SCCM Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring SCCM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 +21
Contract jobs citing SCCM 4 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.47% 3.55% 4.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.81% 24.14% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £174 £154 £243
25th Percentile £255 £159 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £175 £270
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -35.19% -13.60%
75th Percentile £345 £259 £350
90th Percentile - £389 -
North West median daily rate £350 £363 £375
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
75th Percentile - - £19.31
90th Percentile - - £19.43
North West median hourly rate £16.00 £23.14 £18.11
% change year-on-year -30.84% +27.75% -72.14%

All Systems Management Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 27 29 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 9.89% 14.72% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 13
10th Percentile £282 £163 £234
25th Percentile £300 £250 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +28.57% -26.32%
75th Percentile £510 £500 £438
90th Percentile £598 £548 £490
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
75th Percentile - - £19.31
90th Percentile - - £19.43
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £44.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +23.35% -3.44% -11.41%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

SCCM job vacancy trend in Merseyside

SCCM
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing SCCM

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM in Merseyside over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in Merseyside

SCCM
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing SCCM

SCCM
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 13 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
Liverpool -12 4 £315 +80.00% 2
SCCM
North West

SCCM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) vSphere
3 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) Veeam
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Sophos