SCCM Engineer Contracts

SCCM Engineer
UK

The median SCCM Engineer daily rate in the UK is £419, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 548 661
Rank change year-on-year +52 +113 +101
Contract jobs requiring an SCCM Engineer 26 28 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.066% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.071% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 17
10th Percentile £271 £244 £198
25th Percentile £358 £282 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £438 £265
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +65.09% -24.29%
75th Percentile £511 £538 £450
90th Percentile £600 £549 £493
UK excluding London median daily rate £449 £305 £240
% change year-on-year +47.13% +27.08% -26.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,186 39,489 53,902
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.79% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,686 25,686 37,660
10th Percentile £293 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,047 2,662 1,503
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.82 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.30 £19.38
Median hourly rate £28.15 £36.58 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.03% -18.72% +87.50%
75th Percentile £61.38 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.44 £76.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.19% -5.88% +112.50%

SCCM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SCCM Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SCCM Engineer in the UK

SCCM Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCCM Engineer.

Daily rate trend for SCCM Engineer in the UK

SCCM Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM Engineer over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM Engineer in the UK

SCCM Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCCM Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for SCCM Engineer in the UK

SCCM Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
England +59 23 £438 +2.94% 4
Work from Home +51 15 £460 -12.38% 3
UK excluding London +39 12 £449 +47.13% 3
London +42 11 £400 -27.27% 1
Midlands +22 6 £373 -21.47%
West Midlands +12 6 £373 -12.24%
South East +45 4 £508 -3.33% 3
South West +39 1 £340 +54.55%
North of England +14 1 £388 +14.81%
North West +13 1 £388 -8.82%

SCCM Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, SCCM Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring SCCM Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) SCCM
2 19 (73.08%) Windows
3 18 (69.23%) PowerShell
4 10 (38.46%) Windows 10
4 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
5 8 (30.77%) Active Directory
5 8 (30.77%) Azure
5 8 (30.77%) Patch Management
5 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
6 7 (26.92%) Finance
7 6 (23.08%) VBScript
7 6 (23.08%) Migration
7 6 (23.08%) Security Patching
7 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
8 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
9 4 (15.38%) Software Packaging
9 4 (15.38%) WSUS
9 4 (15.38%) Change Management
9 4 (15.38%) ITIL
9 4 (15.38%) MSI
9 4 (15.38%) DNS
9 4 (15.38%) Entra ID
9 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (15.38%) Windows Server
10 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (11.54%) High Availability
10 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Management
10 3 (11.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate

SCCM Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) Entra ID
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.69%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.85%) IaaS
4 1 (3.85%) PaaS
4 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) DNS
2 3 (11.54%) DHCP
2 3 (11.54%) VLAN
3 2 (7.69%) HTTP
3 2 (7.69%) SSL
4 1 (3.85%) HTTPS
4 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.85%) VPN
4 1 (3.85%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) MSI
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Banking
3 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Automotive
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Replication
2 1 (3.85%) EFT
2 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (73.08%) Windows
2 10 (38.46%) Windows 10
3 4 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Patch Management
2 6 (23.08%) Migration
2 6 (23.08%) Security Patching
3 4 (15.38%) Change Management
3 4 (15.38%) ITIL
4 3 (11.54%) High Availability
4 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (11.54%) Time Management
5 2 (7.69%) Application Packaging
5 2 (7.69%) Asset Management
5 2 (7.69%) Coaching
5 2 (7.69%) Configuration Management
5 2 (7.69%) Data Analysis
5 2 (7.69%) Data Protection
5 2 (7.69%) Inventory Management
5 2 (7.69%) Mentoring
5 2 (7.69%) Process Improvement
5 2 (7.69%) Server Building
5 2 (7.69%) Software Distribution
6 1 (3.85%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 18 (69.23%) PowerShell
2 6 (23.08%) VBScript
3 3 (11.54%) C#
3 3 (11.54%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (3.85%) BitLocker
3 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) XenApp
3 1 (3.85%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 26 (100.00%) SCCM
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (15.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Citrix
2 1 (3.85%) Globalscape
2 1 (3.85%) HP
2 1 (3.85%) Remedy
2 1 (3.85%) VMware