Microsoft System Center Service Manager (SCSM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SCSM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SCSM over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 687 844
Rank change year-on-year +107 +157 -132
Contract jobs citing SCSM 5 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.004% 0.012%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.096% 0.023% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile £281 £355 £448
25th Percentile £304 £367 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £403 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.55% -35.60% +51.52%
75th Percentile £474 £447 £706
90th Percentile £477 £464 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £449 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SCSM 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 requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,182 8,872 13,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.10% 15.77% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,765 6,332 10,060
10th Percentile £272 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £553 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.79% -1.78% +12.39%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 206 190
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.02 £13.82
25th Percentile £20.00 £25.18 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +151.26% -45.28%
75th Percentile £50.25 £71.19 £43.36
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.88 £57.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -13.83%

SCSM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SCSM in the UK

SCSM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCSM.

Daily rate trend for SCSM in the UK

SCSM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCSM over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCSM in the UK

SCSM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCSM.

Hourly rate trend for SCSM in the UK

SCSM
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCSM within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +109 5 £449 +11.55% 3
UK excluding London - 5 £449 - 3
East Midlands - 4 £378 -
Midlands - 4 £378 - 1
South East - 1 £470 - 2

SCSM
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 2 (40.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (40.00%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) SCCM
1 5 (100.00%) SCOM
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (40.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) VMware