SCCM Contracts in the South East

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring SCCM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCCM over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 113 106
Rank change year-on-year +50 -7 -8
Contract jobs citing SCCM 174 104 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.02% 1.84% 2.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.14% 14.04% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 66 116
10th Percentile £200 £185 £188
25th Percentile £213 £207 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £350 £385
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £439 £476
90th Percentile £608 £544 £553
England median daily rate £346 £375 £375
% change year-on-year -7.67% - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 18
10th Percentile - £12.39 £12.14
25th Percentile - £14.86 £16.38
Median hourly rate - £17.62 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - -18.07% +7.50%
75th Percentile - £34.97 £22.25
90th Percentile - £62.81 £23.30
England median hourly rate £23.80 £19.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +22.05% -9.30% +13.16%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 786 741 1,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.66% 13.08% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 543 745
10th Percentile £225 £309 £251
25th Percentile £413 £450 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £606
90th Percentile £675 £700 £680
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 30
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.50 £48.50 £17.21
Median hourly rate £43.00 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.81% +173.26% -43.05%
75th Percentile £49.06 £73.71 £46.69
90th Percentile £52.70 £75.75 £67.63
England median hourly rate £30.75 £52.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.90% +146.16% -12.07%

SCCM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SCCM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SCCM in the South East

SCCM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCCM in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SCCM in the South East

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in the South East

SCCM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCCM in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SCCM in the South East

SCCM
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Thames Valley +49 107 £575 +64.29% 19
Berkshire +44 91 £575 +17.95% 13
Hampshire +11 46 £300 -28.57% 7
Surrey +8 11 £257 +2.80% 3
Buckinghamshire +22 8 £471 +45.00% 5
Oxfordshire -2 8 £250 -23.08% 1
East Sussex +8 4 £475 +131.71% 1
Kent +9 3 £205 -45.33% 1
West Sussex +8 3 £475 +137.50%
SCCM
England

SCCM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 33 (18.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 30 (17.24%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.15%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 51 (29.31%) Microsoft 365
2 49 (28.16%) Azure
3 27 (15.52%) Entra ID
4 21 (12.07%) Azure Monitor
4 21 (12.07%) Azure Storage
5 14 (8.05%) OCI
6 8 (4.60%) AWS
7 4 (2.30%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.15%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.15%) IaaS
9 2 (1.15%) PaaS
9 2 (1.15%) SaaS
10 1 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.57%) GCP
10 1 (0.57%) GitHub
10 1 (0.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 59 (33.91%) DNS
2 55 (31.61%) DHCP
3 49 (28.16%) Firewall
4 21 (12.07%) LAN
5 18 (10.34%) SAN
6 17 (9.77%) Wireless
7 9 (5.17%) WAN
8 8 (4.60%) TCP/IP
8 8 (4.60%) VLAN
8 8 (4.60%) VPN
9 5 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (2.30%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (1.72%) WebEx
12 2 (1.15%) NetScaler
13 1 (0.57%) Fibre Channel
13 1 (0.57%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.72%) MSI
2 2 (1.15%) GitLab
3 1 (0.57%) Git
3 1 (0.57%) JIRA
3 1 (0.57%) Subversion
General
1 106 (60.92%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.37%) Organisational Skills
3 13 (7.47%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.02%) Finance
5 4 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.72%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.72%) French Language
6 3 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Legal
8 1 (0.57%) Police
8 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (20.69%) Support Engineer
2 27 (15.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 23 (13.22%) Active Directory Support
4 22 (12.64%) Windows Engineer
5 21 (12.07%) Desktop Engineer
6 20 (11.49%) Desktop Support
7 17 (9.77%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 16 (9.20%) Build Engineer
8 16 (9.20%) Support Specialist
9 15 (8.62%) Windows Build Engineer
10 14 (8.05%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (8.05%) Azure Specialist
11 12 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support
11 12 (6.90%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
11 12 (6.90%) Hardware Engineer
11 12 (6.90%) Storage Engineer
12 11 (6.32%) IT Support
13 10 (5.75%) Server Engineer
14 9 (5.17%) Active Directory Support Engineer
14 9 (5.17%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.07%) ARM Templates
2 3 (1.72%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.37%) Driving Licence
2 22 (12.64%) PKI
2 22 (12.64%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (8.05%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.57%) Clustering
4 1 (0.57%) CMDB
4 1 (0.57%) Device Driver
4 1 (0.57%) Grid Computing
4 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.57%) Smartphone
4 1 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 158 (90.80%) Windows
2 101 (58.05%) Windows 10
3 66 (37.93%) Windows Server
4 60 (34.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 57 (32.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 54 (31.03%) Linux
7 33 (18.97%) Windows Server 2012
8 31 (17.82%) Windows 7
9 15 (8.62%) Windows NT
10 14 (8.05%) Windows XP
11 6 (3.45%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (2.87%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (1.72%) Unix
14 2 (1.15%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.57%) Android
15 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (48.28%) ITIL
2 52 (29.89%) Customer Service
3 50 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (21.84%) Release Management
4 38 (21.84%) Service Management
5 31 (17.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 25 (14.37%) Agile
7 22 (12.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (12.07%) Analytics
8 21 (12.07%) CI/CD
8 21 (12.07%) DevOps
8 21 (12.07%) Identity Management
8 21 (12.07%) Log Analytics
8 21 (12.07%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 21 (12.07%) Privileged Identity Management
8 21 (12.07%) Proactive Monitoring
8 21 (12.07%) RBAC
9 19 (10.92%) Deployment Automation
10 18 (10.34%) Server Management
11 17 (9.77%) Converged Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 69 (39.66%) PowerShell
2 30 (17.24%) VBScript
3 24 (13.79%) VB
4 21 (12.07%) Bicep
4 21 (12.07%) C#
5 3 (1.72%) Python
5 3 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 95 (54.60%) Security Cleared
2 81 (46.55%) DV Cleared
3 51 (29.31%) Degree
4 46 (26.44%) SC Cleared
5 21 (12.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (8.05%) CCNA
6 14 (8.05%) CCNP
6 14 (8.05%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.30%) MCSE
8 4 (2.30%) MCTS
9 2 (1.15%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.20%) QA
2 8 (4.60%) SLA
3 4 (2.30%) GDPR
4 1 (0.57%) COBIT
4 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 111 (63.79%) Active Directory
2 41 (23.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (15.52%) Firmware
4 25 (14.37%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (13.22%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (12.64%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (10.34%) Hyper-V
8 12 (6.90%) XenApp
9 7 (4.02%) BitLocker
9 7 (4.02%) vSphere
10 5 (2.87%) XenDesktop
11 3 (1.72%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.57%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.57%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 60 (34.48%) WSUS
2 39 (22.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 39 (22.41%) SCOM
3 22 (12.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 21 (12.07%) Kubernetes
5 16 (9.20%) Sysprep
6 15 (8.62%) vCenter Server
7 14 (8.05%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (8.05%) NetBackup
8 6 (3.45%) Nessus
9 3 (1.72%) AppManager
10 2 (1.15%) Ansible
11 1 (0.57%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.57%) SCSM
11 1 (0.57%) SmoothWall
11 1 (0.57%) Terraform
11 1 (0.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 120 (68.97%) Microsoft
2 48 (27.59%) VMware
3 42 (24.14%) HP
4 25 (14.37%) Cisco
5 20 (11.49%) Symantec
6 19 (10.92%) Dell
7 16 (9.20%) EMC
8 15 (8.62%) Veeam
9 14 (8.05%) 3PAR
9 14 (8.05%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (8.05%) Juniper
9 14 (8.05%) Oracle
9 14 (8.05%) Palo Alto
10 13 (7.47%) Citrix
11 11 (6.32%) MobileIron
12 10 (5.75%) Ivanti
13 6 (3.45%) Qualys
14 5 (2.87%) ServiceNow
15 4 (2.30%) SolarWinds
16 3 (1.72%) Avaya