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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 506 520
Rank change year-on-year -113 +14 +80
Contract jobs citing SCOrch 3 2 10
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% 0.007% 0.030%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.059% 0.052% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £604 - £329
25th Percentile £607 - £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.20%
75th Percentile £617 - £497
90th Percentile £619 - £519
UK median daily rate £613 - £450

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 5,063 3,831 3,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.03% 13.81% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,392 2,537 2,767
10th Percentile £308 £282 £300
25th Percentile £418 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -5.01%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £712
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +3.50% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 60 59
10th Percentile £21.27 £18.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £44.86 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £51.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.37% +36.00% -24.27%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.63 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.20 £82.96 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +111.60% -20.00% -30.23%

SCOrch
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SCOrch relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

SCOrch job vacancy trend 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 29 August 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 -77 1 £605 - 2
SCOrch
UK

SCOrch
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 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Runbook
1 3 (100.00%) Workflow
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 2 (66.67%) Resilience Testing
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) SCOM
2 2 (66.67%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (66.67%) VMware