SCCM Contract Job Trends

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SCCM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 186 151
Rank change year-on-year -40 -35 +12
Contract jobs citing SCCM 466 453 729
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.19% 1.45% 1.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.66% 9.62% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 331 543
10th Percentile £179 £182 £156
25th Percentile £200 £211 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - -
75th Percentile £500 £500 £475
90th Percentile £585 £608 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £275 £313 £275
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 15 69
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.40 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.60 £16.68 £16.79
Median hourly rate £19.50 £22.09 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year -11.72% -0.94% -10.80%
75th Percentile £23.97 £26.59 £40.00
90th Percentile £26.16 £56.00 £70.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.11 £18.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +11.72% -14.29%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,081 4,707 5,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.53% 15.11% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,200 3,049 3,964
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 60 164
10th Percentile £17.81 £15.22 £14.23
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.05 £21.00
Median hourly rate £49.36 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +93.57% -44.78% +11.18%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.19 £61.44
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.44 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.25 £24.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +121.88% -48.03% +19.95%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SCCM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SCCM job vacancy trend in the UK

SCCM
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SCCM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SCCM

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SCCM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SCCM

SCCM
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SCCM over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Top 17 Contract Job 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 6 months to 5 February 2026. 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 -27 424 £330 -5.71% 83
UK excluding London -42 303 £275 -12.00% 76
London -37 143 £456 +14.06% 23
Work from Home +5 105 £450 +5.88% 24
South East -24 81 £274 -26.87% 36
North of England -40 75 £330 +34.69% 15
Midlands -31 63 £215 +7.50% 6
North West -2 60 £405 +11.72% 8
South West -6 45 £450 +25.87% 9
East Midlands +7 38 £225 +5.88% 4
West Midlands -47 24 £200 - 2
East of England -11 21 £225 -21.05% 7
Scotland -18 18 £220 - 3
Yorkshire -59 9 £195 -13.33% 7
North East -12 6 £189 -51.29%
Wales -6 5 £365 +46.00% 1
Channel Islands +2 1 - - 2

SCCM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 75 (16.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (11.37%) SharePoint
3 23 (4.94%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.50%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (0.64%) IIS
6 2 (0.43%) Confluence
7 1 (0.21%) Apache
Applications
1 53 (11.37%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.58%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.43%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.86%) assyst
3 1 (0.21%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 207 (44.42%) Microsoft 365
2 148 (31.76%) Azure
3 73 (15.67%) Entra ID
4 44 (9.44%) OneDrive
5 38 (8.15%) AWS
6 24 (5.15%) Power Platform
7 20 (4.29%) GCP
8 17 (3.65%) SaaS
9 9 (1.93%) Nutanix
10 8 (1.72%) Mimecast
11 6 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (1.29%) Google Workspace
11 6 (1.29%) PaaS
12 5 (1.07%) IaaS
13 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.64%) ShareGate
14 2 (0.43%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (0.43%) Azure Monitor
14 2 (0.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 77 (16.52%) DNS
2 64 (13.73%) DHCP
3 47 (10.09%) Wi-Fi
4 43 (9.23%) VPN
5 37 (7.94%) Firewall
6 36 (7.73%) TCP/IP
7 25 (5.36%) WAN
8 23 (4.94%) Skype
9 21 (4.51%) LAN
10 18 (3.86%) VLAN
11 12 (2.58%) Unified Communications
12 9 (1.93%) 4G
12 9 (1.93%) Internet
12 9 (1.93%) NetScaler
13 7 (1.50%) Wireless
14 5 (1.07%) IPv4
14 5 (1.07%) SAN
14 5 (1.07%) SD-WAN
14 5 (1.07%) WAAS
14 5 (1.07%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.00%) Power BI
1 14 (3.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.64%) Metadata
3 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.21%) DB2
4 1 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 17 (3.65%) MSI
2 14 (3.00%) InstallShield
3 12 (2.58%) JIRA
4 11 (2.36%) AdminStudio
5 3 (0.64%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.43%) Git
7 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.21%) GCC
7 1 (0.21%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.21%) MLflow
7 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 178 (38.20%) Social Skills
2 63 (13.52%) Analytical Skills
2 63 (13.52%) Finance
3 36 (7.73%) Public Sector
4 34 (7.30%) Documentation Skills
5 18 (3.86%) Banking
6 14 (3.00%) Legal
7 8 (1.72%) Front Office
8 7 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.50%) Law
8 7 (1.50%) Spanish Language
8 7 (1.50%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.29%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.29%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.86%) Military
11 3 (0.64%) Back Office
11 3 (0.64%) Marketing
11 3 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (14.59%) Support Engineer
2 51 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 51 (10.94%) Windows Engineer
3 50 (10.73%) Analyst
4 49 (10.52%) IT Support
5 48 (10.30%) Deployment Engineer
6 35 (7.51%) IT Engineer
7 33 (7.08%) Desktop Support
8 29 (6.22%) Senior
9 27 (5.79%) Desktop Engineer
10 25 (5.36%) Architect
11 23 (4.94%) IT Support Engineer
12 21 (4.51%) Support Analyst
13 19 (4.08%) 2nd Line Support
13 19 (4.08%) Security Engineer
14 17 (3.65%) Support Technician
15 16 (3.43%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 16 (3.43%) Lead
15 16 (3.43%) Windows Deployment Engineer
16 14 (3.00%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.93%) Software Packaging
2 7 (1.50%) Middleware
3 3 (0.64%) LDAP
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (0.64%) OAuth
3 3 (0.64%) OpenID
3 3 (0.64%) SAML
4 2 (0.43%) BREW
4 2 (0.43%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (0.21%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.21%) CrewAI
5 1 (0.21%) LangChain
5 1 (0.21%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.21%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.21%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.58%) Onboarding
2 24 (5.15%) Data Centre
3 20 (4.29%) CMDB
4 17 (3.65%) Smartphone
5 15 (3.22%) Video Conferencing
6 13 (2.79%) PKI
7 12 (2.58%) Driving Licence
7 12 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.93%) Client/Server
8 9 (1.93%) Replication
9 8 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (1.72%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 6 (1.29%) Hedge funds
12 5 (1.07%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.07%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.07%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.86%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 392 (84.12%) Windows
2 175 (37.55%) Windows 10
3 81 (17.38%) Windows Server
4 44 (9.44%) Mac OS
5 27 (5.79%) Linux
6 23 (4.94%) Apple iOS
7 17 (3.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (3.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 15 (3.22%) Windows 7
10 14 (3.00%) Android
11 12 (2.58%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 6 (1.29%) Unix
14 5 (1.07%) Windows 8
15 3 (0.64%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.43%) AIX
16 2 (0.43%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.43%) VMS
16 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
2 102 (21.89%) ITIL
3 82 (17.60%) Migration
4 62 (13.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 57 (12.23%) Customer Service
6 54 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 51 (10.94%) ITSM
8 49 (10.52%) Application Packaging
9 41 (8.80%) Cybersecurity
10 40 (8.58%) Service Management
11 38 (8.15%) User Experience
12 31 (6.65%) Agile
12 31 (6.65%) Asset Management
12 31 (6.65%) Change Management
13 26 (5.58%) Patch Management
13 26 (5.58%) Problem Management
13 26 (5.58%) Vulnerability Management
14 25 (5.36%) Roadmaps
14 25 (5.36%) Zero Trust
15 23 (4.94%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 143 (30.69%) PowerShell
2 31 (6.65%) VBScript
3 25 (5.36%) SQL
4 17 (3.65%) Bash
5 14 (3.00%) Python
6 11 (2.36%) VB
7 3 (0.64%) Java
8 1 (0.21%) Perl
Qualifications
1 115 (24.68%) Security Cleared
2 91 (19.53%) SC Cleared
3 52 (11.16%) Degree
4 38 (8.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (5.79%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 8 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.50%) MCSA
8 7 (1.50%) MCSE
9 6 (1.29%) CCNA
9 6 (1.29%) CCNP
9 6 (1.29%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 5 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.07%) MCDST
11 4 (0.86%) A+ Certification
11 4 (0.86%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.86%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (4.08%) GDPR
3 18 (3.86%) SLA
4 6 (1.29%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.86%) NIST
6 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.43%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.21%) NCSC
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 251 (53.86%) Active Directory
2 70 (15.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (3.43%) BitLocker
4 16 (3.43%) Hyper-V
5 13 (2.79%) Microsoft App-V
5 13 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (2.15%) vSphere
7 8 (1.72%) Docker
8 6 (1.29%) XenApp
9 5 (1.07%) Firmware
9 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.86%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.86%) VMware Workstation
10 4 (0.86%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 168 (36.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (4.94%) SCOM
3 21 (4.51%) WSUS
4 14 (3.00%) Ansible
5 13 (2.79%) Jamf Pro
6 11 (2.36%) vCenter Server
7 9 (1.93%) Norton AntiVirus
7 9 (1.93%) SCOrch
8 7 (1.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.50%) Terraform
9 6 (1.29%) CASB
9 6 (1.29%) Kubernetes
10 4 (0.86%) SCVMM
11 3 (0.64%) PaperCut
11 3 (0.64%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
11 3 (0.64%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.43%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 284 (60.94%) Microsoft
2 85 (18.24%) VMware
3 69 (14.81%) ServiceNow
4 50 (10.73%) Citrix
5 26 (5.58%) Cisco
6 21 (4.51%) Apple
7 17 (3.65%) HP
7 17 (3.65%) SolarWinds
7 17 (3.65%) Veeam
8 13 (2.79%) McAfee
9 12 (2.58%) Google
10 11 (2.36%) Splunk
11 10 (2.15%) Remedy
12 9 (1.93%) BMC
12 9 (1.93%) Symantec
13 8 (1.72%) Bloomberg
13 8 (1.72%) Sophos
13 8 (1.72%) Tenable
14 6 (1.29%) CheckPoint
14 6 (1.29%) F5