SCCM Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring SCCM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 54 92
Rank change year-on-year -40 +38 +40
Contract jobs citing SCCM 24 61 48
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.50% 3.29% 2.02%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.92% 24.02% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 45 24
10th Percentile £181 £190 £150
25th Percentile £183 £200 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £275 £365
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -24.66% +46.00%
75th Percentile £281 £438 £583
90th Percentile £509 £495 £700
UK median daily rate £300 £360 £400
% change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £16.88 £27.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% +20.00% -

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 269 254 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.81% 13.69% 14.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 177 212
10th Percentile £264 £204 £332
25th Percentile £424 £356 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £575 £513 £550
90th Percentile £646 £588 £637
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £20.55 £36.36
25th Percentile £52.50 £21.91 £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -56.59% +214.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £72.60
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £38.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -31.58% -30.91% +130.03%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SCCM

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in Scotland

SCCM
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SCCM

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 30 September 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
Glasgow -8 14 £200 -52.94% 1
Edinburgh -21 6 £315 +31.25% 3
Fife -2 1 £130 -7.14%
Aberdeen - 1 £200 - 1
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 1 (4.17%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) assyst
1 2 (8.33%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) DHCP
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Legal
2 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Deployment Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Lead
3 2 (8.33%) PMO Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) PMO Manager
3 2 (8.33%) PMO Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Project Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) SCCM Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Coordinator
4 1 (4.17%) Design Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Desktop Support
4 1 (4.17%) Project Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Device Driver
2 2 (8.33%) CMDB
2 2 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (91.67%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
3 4 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 3 (12.50%) Mac OS
4 3 (12.50%) Unix
5 1 (4.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.83%) Application Packaging
2 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (12.50%) Agile
3 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (12.50%) DevOps
3 3 (12.50%) Disk Encryption
3 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (8.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 2 (8.33%) Incident Response
4 2 (8.33%) Inventory Management
4 2 (8.33%) ITIL
4 2 (8.33%) Project Management
4 2 (8.33%) Refactoring
4 2 (8.33%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (8.33%) SIEM
4 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (8.33%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (20.83%) MCSA
3 2 (8.33%) A+ Certification
3 2 (8.33%) DBS Check
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Dell Certification
4 1 (4.17%) MCP
4 1 (4.17%) MCSE
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (8.33%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.17%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Splunk
3 2 (8.33%) BMC
3 2 (8.33%) HP
3 2 (8.33%) Remedy
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco
4 1 (4.17%) Dell
4 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.17%) Lotus
4 1 (4.17%) Progress
4 1 (4.17%) Qualys