SCVMM Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
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 SCVMM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SCVMM over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 - 596
Rank change year-on-year - - -106
Contract jobs citing SCVMM 3 0 32
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% - 0.073%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.18% - 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 32
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £428 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.77%
75th Percentile £505 - £538
90th Percentile £525 - -
UK median daily rate £433 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -5.98% -3.16% +11.76%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

SCVMM 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 1,632 4,148 7,096
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.85% 16.47% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,218 3,067 5,286
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £470 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -0.80% +9.76%
75th Percentile £627 £675 £660
90th Percentile £700 £750 £744
UK median daily rate £515 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -8.04% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 76 46
10th Percentile £19.98 £25.36 £15.63
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.19 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.75 £66.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% +88.57% -24.28%
75th Percentile £56.88 £76.13 £64.19
90th Percentile £62.75 £87.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%

SCVMM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SCVMM trend for jobs with a WFH option

SCVMM
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 SCVMM.

SCVMM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SCVMM
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SCVMM over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

SCVMM daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SCVMM
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 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) IT Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Protective Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Runbook
1 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
1 1 (33.33%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) SCOM
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
3 1 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) SCOrch
3 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (33.33%) Varonis