SCCM Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 104 114
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 -36
Contract jobs citing SCCM 35 62 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.59% 2.17% 1.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.68% 10.95% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 45 40
10th Percentile £186 £131 £119
25th Percentile £200 £158 £125
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £200 £168
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +19.40% -50.00%
75th Percentile £613 £388 £203
90th Percentile £668 £441 £419
UK median daily rate £315 £365 £375
% change year-on-year -13.70% -2.67% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
UK median hourly rate £22.23 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.02% +10.00% +11.11%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 276 566 448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.51% 19.83% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 401 324
10th Percentile £259 £260 £200
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £685
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile £19.59 £21.47 £34.00
25th Percentile £26.32 £30.00 £41.31
Median hourly rate £37.99 £56.25 £44.82
Median % change year-on-year -32.47% +25.50% -32.09%
75th Percentile £49.21 £58.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £55.68 £59.65 £49.36
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SCCM in Scotland

SCCM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCCM in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for SCCM in Scotland

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in Scotland

SCCM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCCM in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for SCCM in Scotland

SCCM
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Edinburgh +41 20 £320 +70.67% 19
Glasgow -6 13 £530 +41.33% 1
Lanarkshire -3 1 £185 +12.12%
SCCM
UK

SCCM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (11.43%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (2.86%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (11.43%) OneDrive
4 3 (8.57%) AWS
4 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) DNS
2 4 (11.43%) DHCP
2 4 (11.43%) Firewall
2 4 (11.43%) LAN
2 4 (11.43%) SAN
2 4 (11.43%) VPN
2 4 (11.43%) WAN
3 3 (8.57%) SSL
4 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
General
1 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 14 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 8 (22.86%) Security Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Windows Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) IT Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) IT Support
3 5 (14.29%) IT Support Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Lead
4 4 (11.43%) Lead Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) PKI
2 3 (8.57%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.71%) iPad
4 1 (2.86%) CMDB
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (42.86%) Windows 10
3 12 (34.29%) Windows Server
4 6 (17.14%) Unix
4 6 (17.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (14.29%) Mac OS
6 3 (8.57%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.86%) Linux
7 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) ITIL
2 11 (31.43%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (28.57%) Agile
3 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (20.00%) DevOps
4 7 (20.00%) Disk Encryption
4 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (17.14%) Customer Service
5 6 (17.14%) Refactoring
6 4 (11.43%) Email Filtering
6 4 (11.43%) Kalman Filter
6 4 (11.43%) Load Balancing
6 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
6 4 (11.43%) Security Operations
6 4 (11.43%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (8.57%) Break/Fix
7 3 (8.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (8.57%) Organisational Awareness
7 3 (8.57%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) PowerShell
2 11 (31.43%) Python
3 3 (8.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (14.29%) Degree
5 4 (11.43%) CCNA
5 4 (11.43%) CCNP
5 4 (11.43%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (11.43%) MCSE
6 3 (8.57%) A+ Certification
6 3 (8.57%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.86%) DBS Check
7 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.86%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (5.71%) SLA
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 27 (77.14%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (11.43%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (11.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.00%) Splunk
3 6 (17.14%) VMware
4 4 (11.43%) Cisco
4 4 (11.43%) F5
5 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.86%) Citrix
6 1 (2.86%) EMC
6 1 (2.86%) IFS
6 1 (2.86%) NetApp