Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SCCM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SCCM over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 160 198
Rank change year-on-year -5 +38 -5
Contract jobs citing SCCM 627 918 1,306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.47% 1.60% 1.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.30% 10.07% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 667 913
10th Percentile £164 £175 £163
25th Percentile £205 £215 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £375 £375
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £500 £517 £494
90th Percentile £608 £624 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £283 £350 £325
% change year-on-year -19.29% +7.69% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 51 85
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.23 £20.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.13% -4.76% +14.29%
75th Percentile £40.00 £25.71 £23.91
90th Percentile £54.00 £65.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £17.50 £19.38
% change year-on-year +1.26% -9.68% +6.53%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,096 9,119 14,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.98% 15.92% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,684 6,541 10,109
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 201 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.76 £22.41 £15.56
Median hourly rate £26.38 £52.50 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year -49.75% +139.84% -45.28%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £44.46
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.00 £58.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.09% +100.25% -13.83%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCM over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SCCM over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCM within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +5 560 £308 -18.00% 172
UK excluding London 0 409 £283 -19.29% 144
London +33 196 £350 -6.67% 46
South East +51 182 £325 - 44
Work from Home -21 138 £440 +2.33% 52
Midlands -19 55 £350 -6.67% 15
South West -20 50 £179 -57.88% 27
Scotland +23 43 £240 +20.00% 19
North of England -20 43 £220 -45.00% 15
West Midlands +15 41 £375 -16.67% 7
North West -19 39 £220 -52.43% 9
East of England -20 31 £303 -3.20% 27
East Midlands -15 14 £200 -39.39% 8
Wales +1 5 £220 -56.00%
Yorkshire +9 4 £250 +11.11% 3
North East +10 1 £90 -69.49% 3

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
1 130 (20.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (7.34%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.87%) IIS
4 9 (1.44%) Skype for Business
5 4 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.48%) WordPress
7 2 (0.32%) Apache
7 2 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 128 (20.41%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.64%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.32%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.16%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 252 (40.19%) Microsoft 365
2 160 (25.52%) Azure
3 70 (11.16%) Entra ID
4 42 (6.70%) OneDrive
5 35 (5.58%) AWS
6 18 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
7 17 (2.71%) Azure Storage
8 14 (2.23%) OCI
9 10 (1.59%) Power Platform
10 8 (1.28%) Mimecast
11 7 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (0.96%) IaaS
13 5 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (0.64%) Google Workspace
15 3 (0.48%) Nutanix
15 3 (0.48%) SaaS
15 3 (0.48%) WhatsApp
16 2 (0.32%) Azure Stack
16 2 (0.32%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 134 (21.37%) DNS
2 113 (18.02%) Firewall
3 111 (17.70%) DHCP
4 56 (8.93%) VPN
5 55 (8.77%) LAN
6 50 (7.97%) SAN
7 37 (5.90%) WAN
8 30 (4.78%) Wireless
9 29 (4.63%) TCP/IP
10 27 (4.31%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (2.71%) Skype
12 14 (2.23%) VLAN
13 13 (2.07%) MPLS
13 13 (2.07%) Remote Desktop
14 11 (1.75%) VoIP
15 8 (1.28%) Internet
15 8 (1.28%) NAS
16 7 (1.12%) Cisco IOS
17 6 (0.96%) NetScaler
17 6 (0.96%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.48%) Power BI
3 2 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (0.80%) JIRA
1 5 (0.80%) MSI
2 4 (0.64%) GitLab
3 2 (0.32%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.16%) Git
4 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.16%) Subversion
4 1 (0.16%) TestRail
General
1 251 (40.03%) Social Skills
2 63 (10.05%) Finance
3 54 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.02%) Public Sector
5 41 (6.54%) Organisational Skills
6 23 (3.67%) Banking
7 15 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.44%) Legal
9 8 (1.28%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.28%) French Language
10 7 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.80%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.64%) Front Office
13 3 (0.48%) Billing
13 3 (0.48%) Local Government
13 3 (0.48%) Military
13 3 (0.48%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 143 (22.81%) Support Engineer
2 87 (13.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 75 (11.96%) Desktop Support
4 68 (10.85%) Desktop Engineer
5 61 (9.73%) Windows Engineer
6 59 (9.41%) IT Support
7 52 (8.29%) 2nd Line Support
8 45 (7.18%) Analyst
8 45 (7.18%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 45 (7.18%) IT Engineer
9 34 (5.42%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 34 (5.42%) Support Specialist
10 33 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 32 (5.10%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 28 (4.47%) IT Support Engineer
12 28 (4.47%) SCCM Engineer
13 27 (4.31%) Deployment Engineer
13 27 (4.31%) Technical Support
14 26 (4.15%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
14 26 (4.15%) Active Directory Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.71%) ARM Templates
2 7 (1.12%) .NET
3 6 (0.96%) Software Packaging
4 3 (0.48%) LAMP
4 3 (0.48%) XMPP
5 2 (0.32%) EDI
5 2 (0.32%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.32%) WSH
6 1 (0.16%) Flash
6 1 (0.16%) Middleware
6 1 (0.16%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.34%) Driving Licence
2 41 (6.54%) Data Centre
3 34 (5.42%) PKI
4 26 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (3.83%) Clustering
6 22 (3.51%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.87%) Video Conferencing
8 12 (1.91%) iPad
9 10 (1.59%) iPhone
10 8 (1.28%) Client/Server
10 8 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 7 (1.12%) CMDB
12 6 (0.96%) Smartphone
12 6 (0.96%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.80%) Handset
14 4 (0.64%) Blackberry
14 4 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
14 4 (0.64%) Fat Client
14 4 (0.64%) Replication
14 4 (0.64%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 553 (88.20%) Windows
2 298 (47.53%) Windows 10
3 189 (30.14%) Windows Server
4 96 (15.31%) Windows Server 2016
5 83 (13.24%) Linux
6 78 (12.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 77 (12.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 75 (11.96%) Windows 7
9 41 (6.54%) Mac OS
10 37 (5.90%) Unix
11 33 (5.26%) Apple iOS
12 20 (3.19%) Android
13 19 (3.03%) Windows NT
14 18 (2.87%) Windows XP
15 12 (1.91%) Windows Server 2003
16 10 (1.59%) Mac OS X
16 10 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
17 8 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 3 (0.48%) VMS
18 3 (0.48%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (27.59%) ITIL
2 141 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
3 133 (21.21%) Customer Service
4 104 (16.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 56 (8.93%) Mobile Device Management
6 54 (8.61%) Service Management
7 53 (8.45%) Migration
8 44 (7.02%) Agile
8 44 (7.02%) Release Management
9 40 (6.38%) Disaster Recovery
10 38 (6.06%) DevOps
11 36 (5.74%) Asset Management
11 36 (5.74%) Service Delivery
12 35 (5.58%) Server Management
13 32 (5.10%) Application Packaging
14 31 (4.94%) Software Deployment
15 29 (4.63%) Information Security
16 28 (4.47%) Cybersecurity
16 28 (4.47%) Infrastructure as Code
17 27 (4.31%) Break/Fix
Programming Languages
1 156 (24.88%) PowerShell
2 29 (4.63%) VBScript
3 27 (4.31%) C#
4 21 (3.35%) VB
5 17 (2.71%) Bicep
6 15 (2.39%) SQL
7 13 (2.07%) Python
8 10 (1.59%) Java
9 3 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 196 (31.26%) Security Cleared
2 123 (19.62%) Degree
3 111 (17.70%) DV Cleared
4 104 (16.59%) SC Cleared
5 35 (5.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (3.99%) CCNA
6 25 (3.99%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (2.87%) CCNP
7 18 (2.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 18 (2.87%) MCSE
8 16 (2.55%) MCP
9 14 (2.23%) A+ Certification
10 12 (1.91%) DBS Check
11 11 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (0.80%) CTC Cleared
12 5 (0.80%) MCTS
13 2 (0.32%) MCDST
13 2 (0.32%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.09%) SLA
2 23 (3.67%) QA
3 7 (1.12%) NIST
4 6 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
4 6 (0.96%) GDPR
5 5 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.48%) COBIT
7 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.32%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 387 (61.72%) Active Directory
2 105 (16.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 37 (5.90%) VMware ESXi
5 34 (5.42%) Firmware
6 27 (4.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (2.39%) BitLocker
8 15 (2.39%) XenApp
9 12 (1.91%) Virtual Servers
9 12 (1.91%) VMware NSX
9 12 (1.91%) vSphere
10 11 (1.75%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (1.28%) VMware Workstation
11 8 (1.28%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.64%) Docker
12 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.16%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 129 (20.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 74 (11.80%) WSUS
3 64 (10.21%) SCOM
4 30 (4.78%) vCenter Server
5 27 (4.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (3.83%) NetBackup
7 20 (3.19%) Jamf Pro
7 20 (3.19%) Kubernetes
7 20 (3.19%) Sysprep
8 16 (2.55%) EMC NetWorker
9 15 (2.39%) Microsoft Clustering
10 11 (1.75%) Failover Clustering
11 9 (1.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 8 (1.28%) Nagios
12 8 (1.28%) SCVMM
13 6 (0.96%) Autotask
14 5 (0.80%) AirWatch
14 5 (0.80%) Ansible
15 3 (0.48%) SCOrch
15 3 (0.48%) SCSM
Vendors
1 371 (59.17%) Microsoft
2 139 (22.17%) VMware
3 81 (12.92%) Citrix
4 71 (11.32%) Cisco
4 71 (11.32%) HP
5 50 (7.97%) Apple
6 39 (6.22%) ServiceNow
7 33 (5.26%) EMC
7 33 (5.26%) Veeam
8 26 (4.15%) Dell
9 20 (3.19%) Symantec
10 19 (3.03%) Palo Alto
11 17 (2.71%) Avaya
12 16 (2.55%) Juniper
12 16 (2.55%) Qualys
13 15 (2.39%) MobileIron
13 15 (2.39%) Oracle
14 14 (2.23%) 3PAR
14 14 (2.23%) Extreme Networks
15 12 (1.91%) Ivanti