SCOrch Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring SCOrch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 368 434
Rank change year-on-year +1 +66 +154
Contract jobs citing SCOrch 7 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.052% 0.038% 0.019%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.33% 0.26% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £591 £328 £370
25th Percentile £597 £331 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £772 £450 -
90th Percentile £774 £465 -
England median daily rate £688 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +57.14% -2.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate - - £51.00

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,107 2,270 3,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.70% 14.51% 15.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,378 1,499 2,396
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £700
90th Percentile £720 £763 £798
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 34
10th Percentile £21.64 - £22.75
25th Percentile £26.00 £23.80 £25.71
Median hourly rate £39.50 £32.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.48% -46.25% +140.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £63.00 £69.25
90th Percentile £63.71 £106.00 £87.22
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.75 £48.70
% change year-on-year -9.93% -22.48% +94.80%

SCOrch
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SCOrch job vacancy trend in London

SCOrch
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SCOrch

SCOrch
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SCOrch

SCOrch
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOrch within the London region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
West London - 2 £688 - 1
SCOrch
England

SCOrch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
1 5 (71.43%) WAN
1 5 (71.43%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (57.14%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Security Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Architectural Design
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Security
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (71.43%) Incident Management
1 5 (71.43%) Information Security
1 5 (71.43%) Information Security Management
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (71.43%) ISMS
1 5 (71.43%) Security Management
1 5 (71.43%) Security Monitoring
1 5 (71.43%) Security Operations
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
2 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
1 5 (71.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) SCCM
2 5 (71.43%) CASB
3 2 (28.57%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) BMC
2 2 (28.57%) MuleSoft