SCCM Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for SCCM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SCCM over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 116 121
Rank change year-on-year -23 +5 -34
Contract jobs citing SCCM 45 102 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.96% 1.76% 2.05%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.62% 11.94% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 77 107
10th Percentile £128 £179 £155
25th Percentile £162 £213 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £357 £250
Median % change year-on-year -38.38% +42.80% -7.24%
75th Percentile £263 £488 £398
90th Percentile £408 £500 £475
England median daily rate £305 £361 £375
% change year-on-year -15.51% -3.73% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 15 6
10th Percentile £16.51 £13.97 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.02 £16.25 £17.19
Median hourly rate £17.72 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.40% - -18.03%
75th Percentile £18.51 £45.50 -
90th Percentile £20.20 £65.00 £21.38
England median hourly rate £22.23 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +1.02% +4.76% +16.67%

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

SCCM is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 522 854 1,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.12% 14.74% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 632 810
10th Percentile £238 £321 £250
25th Percentile £395 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £581 £638 £614
90th Percentile £645 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 51 19
10th Percentile £16.89 £17.50 £15.58
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.27 £16.95
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +87.50% -17.36%
75th Percentile £48.75 £49.52 £41.85
90th Percentile £80.38 £65.00 £51.91
England median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +167.44% -10.42%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing SCCM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for SCCM in the North of England

SCCM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCCM in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for SCCM in the North of England

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in the North of England

SCCM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCCM in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for SCCM in the North of England

SCCM
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 SCCM within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 -20 38 £220 -50.00% 7
Yorkshire +10 5 £325 +44.44% 2
North East +19 3 £131 -41.78% 3
SCCM
England

SCCM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.22%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 15 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (24.44%) Azure
3 7 (15.56%) OneDrive
4 3 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.44%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.22%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) Firewall
1 5 (11.11%) WAAS
2 4 (8.89%) LAN
3 3 (6.67%) VLAN
3 3 (6.67%) VoIP
3 3 (6.67%) VPN
3 3 (6.67%) WAN
3 3 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (4.44%) DNS
5 1 (2.22%) DHCP
5 1 (2.22%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.22%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Finance
4 4 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Legal
5 3 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) IT Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Support Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) 2nd Line Support
3 8 (17.78%) Deployment Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 7 (15.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Desktop Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) Desktop Support
5 6 (13.33%) SCCM Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) Senior
6 5 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) PowerShell Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Analyst
7 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Windows Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Driving Licence
2 3 (6.67%) Clustering
2 3 (6.67%) NHS
3 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) PKI
4 1 (2.22%) Smartphone
4 1 (2.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 41 (91.11%) Windows
2 35 (77.78%) Windows 10
3 11 (24.44%) Mac OS
4 10 (22.22%) Apple iOS
5 5 (11.11%) Windows Server
5 5 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.44%) Windows 7
6 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.22%) VMS
7 1 (2.22%) Windows 8
7 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.67%) Customer Service
2 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (20.00%) Software Deployment
4 8 (17.78%) Asset Management
5 7 (15.56%) ITIL
5 7 (15.56%) Service Management
6 6 (13.33%) Customer Experience
6 6 (13.33%) Inventory Management
6 6 (13.33%) Migration
7 5 (11.11%) Change Control
7 5 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
8 4 (8.89%) Customer Requirements
9 3 (6.67%) Decision-Making
9 3 (6.67%) Incident Management
9 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (6.67%) Project Delivery
9 3 (6.67%) Quality Management
10 2 (4.44%) Information Security
10 2 (4.44%) Security Patching
10 2 (4.44%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) MCP
4 2 (4.44%) MCSE
4 2 (4.44%) MOS
5 1 (2.22%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.22%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) SLA
2 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 30 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (37.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 3 (6.67%) Autotask
3 3 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (4.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (64.44%) Microsoft
2 13 (28.89%) Apple
3 9 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 7 (15.56%) VMware
5 3 (6.67%) Datto
5 3 (6.67%) Sophos
6 2 (4.44%) Citrix
7 1 (2.22%) Cisco
7 1 (2.22%) Proofpoint