SCOrch Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SCOrch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 160 -
Rank change year-on-year -51 - -
Contract jobs citing SCOrch 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.021% 0.056% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.11% 0.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £355 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 - -
75th Percentile £385 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £675 £338 £450
% change year-on-year +100.00% -25.00% -28.00%

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

SCOrch 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 931 582 697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.86% 16.20% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 341 487
10th Percentile £302 £250 £270
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £544 £584 £584
90th Percentile £632 £656 £650
England median daily rate £513 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.32% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 12 50
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.36 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £50.25 £44.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +12.69% -3.44% +73.15%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.68 £53.75
90th Percentile £72.13 £76.57 £78.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £30.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +55.74% -33.95% +31.94%

SCOrch
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SCOrch relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

SCOrch job vacancy trend in the North of England

SCOrch
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SCOrch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SCOrch

SCOrch
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOrch within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
North West - 1 £370 -
SCOrch
England

SCOrch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware