SCOrch Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 303 341 466
Rank change year-on-year +38 +125 +160
Contract jobs citing SCOrch 1 4 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.026% 0.043%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.065% 0.24% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - £467 £400
25th Percentile - £482 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile - £519 £538
90th Percentile - - £596
UK median daily rate - £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% +31.25%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

SCOrch falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

SCOrch
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SCOrch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SCOrch trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SCOrch
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Support
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) BitLocker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Nexthink
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy