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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 194 160
Rank change year-on-year -124 -34 +4
Contract jobs citing SCCM 299 343 561
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 1.40% 1.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.43% 9.04% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 259 441
10th Percentile £163 £197 £163
25th Percentile £211 £210 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £375 £310
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +20.97% -14.13%
75th Percentile £488 £543 £500
90th Percentile £604 £589 £608
UK median daily rate £330 £350 £310
% change year-on-year -5.71% +12.90% -17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 46
10th Percentile £16.25 £14.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.09 £15.22 £16.61
Median hourly rate £22.21 £18.13 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -18.15% +10.75%
75th Percentile £24.00 £23.07 £40.00
90th Percentile £26.13 £28.40 £50.00
UK median hourly rate £21.25 £13.77 £22.15
% change year-on-year +54.32% -37.83% +10.75%

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 5,509 3,796 4,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.40% 15.52% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,811 2,611 3,202
10th Percentile £316 £311 £258
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £521
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +0.72% -9.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £718 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £514
% change year-on-year -4.40% +1.75% -8.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 37 105
10th Percentile £20.09 £16.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £40.94 £23.80 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £28.00 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +101.79% +8.67% -50.75%
75th Percentile £69.06 £63.40 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £83.58 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.88 £25.77
% change year-on-year +104.65% +4.31% -53.15%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -78 119 £375 -6.25% 17
Midlands -62 51 £225 +4.65% 11
South East -60 48 £350 -20.00% 13
North of England -73 46 £340 +69.75% 15
North West -30 39 £365 +82.50% 11
East Midlands -5 28 £225 -52.63% 2
West Midlands -80 20 £255 +24.43% 9
South West -37 19 £363 -9.38% 3
East of England -46 12 £450 -18.18% 4
North East -24 4 £184 -33.18% 1
Yorkshire -66 3 £195 -8.24% 3
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 47 (15.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (11.37%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.34%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 34 (11.37%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.67%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.00%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 130 (43.48%) Microsoft 365
2 98 (32.78%) Azure
3 67 (22.41%) Entra ID
4 21 (7.02%) AWS
5 17 (5.69%) OneDrive
6 13 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 11 (3.68%) SaaS
8 9 (3.01%) Nutanix
8 9 (3.01%) PaaS
9 8 (2.68%) GCP
9 8 (2.68%) Google Workspace
9 8 (2.68%) IaaS
10 7 (2.34%) Datadog
11 6 (2.01%) Cohesity
11 6 (2.01%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.67%) GitHub
13 2 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 51 (17.06%) DNS
2 44 (14.72%) DHCP
3 29 (9.70%) VPN
4 26 (8.70%) TCP/IP
5 25 (8.36%) Firewall
5 25 (8.36%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (5.35%) Skype
7 15 (5.02%) LAN
8 13 (4.35%) WAN
9 12 (4.01%) VLAN
10 9 (3.01%) SAN
11 8 (2.68%) NetScaler
11 8 (2.68%) Wireless
12 5 (1.67%) DMZ
12 5 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (1.34%) WAAS
14 3 (1.00%) BIG-IP
14 3 (1.00%) SD-WAN
14 3 (1.00%) Softphone
15 2 (0.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.35%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.34%) Power BI
3 3 (1.00%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (5.35%) MSI
2 12 (4.01%) InstallShield
3 9 (3.01%) JIRA
4 7 (2.34%) Chocolatey
5 6 (2.01%) AdminStudio
6 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.33%) WiX
General
1 91 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.38%) Finance
3 35 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.36%) Banking
5 14 (4.68%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (4.68%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.01%) Legal
7 9 (3.01%) Law
8 7 (2.34%) Front Office
8 7 (2.34%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.67%) Police
9 5 (1.67%) Retail
10 4 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.34%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.00%) Games
11 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.00%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.67%) Billing
12 2 (0.67%) Local Government
12 2 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (12.37%) Support Engineer
2 32 (10.70%) Desktop Engineer
3 29 (9.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 27 (9.03%) Desktop Support
4 27 (9.03%) Senior
5 23 (7.69%) IT Support
6 22 (7.36%) Analyst
7 17 (5.69%) Architect
7 17 (5.69%) Deployment Engineer
7 17 (5.69%) IT Engineer
8 15 (5.02%) 2nd Line Support
8 15 (5.02%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 13 (4.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 13 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
10 11 (3.68%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 10 (3.34%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 10 (3.34%) Applications Packager
11 10 (3.34%) Lead
11 10 (3.34%) Support Technician
12 9 (3.01%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.35%) Software Packaging
2 4 (1.34%) ADO
2 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (1.00%) Middleware
3 3 (1.00%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (0.67%) .NET
4 2 (0.67%) JSON
4 2 (0.67%) OpenGL
4 2 (0.67%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.35%) Onboarding
1 19 (6.35%) Smartphone
2 18 (6.02%) CMDB
3 12 (4.01%) Client/Server
3 12 (4.01%) Driving Licence
4 11 (3.68%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.68%) iPhone
7 7 (2.34%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.01%) Smartcard
8 6 (2.01%) YubiKey
9 5 (1.67%) PKI
9 5 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.34%) iPad
10 4 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.34%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.34%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 238 (79.60%) Windows
2 98 (32.78%) Windows 10
3 62 (20.74%) Windows Server
4 32 (10.70%) Mac OS
5 23 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (6.69%) Apple iOS
6 20 (6.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (5.69%) Linux
8 15 (5.02%) Windows 7
9 14 (4.68%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (2.34%) Android
11 4 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (1.34%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.33%) AIX
13 1 (0.33%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.33%) Solaris
13 1 (0.33%) Unix
13 1 (0.33%) VMS
13 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (18.73%) ITIL
3 54 (18.06%) Migration
4 48 (16.05%) Application Packaging
5 43 (14.38%) ITSM
6 41 (13.71%) Customer Service
7 37 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (11.04%) User Experience
9 32 (10.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 30 (10.03%) Asset Management
11 27 (9.03%) Service Management
12 22 (7.36%) Change Management
12 22 (7.36%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (7.02%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (6.69%) Agile
15 19 (6.35%) Patch Management
16 18 (6.02%) Roadmaps
17 17 (5.69%) Business Continuity
17 17 (5.69%) Data Protection
18 16 (5.35%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 81 (27.09%) PowerShell
2 15 (5.02%) SQL
2 15 (5.02%) VBScript
3 11 (3.68%) VB
4 8 (2.68%) Bash
5 3 (1.00%) Python
6 2 (0.67%) C#
6 2 (0.67%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.33%) Java
7 1 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 70 (23.41%) Security Cleared
2 46 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.37%) Degree
4 29 (9.70%) DV Cleared
5 15 (5.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (1.34%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.34%) CCA
7 4 (1.34%) Citrix Certification
7 4 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.34%) MCSA
8 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.67%) CCNP
9 2 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.67%) MCSE
9 2 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.69%) SLA
2 6 (2.01%) GDPR
3 5 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.34%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.67%) QA
6 1 (0.33%) COBIT
6 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 162 (54.18%) Active Directory
2 48 (16.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.69%) Hyper-V
3 20 (6.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (6.02%) BitLocker
5 17 (5.69%) Microsoft App-V
6 10 (3.34%) vSphere
7 9 (3.01%) Docker
7 9 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (2.34%) XenDesktop
9 6 (2.01%) XenApp
10 5 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (1.34%) VMware NSX
12 3 (1.00%) Firmware
13 2 (0.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 86 (28.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (7.36%) WSUS
3 13 (4.35%) SCOM
4 12 (4.01%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (2.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (2.01%) AirWatch
6 6 (2.01%) Ansible
6 6 (2.01%) Nessus
6 6 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.67%) Kubernetes
8 4 (1.34%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.34%) SCVMM
8 4 (1.34%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.00%) Backup Exec
9 3 (1.00%) SCSM
9 3 (1.00%) Terraform
10 2 (0.67%) Packer
10 2 (0.67%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.67%) WMI
11 1 (0.33%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 175 (58.53%) Microsoft
2 60 (20.07%) VMware
3 44 (14.72%) ServiceNow
4 36 (12.04%) Citrix
5 19 (6.35%) HP
6 16 (5.35%) Apple
7 14 (4.68%) Cisco
7 14 (4.68%) Tenable
8 13 (4.35%) Bloomberg
9 11 (3.68%) Dynatrace
10 10 (3.34%) Google
10 10 (3.34%) Veeam
11 8 (2.68%) Reuters
12 7 (2.34%) AppDynamics
12 7 (2.34%) F5
12 7 (2.34%) Sophos
13 6 (2.01%) SolarWinds
14 5 (1.67%) Dell
14 5 (1.67%) ION Trading
14 5 (1.67%) McAfee