Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SCCM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SCCM over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 184 276 302
Rank change year-on-year +92 +26 -76
Permanent jobs citing SCCM 1,004 1,629 1,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.92% 1.33% 1.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.64% 8.59% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 813 1,320 1,320
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £43,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.64% +2.35% -8.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £37,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +28.38% -1.33% -11.76%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SCCM is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 7,942 18,973 21,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.19% 15.52% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 6,281 11,371 14,021
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,091 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £84,056 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,525 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.70% - +9.52%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SCCM.

Salary trend for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCCM over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +95 967 £49,000 +12.00% 217
UK excluding London +60 611 £47,500 +28.38% 162
London +127 378 £51,000 -5.56% 56
Work from Home +52 309 £54,000 +13.68% 57
South East +112 222 £54,500 +55.71% 69
Midlands +53 127 £47,500 +5.56% 28
North of England +74 106 £36,000 - 29
West Midlands +86 104 £47,100 +10.82% 12
South West +48 93 £45,000 +38.46% 19
Yorkshire +64 49 £35,000 +6.87% 13
North West +60 46 £46,000 +22.67% 12
East of England +17 35 £42,500 +6.25% 10
East Midlands +4 23 £50,000 +9.89% 16
Scotland +28 18 £38,500 +30.29% 7
North East +37 11 £32,500 -42.48% 4
Wales +22 6 £42,394 -4.73%
Northern Ireland +18 3 £42,500 +46.55% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £45,000 -

SCCM
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
1 190 (18.92%) MS Exchange
2 82 (8.17%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.69%) IIS
4 10 (1.00%) Apache
4 10 (1.00%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.30%) CMS
6 2 (0.20%) Confluence
6 2 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
6 2 (0.20%) WordPress
7 1 (0.100%) nginx
7 1 (0.100%) Tomcat
Applications
1 127 (12.65%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.90%) AutoCAD
3 9 (0.90%) PTC Creo
3 9 (0.90%) SOLIDWORKS
4 8 (0.80%) InCopy
5 7 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
5 7 (0.70%) InDesign
5 7 (0.70%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.50%) Acrobat
6 5 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.100%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.40%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.100%) Eikon
3 1 (0.100%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.100%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 579 (57.67%) Microsoft 365
2 358 (35.66%) Azure
3 151 (15.04%) Entra ID
4 108 (10.76%) AWS
5 43 (4.28%) IaaS
6 33 (3.29%) OneDrive
6 33 (3.29%) PaaS
7 30 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
8 25 (2.49%) SaaS
9 24 (2.39%) GCP
10 23 (2.29%) Azure Storage
11 22 (2.19%) Mimecast
12 14 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (1.39%) Power Platform
13 10 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (0.90%) Datadog
14 9 (0.90%) Google Workspace
15 8 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (0.80%) Nutanix
16 6 (0.60%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 163 (16.24%) WAN
2 152 (15.14%) DNS
3 143 (14.24%) DHCP
4 125 (12.45%) Wireless
5 111 (11.06%) Cisco IOS
5 111 (11.06%) SD-WAN
6 106 (10.56%) Firewall
7 104 (10.36%) WebEx
8 83 (8.27%) VPN
9 67 (6.67%) LAN
10 66 (6.57%) TCP/IP
11 63 (6.27%) SAN
12 48 (4.78%) Wi-Fi
13 29 (2.89%) SMTP
14 26 (2.59%) Skype
15 25 (2.49%) FTP
16 24 (2.39%) HTTP
16 24 (2.39%) SNMP
16 24 (2.39%) SSL
16 24 (2.39%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (4.38%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (1.00%) Power BI
3 10 (1.00%) SAP HANA
4 5 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.30%) MySQL
6 2 (0.20%) DTS
6 2 (0.20%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (2.89%) MSI
2 15 (1.49%) AdminStudio
2 15 (1.49%) InstallShield
3 12 (1.20%) Git
3 12 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.00%) Axure RP
4 10 (1.00%) Chocolatey
5 6 (0.60%) JIRA
6 4 (0.40%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.20%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.20%) GitLab
8 1 (0.100%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.100%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.100%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.100%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.100%) Redmine
8 1 (0.100%) Snyk
8 1 (0.100%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.100%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.100%) Subversion
General
1 370 (36.85%) Social Skills
2 175 (17.43%) Finance
3 80 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (5.18%) Law
5 48 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
6 42 (4.18%) Legal
7 39 (3.88%) Retail
8 36 (3.59%) Banking
9 35 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (2.99%) Financial Institution
11 28 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
12 27 (2.69%) Public Sector
13 26 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (2.29%) Telecoms
15 16 (1.59%) Back Office
16 13 (1.29%) Manufacturing
17 12 (1.20%) Military
18 9 (0.90%) Local Government
19 8 (0.80%) Front Office
19 8 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 175 (17.43%) IT Support
2 152 (15.14%) Support Engineer
3 150 (14.94%) Senior
4 141 (14.04%) Support Specialist
5 139 (13.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 123 (12.25%) Analyst
7 106 (10.56%) IT Support Specialist
8 91 (9.06%) Desktop Support
9 78 (7.77%) Support Analyst
10 67 (6.67%) Lead
11 64 (6.37%) 2nd Line Support
12 56 (5.58%) IT Engineer
13 53 (5.28%) IT Analyst
14 51 (5.08%) Team Leader
15 48 (4.78%) Desktop Engineer
15 48 (4.78%) Wintel Engineer
16 47 (4.68%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 44 (4.38%) Desktop Support Engineer
18 43 (4.28%) IT Support Analyst
18 43 (4.28%) Senior Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.39%) HTML
2 23 (2.29%) YAML
3 13 (1.29%) ARM Templates
4 10 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (1.00%) XML
5 9 (0.90%) MFC
5 9 (0.90%) Web Services
6 4 (0.40%) EDI
7 3 (0.30%) .NET
8 2 (0.20%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.20%) Kafka
8 2 (0.20%) LAMP
8 2 (0.20%) Middleware
8 2 (0.20%) Software Packaging
8 2 (0.20%) XMPP
9 1 (0.100%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.100%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 1 (0.100%) HTML5
9 1 (0.100%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 110 (10.96%) Video Conferencing
2 102 (10.16%) Wiki
3 75 (7.47%) Data Centre
4 53 (5.28%) Self-Motivation
5 46 (4.58%) PKI
6 25 (2.49%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.39%) EFT
7 24 (2.39%) iPhone
7 24 (2.39%) Virtual Team
8 23 (2.29%) Replication
9 18 (1.79%) AS400
10 17 (1.69%) Clustering
11 16 (1.59%) Fat Client
11 16 (1.59%) Thin Client
12 15 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.49%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.49%) Shadow IT
13 14 (1.39%) Life Science
14 13 (1.29%) CMDB
15 12 (1.20%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 834 (83.07%) Windows
2 408 (40.64%) Windows 10
3 343 (34.16%) Windows Server
4 163 (16.24%) Android
5 104 (10.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 98 (9.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 79 (7.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 72 (7.17%) Windows 7
9 64 (6.37%) Linux
10 53 (5.28%) Apple iOS
11 21 (2.09%) Mac OS
12 19 (1.89%) Unix
13 18 (1.79%) Windows NT
14 14 (1.39%) VMS
15 13 (1.29%) Windows Server 2008
16 12 (1.20%) Windows Server 2003
17 10 (1.00%) Windows 8
18 9 (0.90%) Windows XP
19 8 (0.80%) Mac OS X
19 8 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (33.07%) ITIL
2 189 (18.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 148 (14.74%) Customer Service
4 147 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
5 139 (13.84%) Application Virtualisation
6 136 (13.55%) Mobile Device Management
7 131 (13.05%) Service Management
8 116 (11.55%) Computer Science
9 110 (10.96%) Business Continuity
10 103 (10.26%) Business Continuity Planning
10 103 (10.26%) Contract Negotiation
11 102 (10.16%) BCP
12 92 (9.16%) Agile
13 86 (8.57%) Problem Management
14 82 (8.17%) ITSM
15 80 (7.97%) Migration
16 78 (7.77%) Change Management
17 77 (7.67%) Incident Management
18 76 (7.57%) Project Management
19 55 (5.48%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 307 (30.58%) PowerShell
2 83 (8.27%) SQL
3 44 (4.38%) VB
4 41 (4.08%) C#
5 26 (2.59%) RPG
5 26 (2.59%) VBScript
6 23 (2.29%) JavaScript
6 23 (2.29%) RPG IV
7 21 (2.09%) Python
8 16 (1.59%) Bash
9 13 (1.29%) Bicep
10 9 (0.90%) MATLAB
11 8 (0.80%) Ruby
12 3 (0.30%) Perl
13 2 (0.20%) C++
13 2 (0.20%) PHP
14 1 (0.100%) C
14 1 (0.100%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 245 (24.40%) Degree
2 207 (20.62%) Security Cleared
3 146 (14.54%) SC Cleared
4 130 (12.95%) DV Cleared
5 114 (11.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 102 (10.16%) Master's Degree
7 79 (7.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (3.98%) Azure Certification
9 35 (3.49%) MCSE
10 30 (2.99%) MCSA
11 27 (2.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 26 (2.59%) ITIL Certification
13 23 (2.29%) MCP
14 19 (1.89%) CCNA
14 19 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
16 13 (1.29%) CCNP
17 10 (1.00%) HNC
17 10 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 9 (0.90%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (6.08%) SLA
2 20 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 8 (0.80%) PCI DSS
5 7 (0.70%) QA
6 4 (0.40%) RMADS
7 3 (0.30%) NIST
8 2 (0.20%) GDPR
8 2 (0.20%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.100%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.100%) ITGC
9 1 (0.100%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.100%) SOC 2
System Software
1 752 (74.90%) Active Directory
2 223 (22.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 174 (17.33%) VMware ESXi
4 142 (14.14%) Hyper-V
5 123 (12.25%) XenApp
6 119 (11.85%) Microsoft App-V
7 110 (10.96%) XenDesktop
8 60 (5.98%) Virtual Desktop
9 53 (5.28%) vSphere
10 37 (3.69%) Firmware
11 32 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
12 16 (1.59%) VMware NSX
13 9 (0.90%) BitLocker
13 9 (0.90%) Docker
14 8 (0.80%) VMware Workstation
15 6 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.30%) vCloud
17 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 226 (22.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 140 (13.94%) SCOM
3 103 (10.26%) AirWatch
4 79 (7.87%) WSUS
5 43 (4.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 38 (3.78%) vCenter Server
7 33 (3.29%) Kubernetes
7 33 (3.29%) Terraform
8 29 (2.89%) Ansible
9 20 (1.99%) Jamf Pro
9 20 (1.99%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 19 (1.89%) SCSM
11 17 (1.69%) Failover Clustering
11 17 (1.69%) SCVMM
12 16 (1.59%) Microsoft Clustering
12 16 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
13 15 (1.49%) Sysprep
14 13 (1.29%) NetBackup
14 13 (1.29%) ServiceCenter
15 10 (1.00%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 666 (66.33%) Microsoft
2 313 (31.18%) VMware
3 251 (25.00%) Citrix
4 172 (17.13%) Cisco
5 106 (10.56%) HP
6 86 (8.57%) ServiceNow
7 81 (8.07%) Dell
8 76 (7.57%) Apple
9 55 (5.48%) Bloomberg
10 49 (4.88%) Veeam
11 40 (3.98%) SolarWinds
12 28 (2.79%) Google
13 25 (2.49%) Globalscape
14 24 (2.39%) Oracle
15 23 (2.29%) Commvault
15 23 (2.29%) Symantec
16 22 (2.19%) Ivanti
17 21 (2.09%) iManage
18 20 (1.99%) NetApp
19 19 (1.89%) IBM