Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SCCM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SCCM over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 162 193
Rank change year-on-year +2 +31 -4
Contract jobs citing SCCM 635 939 1,306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.48% 1.62% 1.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.53% 10.11% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 682 914
10th Percentile £164 £175 £163
25th Percentile £205 £213 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £373 £375
Median % change year-on-year -12.75% -0.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £500
90th Percentile £608 £613 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £350 £315
% change year-on-year -14.29% +11.11% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 54 82
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.32 £15.50 £15.13
Median hourly rate £22.08 £20.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £40.00 £65.00 £23.91
90th Percentile £42.28 £65.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £18.11 £20.00
% change year-on-year -2.15% -9.45% +11.11%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SCCM is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,066 9,287 14,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.83% 15.99% 15.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,623 6,693 10,163
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 211 184
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.72 £24.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.04%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £44.88 £20.00
% change year-on-year -35.93% +124.38% -9.09%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SCCM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCCM.

Daily rate trend for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCCM.

Hourly rate trend for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SCCM over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Top 16 Contract 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 7 May 2024. 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 +4 568 £310 -11.43% 157
UK excluding London +1 414 £300 -14.29% 123
London +27 194 £350 -5.41% 57
South East +55 188 £325 +1.56% 27
Work from Home -4 149 £440 +3.53% 57
Midlands -6 52 £375 - 15
South West -27 49 £179 -55.25% 23
North of England -25 44 £220 -45.00% 14
Scotland +24 40 £275 +37.50% 24
West Midlands +15 39 £400 -13.98% 8
North West -19 38 £220 -50.00% 6
East of England -23 36 £305 +2.52% 18
East Midlands -14 12 £190 -42.42% 7
Yorkshire +17 5 £325 +44.44% 4
Wales -2 5 £220 -58.10% 1
North East +14 2 £155 -31.11% 4

SCCM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 139 (21.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (7.40%) SharePoint
3 30 (4.72%) IIS
4 10 (1.57%) Skype for Business
5 4 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.47%) nginx
6 3 (0.47%) WordPress
7 2 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.16%) Apache
8 1 (0.16%) Confluence
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 128 (20.16%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (0.47%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.31%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.16%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 260 (40.94%) Microsoft 365
2 168 (26.46%) Azure
3 74 (11.65%) Entra ID
4 44 (6.93%) OneDrive
5 32 (5.04%) AWS
6 22 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
7 16 (2.52%) Azure Storage
8 14 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (2.20%) OCI
9 9 (1.42%) Mimecast
10 8 (1.26%) Power Platform
11 6 (0.94%) IaaS
12 5 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.63%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.63%) Nutanix
14 3 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.47%) SaaS
14 3 (0.47%) WhatsApp
15 2 (0.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 2 (0.31%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 133 (20.94%) DNS
2 113 (17.80%) Firewall
3 105 (16.54%) DHCP
4 62 (9.76%) LAN
5 55 (8.66%) SAN
6 46 (7.24%) VPN
7 43 (6.77%) WAN
8 30 (4.72%) TCP/IP
9 29 (4.57%) Wireless
10 25 (3.94%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (2.68%) Skype
12 13 (2.05%) MPLS
12 13 (2.05%) VLAN
13 12 (1.89%) Remote Desktop
14 11 (1.73%) VoIP
15 10 (1.57%) Cisco IOS
16 8 (1.26%) SSL
17 7 (1.10%) NAS
18 6 (0.94%) NetScaler
18 6 (0.94%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.61%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.47%) MySQL
2 3 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (0.79%) MSI
2 3 (0.47%) JIRA
3 2 (0.31%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.16%) Git
4 1 (0.16%) GitLab
4 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.16%) Subversion
4 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 259 (40.79%) Social Skills
2 63 (9.92%) Finance
3 52 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (7.24%) Public Sector
5 44 (6.93%) Organisational Skills
6 23 (3.62%) Banking
7 18 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.42%) Legal
10 8 (1.26%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.26%) French Language
11 7 (1.10%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.79%) Front Office
14 4 (0.63%) Local Government
15 3 (0.47%) Billing
15 3 (0.47%) Military
15 3 (0.47%) Multimedia
15 3 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 139 (21.89%) Support Engineer
2 86 (13.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 71 (11.18%) Desktop Support
4 65 (10.24%) Desktop Engineer
5 62 (9.76%) Windows Engineer
6 61 (9.61%) IT Support
7 51 (8.03%) 2nd Line Support
8 50 (7.87%) IT Engineer
9 47 (7.40%) Analyst
10 45 (7.09%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 34 (5.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 33 (5.20%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 33 (5.20%) Support Specialist
13 32 (5.04%) 1st/2nd Line Support
14 29 (4.57%) IT Support Engineer
14 29 (4.57%) SCCM Engineer
15 28 (4.41%) Technical Support
16 27 (4.25%) Deployment Engineer
17 26 (4.09%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
18 25 (3.94%) Active Directory Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.31%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.42%) .NET
3 7 (1.10%) Software Packaging
4 4 (0.63%) EDI
5 3 (0.47%) LAMP
5 3 (0.47%) XMPP
6 2 (0.31%) WSH
7 1 (0.16%) Flash
7 1 (0.16%) LDAP
7 1 (0.16%) Middleware
7 1 (0.16%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.72%) Driving Licence
2 40 (6.30%) Data Centre
3 31 (4.88%) PKI
4 26 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (3.62%) Clustering
6 21 (3.31%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.83%) Video Conferencing
8 12 (1.89%) iPad
9 10 (1.57%) iPhone
10 8 (1.26%) Client/Server
10 8 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.10%) CMDB
11 7 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 6 (0.94%) Smartphone
12 6 (0.94%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.79%) Handset
13 5 (0.79%) Replication
14 4 (0.63%) Blackberry
14 4 (0.63%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 557 (87.72%) Windows
2 294 (46.30%) Windows 10
3 186 (29.29%) Windows Server
4 96 (15.12%) Windows Server 2016
5 84 (13.23%) Linux
6 83 (13.07%) Windows Server 2012
7 81 (12.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 75 (11.81%) Windows 7
9 44 (6.93%) Mac OS
10 38 (5.98%) Unix
11 33 (5.20%) Apple iOS
12 23 (3.62%) Android
13 20 (3.15%) Windows NT
14 18 (2.83%) Windows XP
15 13 (2.05%) Windows Server 2008
16 12 (1.89%) Windows Server 2003
17 10 (1.57%) Mac OS X
17 10 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 9 (1.42%) VMS
19 6 (0.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (27.72%) ITIL
2 144 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
3 133 (20.94%) Customer Service
4 100 (15.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 57 (8.98%) Mobile Device Management
6 56 (8.82%) Migration
6 56 (8.82%) Service Management
7 45 (7.09%) Release Management
8 43 (6.77%) Agile
9 42 (6.61%) DevOps
10 41 (6.46%) Disaster Recovery
11 37 (5.83%) Asset Management
11 37 (5.83%) Server Management
12 34 (5.35%) Service Delivery
13 33 (5.20%) Software Deployment
14 29 (4.57%) Application Packaging
14 29 (4.57%) ITSM
15 28 (4.41%) Deployment Automation
15 28 (4.41%) Project Management
16 27 (4.25%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 162 (25.51%) PowerShell
2 29 (4.57%) VBScript
3 26 (4.09%) C#
4 24 (3.78%) SQL
5 20 (3.15%) VB
6 16 (2.52%) Bicep
6 16 (2.52%) Python
7 10 (1.57%) Java
8 3 (0.47%) Bash
8 3 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 192 (30.24%) Security Cleared
2 126 (19.84%) Degree
3 114 (17.95%) DV Cleared
4 97 (15.28%) SC Cleared
5 34 (5.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 30 (4.72%) CCNA
6 30 (4.72%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (3.46%) CCNP
8 19 (2.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 16 (2.52%) MCP
9 16 (2.52%) MCSE
10 12 (1.89%) A+ Certification
11 11 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.73%) DBS Check
11 11 (1.73%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.79%) CTC Cleared
12 5 (0.79%) MCTS
13 4 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.31%) MCDST
14 2 (0.31%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (9.45%) SLA
2 24 (3.78%) QA
3 7 (1.10%) NIST
4 5 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (0.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.16%) COBIT
6 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 398 (62.68%) Active Directory
2 99 (15.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (8.66%) Hyper-V
4 40 (6.30%) VMware ESXi
5 36 (5.67%) Firmware
6 26 (4.09%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (2.52%) XenApp
9 13 (2.05%) BitLocker
10 12 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
11 11 (1.73%) Microsoft App-V
11 11 (1.73%) VMware NSX
11 11 (1.73%) vSphere
12 9 (1.42%) XenDesktop
13 8 (1.26%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (0.63%) Docker
14 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.16%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 133 (20.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 70 (11.02%) WSUS
3 65 (10.24%) SCOM
4 30 (4.72%) vCenter Server
5 29 (4.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 25 (3.94%) NetBackup
7 22 (3.46%) Jamf Pro
8 21 (3.31%) Sysprep
9 19 (2.99%) Kubernetes
10 16 (2.52%) EMC NetWorker
11 14 (2.20%) Microsoft Clustering
12 10 (1.57%) Failover Clustering
13 9 (1.42%) SCVMM
13 9 (1.42%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 8 (1.26%) Nagios
15 6 (0.94%) Autotask
16 4 (0.63%) AirWatch
17 3 (0.47%) Ansible
17 3 (0.47%) AppManager
17 3 (0.47%) OPNET
Vendors
1 366 (57.64%) Microsoft
2 140 (22.05%) VMware
3 83 (13.07%) Citrix
4 77 (12.13%) HP
5 70 (11.02%) Cisco
6 48 (7.56%) Apple
7 41 (6.46%) ServiceNow
8 36 (5.67%) Veeam
9 34 (5.35%) EMC
10 26 (4.09%) Dell
11 20 (3.15%) Symantec
12 17 (2.68%) Palo Alto
13 16 (2.52%) Avaya
13 16 (2.52%) Juniper
13 16 (2.52%) MobileIron
14 15 (2.36%) Oracle
15 14 (2.20%) 3PAR
15 14 (2.20%) Extreme Networks
15 14 (2.20%) Qualys
16 12 (1.89%) Ivanti