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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 178 156
Rank change year-on-year -101 -22 +9
Contract jobs citing SCCM 395 428 690
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.45% 1.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.17% 8.99% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 309 540
10th Percentile £173 £177 £163
25th Percentile £205 £206 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £500 £500 £488
90th Percentile £611 £601 £606
UK excluding London median daily rate £278 £308 £300
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 59
10th Percentile £16.10 £12.18 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.32 £15.22 £16.40
Median hourly rate £21.25 £18.13 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +17.21% -18.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £24.65 £23.66 £40.00
90th Percentile £34.10 £24.18 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.42 £18.13 £17.86
% change year-on-year +7.12% +1.51% -10.70%

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 6,401 4,763 5,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.63% 16.12% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,422 3,200 3,772
10th Percentile £315 £313 £259
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.00% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 50 139
10th Percentile £19.00 £17.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.41 £22.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +115.69% -20.31% -41.82%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.75 £58.38
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.75 £70.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -39.55% -13.04%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -82 356 £330 -5.71% 73
UK excluding London -96 243 £278 -9.76% 63
London -35 134 £450 +12.50% 23
Work from Home -28 85 £450 +5.88% 19
South East -43 76 £274 -34.70% 28
North of England -77 53 £350 +45.83% 12
Midlands -65 51 £225 +12.50% 4
North West -29 40 £429 +63.43% 6
East Midlands -17 31 £223 -41.25% 1
South West -23 28 £450 +32.35% 2
Scotland -21 17 £205 +2.50% 3
West Midlands -82 17 £213 +6.29% 3
East of England -27 15 £225 -8.16% 17
Yorkshire -69 7 £195 -13.33% 5
Wales -9 6 £280 -31.08% 1
North East -15 6 £184 -47.50% 1
Channel Islands +4 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 60 (15.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (8.86%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.78%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.76%) IIS
5 1 (0.25%) Apache
5 1 (0.25%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 42 (10.63%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.52%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.51%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.01%) assyst
3 1 (0.25%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 168 (42.53%) Microsoft 365
2 127 (32.15%) Azure
3 72 (18.23%) Entra ID
4 27 (6.84%) AWS
5 26 (6.58%) OneDrive
6 22 (5.57%) Power Platform
7 21 (5.32%) SaaS
8 12 (3.04%) GCP
9 11 (2.78%) Nutanix
9 11 (2.78%) PaaS
10 10 (2.53%) IaaS
11 9 (2.28%) Google Workspace
12 7 (1.77%) Mimecast
13 6 (1.52%) Datadog
14 4 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
16 2 (0.51%) Azure Logic Apps
16 2 (0.51%) Azure Monitor
16 2 (0.51%) GitHub
16 2 (0.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 64 (16.20%) DNS
2 56 (14.18%) DHCP
3 47 (11.90%) Wi-Fi
4 42 (10.63%) VPN
5 36 (9.11%) Firewall
6 31 (7.85%) TCP/IP
7 23 (5.82%) LAN
8 22 (5.57%) WAN
9 20 (5.06%) VLAN
10 12 (3.04%) Skype
11 10 (2.53%) NetScaler
11 10 (2.53%) SAN
12 9 (2.28%) 4G
13 8 (2.03%) Wireless
14 6 (1.52%) DMZ
15 5 (1.27%) IPv4
15 5 (1.27%) Unified Communications
15 5 (1.27%) WebEx
16 4 (1.01%) Internet
17 3 (0.76%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.54%) Power BI
1 14 (3.54%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.25%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.25%) DB2
3 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (3.29%) JIRA
2 10 (2.53%) MSI
3 8 (2.03%) Chocolatey
3 8 (2.03%) InstallShield
4 5 (1.27%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.51%) Git
6 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.25%) MLflow
6 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 138 (34.94%) Social Skills
2 51 (12.91%) Finance
3 48 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 28 (7.09%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (6.33%) Banking
7 15 (3.80%) Legal
8 9 (2.28%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.03%) Front Office
10 7 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.77%) Law
11 6 (1.52%) Spanish Language
11 6 (1.52%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.27%) Military
13 4 (1.01%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.01%) Police
14 3 (0.76%) Local Government
14 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.76%) Retail
15 2 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 53 (13.42%) Support Engineer
2 47 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 39 (9.87%) IT Support
4 37 (9.37%) Analyst
5 35 (8.86%) IT Engineer
6 32 (8.10%) Senior
6 32 (8.10%) Windows Engineer
7 29 (7.34%) Deployment Engineer
8 27 (6.84%) Desktop Support
9 22 (5.57%) Architect
10 20 (5.06%) IT Support Engineer
11 18 (4.56%) Desktop Engineer
12 15 (3.80%) Support Technician
13 14 (3.54%) 2nd Line Support
14 13 (3.29%) Lead
14 13 (3.29%) Security Engineer
15 12 (3.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 12 (3.04%) IT Analyst
15 12 (3.04%) Service Analyst
16 11 (2.78%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.53%) Software Packaging
2 5 (1.27%) Middleware
3 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.51%) ADO
4 2 (0.51%) BREW
4 2 (0.51%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (0.25%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.25%) CrewAI
5 1 (0.25%) LangChain
5 1 (0.25%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.25%) LDAP
5 1 (0.25%) OAuth
5 1 (0.25%) OpenID
5 1 (0.25%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.25%) SAML
5 1 (0.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.84%) CMDB
2 25 (6.33%) Onboarding
3 18 (4.56%) Data Centre
3 18 (4.56%) Smartphone
4 17 (4.30%) Driving Licence
5 12 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.78%) Client/Server
6 11 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (1.77%) PKI
7 7 (1.77%) Replication
8 6 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.52%) iPhone
8 6 (1.52%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.01%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.01%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.01%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 329 (83.29%) Windows
2 146 (36.96%) Windows 10
3 72 (18.23%) Windows Server
4 33 (8.35%) Mac OS
5 21 (5.32%) Linux
6 19 (4.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (4.30%) Apple iOS
7 17 (4.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (3.80%) Windows 7
9 14 (3.54%) Android
9 14 (3.54%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (1.27%) Unix
11 5 (1.27%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.76%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.51%) AIX
13 2 (0.51%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.51%) VMS
13 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (22.28%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (19.24%) ITIL
3 73 (18.48%) Migration
4 57 (14.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 52 (13.16%) ITSM
6 49 (12.41%) Customer Service
7 46 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (10.38%) Application Packaging
9 39 (9.87%) Service Management
10 33 (8.35%) Asset Management
11 31 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
12 28 (7.09%) User Experience
13 25 (6.33%) Agile
14 24 (6.08%) Change Management
15 22 (5.57%) Knowledge Transfer
15 22 (5.57%) Service Delivery
16 19 (4.81%) Patch Management
17 18 (4.56%) Business Continuity
17 18 (4.56%) Disaster Recovery
17 18 (4.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (27.85%) PowerShell
2 20 (5.06%) VBScript
3 17 (4.30%) SQL
4 13 (3.29%) Python
5 12 (3.04%) VB
6 10 (2.53%) Bash
7 1 (0.25%) Java
7 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 102 (25.82%) Security Cleared
2 76 (19.24%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.38%) Degree
4 32 (8.10%) DV Cleared
5 26 (6.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 5 (1.27%) CCA
7 5 (1.27%) Citrix Certification
8 4 (1.01%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.01%) MCSA
8 4 (1.01%) MCSE
9 3 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.51%) CCNA
10 2 (0.51%) CCNP
10 2 (0.51%) CISSP
10 2 (0.51%) HNC
10 2 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.08%) SLA
2 12 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.53%) GDPR
4 6 (1.52%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.76%) NIST
7 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.25%) NCSC
7 1 (0.25%) QA
System Software
1 210 (53.16%) Active Directory
2 59 (14.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (4.05%) Hyper-V
5 15 (3.80%) BitLocker
6 9 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (2.28%) vSphere
7 8 (2.03%) Docker
8 7 (1.77%) XenApp
9 6 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.52%) XenDesktop
10 5 (1.27%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.27%) VMware NSX
11 4 (1.01%) Firmware
12 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 135 (34.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (5.32%) SCOM
3 19 (4.81%) WSUS
4 14 (3.54%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (3.04%) Ansible
6 11 (2.78%) vCenter Server
7 7 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (1.77%) SCOrch
7 7 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.52%) Norton AntiVirus
9 5 (1.27%) Kubernetes
9 5 (1.27%) SCVMM
10 4 (1.01%) CASB
10 4 (1.01%) Terraform
11 3 (0.76%) AirWatch
11 3 (0.76%) Backup Exec
11 3 (0.76%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.51%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
12 2 (0.51%) WMI
Vendors
1 232 (58.73%) Microsoft
2 73 (18.48%) VMware
3 67 (16.96%) ServiceNow
4 45 (11.39%) Citrix
5 24 (6.08%) Cisco
6 23 (5.82%) HP
7 16 (4.05%) Apple
8 14 (3.54%) McAfee
8 14 (3.54%) Veeam
9 13 (3.29%) Bloomberg
10 12 (3.04%) SolarWinds
11 11 (2.78%) Google
11 11 (2.78%) Tenable
12 9 (2.28%) Reuters
13 8 (2.03%) Dynatrace
14 7 (1.77%) BMC
14 7 (1.77%) F5
14 7 (1.77%) Sophos
15 6 (1.52%) Remedy
15 6 (1.52%) Symantec