SCVMM Contracts

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SCVMM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCVMM over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 580 701
Rank change year-on-year +59 +121 +95
Contract jobs citing SCVMM 2 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.023% 0.007%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.043% 0.20% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile - £399 £451
25th Percentile £158 £400 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 £433 £460
Median % change year-on-year -61.85% -5.98% -3.16%
75th Percentile £173 £489 £473
90th Percentile - £518 £474
UK excluding London median daily rate £165 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £22.23 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SCVMM 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 4,644 5,102 9,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.80% 11.85% 16.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,175 3,660 6,681
10th Percentile £313 £263 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -8.44% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £719 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +0.71% -5.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 115 208
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.21 £17.72 £24.56
Median hourly rate £26.48 £25.77 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% -55.19% +152.75%
75th Percentile £50.75 £50.00 £70.56
90th Percentile £71.25 £71.25 £82.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £27.50 £44.88
% change year-on-year -12.07% -38.72% +124.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SCVMM in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SCVMM in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SCVMM in the UK

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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 SCVMM within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +63 2 £165 -58.72% 1
UK excluding London - 2 £165 - 1
South East - 2 £165 - 1

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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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) 1st Line Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Fat Client
1 2 (100.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware