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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 207 164
Rank change year-on-year -115 -43 +13
Contract jobs citing SCCM 405 449 577
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.76% 1.38% 1.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.87% 9.94% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 303 427
10th Percentile £163 £185 £185
25th Percentile £225 £203 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £350 £380
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £523 £530 £530
90th Percentile £623 £588 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £325 £343
% change year-on-year +15.38% -5.11% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 20 15
10th Percentile £17.25 - £23.80
25th Percentile £18.40 £13.75 £25.03
Median hourly rate £21.25 £13.77 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.32% -49.93% +37.53%
75th Percentile £25.50 £18.87 £60.00
90th Percentile £25.75 £31.10 £68.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.25 £18.87 £31.00
% change year-on-year +12.61% -39.13% +63.16%

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 5,896 4,519 4,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.00% 13.90% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,935 2,934 3,146
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -3.47% -5.82%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £681 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -4.25% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 80 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.60% -20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £72.22 £63.49 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.62 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.31 £48.23 £38.50
% change year-on-year +31.28% +25.26% -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 3 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 3 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 -118 364 £385 +1.65% 120
UK excluding London -94 266 £375 +15.38% 85
London -78 118 £375 -1.64% 48
North of England -30 78 £344 +62.84% 23
Work from Home -52 72 £414 -17.25% 36
Midlands -23 65 £335 +11.67% 11
North West -10 63 £354 +68.67% 19
South East -91 52 £450 +4.50% 27
West Midlands -31 42 £250 -33.33% 5
South West -48 31 £431 +13.86% 15
Scotland -20 23 £150 -25.00% 1
East Midlands -12 21 £400 +100.00% 6
East of England -51 15 £400 -27.27% 7
North East -40 9 £200 -20.00% 2
Yorkshire -49 6 £223 -11.00% 2
Wales -25 3 - -

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 51 (12.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (7.16%) SharePoint
3 17 (4.20%) Skype for Business
4 13 (3.21%) HCL Notes
5 5 (1.23%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) Confluence
6 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 60 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 7 (1.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 2 (0.49%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.49%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 146 (36.05%) Microsoft 365
2 125 (30.86%) Azure
3 89 (21.98%) Entra ID
4 30 (7.41%) OneDrive
5 18 (4.44%) Power Platform
6 12 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (2.47%) AWS
7 10 (2.47%) SaaS
8 9 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.22%) Rubrik
9 8 (1.98%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (1.98%) Google Workspace
9 8 (1.98%) IaaS
10 7 (1.73%) GitHub
11 6 (1.48%) PaaS
12 5 (1.23%) Cohesity
12 5 (1.23%) Datadog
12 5 (1.23%) Mimecast
13 4 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (0.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 82 (20.25%) DNS
1 82 (20.25%) VPN
2 69 (17.04%) DHCP
3 41 (10.12%) Firewall
4 34 (8.40%) TCP/IP
5 29 (7.16%) Wi-Fi
6 23 (5.68%) Skype
7 14 (3.46%) Network Security
7 14 (3.46%) VLAN
7 14 (3.46%) WAN
8 13 (3.21%) LAN
9 11 (2.72%) SAN
10 9 (2.22%) DMZ
11 8 (1.98%) Wireless
12 6 (1.48%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (1.48%) Internet
13 4 (0.99%) SSH
14 3 (0.74%) NetScaler
14 3 (0.74%) WAAS
15 2 (0.49%) PCoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.96%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.98%) Power BI
3 3 (0.74%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 23 (5.68%) MSI
2 11 (2.72%) InstallShield
3 7 (1.73%) AdminStudio
4 6 (1.48%) JIRA
5 5 (1.23%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.25%) Git
7 1 (0.25%) WiX
General
1 160 (39.51%) Social Skills
2 61 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (14.81%) Finance
4 23 (5.68%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.43%) Legal
6 17 (4.20%) Front Office
7 16 (3.95%) Banking
8 14 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.47%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.73%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.48%) Law
11 6 (1.48%) Military
12 5 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.99%) Retail
14 3 (0.74%) German Language
15 2 (0.49%) Billing
15 2 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 61 (15.06%) Support Engineer
2 48 (11.85%) Desktop Engineer
3 47 (11.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 43 (10.62%) IT Support
5 36 (8.89%) IT Engineer
6 35 (8.64%) Analyst
7 31 (7.65%) Desktop Support
8 25 (6.17%) IT Support Engineer
8 25 (6.17%) Senior
8 25 (6.17%) Windows Engineer
9 23 (5.68%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 19 (4.69%) Administrator
10 19 (4.69%) Consultant
10 19 (4.69%) Deployment Engineer
11 16 (3.95%) IT Analyst
12 15 (3.70%) SCCM Engineer
13 13 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (3.21%) Lead
14 12 (2.96%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 12 (2.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.44%) Software Packaging
2 14 (3.46%) Terraform
3 8 (1.98%) ARM Templates
4 6 (1.48%) JSON
5 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (0.74%) .NET
6 3 (0.74%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.74%) ADO
6 3 (0.74%) REST
7 2 (0.49%) OpenGL
7 2 (0.49%) Qt
8 1 (0.25%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 55 (13.58%) Onboarding
2 22 (5.43%) CMDB
3 17 (4.20%) Blackberry
4 16 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.70%) Data Centre
6 14 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.47%) Driving Licence
9 8 (1.98%) ARM Cortex
9 8 (1.98%) PKI
9 8 (1.98%) Smartphone
10 7 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.73%) iPhone
11 6 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (1.48%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (1.23%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.23%) Smartcard
12 5 (1.23%) YubiKey
13 4 (0.99%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 343 (84.69%) Windows
2 129 (31.85%) Windows 10
3 88 (21.73%) Windows Server
4 44 (10.86%) Linux
5 27 (6.67%) Mac OS
6 24 (5.93%) Android
7 22 (5.43%) Windows 7
8 19 (4.69%) Apple iOS
9 10 (2.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (1.23%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.74%) Unix
13 1 (0.25%) AIX
13 1 (0.25%) Debian
13 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (32.10%) ITIL
2 99 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
3 88 (21.73%) ITSM
4 75 (18.52%) Service Management
5 63 (15.56%) Customer Service
6 59 (14.57%) Application Packaging
7 53 (13.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 50 (12.35%) Migration
9 42 (10.37%) Service Delivery
10 41 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (9.38%) Asset Management
12 36 (8.89%) Patch Management
13 32 (7.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (7.65%) User Experience
15 27 (6.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 26 (6.42%) Software Deployment
16 26 (6.42%) Task Automation
17 24 (5.93%) Data Protection
18 23 (5.68%) Agile
19 22 (5.43%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 139 (34.32%) PowerShell
2 22 (5.43%) VBScript
3 16 (3.95%) Bash
3 16 (3.95%) VB
4 11 (2.72%) Python
5 9 (2.22%) SQL
6 8 (1.98%) Bicep
7 3 (0.74%) C#
8 2 (0.49%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 135 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 94 (23.21%) SC Cleared
3 36 (8.89%) Degree
4 33 (8.15%) DV Cleared
5 24 (5.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.72%) MCSE
8 10 (2.47%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 6 (1.48%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.48%) MCSA
10 6 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (1.23%) A+ Certification
11 5 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.74%) CCA
12 3 (0.74%) Citrix Certification
13 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.16%) SLA
2 9 (2.22%) QA
3 7 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.74%) NIST
6 2 (0.49%) COBIT
6 2 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.49%) ISO 9000
6 2 (0.49%) NCSC
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 211 (52.10%) Active Directory
2 57 (14.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (8.89%) Hyper-V
4 26 (6.42%) BitLocker
5 19 (4.69%) vSphere
6 18 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (3.95%) Microsoft App-V
8 10 (2.47%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (1.23%) Firmware
11 4 (0.99%) Docker
11 4 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.49%) XenApp
12 2 (0.49%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.25%) KVM
13 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 141 (34.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (5.93%) WSUS
3 23 (5.68%) SCOM
4 14 (3.46%) Ansible
5 10 (2.47%) Nessus
6 8 (1.98%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (1.73%) vCenter Server
8 6 (1.48%) AirWatch
8 6 (1.48%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.74%) Backup Exec
9 3 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.74%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.74%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.74%) Norton AntiVirus
9 3 (0.74%) SCSM
10 2 (0.49%) Packer
10 2 (0.49%) vMotion
11 1 (0.25%) IBM BigFix
11 1 (0.25%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 281 (69.38%) Microsoft
2 79 (19.51%) ServiceNow
3 70 (17.28%) VMware
4 39 (9.63%) Citrix
5 22 (5.43%) Cisco
6 17 (4.20%) Apple
7 16 (3.95%) CyberArk
7 16 (3.95%) Lotus
8 15 (3.70%) Tenable
9 14 (3.46%) Bloomberg
9 14 (3.46%) McAfee
10 13 (3.21%) HP
10 13 (3.21%) Qualys
11 11 (2.72%) Tanium
12 10 (2.47%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (2.47%) SolarWinds
13 9 (2.22%) BeyondTrust
14 8 (1.98%) Reuters
15 7 (1.73%) ION Trading
15 7 (1.73%) Remedy