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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 495 530
Rank change year-on-year -38 +35 +192
Contract jobs citing SCOrch 9 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.028% 0.021% 0.028%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.18% 0.15% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile £402 £326 £340
25th Percentile £471 £328 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £338 £481
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -29.87% -23.00%
75th Percentile £769 £409 £619
90th Percentile £773 £449 £765
UK median daily rate £675 £338 £450
% change year-on-year +100.00% -25.00% -28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
UK median hourly rate - - £22.00

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 4,993 4,078 4,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.75% 14.51% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,427 2,644 3,552
10th Percentile £310 £313 £273
25th Percentile £413 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -8.05%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.19% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 51 152
10th Percentile £18.72 £15.22 £16.59
25th Percentile £21.30 £21.02 £21.25
Median hourly rate £50.61 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +90.98% -42.62% +27.89%
75th Percentile £66.19 £61.25 £67.13
90th Percentile £80.20 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £24.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +93.24% -46.21% +31.94%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOrch in England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SCOrch in England

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 1 January 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 -11 8 £688 +103.70%
North of England -55 1 £370 -
North West - 1 £370 -
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 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
1 6 (66.67%) WAN
1 6 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) VSAN
General
1 6 (66.67%) Spanish Language
2 1 (11.11%) Italian Language
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Architectural Design
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 6 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 6 (66.67%) Information Security
1 6 (66.67%) Information Security Management
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (66.67%) ISMS
1 6 (66.67%) Security Management
1 6 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
1 6 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
3 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) IT Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) Perl
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 6 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) SCCM
2 6 (66.67%) CASB
3 3 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (22.22%) SCOM
5 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) BMC
2 2 (22.22%) MuleSoft
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) Veeam
3 1 (11.11%) VMware