SCSM Contracts

Microsoft System Center Service Manager (SCSM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SCSM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCSM 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 516 - 711
Rank change year-on-year - - +136
Contract jobs citing SCSM 4 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% - 0.012%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.087% - 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £485 - £357
25th Percentile £487 - £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.00%
75th Percentile £595 - £456
90th Percentile £658 - £481
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SCSM 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%

SCSM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SCSM in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SCSM in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCSM over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCSM in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SCSM in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCSM 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 - 4 £491 - 3
UK excluding London - 4 £491 - 3
South East - 3 £487 - 1
North West - 1 £700 -
North of England - 1 £700 -

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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 (75.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) ITSM Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Migration Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Migration Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Service Manager
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Manager
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) ITSM
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
1 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Service Management
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
1 3 (75.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds