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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 183 154
Rank change year-on-year -109 -29 +13
Contract jobs citing SCCM 377 422 687
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.45% 1.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.89% 8.97% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 306 538
10th Percentile £171 £178 £163
25th Percentile £207 £209 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £360 £350
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% +2.93% -
75th Percentile £500 £509 £488
90th Percentile £613 £603 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £325 £300
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 59
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.18 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.62 £15.22 £16.40
Median hourly rate £21.28 £18.13 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% -18.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £24.47 £23.66 £40.00
90th Percentile £26.94 £24.18 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.84 £18.13 £17.86
% change year-on-year +9.43% +1.51% -7.22%

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 6,396 4,703 5,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.54% 16.18% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,400 3,174 3,784
10th Percentile £320 £313 £261
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £628
90th Percentile £688 £738 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -1.00% +0.50% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 51 138
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.35 £22.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year +115.69% -20.93% -41.36%
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.75 £58.56
90th Percentile £79.65 £70.00 £70.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -39.55% -13.14%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -96 344 £350 -0.07% 73
UK excluding London -109 224 £300 -7.69% 63
London -36 135 £450 +12.50% 23
Work from Home -44 81 £450 +5.88% 18
South East -43 68 £300 -28.57% 26
Midlands -62 53 £225 +12.50% 4
North of England -80 49 £373 +53.61% 15
North West -42 39 £429 +46.04% 7
East Midlands -15 31 £223 -41.25% 1
South West -29 25 £413 +21.32% 1
West Midlands -83 19 £213 +6.29% 3
East of England -28 15 £225 -9.09% 16
Scotland -22 12 £196 -10.80% 3
Yorkshire -60 6 £195 -13.33% 7
Wales -14 5 £280 -34.12% 1
North East -16 4 £184 -52.58% 1
Channel Islands +3 1 - -

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 55 (14.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (8.49%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.65%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.80%) IIS
5 1 (0.27%) Apache
5 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 40 (10.61%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.53%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.53%) assyst
3 1 (0.27%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 166 (44.03%) Microsoft 365
2 122 (32.36%) Azure
3 70 (18.57%) Entra ID
4 27 (7.16%) AWS
5 20 (5.31%) OneDrive
5 20 (5.31%) Power Platform
5 20 (5.31%) SaaS
6 12 (3.18%) GCP
7 11 (2.92%) Nutanix
7 11 (2.92%) PaaS
8 10 (2.65%) IaaS
9 8 (2.12%) Google Workspace
10 7 (1.86%) Datadog
10 7 (1.86%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (0.53%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.53%) GitHub
13 2 (0.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 63 (16.71%) DNS
2 56 (14.85%) DHCP
3 43 (11.41%) Wi-Fi
4 42 (11.14%) VPN
5 35 (9.28%) Firewall
6 31 (8.22%) TCP/IP
7 23 (6.10%) LAN
8 21 (5.57%) VLAN
8 21 (5.57%) WAN
9 11 (2.92%) SAN
9 11 (2.92%) Skype
10 10 (2.65%) NetScaler
11 9 (2.39%) Wireless
12 6 (1.59%) 4G
12 6 (1.59%) DMZ
13 5 (1.33%) IPv4
13 5 (1.33%) WebEx
14 3 (0.80%) BIG-IP
14 3 (0.80%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (0.80%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.98%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.45%) Power BI
3 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.27%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.27%) DB2
4 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 13 (3.45%) JIRA
2 12 (3.18%) MSI
3 11 (2.92%) InstallShield
4 9 (2.39%) Chocolatey
5 5 (1.33%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.53%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.53%) Git
7 1 (0.27%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.27%) MLflow
7 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 128 (33.95%) Social Skills
2 52 (13.79%) Finance
3 45 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.16%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (6.90%) Banking
7 13 (3.45%) Legal
8 9 (2.39%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.12%) Front Office
10 7 (1.86%) Law
11 6 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.59%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.33%) Military
12 5 (1.33%) Spanish Language
13 4 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.06%) Police
14 3 (0.80%) Retail
15 2 (0.53%) Billing
15 2 (0.53%) Games
15 2 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 50 (13.26%) Support Engineer
2 43 (11.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 38 (10.08%) IT Support
4 34 (9.02%) Analyst
5 31 (8.22%) IT Engineer
5 31 (8.22%) Senior
6 28 (7.43%) Windows Engineer
7 27 (7.16%) Deployment Engineer
8 26 (6.90%) Desktop Support
9 22 (5.84%) Architect
10 20 (5.31%) Desktop Engineer
11 19 (5.04%) IT Support Engineer
12 14 (3.71%) 2nd Line Support
12 14 (3.71%) Support Technician
13 13 (3.45%) Lead
14 12 (3.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 11 (2.92%) IT Analyst
15 11 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
15 11 (2.92%) Service Analyst
16 10 (2.65%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.92%) Software Packaging
2 5 (1.33%) Middleware
3 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.53%) ADO
4 2 (0.53%) BREW
4 2 (0.53%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (0.27%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.27%) CrewAI
5 1 (0.27%) LangChain
5 1 (0.27%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.27%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.27%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.63%) CMDB
1 25 (6.63%) Onboarding
2 18 (4.77%) Smartphone
3 17 (4.51%) Data Centre
3 17 (4.51%) Driving Licence
4 11 (2.92%) Client/Server
4 11 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.39%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (1.86%) iPhone
6 7 (1.86%) Replication
7 6 (1.59%) PKI
7 6 (1.59%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.06%) iPad
9 4 (1.06%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 310 (82.23%) Windows
2 136 (36.07%) Windows 10
3 70 (18.57%) Windows Server
4 31 (8.22%) Mac OS
5 20 (5.31%) Linux
6 19 (5.04%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (4.77%) Apple iOS
8 17 (4.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 15 (3.98%) Windows 7
10 14 (3.71%) Android
10 14 (3.71%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (1.33%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.80%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.80%) Unix
13 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.53%) AIX
14 2 (0.53%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.53%) VMS
14 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (19.36%) ITIL
3 72 (19.10%) Migration
4 52 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 52 (13.79%) ITSM
5 47 (12.47%) Customer Service
6 45 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (11.41%) Application Packaging
8 38 (10.08%) Service Management
9 32 (8.49%) Asset Management
10 27 (7.16%) User Experience
11 26 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
12 23 (6.10%) Agile
12 23 (6.10%) Change Management
13 20 (5.31%) Knowledge Transfer
13 20 (5.31%) Service Delivery
14 19 (5.04%) Data Protection
14 19 (5.04%) Disaster Recovery
14 19 (5.04%) Patch Management
15 18 (4.77%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 105 (27.85%) PowerShell
2 20 (5.31%) VBScript
3 16 (4.24%) SQL
4 12 (3.18%) VB
5 10 (2.65%) Bash
5 10 (2.65%) Python
6 1 (0.27%) Java
6 1 (0.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 93 (24.67%) Security Cleared
2 68 (18.04%) SC Cleared
3 39 (10.34%) Degree
4 32 (8.49%) DV Cleared
5 24 (6.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (2.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 5 (1.33%) CCA
7 5 (1.33%) Citrix Certification
8 4 (1.06%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.80%) MCSA
9 3 (0.80%) MCSE
10 2 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.53%) CISSP
10 2 (0.53%) HNC
10 2 (0.53%) HND
10 2 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.63%) SLA
2 10 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.39%) GDPR
4 6 (1.59%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.80%) NIST
7 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) QA
System Software
1 198 (52.52%) Active Directory
2 59 (15.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (5.04%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (4.24%) Hyper-V
5 15 (3.98%) BitLocker
6 8 (2.12%) Docker
6 8 (2.12%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.12%) vSphere
7 7 (1.86%) XenApp
8 6 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (1.59%) XenDesktop
9 5 (1.33%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.06%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 129 (34.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (5.57%) SCOM
3 18 (4.77%) WSUS
4 13 (3.45%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (3.18%) Ansible
6 11 (2.92%) vCenter Server
7 7 (1.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.59%) Norton AntiVirus
8 6 (1.59%) SCOrch
9 5 (1.33%) Kubernetes
9 5 (1.33%) SCVMM
10 4 (1.06%) Terraform
11 3 (0.80%) AirWatch
11 3 (0.80%) Backup Exec
11 3 (0.80%) CASB
11 3 (0.80%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.53%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
12 2 (0.53%) WMI
Vendors
1 219 (58.09%) Microsoft
2 72 (19.10%) VMware
3 61 (16.18%) ServiceNow
4 45 (11.94%) Citrix
5 22 (5.84%) Cisco
6 21 (5.57%) HP
7 17 (4.51%) Apple
8 13 (3.45%) Bloomberg
8 13 (3.45%) McAfee
9 12 (3.18%) Tenable
9 12 (3.18%) Veeam
10 11 (2.92%) SolarWinds
11 10 (2.65%) Google
12 9 (2.39%) Dynatrace
12 9 (2.39%) Reuters
13 7 (1.86%) AppDynamics
13 7 (1.86%) BMC
13 7 (1.86%) F5
13 7 (1.86%) Sophos
14 6 (1.59%) Symantec