Configuration Management Contracts in London

Configuration Management
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Configuration Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Configuration Management over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 171 192
Rank change year-on-year -4 +21 -21
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 244 415 610
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.38% 1.55% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.71% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 290 435
10th Percentile £370 £363 £443
25th Percentile £475 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 5
10th Percentile £31.80 £47.75 £17.60
25th Percentile £37.50 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.42 £39.65
Median % change year-on-year -20.67% +27.16% +98.25%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.11 £57.00
90th Percentile £49.17 £57.78 £70.05
England median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £47.50
% change year-on-year -0.83% +6.15% +18.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Configuration Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,690 24,329 35,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.98% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,247 17,488 26,241
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 276 422
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.48 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%
75th Percentile £47.34 £63.81 £50.94
90th Percentile £65.68 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in London.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in London.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Central London +25 31 £565 +2.73% 8
South London +14 14 £620 +30.53%
East London - 2 - - 2
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 14 (5.74%) Confluence
2 9 (3.69%) Apache
3 6 (2.46%) nginx
4 5 (2.05%) Anypoint
4 5 (2.05%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.64%) IIS
6 3 (1.23%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.82%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.82%) CMS
7 2 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.41%) JBoss
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.82%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.41%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.41%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.41%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.41%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.41%) Primavera
3 1 (0.41%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 83 (34.02%) AWS
2 48 (19.67%) Azure
3 20 (8.20%) Serverless
4 19 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (5.33%) Slack
8 12 (4.92%) GCP
9 10 (4.10%) Entra ID
9 10 (4.10%) PaaS
9 10 (4.10%) SaaS
10 9 (3.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (3.69%) GitHub
11 8 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (2.87%) IaaS
12 7 (2.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (2.46%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.46%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.84%) Firewall
2 14 (5.74%) DNS
2 14 (5.74%) Network Security
3 13 (5.33%) Internet
4 10 (4.10%) BGP
4 10 (4.10%) DHCP
4 10 (4.10%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.69%) MPLS
6 8 (3.28%) VPN
7 6 (2.46%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (2.46%) HTTP
7 6 (2.46%) IOS XR
7 6 (2.46%) IPsec
8 5 (2.05%) Broadband
8 5 (2.05%) FTP
9 4 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (1.64%) L2TP
9 4 (1.64%) LAN
9 4 (1.64%) Multicast
9 4 (1.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.61%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.74%) NoSQL
3 12 (4.92%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.87%) Sybase ASE
7 6 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.46%) MySQL
8 5 (2.05%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (2.05%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.64%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.23%) Big Data
10 3 (1.23%) Redis
11 2 (0.82%) DB2
11 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.82%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (25.82%) Jenkins
2 31 (12.70%) Git
3 23 (9.43%) GitLab
4 19 (7.79%) JIRA
5 12 (4.92%) Subversion
5 12 (4.92%) TeamCity
6 10 (4.10%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.05%) MSI
7 5 (2.05%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.05%) WiX
8 4 (1.64%) Selenium
8 4 (1.64%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.23%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.23%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.41%) Ant
10 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 62 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.62%) Finance
3 17 (6.97%) Banking
4 9 (3.69%) Investment Banking
4 9 (3.69%) Marketing
4 9 (3.69%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.46%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.23%) Law
8 3 (1.23%) Legal
9 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.82%) Retail
10 1 (0.41%) Advertising
10 1 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (17.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (11.07%) Senior
3 26 (10.66%) Developer
4 20 (8.20%) Analyst
5 18 (7.38%) Consultant
5 18 (7.38%) Network Engineer
6 15 (6.15%) Architect
7 14 (5.74%) Release Manager
8 11 (4.51%) Lead
9 10 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (4.10%) Configuration Manager
10 9 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (3.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 8 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (2.87%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (2.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.87%) Site Engineer
12 7 (2.87%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.84%) .NET
2 16 (6.56%) JSON
2 16 (6.56%) XML
3 14 (5.74%) REST
4 13 (5.33%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (5.33%) Middleware
4 13 (5.33%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (3.28%) LDAP
5 8 (3.28%) Node.js
5 8 (3.28%) OpenAPI
5 8 (3.28%) Swagger
6 7 (2.87%) SOAP
6 7 (2.87%) WCF
6 7 (2.87%) WinForms
7 6 (2.46%) Kafka
7 6 (2.46%) NETCONF
7 6 (2.46%) YANG
8 5 (2.05%) Entity Framework
8 5 (2.05%) LAPP Stack
8 5 (2.05%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.75%) CMDB
2 22 (9.02%) Management Information System
3 15 (6.15%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.69%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.28%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.87%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.05%) Social Media
7 5 (2.05%) Web 2.0
8 4 (1.64%) NHS
9 3 (1.23%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.23%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.23%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.23%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.82%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 49 (20.08%) Linux
2 36 (14.75%) Windows
3 25 (10.25%) Unix
4 18 (7.38%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.87%) VMS
6 6 (2.46%) CentOS
6 6 (2.46%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (33.20%) DevOps
2 61 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 47 (19.26%) ITIL
4 39 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (14.34%) SDLC
6 34 (13.93%) Agile
7 33 (13.52%) Cybersecurity
8 28 (11.48%) Change Management
8 28 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 26 (10.66%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (9.43%) Disaster Recovery
10 23 (9.43%) ITSM
11 22 (9.02%) Computer Science
12 21 (8.61%) Analytics
12 21 (8.61%) Migration
12 21 (8.61%) Release Management
13 19 (7.79%) High Availability
13 19 (7.79%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (6.97%) Service Management
14 17 (6.97%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (26.64%) Python
2 49 (20.08%) SQL
3 46 (18.85%) PowerShell
4 38 (15.57%) C#
5 24 (9.84%) JavaScript
6 20 (8.20%) Bash
7 18 (7.38%) Java
8 17 (6.97%) Go
9 15 (6.15%) Perl
10 10 (4.10%) C++
11 8 (3.28%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.46%) Ruby
13 5 (2.05%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.64%) AWK
15 3 (1.23%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.82%) COBOL
16 2 (0.82%) Groovy
16 2 (0.82%) REXX
16 2 (0.82%) Scala
16 2 (0.82%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 50 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 46 (18.85%) SC Cleared
3 31 (12.70%) Degree
4 19 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (6.15%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (2.87%) CCNP
9 5 (2.05%) CCIE
10 4 (1.64%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.64%) CISSP
11 3 (1.23%) CISA
11 3 (1.23%) CISM
12 2 (0.82%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.82%) MCSE
12 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.69%) QA
2 5 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.64%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.64%) SLA
4 3 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.23%) GPG13
4 3 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.23%) NCSC
4 3 (1.23%) NIST
5 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (10.25%) Docker
2 22 (9.02%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.23%) Samba
6 2 (0.82%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.82%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 90 (36.89%) Ansible
2 51 (20.90%) Terraform
3 40 (16.39%) Kubernetes
4 33 (13.52%) Puppet
5 20 (8.20%) Progress Chef
6 13 (5.33%) Prometheus
7 12 (4.92%) Grafana
8 9 (3.69%) BladeLogic
8 9 (3.69%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (2.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (2.46%) SCCM
11 5 (2.05%) ZABBIX
12 4 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.64%) WSUS
13 3 (1.23%) Consul
13 3 (1.23%) Nagios
13 3 (1.23%) Netcool
13 3 (1.23%) Packer
13 3 (1.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 40 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.25%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.15%) Cisco
4 14 (5.74%) Citrix
4 14 (5.74%) Oracle
5 9 (3.69%) Altiris
5 9 (3.69%) Dynatrace
5 9 (3.69%) Nokia
5 9 (3.69%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.69%) SAP
5 9 (3.69%) VMware
6 8 (3.28%) Google
7 7 (2.87%) Sybase
8 6 (2.46%) Qualys
8 6 (2.46%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.46%) Splunk
9 5 (2.05%) Arista
9 5 (2.05%) Juniper
9 5 (2.05%) MuleSoft
9 5 (2.05%) WSO2