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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 194 163
Rank change year-on-year -128 -31 +7
Contract jobs citing SCCM 420 483 582
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 1.47% 1.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.93% 10.48% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 328 427
10th Percentile £166 £185 £187
25th Percentile £237 £200 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £334 £380
Median % change year-on-year +19.85% -12.17% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £517 £528
90th Percentile £625 £585 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £300 £343
% change year-on-year +33.33% -12.41% +5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 15
10th Percentile £17.25 - £22.87
25th Percentile £19.85 £13.75 £23.80
Median hourly rate £23.60 £16.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.50% -40.74% +35.00%
75th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £55.00
90th Percentile - £25.32 £62.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.20 £18.87 £27.50
% change year-on-year +22.95% -31.38% +44.74%

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 6,059 4,607 4,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.05% 13.98% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 2,979 3,108
10th Percentile £313 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £620
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 88 60
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.99
25th Percentile £31.00 £18.87 £24.09
Median hourly rate £65.00 £26.45 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +145.75% -30.85% -30.45%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.29 £60.63
90th Percentile £87.38 £68.83 £74.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £21.39 £38.50
% change year-on-year +203.88% -44.44% -16.63%

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 19 September 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
Top 16 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 19 September 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 -114 379 £400 +14.29% 124
UK excluding London -115 271 £400 +33.33% 80
London -83 125 £375 -6.25% 50
North of England -46 87 £354 +68.67% 25
North West -17 73 £375 +76.47% 19
Work from Home -81 71 £450 -5.26% 38
Midlands -40 62 £393 +42.73% 12
South East -82 54 £450 +38.46% 23
West Midlands -46 38 £363 +33.64% 6
South West -56 28 £450 +9.09% 12
East Midlands -9 23 £400 +7.10% 6
Scotland -16 22 £150 -25.00% 2
East of England -54 17 £425 -22.73% 7
North East -50 8 £200 -11.11% 4
Yorkshire -49 6 £223 +11.25% 2
Wales -20 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 54 (12.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (6.90%) SharePoint
3 17 (4.05%) Skype for Business
4 13 (3.10%) HCL Notes
5 4 (0.95%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) Confluence
6 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 58 (13.81%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 7 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.48%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 2 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.48%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 151 (35.95%) Microsoft 365
2 132 (31.43%) Azure
3 94 (22.38%) Entra ID
4 30 (7.14%) OneDrive
5 16 (3.81%) Power Platform
6 14 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (2.62%) AWS
8 9 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.14%) Rubrik
9 8 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (1.90%) Google Workspace
9 8 (1.90%) IaaS
9 8 (1.90%) SaaS
10 7 (1.67%) GitHub
11 6 (1.43%) PaaS
12 5 (1.19%) Cohesity
12 5 (1.19%) Datadog
12 5 (1.19%) Mimecast
13 3 (0.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 3 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 86 (20.48%) VPN
2 84 (20.00%) DNS
3 71 (16.90%) DHCP
4 42 (10.00%) Firewall
5 35 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 28 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (5.48%) Skype
8 16 (3.81%) WAN
9 15 (3.57%) Network Security
10 14 (3.33%) LAN
10 14 (3.33%) VLAN
11 12 (2.86%) SAN
12 9 (2.14%) DMZ
12 9 (2.14%) Wireless
13 6 (1.43%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (1.43%) Internet
14 4 (0.95%) SSH
15 3 (0.71%) NetScaler
15 3 (0.71%) WAAS
16 2 (0.48%) PCoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.67%) Power BI
3 2 (0.48%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 25 (5.95%) MSI
2 8 (1.90%) InstallShield
3 7 (1.67%) JIRA
4 5 (1.19%) Chocolatey
5 4 (0.95%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.24%) Git
7 1 (0.24%) WiX
General
1 167 (39.76%) Social Skills
2 63 (15.00%) Finance
3 60 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.24%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.76%) Legal
6 19 (4.52%) Front Office
7 16 (3.81%) Banking
7 16 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.62%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.90%) Military
11 7 (1.67%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.43%) Law
12 6 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.95%) Retail
14 3 (0.71%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.71%) German Language
15 2 (0.48%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 63 (15.00%) Support Engineer
2 53 (12.62%) Desktop Engineer
3 49 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 47 (11.19%) IT Support
5 39 (9.29%) IT Engineer
6 36 (8.57%) Analyst
7 35 (8.33%) Desktop Support
8 27 (6.43%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 27 (6.43%) Senior
9 26 (6.19%) Windows Engineer
10 25 (5.95%) IT Support Engineer
11 21 (5.00%) Consultant
12 19 (4.52%) Administrator
13 17 (4.05%) Deployment Engineer
13 17 (4.05%) IT Analyst
14 15 (3.57%) SCCM Engineer
15 14 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (3.10%) Lead
17 11 (2.62%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.05%) Software Packaging
2 15 (3.57%) Terraform
3 8 (1.90%) ARM Templates
4 6 (1.43%) JSON
4 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (0.71%) .NET
5 3 (0.71%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.71%) REST
6 2 (0.48%) ADO
6 2 (0.48%) OpenGL
6 2 (0.48%) Qt
7 1 (0.24%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 56 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 24 (5.71%) CMDB
3 17 (4.05%) Blackberry
4 15 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 13 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (2.62%) Driving Licence
7 11 (2.62%) PKI
8 8 (1.90%) ARM Cortex
8 8 (1.90%) Smartphone
9 7 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (1.43%) iPhone
11 5 (1.19%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.19%) Smartcard
11 5 (1.19%) YubiKey
12 4 (0.95%) Clustering
12 4 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 359 (85.48%) Windows
2 138 (32.86%) Windows 10
3 91 (21.67%) Windows Server
4 48 (11.43%) Linux
5 29 (6.90%) Mac OS
6 28 (6.67%) Android
7 23 (5.48%) Apple iOS
7 23 (5.48%) Windows 7
8 9 (2.14%) Windows Server 2012
8 9 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (0.95%) Unix
11 1 (0.24%) AIX
11 1 (0.24%) Debian
11 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (33.33%) ITIL
2 99 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
3 91 (21.67%) ITSM
4 82 (19.52%) Service Management
5 68 (16.19%) Customer Service
6 63 (15.00%) Application Packaging
7 57 (13.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 57 (13.57%) Migration
8 44 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (10.48%) Service Delivery
9 40 (9.52%) Asset Management
10 38 (9.05%) Patch Management
11 32 (7.62%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (7.14%) User Experience
13 28 (6.67%) Software Deployment
13 28 (6.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 23 (5.48%) Task Automation
15 22 (5.24%) Change Management
15 22 (5.24%) Cybersecurity
15 22 (5.24%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 146 (34.76%) PowerShell
2 21 (5.00%) VBScript
3 16 (3.81%) Bash
3 16 (3.81%) VB
4 11 (2.62%) Python
5 8 (1.90%) Bicep
5 8 (1.90%) SQL
6 3 (0.71%) C#
7 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 137 (32.62%) Security Cleared
2 96 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.33%) Degree
4 34 (8.10%) DV Cleared
5 23 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.38%) MCSE
8 9 (2.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 7 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.43%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.43%) MCSA
10 6 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (1.19%) A+ Certification
11 5 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.71%) CCA
12 3 (0.71%) Citrix Certification
13 2 (0.48%) CCNP
13 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.90%) SLA
2 11 (2.62%) QA
3 6 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.71%) NIST
5 2 (0.48%) COBIT
5 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.48%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.48%) NCSC
6 1 (0.24%) GRC
6 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 220 (52.38%) Active Directory
2 61 (14.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (9.52%) Hyper-V
4 27 (6.43%) BitLocker
5 20 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 18 (4.29%) Microsoft App-V
7 17 (4.05%) vSphere
8 10 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (1.19%) Firmware
11 4 (0.95%) Docker
11 4 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.48%) XenApp
12 2 (0.48%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.24%) KVM
13 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 152 (36.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (5.71%) SCOM
3 23 (5.48%) WSUS
4 15 (3.57%) Ansible
5 10 (2.38%) Nessus
6 8 (1.90%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (1.67%) vCenter Server
8 6 (1.43%) NetBackup
9 5 (1.19%) AirWatch
10 3 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.71%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.71%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.71%) Norton AntiVirus
11 2 (0.48%) Packer
11 2 (0.48%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.48%) SCSM
11 2 (0.48%) vMotion
12 1 (0.24%) IBM BigFix
12 1 (0.24%) Kubernetes
12 1 (0.24%) WMI
Vendors
1 296 (70.48%) Microsoft
2 82 (19.52%) ServiceNow
3 74 (17.62%) VMware
4 44 (10.48%) Citrix
5 21 (5.00%) Cisco
6 17 (4.05%) Apple
6 17 (4.05%) CyberArk
7 16 (3.81%) Lotus
8 14 (3.33%) Bloomberg
8 14 (3.33%) Qualys
8 14 (3.33%) Tenable
9 12 (2.86%) McAfee
10 11 (2.62%) BeyondTrust
10 11 (2.62%) CrowdStrike
10 11 (2.62%) Tanium
11 10 (2.38%) SolarWinds
12 9 (2.14%) Ivanti
12 9 (2.14%) Zscaler
13 8 (1.90%) HP
13 8 (1.90%) Reuters