SCOrch Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SCOrch skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SCOrch over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 466 626
Rank change year-on-year +125 +160 -148
Contract jobs citing SCOrch 4 11 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.026% 0.043% 0.013%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.24% 0.26% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 5
10th Percentile £467 £400 £398
25th Percentile £482 £484 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +10.53% +26.67%
75th Percentile £519 £538 £550
90th Percentile - £596 £580
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -2.38% +31.25% +10.34%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

SCOrch 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 WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,647 4,293 7,227
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.73% 16.60% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 3,179 5,379
10th Percentile £356 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% +9.22%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.41% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 73 51
10th Percentile £21.73 £26.55 £15.00
25th Percentile £38.58 £55.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £66.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.03% +65.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £58.13 £77.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £87.50 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -47.83% +155.56% -43.75%

SCOrch
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SCOrch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SCOrch trend for jobs with a WFH option

SCOrch
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SCOrch.

SCOrch daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SCOrch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Webhook
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) SCVMM
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (25.00%) Varonis
2 1 (25.00%) VMware