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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 194 164
Rank change year-on-year -127 -30 +7
Contract jobs citing SCCM 424 495 580
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 1.50% 1.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.98% 10.57% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 335 421
10th Percentile £163 £181 £188
25th Percentile £238 £200 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £300 £360
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £506 £500
90th Percentile £625 £575 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £275 £340
% change year-on-year +45.45% -19.12% +0.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 30 17
10th Percentile £17.25 - £21.85
25th Percentile £21.25 £13.75 £23.80
Median hourly rate £24.05 £16.88 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.52% -37.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £25.75 £19.88 £50.00
90th Percentile - £28.40 £61.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.05 £18.87 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.45% -22.98% +28.95%

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 6,073 4,684 4,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.06% 14.17% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,012 3,030 3,014
10th Percentile £313 £275 £299
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £476 £488
% change year-on-year +5.15% -2.46% -4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 94 59
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.88
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £25.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.94% -32.00% -31.82%
75th Percentile £73.81 £63.00 £63.50
90th Percentile £87.67 £67.18 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.48 £21.39 £37.08
% change year-on-year +196.77% -42.32% -22.47%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -123 382 £400 +23.08% 137
UK excluding London -113 281 £400 +45.45% 91
London -85 119 £375 -6.25% 50
North of England -46 89 £365 +82.50% 29
North West -10 73 £388 +82.35% 19
Work from Home -87 68 £450 -1.64% 43
Midlands -37 66 £393 +46.73% 13
South East -90 56 £450 +63.64% 18
West Midlands -35 39 £340 +29.52% 7
South West -60 28 £450 +7.46% 12
East Midlands -6 27 £400 +7.10% 6
Scotland -21 24 £150 -25.00% 8
East of England -55 18 £450 -18.18% 9
North East -38 8 £200 - 2
Yorkshire -50 8 £245 +22.50% 8
Wales -25 1 - - 4

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 59 (13.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (7.31%) SharePoint
3 17 (4.01%) Skype for Business
4 13 (3.07%) HCL Notes
5 4 (0.94%) IIS
6 2 (0.47%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 59 (13.92%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 7 (1.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 2 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.47%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 155 (36.56%) Microsoft 365
2 139 (32.78%) Azure
3 98 (23.11%) Entra ID
4 32 (7.55%) OneDrive
5 16 (3.77%) Power Platform
6 15 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (3.07%) AWS
8 9 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.12%) Rubrik
9 8 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (1.65%) GitHub
10 7 (1.65%) IaaS
11 6 (1.42%) Cohesity
11 6 (1.42%) SaaS
12 5 (1.18%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.18%) Mimecast
12 5 (1.18%) PaaS
13 4 (0.94%) Datadog
14 3 (0.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 3 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 88 (20.75%) VPN
2 85 (20.05%) DNS
3 69 (16.27%) DHCP
4 38 (8.96%) Firewall
5 32 (7.55%) TCP/IP
6 27 (6.37%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (5.66%) Skype
8 15 (3.54%) LAN
8 15 (3.54%) Network Security
8 15 (3.54%) WAN
9 13 (3.07%) VLAN
10 11 (2.59%) SAN
11 9 (2.12%) Wireless
12 8 (1.89%) Internet
13 7 (1.65%) DMZ
14 6 (1.42%) Cisco IOS
15 4 (0.94%) SSH
16 3 (0.71%) NetScaler
17 2 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
17 2 (0.47%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.59%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.65%) Power BI
3 2 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.47%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 23 (5.42%) MSI
2 7 (1.65%) JIRA
3 4 (0.94%) AdminStudio
3 4 (0.94%) Chocolatey
3 4 (0.94%) InstallShield
4 1 (0.24%) Git
4 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 164 (38.68%) Social Skills
2 62 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
2 62 (14.62%) Finance
3 26 (6.13%) Public Sector
4 20 (4.72%) Legal
5 17 (4.01%) Banking
5 17 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (4.01%) Front Office
6 14 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (2.59%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.89%) Military
8 8 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.65%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.42%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.42%) Law
11 5 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.71%) German Language
13 3 (0.71%) Retail
14 2 (0.47%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 66 (15.57%) Support Engineer
2 54 (12.74%) Desktop Engineer
3 50 (11.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 48 (11.32%) IT Support
5 40 (9.43%) Desktop Support
6 38 (8.96%) IT Engineer
7 36 (8.49%) Analyst
8 31 (7.31%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 27 (6.37%) Senior
10 26 (6.13%) Windows Engineer
11 24 (5.66%) IT Support Engineer
12 21 (4.95%) Consultant
13 19 (4.48%) Administrator
14 18 (4.25%) Deployment Engineer
15 17 (4.01%) IT Analyst
16 14 (3.30%) SCCM Engineer
16 14 (3.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 13 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
17 13 (3.07%) Lead
18 11 (2.59%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.77%) Software Packaging
2 15 (3.54%) Terraform
3 8 (1.89%) ARM Templates
4 6 (1.42%) JSON
4 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (0.71%) .NET
5 3 (0.71%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.71%) REST
6 2 (0.47%) ADO
6 2 (0.47%) OpenGL
6 2 (0.47%) Qt
7 1 (0.24%) Middleware
7 1 (0.24%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 56 (13.21%) Onboarding
2 27 (6.37%) CMDB
3 17 (4.01%) Blackberry
3 17 (4.01%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.30%) Data Centre
5 14 (3.30%) PKI
6 13 (3.07%) Driving Licence
6 13 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.36%) Smartphone
8 9 (2.12%) Video Conferencing
9 8 (1.89%) ARM Cortex
10 7 (1.65%) Clustering
10 7 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.42%) Smartcard
11 6 (1.42%) YubiKey
12 5 (1.18%) iPhone
13 4 (0.94%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 367 (86.56%) Windows
2 141 (33.25%) Windows 10
3 97 (22.88%) Windows Server
4 51 (12.03%) Linux
5 32 (7.55%) Android
6 31 (7.31%) Mac OS
7 27 (6.37%) Apple iOS
8 23 (5.42%) Windows 7
9 11 (2.59%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (2.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (2.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 6 (1.42%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.94%) Unix
15 1 (0.24%) AIX
15 1 (0.24%) CentOS
15 1 (0.24%) Debian
15 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (35.14%) ITIL
2 98 (23.11%) ITSM
3 95 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (19.81%) Service Management
5 73 (17.22%) Customer Service
6 59 (13.92%) Application Packaging
6 59 (13.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 56 (13.21%) Migration
8 46 (10.85%) Service Delivery
9 42 (9.91%) Patch Management
10 41 (9.67%) Asset Management
10 41 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (8.25%) Software Deployment
12 33 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 33 (7.78%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 29 (6.84%) User Experience
14 25 (5.90%) Cybersecurity
15 23 (5.42%) Change Management
15 23 (5.42%) Project Delivery
15 23 (5.42%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 151 (35.61%) PowerShell
2 21 (4.95%) VBScript
3 17 (4.01%) Bash
4 16 (3.77%) VB
5 12 (2.83%) Python
6 8 (1.89%) Bicep
6 8 (1.89%) SQL
7 3 (0.71%) C#
8 2 (0.47%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 138 (32.55%) Security Cleared
2 98 (23.11%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.25%) DV Cleared
4 34 (8.02%) Degree
5 25 (5.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.83%) MCSE
7 10 (2.36%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.36%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.65%) A+ Certification
8 7 (1.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (1.42%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.42%) MCSA
9 6 (1.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (0.71%) CCA
11 3 (0.71%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (0.47%) CCNP
12 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.08%) SLA
2 11 (2.59%) QA
3 6 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.18%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.71%) NIST
6 2 (0.47%) COBIT
6 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.47%) ISO 9000
6 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.47%) NCSC
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
System Software
1 231 (54.48%) Active Directory
2 64 (15.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (10.38%) Hyper-V
4 27 (6.37%) BitLocker
5 22 (5.19%) vSphere
6 19 (4.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (3.77%) Microsoft App-V
8 10 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.18%) Firmware
9 5 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.94%) Docker
11 2 (0.47%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.47%) XenApp
11 2 (0.47%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.24%) KVM
12 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 160 (37.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (5.66%) SCOM
2 24 (5.66%) WSUS
3 16 (3.77%) Ansible
4 11 (2.59%) Nessus
5 9 (2.12%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (1.65%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.42%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (1.42%) NetBackup
8 5 (1.18%) AirWatch
9 3 (0.71%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.71%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.71%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.47%) Packer
10 2 (0.47%) Perfmon
10 2 (0.47%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.47%) SCSM
10 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.47%) vMotion
Vendors
1 299 (70.52%) Microsoft
2 84 (19.81%) ServiceNow
3 79 (18.63%) VMware
4 46 (10.85%) Citrix
5 21 (4.95%) Cisco
6 17 (4.01%) Apple
6 17 (4.01%) CyberArk
7 16 (3.77%) Lotus
8 14 (3.30%) Qualys
8 14 (3.30%) Tenable
9 12 (2.83%) Bloomberg
9 12 (2.83%) CrowdStrike
9 12 (2.83%) Tanium
10 11 (2.59%) BeyondTrust
10 11 (2.59%) McAfee
10 11 (2.59%) Zscaler
11 10 (2.36%) SolarWinds
12 9 (2.12%) Ivanti
13 8 (1.89%) HP
13 8 (1.89%) Splunk