SCOrch Contracts

Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SCOrch skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCOrch over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 575 696
Rank change year-on-year +58 +121 +135
Contract jobs citing SCOrch 3 7 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.016% 0.037%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.065% 0.14% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 16
10th Percentile - £467 £400
25th Percentile - £482 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% +31.25%
75th Percentile - £519 £738
90th Percentile - - £744
UK excluding London median daily rate - £513 £625
% change year-on-year - -18.00% +85.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SCOrch 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 4,597 5,137 9,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 11.79% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,150 3,667 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £258 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £19.51 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £69.88 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

SCOrch
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SCOrch in the UK

SCOrch
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SCOrch in the UK

SCOrch
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SCOrch in the UK

SCOrch
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOrch within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +55 3 - - 2
London +38 3 - - 1
Work from Home +38 1 - - 2

SCOrch
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 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Support
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Android
3 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) ISMS
2 2 (66.67%) Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (33.33%) BitLocker
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) CASB
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Apple
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Nexthink
2 1 (33.33%) Remedy