SCCM Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring SCCM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 67 78
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 +22
Contract jobs citing SCCM 14 16 21
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.15% 1.54% 1.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.93% 8.99% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 17
10th Percentile £195 £179 £206
25th Percentile £268 £198 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £363 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% -9.38% +100.00%
75th Percentile £435 £425 £420
90th Percentile £492 £481 £517
North West median daily rate £405 £325 £360
% change year-on-year +24.62% -9.72% +10.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.98
25th Percentile - - £18.31
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £19.25
75th Percentile - - £19.81
90th Percentile - - £19.93
North West median hourly rate £16.00 £23.14 £17.72
% change year-on-year -30.84% +30.56% -72.74%

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

SCCM 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 202 178 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.61% 17.10% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 113 172
10th Percentile £344 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £584
90th Percentile £650 £666 £694
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 12
10th Percentile £29.75 - £19.33
25th Percentile £52.50 - £35.47
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £61.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.77%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £79.69
90th Percentile £67.38 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £44.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +23.35% -3.44% -7.30%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

SCCM job vacancy trend in Manchester

SCCM
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SCCM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SCCM

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM in Manchester over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in Manchester

SCCM
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SCCM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SCCM

SCCM
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 25 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
Bolton -2 1 £185 -3.90%
Salford - 1 - -
SCCM
North West

SCCM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (7.14%) IIS
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 4 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) PaaS
4 2 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) IP Telephony
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.14%) VLAN
1 1 (7.14%) VoIP
1 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) MSI
General
1 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Military
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Lead Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Service Management Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Asset Management Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Rollout Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) CMDB
2 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
3 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 2 (14.29%) Taxonomies
4 1 (7.14%) Clustering
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (7.14%) Fat Client
4 1 (7.14%) IBM XIV
4 1 (7.14%) Replication
4 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 1 (7.14%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Mac OS
2 3 (21.43%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Configuration Management
1 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
1 5 (35.71%) Enterprise Architecture
1 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
2 4 (28.57%) Application Packaging
2 4 (28.57%) Asset Management
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (21.43%) Analytics
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
3 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
3 3 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (21.43%) IT Asset Management
3 3 (21.43%) IT Strategy
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) ITSM
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Thought Leadership
3 3 (21.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) GDPR
1 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) Citrix
2 5 (35.71%) ServiceNow
3 4 (28.57%) VMware
4 3 (21.43%) Google
5 2 (14.29%) BMC
5 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
5 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds
6 1 (7.14%) IBM
6 1 (7.14%) Ivanti
6 1 (7.14%) Rapid7