SCCM Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SCCM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SCCM over the 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) UK
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	158	132	160
Rank change year-on-year	-26	+28
Contract jobs citing SCCM	717	1000	822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.52%	1.86%	1.49%
As % of the Systems Management category	14.03%	16.19%	17.31%
Number of daily rates quoted	429	584	486
Median daily rate	£314	£336	£310
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-6.48%	+8.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£134	£179	£150
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£542	£456
UK excluding London median daily rate	£300	£321	£310
% change year-on-year	-6.54%	+3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted	42	64	79
Median hourly rate	£14.36	£21.00	£19.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-31.63%	+7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£9.78	£14.65	£12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£27.15	£41.70	£37.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£14.50	£21.75	£19.84
% change year-on-year	-33.33%	+9.61%

SCCM is in the systems management skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Systems Management Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills	5111	6178	4748
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	10.85%	11.47%	8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted	3338	3978	2926
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	+12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£285	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£588	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£400	£378
% change year-on-year	+12.50%	+5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted	116	144	159
Median hourly rate	£17.50	£28.88	£21.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-39.39%	+37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.37	£17.50	£12.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£45.18	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£34.10	£20.50
% change year-on-year	-48.68%	+66.34%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing SCCM as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Systems Management category.

SCCM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing SCCM.

Contractor daily rate trend for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing SCCM over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM.

Contractor hourly rate trend for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing SCCM over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Top 30 Contract Locations

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 over the 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-27	655	£320	-8.57%	132
London	+5	274	£338	-15.62%	42
South East	-31	103	£350	+6.06%	29
East of England	0	65	£203	-35.04%	10
North West	+12	54	£300	-27.27%	8
Scotland	-6	47	£281	-6.25%	7
West Midlands	+43	43	£300	-9.09%	17
City of London	+1	43	£325	-16.12%	4
East Midlands	-4	36	£280	-53.33%	4
South West	-41	35	£275	-24.13%	10
Yorkshire	+8	32	£150	-47.82%	10
Hertfordshire	+20	31	£213	-45.03%	7
Buckinghamshire	+7	25	£469	+146.71%	5
Berkshire	+14	23	£400	-13.51%	13
Manchester	+2	23	£145	-62.58%	6
Glasgow	+8	22	£275	-8.33%	2
West Yorkshire	+12	20	£275	-26.66%	8
Leicestershire	+12	20	£300	-	1
Surrey	-20	20	£388	+22.52%	3
Hampshire	-49	19	£225	-33.57%	2
North East	+9	17	£400	+50.94%	1
Cheshire	+7	17	£300	-31.03%	1
Milton Keynes	0	17	£375	+97.36%	3
Leicester	+11	14	£280	-
Edinburgh	-5	14	£375	-9.14%	3
Bristol	-15	14	£275	-21.42%	5
Birmingham	+15	13	£294	-16.03%	4
Watford	+2	11	£130	-	2
Essex	-11	11	£450	+60.71%
Solihull	+21	10	-	-

SCCM
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing SCCM also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for SCCM.

1	1104 (80.64%)	Windows
2	776 (56.68%)	Active Directory
3	646 (47.19%)	Microsoft
4	393 (28.71%)	Windows 7
5	390 (28.49%)	Windows Server
6	372 (27.17%)	Windows 10
7	369 (26.95%)	VMware
8	321 (23.45%)	Office 365
9	312 (22.79%)	Citrix
10	305 (22.28%)	ITIL
11	292 (21.33%)	PowerShell
12	241 (17.60%)	Windows Server 2012
13	216 (15.78%)	Security Cleared
14	214 (15.63%)	SCOM
15	213 (15.56%)	VMware Infrastructure

15	213 (15.56%)	Windows Server 2008
15	213 (15.56%)	Migration
16	196 (14.32%)	Microsoft Office
17	178 (13.00%)	SC Cleared
18	170 (12.42%)	MS Exchange
19	166 (12.13%)	Hyper-V
20	164 (11.98%)	HP
20	164 (11.98%)	Microsoft App-V
21	157 (11.47%)	Finance
22	154 (11.25%)	DNS
23	151 (11.03%)	SQL Server
24	148 (10.81%)	SQL
25	136 (9.93%)	Microsoft Azure
26	135 (9.86%)	DHCP
27	133 (9.72%)	Cisco

SCCM
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	170 (12.42%)	MS Exchange
2	94 (6.87%)	Skype for Business
3	81 (5.92%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	79 (5.77%)	Exchange Server 2013
5	78 (5.70%)	SharePoint
6	59 (4.31%)	IIS
7	38 (2.78%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
8	30 (2.19%)	Exchange Server 2007
9	16 (1.17%)	SharePoint 2013
10	9 (0.66%)	Apache
11	7 (0.51%)	OpenStack
12	6 (0.44%)	Site Server
13	5 (0.37%)	CMS
13	5 (0.37%)	GroupWise
13	5 (0.37%)	WebSphere
14	4 (0.29%)	BizTalk Server
14	4 (0.29%)	Exchange Server 2003
14	4 (0.29%)	IBM Notes
14	4 (0.29%)	SharePoint 2010
14	4 (0.29%)	Tomcat

Applications
1	196 (14.32%)	Microsoft Office
2	26 (1.90%)	Microsoft Excel
3	12 (0.88%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
3	12 (0.88%)	MS Visio
4	3 (0.22%)	InfoPath
4	3 (0.22%)	Stata
5	2 (0.15%)	Microsoft Project
5	2 (0.15%)	Photoshop
6	1 (0.073%)	Acrobat
6	1 (0.073%)	Adobe Creative Suite
6	1 (0.073%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	10 (0.73%)	Oracle EBS
1	10 (0.73%)	Oracle EBS R12
2	8 (0.58%)	Dynamics CRM
2	8 (0.58%)	Remedy ITSM
3	6 (0.44%)	Dynamics AX
4	5 (0.37%)	Unit4 Business World
5	4 (0.29%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	4 (0.29%)	Teamcenter
6	2 (0.15%)	Eikon
6	2 (0.15%)	Primavera
7	1 (0.073%)	Remedy AR System
7	1 (0.073%)	SAP CAR
7	1 (0.073%)	SAP POS DM
7	1 (0.073%)	Sentinel

Cloud Services
1	321 (23.45%)	Office 365
2	136 (9.93%)	Microsoft Azure
3	63 (4.60%)	Amazon AWS
4	37 (2.70%)	IaaS
5	26 (1.90%)	Azure Active Directory
6	20 (1.46%)	OneDrive
7	14 (1.02%)	G Suite
7	14 (1.02%)	PaaS
8	11 (0.80%)	SaaS
9	7 (0.51%)	Mimecast
10	6 (0.44%)	Google Cloud Platform
11	4 (0.29%)	GitHub
11	4 (0.29%)	Google Compute Engine
12	2 (0.15%)	AWS CloudFormation
12	2 (0.15%)	AWS OpsWorks
12	2 (0.15%)	Cloud Computing
13	1 (0.073%)	Amazon CloudWatch

Communications & Networking
1	154 (11.25%)	DNS
2	135 (9.86%)	DHCP
3	108 (7.89%)	SAN
4	106 (7.74%)	LAN
5	95 (6.94%)	Firewall
6	81 (5.92%)	TCP/IP
7	77 (5.62%)	VPN
8	66 (4.82%)	WAN
9	60 (4.38%)	Remote Desktop
10	53 (3.87%)	Skype
11	41 (2.99%)	Internet
12	36 (2.63%)	Wireless
13	32 (2.34%)	VoIP
14	31 (2.26%)	NAS
15	25 (1.83%)	NetScaler
16	19 (1.39%)	VLAN
17	14 (1.02%)	Cisco ASA
17	14 (1.02%)	Wi-Fi
18	12 (0.88%)	Cisco IOS
18	12 (0.88%)	LDAP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	151 (11.03%)	SQL Server
2	50 (3.65%)	SQL Server 2012
3	22 (1.61%)	SQL Server 2008
4	20 (1.46%)	SQL Server 2005
5	15 (1.10%)	SQL Server 2016
6	12 (0.88%)	Big Data
7	10 (0.73%)	SQL Server 2014
8	9 (0.66%)	Oracle Reports
9	8 (0.58%)	Hadoop
10	7 (0.51%)	SQL Server 2000
11	6 (0.44%)	DB2
11	6 (0.44%)	MySQL
12	5 (0.37%)	EDRMS
13	4 (0.29%)	PostgreSQL
14	3 (0.22%)	SQL Server Integration Services
14	3 (0.22%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
15	2 (0.15%)	Relational Database
16	1 (0.073%)	Amazon RDS
16	1 (0.073%)	Azure SQL Database
16	1 (0.073%)	Oracle Database

Development Applications
1	78 (5.70%)	MSI
2	16 (1.17%)	InstallShield
3	15 (1.10%)	Jenkins
4	13 (0.95%)	AdminStudio
5	11 (0.80%)	Git (software)
5	11 (0.80%)	JIRA
6	9 (0.66%)	Octopus Deploy
7	6 (0.44%)	Hudson
8	4 (0.29%)	Atlassian Bamboo
8	4 (0.29%)	ClearCase
8	4 (0.29%)	ClearQuest
8	4 (0.29%)	Team Foundation Server
9	2 (0.15%)	Ant
9	2 (0.15%)	Maven
9	2 (0.15%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9	2 (0.15%)	Subversion
9	2 (0.15%)	Vagrant
9	2 (0.15%)	Visual Studio
9	2 (0.15%)	Wise Package Studio
10	1 (0.073%)	SoapUI

General
1	157 (11.47%)	Finance
2	53 (3.87%)	Banking
3	36 (2.63%)	Retail
4	18 (1.31%)	Advertising
5	14 (1.02%)	Legal
5	14 (1.02%)	Telecoms
6	13 (0.95%)	Local Government
7	11 (0.80%)	Law
8	10 (0.73%)	Back Office
8	10 (0.73%)	Financial Institution
9	9 (0.66%)	Manufacturing
9	9 (0.66%)	Marketing
10	8 (0.58%)	Publishing
11	6 (0.44%)	Games
11	6 (0.44%)	Investment Banking
12	5 (0.37%)	Billing
12	5 (0.37%)	Electronics
13	4 (0.29%)	Front Office
13	4 (0.29%)	Military
14	2 (0.15%)	Automotive

Job Titles
1	203 (14.83%)	Analyst
2	173 (12.64%)	Desktop Support
3	152 (11.10%)	Support Engineer
4	149 (10.88%)	Architect
5	115 (8.40%)	Consultant
6	109 (7.96%)	Infrastructure Engineer
7	106 (7.74%)	Windows Engineer
8	102 (7.45%)	2nd Line Support
9	99 (7.23%)	SCCM Engineer
10	85 (6.21%)	Support Analyst
11	83 (6.06%)	Desktop Engineer
12	66 (4.82%)	3rd Line Support
13	60 (4.38%)	3rd Line Engineer
14	53 (3.87%)	Administrator
15	49 (3.58%)	SCCM Consultant
15	49 (3.58%)	Technical Architect
16	48 (3.51%)	Service Analyst
17	47 (3.43%)	Active Directory Support
18	46 (3.36%)	Applications Packager
18	46 (3.36%)	IT Support

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	22 (1.61%)	Software Packaging
2	16 (1.17%)	Web Services
3	11 (0.80%)	.NET
4	10 (0.73%)	XML
5	6 (0.44%)	SAML
5	6 (0.44%)	XMPP
6	5 (0.37%)	Regular Expression
6	5 (0.37%)	WAP
7	4 (0.29%)	802.1X
7	4 (0.29%)	REST
8	3 (0.22%)	JSON
9	2 (0.15%)	Elastic Stack
9	2 (0.15%)	HTML
9	2 (0.15%)	LAPP Stack
10	1 (0.073%)	ASP.NET
10	1 (0.073%)	ASP.NET Web Forms
10	1 (0.073%)	COM
10	1 (0.073%)	CSS
10	1 (0.073%)	Flash
10	1 (0.073%)	SOAP

Miscellaneous
1	101 (7.38%)	Data Centre
2	72 (5.26%)	Analytical Skills
3	55 (4.02%)	Clustering
4	50 (3.65%)	Blackberry
5	39 (2.85%)	PKI
6	36 (2.63%)	Management Information System
6	36 (2.63%)	Smartphone
7	33 (2.41%)	Fat Client
7	33 (2.41%)	Thin Client
8	26 (1.90%)	Replication
9	21 (1.53%)	Video Conferencing
10	19 (1.39%)	EPoS
11	18 (1.31%)	iPhone
12	17 (1.24%)	Client/Server
13	16 (1.17%)	Driving Licence
13	16 (1.17%)	iPad
14	13 (0.95%)	Private Cloud
15	11 (0.80%)	Computer Science
16	10 (0.73%)	CESG
16	10 (0.73%)	Public Cloud

Operating Systems
1	1104 (80.64%)	Windows
2	393 (28.71%)	Windows 7
3	390 (28.49%)	Windows Server
4	372 (27.17%)	Windows 10
5	241 (17.60%)	Windows Server 2012
6	213 (15.56%)	Windows Server 2008
7	95 (6.94%)	Windows Server 2003
8	81 (5.92%)	Windows 8
9	65 (4.75%)	Linux
10	40 (2.92%)	Windows Vista
11	39 (2.85%)	Apple iOS
12	37 (2.70%)	Android
13	35 (2.56%)	Windows XP
14	23 (1.68%)	Unix
15	20 (1.46%)	Solaris
16	16 (1.17%)	Mac OS X
17	15 (1.10%)	Mac OS
17	15 (1.10%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18	9 (0.66%)	Windows 2000
19	6 (0.44%)	CentOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	305 (22.28%)	ITIL
2	213 (15.56%)	Migration
3	89 (6.50%)	Application Packaging
4	82 (5.99%)	Service Management
5	56 (4.09%)	Configuration Management
6	54 (3.94%)	Incident Management
7	53 (3.87%)	Service Delivery
8	49 (3.58%)	Project Management
8	49 (3.58%)	Software Deployment
9	47 (3.43%)	Change Management
10	46 (3.36%)	Agile Software Development
11	45 (3.29%)	Patch Management
12	44 (3.21%)	PRINCE2
13	43 (3.14%)	DevOps
14	42 (3.07%)	Asset Management
15	40 (2.92%)	ITSM
16	39 (2.85%)	Disaster Recovery
17	38 (2.78%)	ITIL V3
18	37 (2.70%)	High Availability
19	35 (2.56%)	Problem Management

Programming Languages
1	292 (21.33%)	PowerShell
2	148 (10.81%)	SQL
3	79 (5.77%)	VBScript
4	24 (1.75%)	C
4	24 (1.75%)	VB
5	19 (1.39%)	Python
6	16 (1.17%)	C#
6	16 (1.17%)	Ruby
7	11 (0.80%)	Bash Shell
8	9 (0.66%)	Java
8	9 (0.66%)	JavaScript
9	7 (0.51%)	Perl
10	6 (0.44%)	PHP
10	6 (0.44%)	Shell Script
11	3 (0.22%)	VB.NET
12	2 (0.15%)	AppleScript
12	2 (0.15%)	T-SQL
13	1 (0.073%)	C++

Qualifications
1	216 (15.78%)	Security Cleared
2	178 (13.00%)	SC Cleared
3	116 (8.47%)	Microsoft Certification
4	74 (5.41%)	MCSE
5	41 (2.99%)	DV Cleared
6	35 (2.56%)	MCSA
7	34 (2.48%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8	31 (2.26%)	MCP
9	30 (2.19%)	ITIL Certification
10	25 (1.83%)	Degree
10	25 (1.83%)	MCITP
11	20 (1.46%)	Cisco Certification
12	19 (1.39%)	CCNA
13	15 (1.10%)	DBS Check
14	11 (0.80%)	MCDST
15	10 (0.73%)	MCTS
16	8 (0.58%)	ISEB
16	8 (0.58%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
16	8 (0.58%)	VCP6
17	6 (0.44%)	CCSP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	81 (5.92%)	SLA
2	17 (1.24%)	Disclosure Scotland
2	17 (1.24%)	QA
3	12 (0.88%)	PCI DSS
4	10 (0.73%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	6 (0.44%)	PMO
6	2 (0.15%)	Cyber Essentials
6	2 (0.15%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
7	1 (0.073%)	COBIT
7	1 (0.073%)	COSO
7	1 (0.073%)	ISO 22301
7	1 (0.073%)	ISO/IEC 20000
7	1 (0.073%)	JSP 440
7	1 (0.073%)	PMBOK

System Software
1	776 (56.68%)	Active Directory
2	213 (15.56%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	166 (12.13%)	Hyper-V
4	164 (11.98%)	Microsoft App-V
5	125 (9.13%)	XenApp
6	65 (4.75%)	vSphere
7	60 (4.38%)	XenDesktop
8	57 (4.16%)	VMware ESXi
9	41 (2.99%)	BitLocker
10	35 (2.56%)	Virtual Machines
11	30 (2.19%)	Virtual Desktop
12	14 (1.02%)	DFS Replication
12	14 (1.02%)	XenServer
13	10 (0.73%)	Docker
14	8 (0.58%)	Terminal Services
15	7 (0.51%)	Virtual Servers
16	6 (0.44%)	Firmware
16	6 (0.44%)	vCloud
16	6 (0.44%)	VMware Workstation
17	5 (0.37%)	UAG

Systems Management
1	214 (15.63%)	SCOM
2	71 (5.19%)	WSUS
3	55 (4.02%)	Microsoft Intune
4	41 (2.99%)	SCOrch
5	34 (2.48%)	vCenter Server
6	30 (2.19%)	Norton AntiVirus
7	27 (1.97%)	Microsoft Clustering
7	27 (1.97%)	SCVMM
8	26 (1.90%)	AirWatch
8	26 (1.90%)	Opscode Chef
9	21 (1.53%)	Puppet
10	20 (1.46%)	McAfee ePO
10	20 (1.46%)	SCSM
10	20 (1.46%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
11	19 (1.39%)	NetBackup
11	19 (1.39%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
12	18 (1.31%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
13	14 (1.02%)	Failover Clustering
13	14 (1.02%)	OpenView Configuration Management
14	13 (0.95%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager

Vendors
1	646 (47.19%)	Microsoft
2	369 (26.95%)	VMware
3	312 (22.79%)	Citrix
4	164 (11.98%)	HP
5	133 (9.72%)	Cisco
6	74 (5.41%)	Apple
7	69 (5.04%)	Symantec
8	61 (4.46%)	Dell
9	46 (3.36%)	ServiceNow
10	39 (2.85%)	McAfee
11	36 (2.63%)	NetApp
12	34 (2.48%)	Altiris
12	34 (2.48%)	AppSense
13	27 (1.97%)	Oracle
14	26 (1.90%)	EMC
15	25 (1.83%)	MobileIron
15	25 (1.83%)	Sophos
16	23 (1.68%)	LANDesk
16	23 (1.68%)	SolarWinds
17	22 (1.61%)	Google