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 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 316 379
Rank change year-on-year -10 +63 -88
Permanent jobs citing SCCM 904 1,046 1,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 1.12% 0.99%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.15% 7.80% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 710 901 1,397
10th Percentile £29,175 £26,110 £26,450
25th Percentile £32,000 £32,200 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.53%
75th Percentile £55,188 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,550 £67,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,250 £38,148 £40,000
% change year-on-year +2.89% -4.63% -

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 9,884 13,414 31,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.11% 14.41% 18.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,957 8,638 14,125
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +2.63% +5.45%

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 June 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -3 856 £42,500 - 131
UK excluding London -33 622 £39,250 +2.89% 114
London -6 265 £55,000 +9.45% 27
Work from Home +4 264 £44,114 -7.46% 53
South East +1 190 £46,000 +8.24% 29
South West +29 137 £40,000 +25.00% 17
North of England -27 121 £34,000 -2.86% 18
Midlands -33 107 £36,500 -18.89% 21
West Midlands +15 82 £36,000 -20.00% 17
Yorkshire +43 59 £30,750 -10.87% 5
North West -37 46 £41,235 +14.54% 10
East of England -46 34 £45,000 +2.86% 18
East Midlands -59 25 £37,500 -21.05% 4
North East -18 16 £30,000 -29.41% 3
Scotland -81 16 £37,500 +44.23% 12
Wales +22 14 £34,000 -25.59% 1
Northern Ireland +19 3 - - 1

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
1 266 (29.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 93 (10.29%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.77%) SharePoint 2010
3 16 (1.77%) SharePoint 2013
4 11 (1.22%) IIS
5 9 (1.00%) WordPress
6 7 (0.77%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.44%) IBM Domino
7 4 (0.44%) SAS
8 3 (0.33%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.11%) Confluence
9 1 (0.11%) Moodle
9 1 (0.11%) Site Server
Applications
1 154 (17.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Farmplan
1 2 (0.22%) KEYPrime
1 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Eikon
2 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 478 (52.88%) Microsoft 365
2 325 (35.95%) Azure
3 155 (17.15%) Entra ID
4 61 (6.75%) AWS
5 41 (4.54%) OneDrive
6 36 (3.98%) Nutanix
7 29 (3.21%) Mimecast
8 25 (2.77%) GCP
9 23 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
10 21 (2.32%) Azure Storage
11 20 (2.21%) Google Workspace
11 20 (2.21%) IaaS
12 14 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
12 14 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (1.44%) Power Platform
14 12 (1.33%) OCI
15 9 (1.00%) WhatsApp
16 8 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (0.88%) OpenShift
17 6 (0.66%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 178 (19.69%) DNS
2 170 (18.81%) Firewall
3 150 (16.59%) WAN
4 147 (16.26%) DHCP
5 117 (12.94%) Wireless
6 93 (10.29%) LAN
7 84 (9.29%) SAN
8 80 (8.85%) VPN
9 66 (7.30%) SD-WAN
10 62 (6.86%) Cisco IOS
11 61 (6.75%) TCP/IP
12 59 (6.53%) WebEx
13 52 (5.75%) VoIP
14 43 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
15 42 (4.65%) VLAN
16 25 (2.77%) NAS
16 25 (2.77%) WLAN
17 23 (2.54%) iSCSI
17 23 (2.54%) Network Security
18 18 (1.99%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.20%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.11%) MySQL
3 3 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.33%) Power BI
4 2 (0.22%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 19 (2.10%) MSI
2 13 (1.44%) AdminStudio
3 9 (1.00%) JIRA
4 7 (0.77%) InstallShield
5 6 (0.66%) Snyk
6 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 323 (35.73%) Social Skills
2 125 (13.83%) Finance
3 61 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
5 47 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (4.31%) Legal
7 31 (3.43%) Banking
8 26 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (2.32%) Aerospace
9 21 (2.32%) Law
10 19 (2.10%) Public Sector
11 15 (1.66%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.55%) Automotive
12 14 (1.55%) Games
13 13 (1.44%) Police
14 11 (1.22%) Advertising
15 9 (1.00%) Marketing
15 9 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.88%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 168 (18.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 165 (18.25%) IT Support
3 163 (18.03%) Support Engineer
4 162 (17.92%) Analyst
5 122 (13.50%) Senior
6 99 (10.95%) Support Specialist
7 92 (10.18%) IT Engineer
8 75 (8.30%) IT Analyst
9 71 (7.85%) Support Analyst
10 65 (7.19%) IT Support Specialist
11 58 (6.42%) Lead
12 55 (6.08%) 2nd Line Support
12 55 (6.08%) IT Support Analyst
12 55 (6.08%) IT Support Engineer
13 53 (5.86%) Desktop Engineer
14 51 (5.64%) Desktop Support
15 44 (4.87%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 42 (4.65%) Desktop Support Engineer
17 37 (4.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 37 (4.09%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.32%) Software Packaging
2 18 (1.99%) ARM Templates
3 9 (1.00%) LAMP
4 6 (0.66%) ADO
5 5 (0.55%) EDI
6 2 (0.22%) JSON
7 1 (0.11%) .NET
7 1 (0.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 61 (6.75%) Self-Motivation
1 61 (6.75%) Video Conferencing
2 57 (6.31%) Data Centre
3 56 (6.19%) Wiki
4 45 (4.98%) Driving Licence
5 43 (4.76%) Replication
6 36 (3.98%) Management Information System
7 30 (3.32%) Fat Client
7 30 (3.32%) Thin Client
8 27 (2.99%) PKI
9 22 (2.43%) Clustering
10 19 (2.10%) Smartphone
11 17 (1.88%) iPhone
12 12 (1.33%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.88%) EMC VNX
14 8 (0.88%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.77%) iPad
15 7 (0.77%) Shadow IT
16 6 (0.66%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 694 (76.77%) Windows
2 338 (37.39%) Windows Server
3 322 (35.62%) Windows 10
4 119 (13.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 117 (12.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 106 (11.73%) Linux
7 97 (10.73%) Android
8 96 (10.62%) Windows Server 2012
9 63 (6.97%) Windows 7
10 60 (6.64%) Apple iOS
11 44 (4.87%) Mac OS
12 33 (3.65%) Unix
13 23 (2.54%) Mac OS X
14 22 (2.43%) Windows XP
15 21 (2.32%) VMS
16 17 (1.88%) Windows NT
17 11 (1.22%) Ubuntu
17 11 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
18 10 (1.11%) Windows 8
19 9 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (34.73%) ITIL
2 195 (21.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 186 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
4 152 (16.81%) Customer Service
5 133 (14.71%) Service Management
6 120 (13.27%) Mobile Device Management
7 99 (10.95%) Change Management
8 95 (10.51%) Service Delivery
9 77 (8.52%) Agile
9 77 (8.52%) Application Virtualisation
10 75 (8.30%) ITSM
11 71 (7.85%) Business Continuity
12 70 (7.74%) Computer Science
13 59 (6.53%) Incident Management
14 58 (6.42%) BCP
15 56 (6.19%) Business Continuity Planning
15 56 (6.19%) Contract Negotiation
15 56 (6.19%) Problem Management
16 54 (5.97%) Cybersecurity
17 53 (5.86%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 253 (27.99%) PowerShell
2 46 (5.09%) SQL
3 25 (2.77%) C#
3 25 (2.77%) VB
4 20 (2.21%) VBScript
5 19 (2.10%) Bicep
6 15 (1.66%) Python
7 9 (1.00%) Bash
8 6 (0.66%) Ruby
9 5 (0.55%) Perl
10 3 (0.33%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.22%) Java
12 1 (0.11%) C
12 1 (0.11%) Go
12 1 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 223 (24.67%) Security Cleared
2 197 (21.79%) Degree
3 179 (19.80%) SC Cleared
4 117 (12.94%) DV Cleared
5 80 (8.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 69 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (6.31%) Master's Degree
8 40 (4.42%) MCP
9 30 (3.32%) MCSE
10 29 (3.21%) CCNA
10 29 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (3.21%) DBS Check
11 24 (2.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 22 (2.43%) A+ Certification
13 20 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
13 20 (2.21%) MCITP
14 17 (1.88%) HNC
15 13 (1.44%) CCNP
16 12 (1.33%) Azure Certification
17 10 (1.11%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (6.97%) SLA
2 16 (1.77%) GDPR
3 13 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.55%) QA
6 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.22%) NIST
8 1 (0.11%) GxP
8 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 656 (72.57%) Active Directory
2 223 (24.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 153 (16.92%) Hyper-V
4 117 (12.94%) VMware ESXi
5 105 (11.62%) XenApp
6 103 (11.39%) XenDesktop
7 78 (8.63%) Microsoft App-V
8 56 (6.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 41 (4.54%) vSphere
10 30 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
11 28 (3.10%) Firmware
12 17 (1.88%) Docker
13 10 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (0.66%) Terminal Services
14 6 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
15 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.33%) NFS
15 3 (0.33%) Terminal Server
15 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
15 3 (0.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 241 (26.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 101 (11.17%) WSUS
3 92 (10.18%) SCOM
4 62 (6.86%) AirWatch
5 42 (4.65%) vCenter Server
6 35 (3.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 35 (3.87%) Kubernetes
7 31 (3.43%) Jamf Pro
8 22 (2.43%) Ansible
8 22 (2.43%) NetBackup
9 20 (2.21%) EMC NetWorker
10 16 (1.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 13 (1.44%) Failover Clustering
12 12 (1.33%) Sysprep
13 11 (1.22%) Autotask
13 11 (1.22%) Nessus
14 10 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Clustering
15 9 (1.00%) Terraform
16 8 (0.88%) Nagios
Vendors
1 621 (68.69%) Microsoft
2 316 (34.96%) VMware
3 159 (17.59%) Citrix
4 133 (14.71%) Cisco
5 80 (8.85%) Dell
5 80 (8.85%) HP
6 77 (8.52%) Veeam
7 64 (7.08%) Apple
8 57 (6.31%) ServiceNow
9 44 (4.87%) Symantec
10 42 (4.65%) Google
11 36 (3.98%) Aruba
12 29 (3.21%) Meraki
13 26 (2.88%) iManage
14 23 (2.54%) Oracle
14 23 (2.54%) Palo Alto
15 22 (2.43%) McAfee
15 22 (2.43%) Qualys
16 21 (2.32%) EMC
17 20 (2.21%) SolarWinds