Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SCCM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SCCM over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 299 321
Rank change year-on-year -134 +22 +36
Permanent jobs citing SCCM 304 932 1,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.94% 1.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.42% 9.45% 7.46%
Number of salaries quoted 243 731 955
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,175 £25,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £55,675 £57,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £67,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £36,500
% change year-on-year - +9.59% -8.75%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SCCM falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,608 9,861 14,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.18% 9.96% 14.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,260 7,101 9,201
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £47,844 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,810
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.86% -3.65%

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 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Top 15 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 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -142 297 £48,500 +12.20% 246
London +11 171 £70,000 +27.27% 68
UK excluding London -144 128 £40,000 - 214
Work from Home -26 90 £51,930 +6.80% 89
North of England -26 43 £37,500 +11.11% 34
North West -6 30 £37,500 -9.06% 18
Midlands -21 28 £39,000 +4.00% 32
South West -4 24 £46,000 +10.84% 33
South East -52 21 £41,500 -7.78% 73
West Midlands -12 19 £42,000 +15.07% 18
East of England +34 12 £34,377 -19.11% 33
Yorkshire +21 11 £62,500 +101.61% 12
East Midlands +18 9 £37,500 - 11
North East +31 2 £40,000 +33.33% 4
Scotland +99 1 £71,000 +89.33% 12

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 74 (24.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 56 (18.42%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.96%) IIS
4 4 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.66%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.33%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.33%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 50 (16.45%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.63%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.66%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 11 (3.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.97%) Temenos T24
3 4 (1.32%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.32%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.33%) Carpe Diem
5 1 (0.33%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 189 (62.17%) Microsoft 365
2 148 (48.68%) Azure
3 71 (23.36%) Entra ID
4 60 (19.74%) AWS
5 32 (10.53%) OneDrive
6 21 (6.91%) Power Automate
7 17 (5.59%) Cloud Computing
7 17 (5.59%) SaaS
8 16 (5.26%) PaaS
9 12 (3.95%) IaaS
10 10 (3.29%) Mimecast
10 10 (3.29%) Power Platform
11 9 (2.96%) Azure AKS
12 7 (2.30%) GCP
13 4 (1.32%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (0.99%) GitHub
14 3 (0.99%) OpenShift
15 2 (0.66%) Azure Monitor
15 2 (0.66%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 75 (24.67%) Firewall
2 69 (22.70%) DNS
3 64 (21.05%) DHCP
4 44 (14.47%) TCP/IP
5 37 (12.17%) WAN
6 34 (11.18%) LAN
7 27 (8.88%) VLAN
8 25 (8.22%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (7.57%) SAN
10 22 (7.24%) VPN
11 19 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
12 12 (3.95%) FTP
12 12 (3.95%) IPv4
12 12 (3.95%) PBX
12 12 (3.95%) SMTP
12 12 (3.95%) Structured Cabling
13 11 (3.62%) NetScaler
14 10 (3.29%) VoIP
15 8 (2.63%) Network Security
16 4 (1.32%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.84%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.97%) Power BI
4 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.32%) InstallShield
2 3 (0.99%) MSI
3 2 (0.66%) AutoIt
3 2 (0.66%) JIRA
4 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 90 (29.61%) Finance
2 73 (24.01%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.16%) Law
4 31 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (9.87%) Banking
6 25 (8.22%) Legal
7 11 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.62%) Retail
8 9 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.96%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.96%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.97%) International Banking
10 5 (1.64%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.32%) Electronics
11 4 (1.32%) Front Office
11 4 (1.32%) Games
11 4 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.99%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.99%) Automotive
12 3 (0.99%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 60 (19.74%) Analyst
2 51 (16.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 50 (16.45%) Support Engineer
4 40 (13.16%) Support Analyst
5 36 (11.84%) Senior
6 33 (10.86%) Desktop Support
6 33 (10.86%) IT Support
7 27 (8.88%) IT Analyst
8 24 (7.89%) 2nd Line Support
9 23 (7.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (7.24%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (6.91%) Desktop Engineer
12 18 (5.92%) IT Support Analyst
13 17 (5.59%) IT Engineer
13 17 (5.59%) Lead
14 16 (5.26%) Desktop Analyst
14 16 (5.26%) Desktop Support Analyst
14 16 (5.26%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 15 (4.93%) Infrastructure Support
16 14 (4.61%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.63%) ARM Templates
2 5 (1.64%) Software Packaging
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.66%) YAML
4 1 (0.33%) .NET
4 1 (0.33%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.33%) CSS
4 1 (0.33%) LDAP
4 1 (0.33%) React
4 1 (0.33%) SAML
4 1 (0.33%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (0.33%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.86%) Management Information System
2 20 (6.58%) Data Centre
3 13 (4.28%) Driving Licence
3 13 (4.28%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.95%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (3.62%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.29%) Clustering
7 9 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.63%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.30%) Client/Server
9 7 (2.30%) Hedge funds
9 7 (2.30%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (1.97%) CCTV
10 6 (1.97%) iPhone
11 5 (1.64%) Blackberry
11 5 (1.64%) CMDB
11 5 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.32%) Mobile Games
12 4 (1.32%) NHS
12 4 (1.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 216 (71.05%) Windows
2 116 (38.16%) Windows Server
3 91 (29.93%) Windows 10
4 37 (12.17%) Linux
5 28 (9.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 26 (8.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 24 (7.89%) Android
8 17 (5.59%) Apple iOS
9 15 (4.93%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (3.95%) Mac OS X
11 11 (3.62%) AIX
12 9 (2.96%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.99%) Unix
13 3 (0.99%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.99%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.66%) SUSE
14 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (29.61%) ITIL
2 60 (19.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 50 (16.45%) Customer Service
3 50 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (14.80%) Mobile Device Management
5 37 (12.17%) ITSM
6 36 (11.84%) Incident Management
7 35 (11.51%) Disaster Recovery
8 27 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
9 23 (7.57%) Task Automation
10 21 (6.91%) Mentoring
10 21 (6.91%) User Experience
11 20 (6.58%) Asset Management
11 20 (6.58%) Problem Management
12 19 (6.25%) Patch Management
12 19 (6.25%) Service Delivery
12 19 (6.25%) Software Distribution
12 19 (6.25%) Time Management
13 18 (5.92%) CI/CD
13 18 (5.92%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 128 (42.11%) PowerShell
2 27 (8.88%) SQL
3 25 (8.22%) Python
4 9 (2.96%) Bash
5 4 (1.32%) VB
6 3 (0.99%) Bicep
7 1 (0.33%) Java
7 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (16.45%) Degree
2 49 (16.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 26 (8.55%) Security Cleared
4 21 (6.91%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (5.59%) MCSE
5 17 (5.59%) Network+ Certification
6 15 (4.93%) Azure Certification
6 15 (4.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 14 (4.61%) CCNA
7 14 (4.61%) SC Cleared
8 12 (3.95%) DV Cleared
9 10 (3.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 8 (2.63%) AWS Certification
10 8 (2.63%) MCSA
11 7 (2.30%) A+ Certification
12 6 (1.97%) IBM AIX Certification
12 6 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (1.64%) ACSP
13 5 (1.64%) HP AIS
13 5 (1.64%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (15.46%) SLA
2 9 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.64%) GDPR
4 4 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.66%) QA
6 1 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.33%) NCSC
6 1 (0.33%) NIST
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 181 (59.54%) Active Directory
2 82 (26.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (22.70%) Hyper-V
4 24 (7.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (6.91%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (5.92%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (4.28%) BitLocker
8 11 (3.62%) Firmware
9 8 (2.63%) vSphere
10 6 (1.97%) XenApp
11 4 (1.32%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (1.32%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.33%) RHEV
14 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 130 (42.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (11.18%) SCOM
3 26 (8.55%) Terraform
4 22 (7.24%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (6.58%) Kubernetes
6 16 (5.26%) WSUS
7 14 (4.61%) Ansible
8 10 (3.29%) Jamf Pro
8 10 (3.29%) NetBackup
8 10 (3.29%) vCenter Server
9 6 (1.97%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (1.97%) SCOrch
10 5 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (1.64%) WMI
11 4 (1.32%) Backup Exec
11 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
11 4 (1.32%) SCSM
12 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 1 (0.33%) Puppet
13 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 232 (76.32%) Microsoft
2 99 (32.57%) VMware
3 68 (22.37%) Citrix
4 62 (20.39%) Cisco
5 43 (14.14%) ServiceNow
6 32 (10.53%) Veeam
7 26 (8.55%) HP
8 22 (7.24%) Apple
9 19 (6.25%) iManage
10 18 (5.92%) SolarWinds
11 17 (5.59%) Palo Alto
12 15 (4.93%) MobileIron
13 14 (4.61%) Remedy
14 11 (3.62%) Dell
15 10 (3.29%) Aruba
16 9 (2.96%) Riverbed
17 8 (2.63%) Fortinet
17 8 (2.63%) SAP
18 7 (2.30%) Intapp
18 7 (2.30%) Okta