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 citing SCOrch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	648	509	500
Rank change year-on-year	-139	-9	+71
Contract jobs citing SCOrch	7	7	8
As % of all contract jobs in England	0.015%	0.024%	0.026%
As % of the Systems Management category	0.13%	0.17%	0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted	4	2	5
10^th Percentile	£453	£591	£328
25^th Percentile	£494	£597	£331
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£561	£688	£438
Median % change year-on-year	-18.40%	+57.14%	-2.78%
75^th Percentile	£611	£772	£450
90^th Percentile	£616	£774	£465
UK median daily rate	£605	£688	£438
% change year-on-year	-12.00%	+57.14%	-2.78%

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 citing systems management skills in England.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing systems management skills	5,289	4,126	3,866
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England	11.39%	14.34%	12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted	3,552	2,708	2,524
10^th Percentile	£313	£279	£308
25^th Percentile	£425	£406	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-4.55%
75^th Percentile	£625	£600	£638
90^th Percentile	£705	£688	£725
UK median daily rate	£525	£500	£520
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-3.85%	-5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted	210	87	50
10^th Percentile	£17.48	£18.44	£19.50
25^th Percentile	£25.75	£20.09	£23.80
Median hourly rate	£65.00	£34.00	£37.75
Median % change year-on-year	+91.18%	-9.93%	-22.00%
75^th Percentile	£75.00	£64.88	£61.88
90^th Percentile	£90.25	£79.25	£75.25
UK median hourly rate	£62.75	£26.00	£36.83
% change year-on-year	+141.35%	-29.41%	-25.94%

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 Daily Rate Trend in England

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 28 October 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.

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 28 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
London	-91	3	£561	-18.40%
SCOrch UK

SCOrch Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing SCOrch also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region citing SCOrch.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Active Directory	100.0%	7
1	Azure	100.0%	7
1	Microsoft	100.0%	7
1	SC Cleared	100.0%	7
1	Security Cleared	100.0%	7
6	Hyper-V	85.7%	6
6	ITIL	85.7%	6
6	SCOM	85.7%	6
6	Windows	85.7%	6
10	Entra ID	71.4%	5
10	PowerShell	71.4%	5
10	Root Cause Analysis	71.4%	5
10	Runbook	71.4%	5
10	VMware	71.4%	5
10	VMware Infrastructure	71.4%	5
16	Capacity Management	57.1%	4
16	Microsoft Exchange	57.1%	4
16	REST	57.1%	4
16	ServiceNow	57.1%	4
16	SQL	57.1%	4
16	Windows Server	57.1%	4
16	Workflow	57.1%	4
23	Infrastructure Automation	42.9%	3
23	ITSM	42.9%	3
23	PowerCLI	42.9%	3
26	API Integration	28.6%	2
26	Change Management	28.6%	2
26	DHCP	28.6%	2
26	DNS	28.6%	2
26	OAuth	28.6%	2

SCOrch Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Systems Management

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SCOM	85.7%	6
2	PowerCLI	42.9%	3
3	SCCM	28.6%	2
4	Microsoft Clustering	14.3%	1
4	NetBackup	14.3%	1
4	SCVMM	14.3%	1