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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 73 69
Rank change year-on-year -35 -4 +13
Contract jobs citing SCCM 16 10 13
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.81% 1.01% 1.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.87% 7.87% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 11
10th Percentile £350 £193 £191
25th Percentile £400 £200 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £271 £400
Median % change year-on-year +65.90% -32.19% -
75th Percentile £515 £650 £425
90th Percentile £527 £875 -
North West median daily rate £388 £213 £240
% change year-on-year +82.35% -11.46% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £29.50
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.48% +67.57%
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - £16.00 £25.84
% change year-on-year - -38.08% +39.68%

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 233 127 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 11.82% 12.79% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 89 73
10th Percentile £311 £291 £315
25th Percentile £408 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £471 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% -0.84% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £584
90th Percentile £639 £651 £650
North West median daily rate £480 £446 £450
% change year-on-year +7.62% -0.89% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile £75.60 £19.32 £32.85
25th Percentile £76.50 £20.00 £37.88
Median hourly rate £77.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% +31.58% +19.95%
75th Percentile - £84.50 £76.38
90th Percentile £84.20 £90.80 £92.95
North West median hourly rate £76.00 £18.87 £46.18
% change year-on-year +302.76% -59.14% -

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 5 October 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
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 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (6.25%) IIS
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint 2010
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) OneDrive
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DHCP
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) LAN
2 1 (6.25%) SAN
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.25%) WAN
2 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) MSI
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Legal
3 2 (12.50%) Military
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Desktop Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Desktop Support
2 6 (37.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Applications Packager
4 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) CyberArk Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 1 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Wintel Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Support
5 1 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Software Packaging
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (6.25%) Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Fat Client
2 1 (6.25%) iPhone
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Thin Client
2 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Android
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
6 1 (6.25%) Linux
6 1 (6.25%) Unix
6 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) ITIL
2 7 (43.75%) Application Packaging
2 7 (43.75%) Service Delivery
3 5 (31.25%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 5 (31.25%) Customer-Centricity
3 5 (31.25%) ITSM
4 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) Software Deployment
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (18.75%) Operational Stability
5 3 (18.75%) Security Architecture
5 3 (18.75%) Technical Discovery
6 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Operations
6 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
6 1 (6.25%) Line Management
6 1 (6.25%) Problem Management
6 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (6.25%) Risk Management
6 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
6 1 (6.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (6.25%) BitLocker
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (12.50%) WSUS
3 1 (6.25%) AirWatch
3 1 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Tanium
3 4 (25.00%) BeyondTrust
3 4 (25.00%) Citrix
4 3 (18.75%) CyberArk
5 2 (12.50%) HP
5 2 (12.50%) Ivanti
6 1 (6.25%) Bloomberg
6 1 (6.25%) Dell
6 1 (6.25%) Juniper
6 1 (6.25%) VMware
6 1 (6.25%) Xerox
6 1 (6.25%) Zscaler