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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 182 154
Rank change year-on-year -104 -28 +14
Contract jobs citing SCCM 399 426 694
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 1.45% 1.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.20% 9.01% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 307 542
10th Percentile £173 £177 £163
25th Percentile £205 £203 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £350 £340
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £475
90th Percentile £610 £603 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £278 £308 £288
% change year-on-year -9.76% +6.96% -17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 60
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.18 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £15.22 £16.47
Median hourly rate £21.76 £18.13 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +19.99% -18.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £24.82 £23.66 £40.00
90th Percentile £28.49 £24.18 £65.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.25 £18.13 £17.86
% change year-on-year +17.21% +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 6,438 4,730 5,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.69% 16.13% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,446 3,173 3,772
10th Percentile £316 £313 £258
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.60% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 50 140
10th Percentile £19.00 £17.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.03 £22.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +115.69% -21.54% -37.66%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.75 £59.06
90th Percentile £79.85 £70.75 £71.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -39.55% -10.86%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -82 360 £333 -5.00% 73
UK excluding London -84 246 £278 -9.76% 63
London -47 135 £450 +12.50% 23
Work from Home -28 85 £450 +5.88% 20
South East -37 76 £274 -34.70% 28
North of England -79 53 £350 +45.83% 13
Midlands -63 51 £225 +12.50% 4
North West -31 40 £429 +63.43% 6
East Midlands -15 31 £223 -41.25% 1
South West -25 28 £450 +34.33% 2
East of England -18 18 £225 -9.09% 17
Scotland -21 17 £205 +2.50% 3
West Midlands -87 17 £213 +6.29% 3
Yorkshire -61 7 £195 -13.33% 6
Wales -9 6 £280 -31.08% 1
North East -16 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 61 (15.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (8.77%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.76%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.75%) IIS
5 1 (0.25%) Apache
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 42 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.50%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.50%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.00%) assyst
3 1 (0.25%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 170 (42.61%) Microsoft 365
2 128 (32.08%) Azure
3 73 (18.30%) Entra ID
4 27 (6.77%) AWS
4 27 (6.77%) OneDrive
5 22 (5.51%) Power Platform
6 21 (5.26%) SaaS
7 12 (3.01%) GCP
8 11 (2.76%) Nutanix
8 11 (2.76%) PaaS
9 10 (2.51%) IaaS
10 9 (2.26%) Google Workspace
11 7 (1.75%) Mimecast
12 6 (1.50%) Datadog
13 4 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
15 2 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
15 2 (0.50%) Azure Monitor
15 2 (0.50%) GitHub
15 2 (0.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 65 (16.29%) DNS
2 56 (14.04%) DHCP
3 48 (12.03%) Wi-Fi
4 42 (10.53%) VPN
5 37 (9.27%) Firewall
6 32 (8.02%) TCP/IP
7 23 (5.76%) LAN
7 23 (5.76%) WAN
8 20 (5.01%) VLAN
9 12 (3.01%) Skype
10 10 (2.51%) NetScaler
10 10 (2.51%) SAN
11 9 (2.26%) 4G
12 8 (2.01%) Wireless
13 6 (1.50%) DMZ
14 5 (1.25%) Internet
14 5 (1.25%) IPv4
14 5 (1.25%) Unified Communications
14 5 (1.25%) WebEx
15 3 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.51%) Power BI
1 14 (3.51%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.50%) 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 14 (3.51%) JIRA
2 11 (2.76%) MSI
3 8 (2.01%) Chocolatey
3 8 (2.01%) InstallShield
4 5 (1.25%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.50%) Git
6 1 (0.25%) GCC
6 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.25%) MLflow
6 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 141 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 51 (12.78%) Finance
3 48 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 29 (7.27%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (6.27%) Banking
7 15 (3.76%) Legal
8 9 (2.26%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.01%) Front Office
10 7 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.75%) Law
10 7 (1.75%) Spanish Language
11 6 (1.50%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.25%) Military
13 4 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.00%) Police
14 3 (0.75%) Local Government
14 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.75%) Retail
15 2 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 54 (13.53%) Support Engineer
2 48 (12.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 40 (10.03%) IT Support
4 37 (9.27%) Analyst
5 36 (9.02%) IT Engineer
6 34 (8.52%) Windows Engineer
7 32 (8.02%) Senior
8 31 (7.77%) Deployment Engineer
9 27 (6.77%) Desktop Support
10 22 (5.51%) Architect
11 21 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
12 18 (4.51%) Desktop Engineer
13 15 (3.76%) Support Technician
14 14 (3.51%) 2nd Line Support
14 14 (3.51%) Security Engineer
15 13 (3.26%) Lead
16 12 (3.01%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 12 (3.01%) IT Analyst
16 12 (3.01%) Service Analyst
17 11 (2.76%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.76%) Software Packaging
2 5 (1.25%) Middleware
3 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.50%) ADO
4 2 (0.50%) BREW
4 2 (0.50%) 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 (6.77%) CMDB
2 25 (6.27%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 19 (4.76%) Smartphone
4 17 (4.26%) Driving Licence
5 12 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.76%) Client/Server
6 11 (2.76%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (1.75%) PKI
7 7 (1.75%) Replication
8 6 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.50%) iPhone
8 6 (1.50%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.00%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.00%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 334 (83.71%) Windows
2 148 (37.09%) Windows 10
3 73 (18.30%) Windows Server
4 33 (8.27%) Mac OS
5 22 (5.51%) Linux
6 19 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (4.26%) Apple iOS
7 17 (4.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (3.76%) Windows 7
9 14 (3.51%) Android
9 14 (3.51%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (1.25%) Unix
11 5 (1.25%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.75%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.50%) AIX
13 2 (0.50%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.50%) VMS
13 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (19.55%) ITIL
3 76 (19.05%) Migration
4 58 (14.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 53 (13.28%) ITSM
6 51 (12.78%) Customer Service
7 46 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (10.28%) Application Packaging
9 39 (9.77%) Service Management
10 33 (8.27%) Asset Management
11 32 (8.02%) Cybersecurity
12 29 (7.27%) User Experience
13 25 (6.27%) Agile
13 25 (6.27%) Change Management
14 22 (5.51%) Knowledge Transfer
14 22 (5.51%) Service Delivery
15 19 (4.76%) Data Protection
15 19 (4.76%) Patch Management
16 18 (4.51%) Business Continuity
16 18 (4.51%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 111 (27.82%) PowerShell
2 20 (5.01%) VBScript
3 17 (4.26%) SQL
4 13 (3.26%) Python
5 12 (3.01%) VB
6 10 (2.51%) Bash
7 1 (0.25%) Java
7 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 102 (25.56%) Security Cleared
2 76 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.28%) Degree
4 31 (7.77%) DV Cleared
5 26 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 5 (1.25%) CCA
7 5 (1.25%) Citrix Certification
7 5 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.00%) MCSA
8 4 (1.00%) MCSE
9 3 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.50%) CCNA
10 2 (0.50%) CCNP
10 2 (0.50%) CISSP
10 2 (0.50%) HNC
10 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.02%) SLA
2 12 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.51%) GDPR
4 6 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.75%) 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
1 213 (53.38%) Active Directory
2 59 (14.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (4.01%) Hyper-V
5 15 (3.76%) BitLocker
6 10 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (2.26%) vSphere
8 8 (2.01%) Docker
9 7 (1.75%) XenApp
10 6 (1.50%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (1.50%) XenDesktop
11 5 (1.25%) VMware NSX
12 4 (1.00%) Firmware
13 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 136 (34.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (5.26%) SCOM
3 19 (4.76%) WSUS
4 14 (3.51%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (3.01%) Ansible
6 11 (2.76%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.01%) SCOrch
8 7 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.50%) Norton AntiVirus
10 5 (1.25%) CASB
10 5 (1.25%) Kubernetes
10 5 (1.25%) SCVMM
11 4 (1.00%) Terraform
12 3 (0.75%) AirWatch
12 3 (0.75%) Backup Exec
12 3 (0.75%) PaperCut
13 2 (0.50%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.50%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
13 2 (0.50%) WMI
Vendors
1 234 (58.65%) Microsoft
2 73 (18.30%) VMware
3 68 (17.04%) ServiceNow
4 45 (11.28%) Citrix
5 24 (6.02%) Cisco
6 23 (5.76%) HP
7 16 (4.01%) Apple
8 14 (3.51%) McAfee
8 14 (3.51%) Veeam
9 13 (3.26%) Bloomberg
10 12 (3.01%) SolarWinds
11 11 (2.76%) Google
11 11 (2.76%) Tenable
12 9 (2.26%) Reuters
13 8 (2.01%) Dynatrace
14 7 (1.75%) BMC
14 7 (1.75%) F5
14 7 (1.75%) Sophos
15 6 (1.50%) Remedy
15 6 (1.50%) Symantec