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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 189 172
Rank change year-on-year -121 -17 -8
Contract jobs citing SCCM 380 429 482
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 1.53% 1.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.47% 10.85% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 293 344
10th Percentile £193 £181 £185
25th Percentile £240 £200 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £325 £350
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £523 £525 £500
90th Percentile £623 £585 £608
UK median daily rate £400 £300 £350
% change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 16
10th Percentile £17.25 £15.50 £23.03
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.97 £23.80
Median hourly rate £24.05 £18.87 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% -30.11% +36.74%
75th Percentile £25.75 £23.82 £52.50
90th Percentile - £59.30 £62.25
UK median hourly rate £24.05 £16.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +50.31% -40.74% +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 5,090 3,955 3,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.94% 14.13% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,381 2,598 2,621
10th Percentile £313 £279 £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 £620 £600 £626
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +4.60% -2.91% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 75 53
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.54 £20.17
25th Percentile £34.49 £19.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £65.69 £34.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.21% -10.53% -27.62%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.58 £64.50
90th Percentile £89.59 £73.40 £74.89
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £23.79 £37.50
% change year-on-year +166.86% -36.57% -31.82%

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 October 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 October 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 -89 118 £375 -4.76% 64
North of England -44 89 £365 +78.05% 36
North West -12 73 £388 +82.35% 24
Midlands -41 66 £393 +46.73% 18
South East -93 56 £450 +63.64% 30
West Midlands -37 39 £340 +29.52% 7
South West -61 28 £450 +9.09% 16
East Midlands -5 27 £400 +7.10% 11
East of England -55 17 £450 -18.18% 18
North East -42 8 £200 - 2
Yorkshire -43 8 £245 +22.50% 10
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 45 (11.84%) 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
1 147 (38.68%) Microsoft 365
2 130 (34.21%) Azure
3 89 (23.42%) Entra ID
4 32 (8.42%) OneDrive
5 14 (3.68%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (3.42%) AWS
7 11 (2.89%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (1.84%) GitHub
10 7 (1.84%) IaaS
11 6 (1.58%) SaaS
12 5 (1.32%) Cohesity
12 5 (1.32%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.32%) Mimecast
12 5 (1.32%) PaaS
12 5 (1.32%) Rubrik
13 4 (1.05%) Datadog
14 3 (0.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 3 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 78 (20.53%) DNS
2 75 (19.74%) VPN
3 65 (17.11%) DHCP
4 34 (8.95%) Firewall
5 32 (8.42%) TCP/IP
6 27 (7.11%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (6.05%) Skype
8 15 (3.95%) LAN
8 15 (3.95%) WAN
9 13 (3.42%) Network Security
10 12 (3.16%) VLAN
11 11 (2.89%) SAN
12 9 (2.37%) Wireless
13 8 (2.11%) Internet
14 7 (1.84%) DMZ
15 6 (1.58%) Cisco IOS
16 4 (1.05%) SSH
17 3 (0.79%) NetScaler
18 2 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
18 2 (0.53%) SD-WAN
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 4 (1.05%) AdminStudio
3 4 (1.05%) Chocolatey
3 4 (1.05%) InstallShield
4 1 (0.26%) Git
4 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 139 (36.58%) Social Skills
2 61 (16.05%) Finance
3 46 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.79%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.26%) Legal
6 17 (4.47%) Banking
7 16 (4.21%) Front Office
8 12 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.89%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.11%) Military
11 8 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.84%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.58%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.58%) Law
14 4 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.79%) Retail
16 2 (0.53%) Advertising
16 2 (0.53%) German Language
Job Titles
1 54 (14.21%) Support Engineer
2 53 (13.95%) Desktop Engineer
3 43 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 40 (10.53%) Desktop Support
5 36 (9.47%) Analyst
6 34 (8.95%) IT Support
7 31 (8.16%) 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
12 17 (4.47%) IT Analyst
13 13 (3.42%) Lead
13 13 (3.42%) SCCM Engineer
13 13 (3.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (3.16%) IT Support Engineer
15 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 49 (12.89%) Onboarding
2 27 (7.11%) CMDB
3 15 (3.95%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.42%) Driving Licence
4 13 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (3.16%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.63%) Smartphone
7 9 (2.37%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (2.11%) ARM Cortex
8 8 (2.11%) PKI
9 7 (1.84%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.32%) iPhone
10 5 (1.32%) Smartcard
10 5 (1.32%) YubiKey
11 4 (1.05%) Blackberry
11 4 (1.05%) Clustering
11 4 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.05%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 325 (85.53%) Windows
2 122 (32.11%) Windows 10
3 88 (23.16%) Windows Server
4 42 (11.05%) Linux
5 30 (7.89%) Android
6 29 (7.63%) Mac OS
7 26 (6.84%) 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
1 124 (32.63%) ITIL
2 92 (24.21%) ITSM
3 85 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (20.26%) Service Management
5 61 (16.05%) Customer Service
6 54 (14.21%) Application Packaging
7 50 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 48 (12.63%) Migration
9 37 (9.74%) Asset Management
9 37 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (9.74%) Patch Management
10 32 (8.42%) Service Delivery
10 32 (8.42%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 31 (8.16%) Software Deployment
11 31 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (7.63%) User Experience
13 23 (6.05%) Task Automation
14 21 (5.53%) Change Management
15 20 (5.26%) Security Hardening
16 19 (5.00%) Disk Encryption
Programming Languages
1 135 (35.53%) PowerShell
2 21 (5.53%) VBScript
3 16 (4.21%) VB
4 13 (3.42%) Bash
5 11 (2.89%) 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
1 128 (33.68%) Security Cleared
2 89 (23.42%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.95%) DV Cleared
4 29 (7.63%) Degree
5 19 (5.00%) 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%) A+ Certification
9 7 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
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
1 215 (56.58%) Active Directory
2 57 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (8.42%) Hyper-V
4 26 (6.84%) BitLocker
5 20 (5.26%) vSphere
6 19 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (3.95%) Microsoft App-V
8 9 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (1.05%) Docker
11 4 (1.05%) Firmware
12 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.53%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.53%) XenApp
12 2 (0.53%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 150 (39.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (5.53%) WSUS
3 19 (5.00%) SCOM
4 15 (3.95%) Ansible
5 10 (2.63%) 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%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.26%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 266 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 72 (18.95%) VMware
3 70 (18.42%) ServiceNow
4 40 (10.53%) Citrix
5 21 (5.53%) Cisco
6 17 (4.47%) Apple
7 13 (3.42%) CyberArk
7 13 (3.42%) Tenable
8 12 (3.16%) Bloomberg
8 12 (3.16%) CrowdStrike
8 12 (3.16%) Qualys
9 11 (2.89%) BeyondTrust
9 11 (2.89%) Tanium
9 11 (2.89%) Zscaler
10 9 (2.37%) Ivanti
11 8 (2.11%) HP
11 8 (2.11%) McAfee
12 7 (1.84%) NetApp
12 7 (1.84%) Remedy
13 6 (1.58%) SolarWinds