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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 182 171
Rank change year-on-year -121 -11 -1
Contract jobs citing SCCM 380 427 482
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 1.53% 1.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.44% 10.90% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 294 345
10th Percentile £192 £185 £185
25th Percentile £240 £200 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £328 £360
Median % change year-on-year +22.14% -9.03% -7.10%
75th Percentile £521 £522 £513
90th Percentile £623 £585 £608
UK median daily rate £400 £325 £360
% change year-on-year +23.08% -9.72% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 14
10th Percentile £17.25 £15.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £21.27 £17.75 £24.41
Median hourly rate £24.28 £19.44 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +24.90% -28.68% +38.01%
75th Percentile £25.75 £24.72 £57.50
90th Percentile - £59.30 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £24.05 £17.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year +35.49% -34.26% +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 5,110 3,916 3,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.98% 14.02% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,398 2,579 2,671
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £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 £725
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +4.60% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 73 53
10th Percentile £21.25 £18.01 £19.96
25th Percentile £32.87 £20.82 £24.18
Median hourly rate £67.00 £34.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.06% -15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.45 £74.89
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £26.00 £38.25
% change year-on-year +144.15% -32.03% -30.45%

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 26 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 26 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 -89 121 £375 -6.25% 54
North of England -45 88 £365 +82.50% 31
North West -5 73 £388 +83.43% 21
Midlands -37 63 £400 +45.45% 16
South East -100 56 £450 +63.64% 20
West Midlands -44 37 £363 +35.51% 8
South West -64 27 £450 +5.88% 14
East Midlands -7 26 £400 +7.10% 8
East of England -61 19 £450 -18.18% 15
North East -40 8 £200 - 2
Yorkshire -52 7 £245 +22.50% 8
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 58 (15.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (8.16%) SharePoint
3 17 (4.47%) Skype for Business
4 4 (1.05%) IIS
5 2 (0.53%) Confluence
6 1 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.26%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 44 (11.58%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (4.74%) 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 (0.53%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 2 (0.53%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 144 (37.89%) Microsoft 365
2 129 (33.95%) Azure
3 90 (23.68%) Entra ID
4 32 (8.42%) OneDrive
5 14 (3.68%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (2.89%) AWS
6 11 (2.89%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (1.84%) GitHub
9 7 (1.84%) IaaS
10 6 (1.58%) Cohesity
10 6 (1.58%) SaaS
11 5 (1.32%) Google Workspace
11 5 (1.32%) Mimecast
11 5 (1.32%) PaaS
11 5 (1.32%) Rubrik
12 4 (1.05%) Datadog
13 3 (0.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 3 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 79 (20.79%) DNS
2 74 (19.47%) VPN
3 65 (17.11%) DHCP
4 34 (8.95%) Firewall
5 32 (8.42%) TCP/IP
6 27 (7.11%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (6.32%) Skype
8 15 (3.95%) WAN
9 14 (3.68%) LAN
10 13 (3.42%) Network Security
11 12 (3.16%) VLAN
12 11 (2.89%) SAN
13 9 (2.37%) Wireless
14 7 (1.84%) DMZ
14 7 (1.84%) Internet
15 6 (1.58%) Cisco IOS
16 4 (1.05%) SSH
17 3 (0.79%) NetScaler
18 2 (0.53%) PCoIP
18 2 (0.53%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.89%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.58%) Power BI
3 2 (0.53%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 20 (5.26%) MSI
2 7 (1.84%) JIRA
3 5 (1.32%) InstallShield
4 4 (1.05%) AdminStudio
4 4 (1.05%) Chocolatey
5 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.26%) Git
6 1 (0.26%) WiX
General
1 139 (36.58%) Social Skills
2 60 (15.79%) Finance
3 45 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.79%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.26%) Legal
6 16 (4.21%) Banking
6 16 (4.21%) Front Office
7 12 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.89%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.11%) Military
11 7 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.58%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.58%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.58%) Law
13 4 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.05%) Retail
14 2 (0.53%) Advertising
14 2 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 53 (13.95%) Support Engineer
2 51 (13.42%) Desktop Engineer
3 44 (11.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (10.00%) Desktop Support
5 35 (9.21%) Analyst
6 33 (8.68%) IT Support
7 29 (7.63%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 26 (6.84%) Senior
9 25 (6.58%) IT Engineer
10 23 (6.05%) Windows Engineer
11 18 (4.74%) Administrator
11 18 (4.74%) Consultant
12 17 (4.47%) Deployment Engineer
13 16 (4.21%) IT Analyst
14 14 (3.68%) SCCM Engineer
15 13 (3.42%) Lead
15 13 (3.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 12 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
16 12 (3.16%) IT Support Engineer
17 11 (2.89%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.95%) Terraform
2 14 (3.68%) Software Packaging
3 8 (2.11%) ARM Templates
4 6 (1.58%) JSON
4 6 (1.58%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (0.79%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.79%) REST
6 2 (0.53%) .NET
6 2 (0.53%) ADO
6 2 (0.53%) OpenGL
6 2 (0.53%) Qt
7 1 (0.26%) Middleware
7 1 (0.26%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 48 (12.63%) Onboarding
2 27 (7.11%) CMDB
3 14 (3.68%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (3.16%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.16%) Driving Licence
5 12 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.37%) Smartphone
6 9 (2.37%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (2.11%) ARM Cortex
7 8 (2.11%) PKI
8 7 (1.84%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (1.58%) Smartcard
9 6 (1.58%) YubiKey
10 5 (1.32%) iPhone
11 4 (1.05%) Blackberry
11 4 (1.05%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.05%) Clustering
11 4 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.05%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 324 (85.26%) Windows
2 120 (31.58%) Windows 10
3 88 (23.16%) Windows Server
4 40 (10.53%) Linux
5 29 (7.63%) Mac OS
6 28 (7.37%) Android
7 24 (6.32%) Apple iOS
8 23 (6.05%) Windows 7
9 11 (2.89%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (2.37%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (1.58%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.79%) Unix
15 1 (0.26%) AIX
15 1 (0.26%) CentOS
15 1 (0.26%) Debian
15 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (31.84%) ITIL
2 89 (23.42%) ITSM
3 84 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (20.00%) Service Management
5 59 (15.53%) Customer Service
6 55 (14.47%) Application Packaging
7 51 (13.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 50 (13.16%) Migration
9 37 (9.74%) Asset Management
9 37 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (9.21%) Patch Management
11 31 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (7.89%) Service Delivery
13 29 (7.63%) User Experience
13 29 (7.63%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 27 (7.11%) Software Deployment
15 24 (6.32%) Task Automation
16 21 (5.53%) Change Management
17 19 (5.00%) Disk Encryption
17 19 (5.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 133 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 21 (5.53%) VBScript
3 16 (4.21%) VB
4 12 (3.16%) Bash
5 10 (2.63%) Python
6 8 (2.11%) Bicep
6 8 (2.11%) SQL
7 2 (0.53%) C#
7 2 (0.53%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 130 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 89 (23.42%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.47%) DV Cleared
4 30 (7.89%) Degree
5 18 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.63%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.37%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 6 (1.58%) A+ Certification
10 6 (1.58%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.58%) MCSE
10 6 (1.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (1.05%) MCSA
13 3 (0.79%) CCA
13 3 (0.79%) Citrix Certification
14 2 (0.53%) CCNP
14 2 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.89%) SLA
2 10 (2.63%) QA
3 6 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.79%) NIST
6 2 (0.53%) COBIT
6 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.53%) ISO 9000
6 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.53%) NCSC
7 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 213 (56.05%) Active Directory
2 57 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (8.68%) Hyper-V
4 26 (6.84%) BitLocker
5 19 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (5.00%) vSphere
6 15 (3.95%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.05%) Docker
9 4 (1.05%) Firmware
9 4 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.53%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.53%) XenApp
10 2 (0.53%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 147 (38.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (5.79%) WSUS
3 19 (5.00%) SCOM
4 15 (3.95%) Ansible
5 11 (2.89%) Nessus
6 9 (2.37%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (1.84%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.32%) AirWatch
9 3 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.79%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.79%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.53%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.53%) Packer
10 2 (0.53%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.53%) SCSM
10 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.53%) vMotion
11 1 (0.26%) OPNET
11 1 (0.26%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.26%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 266 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 70 (18.42%) VMware
3 69 (18.16%) ServiceNow
4 39 (10.26%) Citrix
5 21 (5.53%) Cisco
6 17 (4.47%) Apple
7 14 (3.68%) Tenable
8 13 (3.42%) CyberArk
9 12 (3.16%) Bloomberg
9 12 (3.16%) CrowdStrike
9 12 (3.16%) Qualys
10 11 (2.89%) BeyondTrust
10 11 (2.89%) Zscaler
11 10 (2.63%) Tanium
12 9 (2.37%) Ivanti
13 8 (2.11%) HP
13 8 (2.11%) McAfee
14 7 (1.84%) Remedy
15 6 (1.58%) Reuters
15 6 (1.58%) SolarWinds