SCOrch Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SCOrch skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 523 588
Rank change year-on-year +5 +65 +184
Contract jobs citing SCOrch 3 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.033% 0.019%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.069% 0.24% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 7
10th Percentile - £329 £337
25th Percentile - £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile - £497 £661
90th Percentile - £519 £795
UK median daily rate - £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
UK median hourly rate - - £80.00

All Systems Management Skills
England

SCOrch 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 4,368 4,521 6,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.73% 13.73% 14.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 3,073 4,517
10th Percentile £300 £310 £325
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £713 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 55 161
10th Percentile £18.87 £19.97 £18.50
25th Percentile £21.39 £23.99 £27.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -20.00% +109.12%
75th Percentile £63.40 £63.50 £75.50
90th Percentile £75.45 £74.26 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.97% -30.00% +130.03%

SCOrch
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SCOrch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SCOrch in England

SCOrch
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SCOrch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SCOrch

SCOrch
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SCOrch.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SCOrch

SCOrch
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 SCOrch within the England region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. 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 +11 3 - - 1
SCOrch
UK

SCOrch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (33.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security Management
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) ISMS
1 3 (100.00%) Security Management
1 3 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) CASB
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft