Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (Microsoft DPM, SCDPM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SCDPM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SCDPM over the 6 months to 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 - 831
Rank change year-on-year - - -134
Contract jobs citing SCDPM 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% - 0.001%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.039% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - -55.56%
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SCDPM 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 5,120 8,950 13,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.02% 15.84% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,714 6,399 10,012
10th Percentile £267 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.07% -1.33% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 206 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.02 £13.67
25th Percentile £18.89 £25.18 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +150.00% -45.00%
75th Percentile £50.13 £70.19 £44.22
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.88 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -13.83%

SCDPM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SCDPM in the UK

SCDPM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SCDPM in the UK

SCDPM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SCDPM in the UK

SCDPM
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCDPM within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
South West - 2 £375 - 3
England - 2 £375 - 4
UK excluding London - 2 £375 - 3
Work from Home - 1 - - 1

SCDPM
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 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Data Flow Diagram
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) SCVMM
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
2 1 (50.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (50.00%) HP SIM
2 1 (50.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Commvault
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Okta
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Symantec
2 1 (50.00%) Veritas