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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 53 109
Rank change year-on-year -52 +56 -3
Contract jobs citing SCCM 48 189 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.61% 3.45% 1.93%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.26% 26.32% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 169 73
10th Percentile £250 £200 £185
25th Percentile £255 £213 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £325 £325
Median % change year-on-year +49.54% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £526 £575 £413
90th Percentile £550 £608 £569
England median daily rate £375 £310 £350
% change year-on-year +20.97% -11.43% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £12.39
25th Percentile - - £14.86
Median hourly rate £28.00 £65.00 £17.62
Median % change year-on-year -56.92% +269.00% -18.07%
75th Percentile - - £34.97
90th Percentile - - £62.81
England median hourly rate £18.13 £22.15 £20.00
% change year-on-year -18.15% +10.75% -6.98%

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 362 718 778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.17% 13.10% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 517 575
10th Percentile £294 £213 £300
25th Percentile £417 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% +7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £661 £650 £699
England median daily rate £525 £524 £575
% change year-on-year +0.24% -8.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 22
10th Percentile £20.77 £14.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £21.98 £17.91 £49.50
Median hourly rate £23.99 £43.00 £58.67
Median % change year-on-year -44.22% -26.71% +172.88%
75th Percentile £25.99 £48.75 £72.78
90th Percentile £27.20 £55.25 £75.68
England median hourly rate £28.00 £25.74 £54.18
% change year-on-year +8.79% -52.49% +151.98%

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 14 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 14 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
Hampshire +4 21 £500 +81.82% 23
Thames Valley -50 17 £263 -41.67% 12
Berkshire -53 9 £400 -17.95% 5
Oxfordshire -1 7 £250 -23.08% 5
Surrey +9 4 £500 +98.02% 6
East Sussex -3 3 £275 -42.11% 1
Kent +3 2 £360 +75.61% 3
Buckinghamshire +4 1 £274 -40.72% 3
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 5 (10.42%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.25%) IIS
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (22.92%) Azure
3 5 (10.42%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.25%) AWS
5 2 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.08%) IaaS
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.08%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) DHCP
1 4 (8.33%) DNS
2 3 (6.25%) HTTP
2 3 (6.25%) HTTPS
2 3 (6.25%) SSL
2 3 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.17%) Firewall
3 2 (4.17%) VPN
4 1 (2.08%) Internet
4 1 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.08%) IP Telephony
4 1 (2.08%) LAN
4 1 (2.08%) MPLS
4 1 (2.08%) NAS
4 1 (2.08%) SAN
4 1 (2.08%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.08%) Softphone
4 1 (2.08%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.08%) WAN
4 1 (2.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (16.67%) MSI
2 2 (4.17%) AdminStudio
General
1 18 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.17%) Finance
3 2 (4.17%) Legal
4 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.08%) Local Government
4 1 (2.08%) Police
4 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Analyst
2 4 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (8.33%) Desktop Support
2 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (8.33%) SCCM Engineer
2 4 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 3 (6.25%) Configuration Manager
3 3 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (4.17%) Consultant
4 2 (4.17%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (4.17%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (4.17%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (4.17%) Field Engineer
4 2 (4.17%) Service Analyst
4 2 (4.17%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (4.17%) Support Analyst
4 2 (4.17%) Systems Manager
4 2 (4.17%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (4.17%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (4.17%) Software Packaging
3 1 (2.08%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.08%) SAML
3 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Driving Licence
2 2 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.17%) CMDB
3 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.08%) PKI
3 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.08%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (66.67%) Windows
2 19 (39.58%) Windows 10
3 15 (31.25%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.33%) Windows 7
5 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (4.17%) Android
6 2 (4.17%) Apple iOS
6 2 (4.17%) Linux
7 1 (2.08%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.25%) ITIL
2 7 (14.58%) Configuration Management
2 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (14.58%) Security Patching
3 6 (12.50%) ITSM
3 6 (12.50%) Service Management
4 5 (10.42%) Change Management
5 4 (8.33%) Application Packaging
5 4 (8.33%) Data Analysis
5 4 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (8.33%) Software Deployment
6 3 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (6.25%) DevOps
6 3 (6.25%) Patch Management
6 3 (6.25%) Service Design
6 3 (6.25%) Software Distribution
6 3 (6.25%) User Experience
6 3 (6.25%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 16 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 7 (14.58%) C#
3 6 (12.50%) SQL
3 6 (12.50%) VB
4 3 (6.25%) Python
5 1 (2.08%) Bicep
5 1 (2.08%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (39.58%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.25%) Degree
4 3 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.08%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.08%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) NCSC
2 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (6.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.08%) BitLocker
5 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.08%) vSphere
5 1 (2.08%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (22.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (20.83%) SCOM
3 6 (12.50%) WSUS
4 3 (6.25%) SCSM
4 3 (6.25%) vCenter Server
5 2 (4.17%) ThinApp
6 1 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 6 (12.50%) SolarWinds
3 4 (8.33%) VMware
4 3 (6.25%) McAfee
5 2 (4.17%) BMC
5 2 (4.17%) Ivanti
5 2 (4.17%) Remedy
6 1 (2.08%) Apple
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco
6 1 (2.08%) Citrix
6 1 (2.08%) F5
6 1 (2.08%) HP
6 1 (2.08%) Okta