Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SCCM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SCCM over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 319 354
Rank change year-on-year +17 +35 -93
Permanent jobs citing SCCM 945 1,100 1,659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 1.09% 1.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.54% 7.42% 5.77%
Number of salaries quoted 740 952 1,410
10th Percentile £29,175 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £55,250 £57,500 £56,969
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £36,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +9.59% -8.75% -

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,909 14,819 28,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.00% 14.62% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,136 9,161 14,046
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,810 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% -3.65% +9.09%

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 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SCCM in the UK

SCCM
Top 17 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 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +41 891 £43,227 +1.71% 151
UK excluding London -3 619 £40,000 +9.59% 121
London +53 310 £55,000 +4.76% 48
Work from Home -14 270 £48,625 -2.75% 53
South East -4 181 £45,000 +15.38% 31
South West +23 138 £42,500 +31.78% 23
North of England +19 124 £33,500 -4.29% 14
Midlands -17 112 £37,500 -16.67% 16
West Midlands +26 88 £36,500 -18.89% 8
Yorkshire +90 66 £31,750 -2.31% 4
North West -30 42 £41,235 +9.96% 6
East of England -30 24 £42,500 -5.56% 17
East Midlands -42 24 £37,500 -16.67% 8
Scotland -77 22 £37,500 +50.00% 19
North East -3 16 £30,000 -29.41% 4
Wales +15 14 £34,000 -18.56% 1
Northern Ireland +28 4 £42,500 +38.21% 2

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
1 301 (31.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 93 (9.84%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.16%) IIS
3 11 (1.16%) SharePoint 2010
3 11 (1.16%) SharePoint 2013
4 9 (0.95%) WordPress
5 7 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.42%) SAS
7 3 (0.32%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.11%) Confluence
8 1 (0.11%) Moodle
8 1 (0.11%) nginx
8 1 (0.11%) Site Server
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 152 (16.08%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.21%) InCopy
4 2 (0.21%) InDesign
4 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Farmplan
1 2 (0.21%) KEYPrime
1 2 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Eikon
2 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 525 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
2 323 (34.18%) Azure
3 163 (17.25%) Entra ID
4 56 (5.93%) AWS
5 41 (4.34%) OneDrive
6 32 (3.39%) Nutanix
7 22 (2.33%) Google Workspace
7 22 (2.33%) Mimecast
8 21 (2.22%) IaaS
9 19 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (1.90%) GCP
11 17 (1.80%) Azure Storage
12 12 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
12 12 (1.27%) OCI
13 10 (1.06%) Power Platform
14 9 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (0.95%) WhatsApp
15 8 (0.85%) OpenShift
15 8 (0.85%) PaaS
16 6 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 172 (18.20%) WAN
2 159 (16.83%) DNS
3 158 (16.72%) Firewall
4 155 (16.40%) Wireless
5 133 (14.07%) DHCP
6 99 (10.48%) SD-WAN
7 98 (10.37%) Cisco IOS
8 94 (9.95%) WebEx
9 90 (9.52%) SAN
10 85 (8.99%) LAN
11 83 (8.78%) VPN
12 56 (5.93%) TCP/IP
13 50 (5.29%) VoIP
14 42 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
15 38 (4.02%) VLAN
16 26 (2.75%) NAS
16 26 (2.75%) Network Security
17 25 (2.65%) WLAN
18 21 (2.22%) iSCSI
19 20 (2.12%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.19%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.85%) MySQL
3 3 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.32%) Power BI
4 1 (0.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (1.69%) MSI
2 10 (1.06%) AdminStudio
3 9 (0.95%) JIRA
4 7 (0.74%) Snyk
5 4 (0.42%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.11%) Chocolatey
6 1 (0.11%) Git
6 1 (0.11%) GitLab
6 1 (0.11%) Jenkins
General
1 357 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 132 (13.97%) Finance
3 63 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 50 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
5 42 (4.44%) Legal
6 41 (4.34%) Banking
7 31 (3.28%) Law
8 30 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (2.22%) Public Sector
10 20 (2.12%) Aerospace
11 18 (1.90%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.69%) Retail
13 14 (1.48%) Games
14 13 (1.38%) Automotive
15 11 (1.16%) Advertising
16 9 (0.95%) Marketing
16 9 (0.95%) Police
17 8 (0.85%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 203 (21.48%) IT Support
2 171 (18.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 158 (16.72%) Support Engineer
4 156 (16.51%) Analyst
5 139 (14.71%) Senior
6 134 (14.18%) Support Specialist
7 99 (10.48%) IT Engineer
7 99 (10.48%) IT Support Specialist
8 78 (8.25%) IT Analyst
9 70 (7.41%) Support Analyst
10 59 (6.24%) Lead
11 58 (6.14%) IT Support Engineer
12 56 (5.93%) IT Support Analyst
13 54 (5.71%) Desktop Support
14 52 (5.50%) 2nd Line Support
15 44 (4.66%) Desktop Engineer
16 42 (4.44%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 40 (4.23%) Team Leader
18 39 (4.13%) Desktop Support Engineer
18 39 (4.13%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.12%) Software Packaging
2 14 (1.48%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.95%) LAMP
4 7 (0.74%) EDI
5 3 (0.32%) Middleware
6 2 (0.21%) ADO
7 1 (0.11%) .NET
7 1 (0.11%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.11%) JSON
7 1 (0.11%) Web Services
7 1 (0.11%) XML
7 1 (0.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 95 (10.05%) Video Conferencing
2 91 (9.63%) Wiki
3 58 (6.14%) Data Centre
3 58 (6.14%) Self-Motivation
4 44 (4.66%) Driving Licence
4 44 (4.66%) Replication
5 35 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 30 (3.17%) Fat Client
6 30 (3.17%) Thin Client
7 24 (2.54%) PKI
8 19 (2.01%) Clustering
9 17 (1.80%) iPhone
10 15 (1.59%) Smartphone
11 12 (1.27%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.16%) Blackberry
13 9 (0.95%) BYOD
13 9 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.85%) EFT
14 8 (0.85%) Public Cloud
15 7 (0.74%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 748 (79.15%) Windows
2 360 (38.10%) Windows 10
3 345 (36.51%) Windows Server
4 131 (13.86%) Android
5 110 (11.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 107 (11.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 104 (11.01%) Linux
8 97 (10.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 68 (7.20%) Windows 7
10 56 (5.93%) Apple iOS
11 42 (4.44%) Mac OS
12 38 (4.02%) Unix
13 24 (2.54%) Mac OS X
14 21 (2.22%) VMS
14 21 (2.22%) Windows XP
15 16 (1.69%) Windows NT
16 12 (1.27%) Windows 8
17 10 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 10 (1.06%) Ubuntu
17 10 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (34.07%) ITIL
2 201 (21.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 193 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
4 157 (16.61%) Customer Service
5 140 (14.81%) Mobile Device Management
6 122 (12.91%) Service Management
7 111 (11.75%) Application Virtualisation
8 107 (11.32%) Computer Science
9 102 (10.79%) Business Continuity
10 100 (10.58%) Change Management
11 97 (10.26%) Service Delivery
12 91 (9.63%) BCP
12 91 (9.63%) Business Continuity Planning
12 91 (9.63%) Contract Negotiation
13 77 (8.15%) ITSM
14 71 (7.51%) Agile
15 63 (6.67%) Incident Management
16 56 (5.93%) Problem Management
17 54 (5.71%) Asset Management
18 52 (5.50%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 252 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 53 (5.61%) SQL
3 19 (2.01%) VB
4 18 (1.90%) C#
5 15 (1.59%) VBScript
6 14 (1.48%) Bicep
6 14 (1.48%) Python
7 10 (1.06%) Bash
8 7 (0.74%) Ruby
9 5 (0.53%) Perl
10 3 (0.32%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.11%) C
11 1 (0.11%) Go
11 1 (0.11%) Java
11 1 (0.11%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 224 (23.70%) Degree
2 208 (22.01%) Security Cleared
3 154 (16.30%) SC Cleared
4 109 (11.53%) DV Cleared
5 106 (11.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 92 (9.74%) Master's Degree
7 83 (8.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (3.92%) MCP
9 31 (3.28%) MCSE
10 26 (2.75%) CCNA
10 26 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (2.75%) DBS Check
11 23 (2.43%) A+ Certification
12 21 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 20 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (1.90%) Azure Certification
14 18 (1.90%) MCSA
15 17 (1.80%) HNC
16 14 (1.48%) MCITP
17 12 (1.27%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.62%) SLA
2 15 (1.59%) GDPR
3 10 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.21%) NIST
6 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.21%) QA
7 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.11%) GxP
System Software
1 692 (73.23%) Active Directory
2 227 (24.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 161 (17.04%) Hyper-V
4 154 (16.30%) VMware ESXi
5 131 (13.86%) XenApp
6 129 (13.65%) XenDesktop
7 108 (11.43%) Microsoft App-V
8 51 (5.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 42 (4.44%) vSphere
10 31 (3.28%) Firmware
10 31 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
11 15 (1.59%) Docker
12 6 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.53%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (0.42%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.42%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.32%) Terminal Server
15 3 (0.32%) Xen
16 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
17 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 236 (24.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 99 (10.48%) AirWatch
3 91 (9.63%) WSUS
4 78 (8.25%) SCOM
5 41 (4.34%) vCenter Server
6 29 (3.07%) Kubernetes
7 28 (2.96%) Jamf Pro
8 26 (2.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 22 (2.33%) Ansible
10 21 (2.22%) NetBackup
11 19 (2.01%) EMC NetWorker
12 15 (1.59%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 14 (1.48%) Failover Clustering
14 13 (1.38%) Nessus
15 12 (1.27%) Sysprep
16 9 (0.95%) Autotask
17 8 (0.85%) SCDPM
18 7 (0.74%) Backup Exec
18 7 (0.74%) Nexpose
18 7 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 669 (70.79%) Microsoft
2 325 (34.39%) VMware
3 182 (19.26%) Citrix
4 159 (16.83%) Cisco
5 86 (9.10%) HP
6 81 (8.57%) Veeam
7 78 (8.25%) Dell
8 68 (7.20%) Apple
9 55 (5.82%) ServiceNow
10 38 (4.02%) Symantec
11 37 (3.92%) Google
12 32 (3.39%) Aruba
12 32 (3.39%) iManage
13 25 (2.65%) Meraki
14 24 (2.54%) Oracle
14 24 (2.54%) Qualys
15 21 (2.22%) Palo Alto
16 19 (2.01%) EMC
17 18 (1.90%) McAfee
17 18 (1.90%) SolarWinds