix
5 21 (6.62%) Cisco
5 21 (6.62%) Tenable
6 15 (4.73%) Apple
7 14 (4.42%) Bloomberg
7 14 (4.42%) HP
8 12 (3.79%) Dynatrace
8 12 (3.79%) Qualys
9 10 (3.15%) AppDynamics
9 10 (3.15%) Reuters
10 9 (2.84%) CrowdStrike
10 9 (2.84%) McAfee
11 7 (2.21%) ION Trading
11 7 (2.21%) Zscaler
12 6 (1.89%) Canon
12 6 (1.89%) Remedy
12 6 (1.89%) SolarWinds