SCCM Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 83 39 99
Rank change year-on-year -44 +60 +9
Contract jobs citing SCCM 19 134 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.26% 4.99% 1.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 10.38% 41.74% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 125 44
10th Percentile - £205 £185
25th Percentile £250 £213 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £549 £608 £440
90th Percentile £594 - £551
South East median daily rate £410 £310 £325
% change year-on-year +32.26% -4.62% -15.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £81.37
Median % change year-on-year - -20.12% +424.97%
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £65.00 £16.23
% change year-on-year -56.92% +300.49% -24.51%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 183 321 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.11% 11.95% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 243 273
10th Percentile £318 £205 £303
25th Percentile £413 £300 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £578 £608 £623
90th Percentile £663 £650 £725
South East median daily rate £501 £475 £543
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 11
10th Percentile - £21.34 £48.50
25th Percentile - £28.41 £54.69
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.29% +5.60%
75th Percentile - £52.81 £75.38
90th Percentile - £66.50 £81.37
South East median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
% change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SCCM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SCCM in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCCM in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SCCM in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCCM in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SCCM in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -53 11 £488 +8.33% 7
Oxfordshire +1 7 £250 -23.08% 6
Buckinghamshire +8 1 £274 +21.85% 7
SCCM
South East

SCCM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) DHCP
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) Internet
2 1 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.26%) IP Telephony
2 1 (5.26%) LAN
2 1 (5.26%) MPLS
2 1 (5.26%) NAS
2 1 (5.26%) NetScaler
2 1 (5.26%) SAN
2 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.26%) Skype
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.26%) Unified Communications
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
2 1 (5.26%) WAN
2 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) MSI
2 2 (10.53%) AdminStudio
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Police
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Operations Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Field Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) ICT Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Support
4 1 (5.26%) SCCM Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Driving Licence
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (10.53%) CMDB
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) PKI
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.26%) Smartphone
3 1 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
2 7 (36.84%) Windows 10
3 4 (21.05%) Linux
4 3 (15.79%) Windows 7
5 2 (10.53%) AIX
5 2 (10.53%) Unix
5 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) ITIL
2 5 (26.32%) Configuration Management
3 3 (15.79%) Application Packaging
3 3 (15.79%) Software Deployment
4 2 (10.53%) Coaching
4 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (10.53%) Data Reconciliation
4 2 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) ITSM
4 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
4 2 (10.53%) Release Management
4 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.26%) Incident Response
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (5.26%) Inventory Management
5 1 (5.26%) Log Analytics
5 1 (5.26%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Bicep
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) VB
3 1 (5.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.26%) A+ Certification
3 1 (5.26%) MCP
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) SLA
2 2 (10.53%) NIST
3 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.53%) Docker
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.26%) vSphere
4 1 (5.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (21.05%) SCOM
2 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) WSUS
3 2 (10.53%) Ansible
3 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
3 2 (10.53%) Puppet
3 2 (10.53%) ThinApp
4 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
3 3 (15.79%) SolarWinds
3 3 (15.79%) VMware
4 2 (10.53%) BMC
4 2 (10.53%) Ivanti
4 2 (10.53%) Remedy
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco
5 1 (5.26%) Citrix
5 1 (5.26%) F5
5 1 (5.26%) HP
5 1 (5.26%) McAfee