SCCM Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SCCM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SCCM over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) UK / England
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	170	142	165
Rank change year-on-year	-28	+23
Contract jobs citing SCCM	661	872	752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.53%	1.76%	1.50%
As % of the Systems Management category	14.09%	15.50%	17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted	398	527	453
Median daily rate	£320	£350	£313
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-8.57%	+12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£136	£200	£155
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£550	£472
UK excluding London median daily rate	£300	£323	£310
% change year-on-year	-6.97%	+4.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted	39	50	74
Median hourly rate	£14.22	£20.00	£20.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-28.92%	-
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£9.95	£14.00	£12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£28.30	£36.00	£37.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£14.50	£21.00	£19.84
% change year-on-year	-30.95%	+5.83%

SCCM is in the systems management skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Systems Management Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills	4690	5624	4382
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	10.84%	11.34%	8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted	3097	3693	2732
Median daily rate	£488	£450	£408
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+8.33%	+10.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£301	£290	£260
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£588	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+12.50%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	101	121	147
Median hourly rate	£17.50	£28.00	£21.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-37.50%	+33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.50	£17.45	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£47.25	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£33.00	£20.50
% change year-on-year	-46.96%	+60.97%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing SCCM as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Systems Management category.

SCCM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing SCCM in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for SCCM in England

SCCM
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing SCCM in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for SCCM in England

SCCM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for SCCM in England

SCCM
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing SCCM in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for SCCM in England

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 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	+4	280	£339	-15.25%	41
South East	-43	107	£358	+8.33%	30
East of England	-1	63	£240	-24.11%	9
North West	+7	54	£300	-27.27%	8
West Midlands	+40	44	£308	-6.81%	17
East Midlands	-1	36	£280	-53.33%	5
South West	-35	35	£275	-26.66%	10
Yorkshire	+18	30	£150	-51.02%	11
North East	+4	16	£400	+50.94%	1
Midlands	+13	1	-	-	22
SCCM UK

SCCM
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing SCCM also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for SCCM.

1	1009 (80.33%)	Windows
2	703 (55.97%)	Active Directory
3	606 (48.25%)	Microsoft
4	353 (28.11%)	Windows Server
5	346 (27.55%)	Windows 10
6	344 (27.39%)	VMware
7	343 (27.31%)	Windows 7
8	314 (25.00%)	Office 365
9	293 (23.33%)	Citrix
10	276 (21.97%)	ITIL
11	253 (20.14%)	PowerShell
12	218 (17.36%)	Windows Server 2012
13	213 (16.96%)	Security Cleared
14	202 (16.08%)	SCOM
15	199 (15.84%)	Migration

16	198 (15.76%)	VMware Infrastructure
17	181 (14.41%)	Windows Server 2008
18	176 (14.01%)	Microsoft Office
19	175 (13.93%)	SC Cleared
20	157 (12.50%)	Hyper-V
21	153 (12.18%)	HP
22	152 (12.10%)	Microsoft App-V
23	148 (11.78%)	SQL Server
24	147 (11.70%)	Finance
25	145 (11.54%)	MS Exchange
25	145 (11.54%)	DNS
26	139 (11.07%)	SQL
27	130 (10.35%)	Microsoft Azure
28	127 (10.11%)	DHCP
29	124 (9.87%)	Cisco

SCCM
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

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

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	145 (11.54%)	MS Exchange
2	87 (6.93%)	Skype for Business
3	75 (5.97%)	SharePoint
4	68 (5.41%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	68 (5.41%)	Exchange Server 2013
5	55 (4.38%)	IIS
6	34 (2.71%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
7	21 (1.67%)	Exchange Server 2007
8	16 (1.27%)	SharePoint 2013
9	9 (0.72%)	Apache
10	7 (0.56%)	OpenStack
11	6 (0.48%)	Site Server
12	5 (0.40%)	CMS
12	5 (0.40%)	GroupWise
12	5 (0.40%)	WebSphere
13	4 (0.32%)	BizTalk Server
13	4 (0.32%)	Exchange Server 2003
13	4 (0.32%)	IBM Notes
13	4 (0.32%)	Tomcat
14	3 (0.24%)	SharePoint 2010

Applications
1	176 (14.01%)	Microsoft Office
2	26 (2.07%)	Microsoft Excel
3	12 (0.96%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
3	12 (0.96%)	MS Visio
4	3 (0.24%)	InfoPath
4	3 (0.24%)	Stata
5	2 (0.16%)	Microsoft Project
5	2 (0.16%)	Photoshop
6	1 (0.080%)	Acrobat
6	1 (0.080%)	Adobe Creative Suite
6	1 (0.080%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	10 (0.80%)	Oracle EBS
1	10 (0.80%)	Oracle EBS R12
2	8 (0.64%)	Dynamics CRM
3	6 (0.48%)	Dynamics AX
4	5 (0.40%)	Remedy ITSM
4	5 (0.40%)	Unit4 Business World
5	4 (0.32%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	4 (0.32%)	Teamcenter
6	2 (0.16%)	Eikon
6	2 (0.16%)	Primavera
7	1 (0.080%)	Remedy AR System
7	1 (0.080%)	SAP CAR
7	1 (0.080%)	SAP POS DM
7	1 (0.080%)	Sentinel

Cloud Services
1	314 (25.00%)	Office 365
2	130 (10.35%)	Microsoft Azure
3	60 (4.78%)	Amazon AWS
4	36 (2.87%)	IaaS
5	26 (2.07%)	Azure Active Directory
6	20 (1.59%)	OneDrive
7	14 (1.11%)	G Suite
8	13 (1.04%)	PaaS
9	11 (0.88%)	SaaS
10	7 (0.56%)	Mimecast
11	6 (0.48%)	Google Cloud Platform
12	4 (0.32%)	GitHub
12	4 (0.32%)	Google Compute Engine
13	2 (0.16%)	AWS CloudFormation
13	2 (0.16%)	AWS OpsWorks
13	2 (0.16%)	Cloud Computing

Communications & Networking
1	145 (11.54%)	DNS
2	127 (10.11%)	DHCP
3	103 (8.20%)	SAN
4	97 (7.72%)	LAN
5	85 (6.77%)	Firewall
6	78 (6.21%)	TCP/IP
7	74 (5.89%)	VPN
8	59 (4.70%)	WAN
9	56 (4.46%)	Remote Desktop
10	46 (3.66%)	Skype
11	36 (2.87%)	Internet
12	32 (2.55%)	Wireless
13	31 (2.47%)	NAS
14	24 (1.91%)	VoIP
15	23 (1.83%)	NetScaler
16	19 (1.51%)	VLAN
17	14 (1.11%)	Cisco ASA
18	13 (1.04%)	Wi-Fi
19	12 (0.96%)	Cisco IOS
20	11 (0.88%)	LDAP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	148 (11.78%)	SQL Server
2	48 (3.82%)	SQL Server 2012
3	19 (1.51%)	SQL Server 2008
4	18 (1.43%)	SQL Server 2005
5	15 (1.19%)	SQL Server 2016
6	12 (0.96%)	Big Data
7	10 (0.80%)	SQL Server 2014
8	9 (0.72%)	Oracle Reports
9	8 (0.64%)	Hadoop
10	6 (0.48%)	DB2
10	6 (0.48%)	MySQL
11	5 (0.40%)	EDRMS
11	5 (0.40%)	SQL Server 2000
12	3 (0.24%)	SQL Server Integration Services
12	3 (0.24%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
13	2 (0.16%)	PostgreSQL
13	2 (0.16%)	Relational Database
14	1 (0.080%)	Amazon RDS
14	1 (0.080%)	Azure SQL Database
14	1 (0.080%)	Oracle Database

Development Applications
1	74 (5.89%)	MSI
2	14 (1.11%)	Jenkins
3	13 (1.04%)	AdminStudio
3	13 (1.04%)	InstallShield
4	11 (0.88%)	Git (software)
4	11 (0.88%)	JIRA
5	9 (0.72%)	Octopus Deploy
6	6 (0.48%)	Hudson
7	4 (0.32%)	Atlassian Bamboo
7	4 (0.32%)	ClearCase
7	4 (0.32%)	ClearQuest
7	4 (0.32%)	Team Foundation Server
8	2 (0.16%)	Ant
8	2 (0.16%)	Maven
8	2 (0.16%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8	2 (0.16%)	Subversion
8	2 (0.16%)	Vagrant
8	2 (0.16%)	Visual Studio
9	1 (0.080%)	Visual Studio Team System
9	1 (0.080%)	Wise Package Studio

General
1	147 (11.70%)	Finance
2	50 (3.98%)	Banking
3	35 (2.79%)	Retail
4	17 (1.35%)	Advertising
5	13 (1.04%)	Local Government
5	13 (1.04%)	Telecoms
6	11 (0.88%)	Legal
7	10 (0.80%)	Financial Institution
8	9 (0.72%)	Law
9	8 (0.64%)	Back Office
9	8 (0.64%)	Marketing
10	7 (0.56%)	Manufacturing
10	7 (0.56%)	Publishing
11	6 (0.48%)	Games
11	6 (0.48%)	Investment Banking
12	5 (0.40%)	Billing
12	5 (0.40%)	Electronics
13	4 (0.32%)	Front Office
13	4 (0.32%)	Military
14	2 (0.16%)	Automotive

Job Titles
1	177 (14.09%)	Analyst
2	154 (12.26%)	Desktop Support
3	148 (11.78%)	Architect
4	131 (10.43%)	Support Engineer
5	109 (8.68%)	Consultant
6	98 (7.80%)	Windows Engineer
7	95 (7.56%)	Infrastructure Engineer
8	93 (7.40%)	SCCM Engineer
9	91 (7.25%)	2nd Line Support
10	73 (5.81%)	Support Analyst
11	65 (5.18%)	Desktop Engineer
12	63 (5.02%)	3rd Line Support
13	58 (4.62%)	3rd Line Engineer
14	52 (4.14%)	Administrator
15	50 (3.98%)	SCCM Consultant
16	49 (3.90%)	Technical Architect
17	45 (3.58%)	Active Directory Support
18	44 (3.50%)	Project Manager
19	40 (3.18%)	Systems Engineer
20	39 (3.11%)	Deployment Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	19 (1.51%)	Software Packaging
2	16 (1.27%)	Web Services
3	10 (0.80%)	XML
4	9 (0.72%)	.NET
5	6 (0.48%)	SAML
5	6 (0.48%)	XMPP
6	5 (0.40%)	Regular Expression
6	5 (0.40%)	WAP
7	4 (0.32%)	REST
8	3 (0.24%)	802.1X
8	3 (0.24%)	JSON
9	2 (0.16%)	HTML
9	2 (0.16%)	LAPP Stack
10	1 (0.080%)	ASP.NET
10	1 (0.080%)	COM
10	1 (0.080%)	CSS
10	1 (0.080%)	Elastic Stack
10	1 (0.080%)	Flash
10	1 (0.080%)	SOAP
10	1 (0.080%)	WSDL

Miscellaneous
1	96 (7.64%)	Data Centre
2	62 (4.94%)	Analytical Skills
3	52 (4.14%)	Clustering
4	48 (3.82%)	Blackberry
5	38 (3.03%)	PKI
6	35 (2.79%)	Management Information System
7	33 (2.63%)	Fat Client
7	33 (2.63%)	Thin Client
8	32 (2.55%)	Smartphone
9	26 (2.07%)	Replication
10	22 (1.75%)	Video Conferencing
11	19 (1.51%)	EPoS
12	15 (1.19%)	Client/Server
12	15 (1.19%)	Driving Licence
12	15 (1.19%)	iPhone
13	13 (1.04%)	iPad
14	11 (0.88%)	Computer Science
15	10 (0.80%)	CESG
15	10 (0.80%)	Public Cloud
16	9 (0.72%)	Enterprise Software

Operating Systems
1	1009 (80.33%)	Windows
2	353 (28.11%)	Windows Server
3	346 (27.55%)	Windows 10
4	343 (27.31%)	Windows 7
5	218 (17.36%)	Windows Server 2012
6	181 (14.41%)	Windows Server 2008
7	84 (6.69%)	Windows Server 2003
8	73 (5.81%)	Windows 8
9	58 (4.62%)	Linux
10	39 (3.11%)	Windows Vista
11	35 (2.79%)	Android
12	34 (2.71%)	Apple iOS
12	34 (2.71%)	Windows XP
13	21 (1.67%)	Unix
14	20 (1.59%)	Solaris
15	14 (1.11%)	Mac OS X
16	12 (0.96%)	Mac OS
17	11 (0.88%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18	7 (0.56%)	Windows 2000
19	6 (0.48%)	CentOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	276 (21.97%)	ITIL
2	199 (15.84%)	Migration
3	82 (6.53%)	Application Packaging
4	67 (5.33%)	Service Management
5	52 (4.14%)	Configuration Management
5	52 (4.14%)	Incident Management
6	47 (3.74%)	Software Deployment
7	46 (3.66%)	Change Management
7	46 (3.66%)	Service Delivery
8	45 (3.58%)	Project Management
9	44 (3.50%)	Agile Software Development
10	42 (3.34%)	PRINCE2
11	41 (3.26%)	Patch Management
12	40 (3.18%)	DevOps
13	39 (3.11%)	Asset Management
13	39 (3.11%)	Disaster Recovery
14	36 (2.87%)	High Availability
15	35 (2.79%)	ITSM
16	32 (2.55%)	Problem Management
17	31 (2.47%)	ITIL V3

Programming Languages
1	253 (20.14%)	PowerShell
2	139 (11.07%)	SQL
3	64 (5.10%)	VBScript
4	20 (1.59%)	VB
5	19 (1.51%)	Python
6	18 (1.43%)	C
7	16 (1.27%)	Ruby
8	10 (0.80%)	Bash Shell
9	9 (0.72%)	JavaScript
10	8 (0.64%)	Java
11	7 (0.56%)	Perl
12	6 (0.48%)	PHP
12	6 (0.48%)	Shell Script
13	5 (0.40%)	C#
14	3 (0.24%)	VB.NET
15	2 (0.16%)	AppleScript
15	2 (0.16%)	T-SQL
16	1 (0.080%)	C++

Qualifications
1	213 (16.96%)	Security Cleared
2	175 (13.93%)	SC Cleared
3	109 (8.68%)	Microsoft Certification
4	68 (5.41%)	MCSE
5	41 (3.26%)	DV Cleared
6	34 (2.71%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7	32 (2.55%)	MCSA
8	27 (2.15%)	MCP
9	26 (2.07%)	ITIL Certification
10	25 (1.99%)	Degree
11	23 (1.83%)	MCITP
12	20 (1.59%)	Cisco Certification
13	19 (1.51%)	CCNA
14	12 (0.96%)	DBS Check
15	10 (0.80%)	MCDST
16	8 (0.64%)	ISEB
16	8 (0.64%)	MCTS
16	8 (0.64%)	VCP6
17	7 (0.56%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
18	6 (0.48%)	PMP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	65 (5.18%)	SLA
2	16 (1.27%)	QA
3	12 (0.96%)	PCI DSS
4	9 (0.72%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	6 (0.48%)	PMO
6	5 (0.40%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	2 (0.16%)	Cyber Essentials
7	2 (0.16%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
8	1 (0.080%)	COBIT
8	1 (0.080%)	COSO
8	1 (0.080%)	JSP 440
8	1 (0.080%)	PMBOK

System Software
1	703 (55.97%)	Active Directory
2	198 (15.76%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	157 (12.50%)	Hyper-V
4	152 (12.10%)	Microsoft App-V
5	114 (9.08%)	XenApp
6	65 (5.18%)	vSphere
7	60 (4.78%)	XenDesktop
8	57 (4.54%)	VMware ESXi
9	40 (3.18%)	BitLocker
10	33 (2.63%)	Virtual Machines
11	28 (2.23%)	Virtual Desktop
12	14 (1.11%)	DFS Replication
12	14 (1.11%)	XenServer
13	10 (0.80%)	Docker
14	8 (0.64%)	Terminal Services
15	6 (0.48%)	vCloud
15	6 (0.48%)	Virtual Servers
15	6 (0.48%)	VMware Workstation
16	5 (0.40%)	ISA Server
16	5 (0.40%)	UAG

Systems Management
1	202 (16.08%)	SCOM
2	61 (4.86%)	WSUS
3	54 (4.30%)	Microsoft Intune
4	41 (3.26%)	SCOrch
5	34 (2.71%)	vCenter Server
6	28 (2.23%)	Norton AntiVirus
7	26 (2.07%)	AirWatch
7	26 (2.07%)	Microsoft Clustering
8	25 (1.99%)	Opscode Chef
9	23 (1.83%)	SCVMM
10	20 (1.59%)	Puppet
10	20 (1.59%)	SCSM
10	20 (1.59%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
11	19 (1.51%)	McAfee ePO
11	19 (1.51%)	NetBackup
11	19 (1.51%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
12	17 (1.35%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
13	14 (1.11%)	OpenView Configuration Management
14	13 (1.04%)	Failover Clustering
14	13 (1.04%)	HP SiteScope

Vendors
1	606 (48.25%)	Microsoft
2	344 (27.39%)	VMware
3	293 (23.33%)	Citrix
4	153 (12.18%)	HP
5	124 (9.87%)	Cisco
6	65 (5.18%)	Symantec
7	60 (4.78%)	Apple
8	58 (4.62%)	Dell
9	43 (3.42%)	ServiceNow
10	35 (2.79%)	NetApp
11	34 (2.71%)	AppSense
12	33 (2.63%)	Altiris
12	33 (2.63%)	McAfee
13	27 (2.15%)	Oracle
14	25 (1.99%)	EMC
14	25 (1.99%)	MobileIron
15	23 (1.83%)	SolarWinds
16	21 (1.67%)	Google
16	21 (1.67%)	LANDesk
16	21 (1.67%)	Wyse