SCSM Contracts in England

Microsoft System Center Service Manager (SCSM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SCSM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCSM over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 - 646
Rank change year-on-year - - +129
Contract jobs citing SCSM 4 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% - 0.014%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.11% - 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £485 - £357
25th Percentile £487 - £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.00%
75th Percentile £595 - £456
90th Percentile £658 - £481
UK median daily rate £491 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -32.00%

All Systems Management Skills
England

SCSM 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 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SCSM in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCSM in England.

Daily rate trend for SCSM in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCSM in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCSM in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCSM in England.

Hourly rate trend for SCSM in England

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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 SCSM within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East - 3 £487 - 1
North of England - 1 £700 -
North West - 1 £700 -
SCSM
UK

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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 (75.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) ITSM Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Migration Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Migration Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Service Manager
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Manager
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) ITSM
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
1 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Service Management
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
1 3 (75.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds