SCCM Contracts in the Thames Valley

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 97 94
Rank change year-on-year +59 -3 +23
Contract jobs citing SCCM 121 53 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.64% 1.87% 1.96%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.93% 15.87% 17.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 44 43
10th Percentile £205 £185 £165
25th Percentile £213 £288 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £350 £363
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% -3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £608 £440 £469
90th Percentile - £567 £580
South East median daily rate £325 £325 £375
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £24.79 £10.83
25th Percentile - £34.22 £12.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.19 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.52% +223.77% -
75th Percentile - £65.90 £18.69
90th Percentile - £75.18 £20.38
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £17.62 £21.50
% change year-on-year +269.00% -18.07% +7.50%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 303 334 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.63% 11.79% 11.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 250 271
10th Percentile £205 £300 £235
25th Percentile £311 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% +2.05% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £600
90th Percentile £650 £725 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% +7.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 8
10th Percentile £19.81 £45.50 £10.88
25th Percentile £25.22 £58.91 £12.78
Median hourly rate £38.75 £68.00 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.01% +62.87% +5.70%
75th Percentile £48.75 £75.56 £68.75
90th Percentile £56.88 £81.98 £72.88
South East median hourly rate £43.00 £58.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -26.81% +173.26% -37.23%

SCCM
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 19 May 2024.

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 19 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
Berkshire +55 104 £550 +12.82% 15
Buckinghamshire +25 9 £463 +33.09% 3
Oxfordshire 0 8 £250 -23.08% 1
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 22 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 37 (30.58%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 38 (31.40%) Azure
2 29 (23.97%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (15.70%) Entra ID
4 17 (14.05%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (14.05%) Azure Storage
5 14 (11.57%) OCI
6 2 (1.65%) AWS
6 2 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.65%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.65%) IaaS
6 2 (1.65%) PaaS
6 2 (1.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (32.23%) DNS
2 37 (30.58%) DHCP
3 33 (27.27%) Firewall
4 22 (18.18%) LAN
5 14 (11.57%) SAN
6 7 (5.79%) WAN
7 5 (4.13%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (4.13%) TCP/IP
8 4 (3.31%) VPN
9 2 (1.65%) Skype
9 2 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (0.83%) MSI
General
1 102 (84.30%) Social Skills
2 32 (26.45%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (5.79%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.83%) Police
5 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (19.83%) Support Engineer
2 23 (19.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (18.18%) Desktop Engineer
4 21 (17.36%) Windows Engineer
5 19 (15.70%) Active Directory Support
5 19 (15.70%) Build Engineer
5 19 (15.70%) Desktop Support
5 19 (15.70%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 19 (15.70%) Support Specialist
5 19 (15.70%) Windows Build Engineer
6 15 (12.40%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
6 15 (12.40%) Hardware Engineer
7 14 (11.57%) Active Directory Specialist
7 14 (11.57%) Azure Specialist
8 10 (8.26%) Storage Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Active Directory Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Break Fix Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Technical Specialist
9 5 (4.13%) Technical Support
9 5 (4.13%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.05%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 31 (25.62%) Driving Licence
2 18 (14.88%) PKI
3 17 (14.05%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (11.57%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.65%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.83%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 114 (94.21%) Windows
2 86 (71.07%) Windows 10
3 58 (47.93%) Windows Server
4 53 (43.80%) Windows Server 2016
4 53 (43.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 36 (29.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 35 (28.93%) Windows 7
7 34 (28.10%) Linux
8 19 (15.70%) Windows NT
9 14 (11.57%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.83%) Android
10 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (68.60%) ITIL
2 57 (47.11%) Customer Service
3 48 (39.67%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (30.58%) Release Management
4 37 (30.58%) Service Management
5 24 (19.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 20 (16.53%) Agile
7 19 (15.70%) Deployment Automation
7 19 (15.70%) User Acceptance Testing
8 18 (14.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (14.05%) Analytics
9 17 (14.05%) CI/CD
9 17 (14.05%) Converged Infrastructure
9 17 (14.05%) DevOps
9 17 (14.05%) Identity Management
9 17 (14.05%) Log Analytics
9 17 (14.05%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 17 (14.05%) Privileged Identity Management
9 17 (14.05%) RBAC
10 16 (13.22%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 37 (30.58%) PowerShell
2 17 (14.05%) Bicep
2 17 (14.05%) C#
2 17 (14.05%) VB
2 17 (14.05%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 94 (77.69%) Security Cleared
2 89 (73.55%) DV Cleared
3 53 (43.80%) Degree
4 34 (28.10%) SC Cleared
5 17 (14.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (11.57%) CCNA
6 14 (11.57%) CCNP
6 14 (11.57%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.70%) QA
2 11 (9.09%) SLA
3 1 (0.83%) COBIT
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 74 (61.16%) Active Directory
2 34 (28.10%) Firmware
3 20 (16.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (14.05%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (14.05%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (13.22%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (11.57%) Hyper-V
7 7 (5.79%) XenApp
7 7 (5.79%) XenDesktop
8 2 (1.65%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.65%) Docker
9 1 (0.83%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 50 (41.32%) WSUS
2 36 (29.75%) SCOM
3 22 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (15.70%) Sysprep
5 17 (14.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (14.05%) Kubernetes
6 16 (13.22%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (11.57%) NetBackup
7 14 (11.57%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 100 (82.64%) Microsoft
2 52 (42.98%) HP
3 25 (20.66%) VMware
4 19 (15.70%) Cisco
5 16 (13.22%) EMC
6 15 (12.40%) Dell
7 14 (11.57%) 3PAR
7 14 (11.57%) Extreme Networks
7 14 (11.57%) Juniper
7 14 (11.57%) Oracle
7 14 (11.57%) Palo Alto
7 14 (11.57%) Symantec
7 14 (11.57%) Veeam
8 11 (9.09%) ServiceNow
9 9 (7.44%) Citrix
10 4 (3.31%) FireEye
10 4 (3.31%) Tanium
11 2 (1.65%) McAfee
11 2 (1.65%) Meraki
11 2 (1.65%) MobileIron