SCCM Contracts in the South East

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 104 108
Rank change year-on-year +52 +4 0
Contract jobs citing SCCM 190 110 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.43% 1.90% 2.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.13% 13.84% 15.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 74 123
10th Percentile £200 £185 £185
25th Percentile £211 £207 £237
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £320 £385
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% -16.88% +11.19%
75th Percentile £575 £413 £484
90th Percentile £608 £567 £588
England median daily rate £305 £361 £375
% change year-on-year -15.51% -3.73% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 16
10th Percentile - £11.85 £11.86
25th Percentile - £13.49 £18.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £16.23 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +300.49% -24.51% +7.50%
75th Percentile - £48.80 £22.25
90th Percentile - £68.34 £23.00
England median hourly rate £22.23 £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +5.83% - +16.67%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 727 795 1,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.11% 13.76% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 583 765
10th Percentile £213 £301 £250
25th Percentile £371 £427 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +8.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £615
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 21 26
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.96
25th Percentile £21.72 £52.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +173.26% -23.89%
75th Percentile £51.88 £73.71 £48.38
90th Percentile £66.25 £75.75 £68.13
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 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 6 May 2024.

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 6 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
Thames Valley +58 134 £450 +28.57% 18
Berkshire +60 113 £525 +16.67% 12
Hampshire +11 40 £250 +11.11% 11
Oxfordshire +2 11 £325 - 4
Buckinghamshire +26 10 £344 -1.08% 2
Surrey +6 6 £253 +12.22%
East Sussex +12 4 £475 +131.71% 1
Kent +5 3 £205 -45.33%
West Sussex +5 3 £475 +18.75%
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 30 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.05%) nginx
Applications
1 45 (23.68%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.16%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 51 (26.84%) Microsoft 365
2 48 (25.26%) Azure
3 24 (12.63%) Entra ID
4 17 (8.95%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (8.95%) Azure Storage
5 14 (7.37%) OCI
6 5 (2.63%) AWS
6 5 (2.63%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.05%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.05%) IaaS
7 2 (1.05%) PaaS
7 2 (1.05%) SaaS
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.53%) GCP
8 1 (0.53%) GitHub
8 1 (0.53%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 54 (28.42%) DNS
2 50 (26.32%) DHCP
3 43 (22.63%) Firewall
4 30 (15.79%) LAN
5 21 (11.05%) SAN
6 15 (7.89%) WAN
7 14 (7.37%) Wireless
8 8 (4.21%) Remote Desktop
8 8 (4.21%) VPN
9 7 (3.68%) TCP/IP
10 5 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (2.11%) VLAN
12 3 (1.58%) WebEx
13 2 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
13 2 (1.05%) NetScaler
13 2 (1.05%) Skype
14 1 (0.53%) Fibre Channel
14 1 (0.53%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Axure RP
1 1 (0.53%) Git
1 1 (0.53%) GitLab
1 1 (0.53%) JIRA
1 1 (0.53%) MSI
1 1 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 123 (64.74%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.95%) Organisational Skills
3 11 (5.79%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.58%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.58%) French Language
5 3 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.05%) Finance
7 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.53%) Legal
7 1 (0.53%) Police
7 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (18.95%) Support Engineer
2 31 (16.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (14.74%) Windows Engineer
4 25 (13.16%) Desktop Engineer
4 25 (13.16%) Desktop Support
5 22 (11.58%) Build Engineer
5 22 (11.58%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 21 (11.05%) Windows Build Engineer
7 20 (10.53%) Support Specialist
8 18 (9.47%) Active Directory Support
9 17 (8.95%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
9 17 (8.95%) Hardware Engineer
10 15 (7.89%) Azure Specialist
11 14 (7.37%) Active Directory Specialist
12 11 (5.79%) IT Support
12 11 (5.79%) Storage Engineer
13 10 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
14 9 (4.74%) Support Technician
15 8 (4.21%) Server Engineer
16 7 (3.68%) Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.42%) ARM Templates
2 3 (1.58%) XMPP
3 2 (1.05%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.42%) Driving Licence
2 19 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (9.47%) PKI
4 14 (7.37%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.05%) CCTV
5 2 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.53%) BYOD
6 1 (0.53%) Clustering
6 1 (0.53%) CMDB
6 1 (0.53%) Device Driver
6 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.53%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 178 (93.68%) Windows
2 123 (64.74%) Windows 10
3 70 (36.84%) Windows Server
4 62 (32.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 61 (32.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 51 (26.84%) Linux
7 44 (23.16%) Windows 7
7 44 (23.16%) Windows Server 2012
8 21 (11.05%) Windows NT
9 14 (7.37%) Windows XP
10 7 (3.68%) Windows Server 2008
11 6 (3.16%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (2.11%) Unix
13 3 (1.58%) Android
14 2 (1.05%) Apple iOS
14 2 (1.05%) Mac OS
14 2 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (1.05%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (51.05%) ITIL
2 68 (35.79%) Customer Service
3 59 (31.05%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (21.05%) Service Management
5 39 (20.53%) Release Management
6 35 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 25 (13.16%) Deployment Automation
8 21 (11.05%) Agile
8 21 (11.05%) User Acceptance Testing
9 20 (10.53%) Software Deployment
10 19 (10.00%) Server Management
11 18 (9.47%) Analytics
11 18 (9.47%) Service Delivery
12 17 (8.95%) Converged Infrastructure
12 17 (8.95%) Hardware Maintenance
12 17 (8.95%) Identity Management
12 17 (8.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (8.95%) Proactive Monitoring
12 17 (8.95%) Project Management
12 17 (8.95%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 61 (32.11%) PowerShell
2 26 (13.68%) VBScript
3 20 (10.53%) VB
4 17 (8.95%) C#
5 16 (8.42%) Bicep
6 3 (1.58%) Python
6 3 (1.58%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 100 (52.63%) DV Cleared
3 59 (31.05%) Degree
4 39 (20.53%) SC Cleared
5 17 (8.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (7.37%) CCNA
6 14 (7.37%) CCNP
6 14 (7.37%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.11%) MCSE
8 4 (2.11%) MCTS
9 2 (1.05%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.58%) QA
2 13 (6.84%) SLA
3 4 (2.11%) GDPR
4 1 (0.53%) COBIT
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 116 (61.05%) Active Directory
2 38 (20.00%) Firmware
3 33 (17.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (8.95%) Hyper-V
5 17 (8.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (8.95%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (7.89%) XenApp
7 8 (4.21%) XenDesktop
8 5 (2.63%) BitLocker
9 3 (1.58%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.58%) vSphere
10 2 (1.05%) Docker
11 1 (0.53%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 58 (30.53%) WSUS
2 38 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 36 (18.95%) SCOM
4 21 (11.05%) Sysprep
5 18 (9.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (8.95%) Kubernetes
7 16 (8.42%) EMC NetWorker
8 15 (7.89%) vCenter Server
9 14 (7.37%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.58%) AppManager
11 2 (1.05%) Ansible
11 2 (1.05%) Nessus
11 2 (1.05%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.53%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.53%) SmoothWall
12 1 (0.53%) Terraform
12 1 (0.53%) VxRail
Vendors
1 130 (68.42%) Microsoft
2 59 (31.05%) HP
3 44 (23.16%) VMware
4 26 (13.68%) Cisco
5 20 (10.53%) Symantec
6 18 (9.47%) EMC
6 18 (9.47%) Veeam
7 17 (8.95%) Citrix
7 17 (8.95%) Dell
8 14 (7.37%) 3PAR
8 14 (7.37%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (7.37%) Juniper
8 14 (7.37%) Oracle
8 14 (7.37%) Palo Alto
9 13 (6.84%) ServiceNow
10 12 (6.32%) MobileIron
11 10 (5.26%) Ivanti
12 4 (2.11%) FireEye
12 4 (2.11%) SolarWinds
12 4 (2.11%) Tanium