SCCM Contracts in the South East

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring SCCM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCCM over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 55 116
Rank change year-on-year -59 +61 -13
Contract jobs citing SCCM 45 191 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.50% 3.44% 1.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.36% 26.71% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 172 74
10th Percentile £250 £200 £185
25th Percentile £252 £207 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £310 £325
Median % change year-on-year +32.26% -4.62% -15.58%
75th Percentile £544 £575 £413
90th Percentile £577 £608 £567
England median daily rate £350 £308 £353
% change year-on-year +13.82% -12.77% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £11.85
25th Percentile - - £13.49
Median hourly rate £28.00 £65.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -56.92% +300.49% -24.51%
75th Percentile - - £48.80
90th Percentile - - £68.34
England median hourly rate £17.16 £22.30 £22.41
% change year-on-year -23.05% -0.49% +6.71%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 364 715 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.09% 12.86% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 504 593
10th Percentile £318 £209 £308
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £543
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £625
90th Percentile £663 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 20
10th Percentile £20.77 £14.00 £18.27
25th Percentile £21.98 £23.63 £47.31
Median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
Median % change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%
75th Percentile £25.99 £50.00 £74.03
90th Percentile £27.20 £66.00 £76.31
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SCCM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SCCM in the South East

SCCM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCCM in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SCCM in the South East

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in the South East

SCCM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCCM in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SCCM in the South East

SCCM
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley -44 19 £268 -23.33% 5
Hampshire +2 15 £500 +100.00% 9
Berkshire -53 11 £488 +8.33% 1
Oxfordshire +1 7 £250 -23.08% 3
East Sussex -3 5 £420 -6.15%
Surrey +14 3 £450 +78.22% 3
Kent +7 2 £360 +75.61% 3
Buckinghamshire +8 1 £274 +21.85% 1
SCCM
England

SCCM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.67%) IIS
2 3 (6.67%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (35.56%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (26.67%) Azure
3 5 (11.11%) AWS
4 3 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.44%) IaaS
5 2 (4.44%) PaaS
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) HTTP
1 3 (6.67%) HTTPS
1 3 (6.67%) SSL
2 2 (4.44%) DHCP
2 2 (4.44%) DNS
2 2 (4.44%) Firewall
2 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.22%) Internet
3 1 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.22%) IP Telephony
3 1 (2.22%) LAN
3 1 (2.22%) MPLS
3 1 (2.22%) NAS
3 1 (2.22%) SAN
3 1 (2.22%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.22%) Softphone
3 1 (2.22%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.22%) VPN
3 1 (2.22%) WAN
3 1 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) MSI
2 2 (4.44%) AdminStudio
General
1 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Legal
5 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Local Government
5 1 (2.22%) Police
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Analyst
2 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Desktop Support
4 3 (6.67%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Deployment Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Field Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) ICT Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 2 (4.44%) SCCM Consultant
5 2 (4.44%) Senior
5 2 (4.44%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (4.44%) YAML
3 1 (2.22%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.22%) SAML
3 1 (2.22%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Driving Licence
2 2 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.44%) CMDB
3 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.22%) PKI
3 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.22%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (64.44%) Windows
2 16 (35.56%) Windows 10
3 10 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 5 (11.11%) Windows 7
5 4 (8.89%) Linux
6 3 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (4.44%) AIX
7 2 (4.44%) Unix
8 1 (2.22%) Android
8 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.22%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (33.33%) ITIL
2 9 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (13.33%) Service Management
5 5 (11.11%) Application Packaging
5 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (11.11%) ITSM
5 5 (11.11%) Software Deployment
6 4 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (8.89%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (8.89%) DevOps
7 3 (6.67%) Customer Service
7 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (6.67%) Proactive Monitoring
7 3 (6.67%) Prototyping
7 3 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (6.67%) Software Distribution
7 3 (6.67%) User Experience
7 3 (6.67%) Virtual Environments
7 3 (6.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (13.33%) SQL
3 4 (8.89%) Python
4 1 (2.22%) Bicep
4 1 (2.22%) C#
4 1 (2.22%) VB
4 1 (2.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (35.56%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.78%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.89%) Degree
5 3 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.22%) A+ Certification
7 1 (2.22%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) SLA
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.44%) NCSC
2 2 (4.44%) NIST
3 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (6.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.44%) Docker
5 1 (2.22%) BitLocker
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.22%) vSphere
5 1 (2.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (22.22%) SCOM
3 6 (13.33%) WSUS
4 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.67%) SCSM
4 3 (6.67%) vCenter Server
5 2 (4.44%) Ansible
5 2 (4.44%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.44%) Puppet
5 2 (4.44%) Terraform
5 2 (4.44%) ThinApp
6 1 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 24 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.33%) ServiceNow
2 6 (13.33%) SolarWinds
3 5 (11.11%) VMware
4 3 (6.67%) McAfee
5 2 (4.44%) BMC
5 2 (4.44%) Ivanti
5 2 (4.44%) Remedy
6 1 (2.22%) Apple
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco
6 1 (2.22%) Citrix
6 1 (2.22%) F5
6 1 (2.22%) HP
6 1 (2.22%) Okta
6 1 (2.22%) Qualys