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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 76 80
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +20
Contract jobs citing SCCM 9 11 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.89% 0.92% 1.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.00% 6.96% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 24
10th Percentile £193 £191 £200
25th Percentile £200 £220 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £271 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% - +33.33%
75th Percentile £650 £425 £416
90th Percentile £875 £428 £527
North West median daily rate £213 £240 £366
% change year-on-year -11.46% -34.43% +12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £29.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £31.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +67.57% +8.82%
75th Percentile - £32.50 £19.38
90th Percentile - - £19.45
North West median hourly rate £17.75 £29.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year -39.32% +67.14% -

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 150 158 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.87% 13.20% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 96 217
10th Percentile £312 £333 £313
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% +1.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £575
90th Percentile £691 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £465 £500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -7.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile £19.32 £32.85 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £37.88 £18.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +137.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £84.50 £76.38 £55.31
90th Percentile £90.80 £92.95 £65.00
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -56.69% - +112.03%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing SCCM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for SCCM 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 20 September 2025.

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 20 September 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
Bolton - 1 £185 -
SCCM
North West

SCCM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) IP Telephony
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
1 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Deployment Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Rollout Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (11.11%) Fat Client
2 1 (11.11%) IBM XIV
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
3 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Thought Leadership
2 2 (22.22%) User Experience
3 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
3 1 (11.11%) Change Control
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
3 1 (11.11%) IT Asset Management
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) ITSM
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
3 1 (11.11%) SIEM
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Rapid7
2 1 (11.11%) VMware