SCCM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 147 104 104
Rank change year-on-year -43 0 0
Contract jobs citing SCCM 225 424 591
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.76% 2.04% 2.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.94% 18.02% 16.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 340 428
10th Percentile £165 £155 £163
25th Percentile £200 £200 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £288 £350
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -17.86% +8.11%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £488
90th Percentile £550 £608 £575
UK median daily rate £328 £320 £373
% change year-on-year +2.34% -14.09% -0.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 36 48
10th Percentile £12.18 £14.00 £14.18
25th Percentile £13.70 £15.24 £15.38
Median hourly rate £16.19 £17.72 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.63% -11.40% +6.67%
75th Percentile £18.13 £40.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £22.08 £40.16 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £13.77 £22.30 £22.00
% change year-on-year -38.25% +1.36% +10.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,884 2,353 3,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.76% 11.33% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,702 2,664
10th Percentile £235 £210 £275
25th Percentile £391 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £657 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 139
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SCCM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SCCM in the UK excluding London

SCCM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCCM in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SCCM in the UK excluding London

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in the UK excluding London

SCCM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCCM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SCCM in the UK excluding London

SCCM
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SCCM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SCCM in the UK excluding London

SCCM
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +29 57 £233 +5.68% 69
Midlands +12 47 £211 -43.67% 64
South East -59 45 £410 +32.26% 86
North West +16 38 £200 -9.09% 34
West Midlands +10 38 £200 -50.00% 36
Scotland +1 25 £196 -34.67% 22
South West +15 24 £358 +99.72% 53
East of England +10 15 £241 -20.90% 74
Yorkshire +14 12 £225 -43.75% 26
East Midlands +7 9 £475 +150.00% 22
Wales +4 8 £388 +76.14% 9
North East +3 6 £388 +195.80% 9
Northern Ireland - 4 £200 - 4
Channel Islands - 2 £298 -
SCCM
UK

SCCM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 34 (15.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (12.00%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.11%) Skype for Business
4 6 (2.67%) IIS
5 3 (1.33%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.89%) IBM Notes
6 2 (0.89%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 37 (16.44%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.22%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.22%) Dynamics GP
1 5 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 98 (43.56%) Microsoft 365
2 49 (21.78%) Azure
3 22 (9.78%) Entra ID
4 17 (7.56%) OneDrive
5 11 (4.89%) AWS
6 7 (3.11%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.22%) IaaS
7 5 (2.22%) PaaS
8 3 (1.33%) Cohesity
9 2 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.44%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.44%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 47 (20.89%) VPN
2 34 (15.11%) DNS
3 26 (11.56%) DHCP
4 25 (11.11%) LAN
5 20 (8.89%) Firewall
5 20 (8.89%) WAN
6 18 (8.00%) Skype
7 17 (7.56%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (6.67%) VLAN
9 13 (5.78%) VoIP
10 8 (3.56%) SSL
11 6 (2.67%) TCP/IP
12 5 (2.22%) HTTP
12 5 (2.22%) HTTPS
13 4 (1.78%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (1.78%) Wireless
14 3 (1.33%) Network Security
14 3 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (1.33%) SAN
15 2 (0.89%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.78%) MSI
2 3 (1.33%) JIRA
3 2 (0.89%) AdminStudio
General
1 89 (39.56%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 22 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.44%) Documentation Skills
4 19 (8.44%) Legal
5 11 (4.89%) Finance
6 8 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.56%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.67%) Local Government
8 5 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.33%) Electronics
9 3 (1.33%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.89%) Banking
10 2 (0.89%) Marketing
10 2 (0.89%) Military
10 2 (0.89%) Publishing
11 1 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (16.44%) Deployment Engineer
2 35 (15.56%) Support Engineer
3 28 (12.44%) Desktop Engineer
4 23 (10.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 22 (9.78%) Desktop Support
6 20 (8.89%) IT Engineer
7 18 (8.00%) Analyst
8 17 (7.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 17 (7.56%) Windows Engineer
9 14 (6.22%) 2nd Line Support
10 11 (4.89%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 9 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 9 (4.00%) IT Support
11 9 (4.00%) SCCM Engineer
12 7 (3.11%) Active Directory Engineer
12 7 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (3.11%) Senior
12 7 (3.11%) Support Analyst
12 7 (3.11%) Windows Deployment Engineer
13 6 (2.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.78%) Software Packaging
2 3 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (0.89%) YAML
4 1 (0.44%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.33%) PKI
2 9 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.56%) NHS
4 7 (3.11%) Driving Licence
4 7 (3.11%) Security Posture
5 6 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.78%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.78%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.33%) CMDB
7 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.89%) Anti-Spyware
8 2 (0.89%) Blackberry
8 2 (0.89%) Fat Client
8 2 (0.89%) iPad
8 2 (0.89%) Smartcard
8 2 (0.89%) Thin Client
8 2 (0.89%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 181 (80.44%) Windows
2 91 (40.44%) Windows 10
3 50 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 21 (9.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 17 (7.56%) Windows 7
6 14 (6.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (5.78%) Linux
8 11 (4.89%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (3.11%) Apple iOS
9 7 (3.11%) Mac OS
9 7 (3.11%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (2.22%) Android
10 5 (2.22%) Ubuntu
10 5 (2.22%) Windows 8
10 5 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (2.22%) Windows XP
11 4 (1.78%) AIX
11 4 (1.78%) Unix
12 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (20.89%) ITIL
3 37 (16.44%) Customer Service
4 24 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (9.33%) Service Management
6 18 (8.00%) Agile
6 18 (8.00%) ITSM
7 17 (7.56%) Asset Management
7 17 (7.56%) Migration
8 16 (7.11%) Software Deployment
9 15 (6.67%) Application Packaging
9 15 (6.67%) Configuration Management
9 15 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
10 11 (4.89%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (4.89%) Patch Management
11 10 (4.44%) Mentoring
11 10 (4.44%) Time Management
12 9 (4.00%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (4.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 9 (4.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 45 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (4.44%) SQL
3 8 (3.56%) VBScript
4 7 (3.11%) VB
5 5 (2.22%) Python
6 1 (0.44%) Bicep
6 1 (0.44%) C#
Qualifications
1 61 (27.11%) Security Cleared
2 45 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 34 (15.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 31 (13.78%) Degree
5 18 (8.00%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.89%) MCSE
7 6 (2.67%) A+ Certification
8 5 (2.22%) MCP
9 4 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.78%) MCSA
10 3 (1.33%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.33%) CCNA
10 3 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.89%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.89%) Dell Certification
12 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.11%) SLA
2 9 (4.00%) QA
3 4 (1.78%) NCSC
3 4 (1.78%) NIST
4 3 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 131 (58.22%) Active Directory
2 34 (15.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (10.22%) Hyper-V
4 13 (5.78%) BitLocker
5 10 (4.44%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (3.11%) vSphere
7 6 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (1.33%) Docker
9 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.44%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 52 (23.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (6.67%) WSUS
3 11 (4.89%) AppManager
3 11 (4.89%) SCOM
4 6 (2.67%) Ansible
5 5 (2.22%) AirWatch
5 5 (2.22%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.22%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.78%) Nessus
6 4 (1.78%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.78%) Puppet
7 3 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.33%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (1.33%) Norton AntiVirus
7 3 (1.33%) SCSM
7 3 (1.33%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 2 (0.89%) Terraform
8 2 (0.89%) ThinApp
8 2 (0.89%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 133 (59.11%) Microsoft
2 42 (18.67%) VMware
3 24 (10.67%) Cisco
3 24 (10.67%) ServiceNow
4 17 (7.56%) Ivanti
5 13 (5.78%) HP
6 12 (5.33%) Apple
6 12 (5.33%) Citrix
7 11 (4.89%) Nexthink
8 8 (3.56%) McAfee
9 7 (3.11%) Dell
9 7 (3.11%) Remedy
9 7 (3.11%) SolarWinds
10 6 (2.67%) Symantec
10 6 (2.67%) Tanium
11 5 (2.22%) Canon
11 5 (2.22%) Wyse
12 4 (1.78%) Veeam
13 3 (1.33%) Meraki
13 3 (1.33%) Palo Alto