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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 67 86
Rank change year-on-year -30 +19 -13
Contract jobs citing SCCM 10 13 10
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.64% 1.37% 0.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.22% 8.72% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 8
10th Percentile £380 £171 £204
25th Percentile £400 £183 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £200 £310
Median % change year-on-year +116.50% -35.48% -34.74%
75th Percentile £435 £422 £423
90th Percentile £436 £491 £444
North West median daily rate £429 £294 £220
% change year-on-year +46.04% +33.52% -45.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
North West median hourly rate £17.92 £23.14 £17.72
% change year-on-year -22.54% +30.56% -26.79%

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 237 149 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.28% 15.65% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 104 138
10th Percentile £326 £258 £302
25th Percentile £407 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £563 £617
90th Percentile £650 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £483 £475 £511
% change year-on-year +1.71% -7.09% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 7
10th Percentile - - £39.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.21%
75th Percentile £62.88 - £80.63
90th Percentile £70.00 - £89.50
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £33.59 £18.50
% change year-on-year +63.74% +81.57% -50.67%

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
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 26 March 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
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 (10.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
1 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MSI
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Retail
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Military
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Lead Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Service Management Architect
3 1 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Asset Management Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Support
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (10.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) CMDB
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (20.00%) Taxonomies
3 1 (10.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (30.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (40.00%) Application Packaging
2 4 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (30.00%) Business Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (30.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Thought Leadership
3 3 (30.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) GDPR
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (40.00%) Citrix
3 3 (30.00%) Google
3 3 (30.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) BMC
4 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (10.00%) Bloomberg
5 1 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (10.00%) Ivanti