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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 191 179
Rank change year-on-year -105 -12 -10
Contract jobs citing SCCM 381 418 471
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 1.51% 1.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.44% 10.84% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 288 339
10th Percentile £200 £185 £185
25th Percentile £248 £200 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £375
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -3.54%
75th Percentile £523 £526 £518
90th Percentile £623 £588 £608
UK median daily rate £400 £330 £375
% change year-on-year +21.21% -12.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 14
10th Percentile £17.25 £15.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £21.27 £18.50 £24.41
Median hourly rate £24.28 £19.44 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +24.90% -28.68% +39.74%
75th Percentile £25.75 £24.15 £57.50
90th Percentile - £43.50 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £24.05 £16.88 £27.00
% change year-on-year +42.52% -37.50% +20.00%

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 5,123 3,855 3,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.01% 13.96% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,400 2,536 2,652
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £723
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +4.50% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 72 54
10th Percentile £21.30 £18.87 £19.96
25th Percentile £35.00 £21.17 £24.70
Median hourly rate £67.00 £33.39 £43.09
Median % change year-on-year +100.69% -22.52% -17.92%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.49 £69.56
90th Percentile £88.78 £76.48 £74.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £26.23 £38.50
% change year-on-year +147.86% -31.88% -30.00%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -89 124 £375 -6.25% 54
North of England -50 87 £360 +71.24% 27
North West -12 72 £375 +76.47% 21
Midlands -37 65 £400 +45.45% 18
South East -88 54 £450 +38.46% 22
West Midlands -37 39 £363 +35.51% 9
South West -59 27 £450 +12.50% 14
East Midlands -11 26 £400 +7.10% 9
East of England -58 18 £425 -22.73% 14
North East -38 8 £200 -11.11% 2
Yorkshire -55 7 £245 +22.50% 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 56 (14.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (7.61%) SharePoint
3 17 (4.46%) Skype for Business
4 4 (1.05%) IIS
5 2 (0.52%) Confluence
6 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 45 (11.81%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.26%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 7 (1.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.52%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 2 (0.52%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 143 (37.53%) Microsoft 365
2 129 (33.86%) Azure
3 90 (23.62%) Entra ID
4 31 (8.14%) OneDrive
5 14 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (3.15%) AWS
7 11 (2.89%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.10%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (2.10%) IaaS
10 7 (1.84%) GitHub
10 7 (1.84%) SaaS
11 6 (1.57%) PaaS
12 5 (1.31%) Cohesity
12 5 (1.31%) Datadog
12 5 (1.31%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.31%) Mimecast
12 5 (1.31%) Rubrik
13 3 (0.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 3 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 79 (20.73%) DNS
2 74 (19.42%) VPN
3 66 (17.32%) DHCP
4 35 (9.19%) Firewall
5 32 (8.40%) TCP/IP
6 28 (7.35%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (6.04%) Skype
8 15 (3.94%) WAN
9 14 (3.67%) LAN
10 13 (3.41%) Network Security
10 13 (3.41%) VLAN
11 12 (3.15%) SAN
12 10 (2.62%) Wireless
13 7 (1.84%) DMZ
13 7 (1.84%) Internet
14 6 (1.57%) Cisco IOS
15 4 (1.05%) SSH
16 3 (0.79%) NetScaler
17 2 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
17 2 (0.52%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.15%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.57%) Power BI
3 2 (0.52%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 23 (6.04%) MSI
2 8 (2.10%) InstallShield
3 6 (1.57%) JIRA
4 5 (1.31%) Chocolatey
5 4 (1.05%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.26%) Git
7 1 (0.26%) WiX
General
1 141 (37.01%) Social Skills
2 63 (16.54%) Finance
3 46 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.77%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.25%) Legal
6 17 (4.46%) Banking
7 16 (4.20%) Front Office
8 12 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.89%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.10%) Military
12 7 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.57%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.57%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.57%) Law
14 4 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.05%) Retail
15 2 (0.52%) Billing
15 2 (0.52%) German Language
Job Titles
1 54 (14.17%) Desktop Engineer
2 52 (13.65%) Support Engineer
3 43 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (9.97%) Desktop Support
5 33 (8.66%) Analyst
5 33 (8.66%) IT Support
6 29 (7.61%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 26 (6.82%) Senior
8 25 (6.56%) IT Engineer
9 23 (6.04%) Windows Engineer
10 18 (4.72%) Administrator
11 17 (4.46%) Consultant
11 17 (4.46%) Deployment Engineer
12 14 (3.67%) IT Analyst
12 14 (3.67%) SCCM Engineer
13 13 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (3.41%) Lead
13 13 (3.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (3.15%) IT Support Engineer
15 11 (2.89%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.94%) Software Packaging
1 15 (3.94%) Terraform
2 8 (2.10%) ARM Templates
3 6 (1.57%) JSON
3 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (0.79%) 802.1X
4 3 (0.79%) REST
5 2 (0.52%) .NET
5 2 (0.52%) ADO
5 2 (0.52%) OpenGL
5 2 (0.52%) Qt
6 1 (0.26%) Middleware
6 1 (0.26%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 47 (12.34%) Onboarding
2 27 (7.09%) CMDB
3 14 (3.67%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (3.15%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.15%) Driving Licence
5 12 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.36%) Smartphone
7 8 (2.10%) ARM Cortex
7 8 (2.10%) PKI
8 7 (1.84%) Legacy Applications
8 7 (1.84%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (1.57%) iPhone
10 5 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.31%) Smartcard
10 5 (1.31%) YubiKey
11 4 (1.05%) Blackberry
11 4 (1.05%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.05%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 324 (85.04%) Windows
2 122 (32.02%) Windows 10
3 86 (22.57%) Windows Server
4 40 (10.50%) Linux
5 28 (7.35%) Android
5 28 (7.35%) Mac OS
6 24 (6.30%) Apple iOS
7 23 (6.04%) Windows 7
8 10 (2.62%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (1.57%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.79%) Unix
13 1 (0.26%) AIX
13 1 (0.26%) CentOS
13 1 (0.26%) Debian
13 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (31.50%) ITIL
2 89 (23.36%) ITSM
3 88 (23.10%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (19.69%) Service Management
5 60 (15.75%) Application Packaging
6 58 (15.22%) Customer Service
7 51 (13.39%) Migration
8 50 (13.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 39 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (9.71%) Asset Management
11 35 (9.19%) Patch Management
12 31 (8.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (8.14%) User Experience
13 30 (7.87%) Service Delivery
14 29 (7.61%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 27 (7.09%) Software Deployment
16 24 (6.30%) Task Automation
17 21 (5.51%) Change Management
18 19 (4.99%) Project Delivery
18 19 (4.99%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 133 (34.91%) PowerShell
2 21 (5.51%) VBScript
3 16 (4.20%) VB
4 12 (3.15%) Bash
5 10 (2.62%) Python
6 8 (2.10%) Bicep
6 8 (2.10%) SQL
7 2 (0.52%) C#
7 2 (0.52%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 127 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 89 (23.36%) SC Cleared
3 33 (8.66%) DV Cleared
4 29 (7.61%) Degree
5 18 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.62%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.10%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 6 (1.57%) A+ Certification
11 6 (1.57%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.57%) MCSE
11 6 (1.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (1.31%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (1.05%) MCSA
14 3 (0.79%) CCA
14 3 (0.79%) Citrix Certification
15 2 (0.52%) CCNP
15 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.87%) SLA
2 10 (2.62%) QA
3 6 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.79%) NIST
6 2 (0.52%) COBIT
6 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.52%) ISO 9000
6 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.52%) NCSC
7 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 211 (55.38%) Active Directory
2 58 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (8.40%) Hyper-V
4 26 (6.82%) BitLocker
5 20 (5.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (4.99%) vSphere
7 18 (4.72%) Microsoft App-V
8 9 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.05%) Docker
10 4 (1.05%) Firmware
10 4 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.52%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.52%) XenApp
11 2 (0.52%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 147 (38.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (5.51%) WSUS
3 19 (4.99%) SCOM
4 15 (3.94%) Ansible
5 10 (2.62%) Nessus
6 8 (2.10%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (1.84%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.31%) AirWatch
9 3 (0.79%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.79%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.52%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.52%) Packer
10 2 (0.52%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.52%) SCSM
10 2 (0.52%) vMotion
11 1 (0.26%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 267 (70.08%) Microsoft
2 71 (18.64%) VMware
3 70 (18.37%) ServiceNow
4 39 (10.24%) Citrix
5 21 (5.51%) Cisco
6 18 (4.72%) Apple
7 14 (3.67%) Tenable
8 13 (3.41%) CyberArk
9 12 (3.15%) Bloomberg
9 12 (3.15%) Qualys
10 11 (2.89%) BeyondTrust
10 11 (2.89%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (2.62%) Tanium
12 9 (2.36%) Ivanti
12 9 (2.36%) Zscaler
13 8 (2.10%) McAfee
14 7 (1.84%) Dynatrace
14 7 (1.84%) HP
14 7 (1.84%) Remedy
15 6 (1.57%) Reuters