Configuration Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 121 120
Rank change year-on-year +21 -1 -11
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 424 512 670
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.05% 2.14% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 2.39% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 353 434
10th Percentile £356 £350 £377
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £528
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.37% +20.99%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £636
90th Percentile £700 £676 £680
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 27 45
10th Percentile £38.33 £16.00 £17.70
25th Percentile £43.32 £37.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £48.99 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.06% +3.14% +18.75%
75th Percentile £60.75 £58.04 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.80 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £49.71 £47.11
% change year-on-year +0.58% +5.53% +16.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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 East +19 103 £550 -8.33% 53
East of England +62 92 £500 - 21
South West +53 90 £553 +5.24% 54
North of England -26 64 £500 -4.76% 62
North West -13 47 £497 -2.65% 42
Midlands -29 38 £363 -32.87% 34
Scotland -9 32 £600 - 10
West Midlands -35 26 £358 -33.70% 17
Yorkshire +12 16 £558 -7.08% 18
East Midlands +7 12 £550 -6.38% 17
Wales 0 5 £615 +14.42% 5
North East -5 1 - - 2
Configuration Management
UK

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 29 (6.84%) Confluence
2 9 (2.12%) nginx
3 7 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.18%) CMS
5 4 (0.94%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.71%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.47%) CICS
7 2 (0.47%) SAS
7 2 (0.47%) Traefik
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.24%) MQSeries
Applications
1 10 (2.36%) Windchill
2 9 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.89%) CATIA
4 6 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (3.07%) Teamcenter
2 8 (1.89%) DELMIA
3 7 (1.65%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.71%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.71%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (13.44%) AWS
2 36 (8.49%) Azure
3 19 (4.48%) GCP
4 14 (3.30%) GitHub
5 12 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (2.36%) Serverless
7 9 (2.12%) Amazon S3
8 8 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (1.65%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.42%) CloudBees
10 6 (1.42%) OpenShift
11 4 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.71%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (0.71%) Datadog
12 3 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (0.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.37%) TCP/IP
2 20 (4.72%) SAN
3 17 (4.01%) DNS
4 11 (2.59%) Network Security
5 9 (2.12%) DHCP
6 8 (1.89%) Internet
7 7 (1.65%) Firewall
7 7 (1.65%) VPN
8 5 (1.18%) AMQP
8 5 (1.18%) HTTPS
8 5 (1.18%) IPsec
9 3 (0.71%) IPv4
9 3 (0.71%) OSPF
9 3 (0.71%) SSL
9 3 (0.71%) VLAN
9 3 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.24%) BGP
10 1 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.24%) MPLS
10 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.37%) MySQL
2 19 (4.48%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.36%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.12%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (1.18%) InfluxDB
7 5 (1.18%) Power BI
8 4 (0.94%) Couchbase
8 4 (0.94%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.71%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.47%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.47%) DB2
10 2 (0.47%) IDMS
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.24%) Flink
11 1 (0.24%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 65 (15.33%) Jenkins
2 55 (12.97%) JIRA
3 31 (7.31%) GitLab
4 28 (6.60%) Git
5 26 (6.13%) Bitbucket
6 23 (5.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 17 (4.01%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.30%) Selenium
9 13 (3.07%) Cucumber
10 12 (2.83%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.65%) LoadRunner
12 5 (1.18%) AppScan
12 5 (1.18%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.94%) Maven
14 3 (0.71%) gulp
15 2 (0.47%) ClearCase
15 2 (0.47%) ClearQuest
15 2 (0.47%) HP UFT
15 2 (0.47%) Hudson
15 2 (0.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 103 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 89 (20.99%) Aerospace
3 55 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.25%) Electronics
6 17 (4.01%) Finance
7 16 (3.77%) Legal
8 15 (3.54%) Military
9 12 (2.83%) Law
10 9 (2.12%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.89%) Police
12 7 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.42%) Banking
14 5 (1.18%) Retail
15 4 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.94%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.71%) Advertising
16 3 (0.71%) Back Office
16 3 (0.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 70 (16.51%) Configuration Manager
2 61 (14.39%) Developer
3 36 (8.49%) Senior
4 28 (6.60%) Architect
4 28 (6.60%) Software Engineer
5 27 (6.37%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (6.13%) Analyst
7 21 (4.95%) Embedded Engineer
7 21 (4.95%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 20 (4.72%) Python Developer
9 19 (4.48%) Lead
10 12 (2.83%) Project Manager
11 11 (2.59%) Configuration Specialist
11 11 (2.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (2.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 11 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (2.36%) Configuration Engineer
13 9 (2.12%) Service Analyst
14 8 (1.89%) Engineering Manager
14 8 (1.89%) Support Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (7.08%) .NET
2 27 (6.37%) .NET Core
3 14 (3.30%) REST
4 13 (3.07%) ARM Templates
4 13 (3.07%) Java EE
5 10 (2.36%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (2.12%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (1.65%) RESTful
8 5 (1.18%) JSON
8 5 (1.18%) Kafka
8 5 (1.18%) SAML
9 4 (0.94%) LEMP Stack
9 4 (0.94%) OAuth
9 4 (0.94%) YAML
10 3 (0.71%) Apache Beam
10 3 (0.71%) Blazor
10 3 (0.71%) Keycloak
10 3 (0.71%) Node.js
10 3 (0.71%) OpenID
10 3 (0.71%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.61%) Management Information System
2 42 (9.91%) CMDB
3 17 (4.01%) ARM Cortex
4 12 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.12%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.65%) VHDL
8 6 (1.42%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.42%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.18%) IoT
9 5 (1.18%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.94%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.94%) Device Driver
10 4 (0.94%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.94%) PCIe
10 4 (0.94%) Verilog
11 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.71%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 104 (24.53%) Linux
2 21 (4.95%) Ubuntu
3 18 (4.25%) Debian
4 17 (4.01%) FreeRTOS
4 17 (4.01%) Windows
5 10 (2.36%) Unix
6 9 (2.12%) CentOS
7 7 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.18%) Android
9 4 (0.94%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.94%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.94%) VxWorks
9 4 (0.94%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.94%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.94%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.47%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (20.52%) Agile
2 78 (18.40%) PLM
3 76 (17.92%) Coaching
4 75 (17.69%) Continuous Integration
5 74 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
6 72 (16.98%) CI/CD
7 68 (16.04%) DevOps
8 65 (15.33%) Software Engineering
9 64 (15.09%) Collaborative Working
10 62 (14.62%) ITIL
11 48 (11.32%) Service Management
12 47 (11.08%) Infrastructure as Code
13 37 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (7.78%) Containerisation
15 31 (7.31%) Task Automation
16 30 (7.08%) Project Management
17 28 (6.60%) ITSM
18 27 (6.37%) Roadmaps
19 26 (6.13%) Infrastructure Automation
19 26 (6.13%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 87 (20.52%) Python
2 44 (10.38%) PowerShell
3 33 (7.78%) Java
4 29 (6.84%) C
5 24 (5.66%) SQL
6 21 (4.95%) Embedded C
7 18 (4.25%) Bash
8 17 (4.01%) Go
9 12 (2.83%) Ruby
10 9 (2.12%) JavaScript
11 7 (1.65%) Groovy
11 7 (1.65%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.42%) C++
13 5 (1.18%) C#
13 5 (1.18%) Perl
14 4 (0.94%) PHP
14 4 (0.94%) Scala
15 3 (0.71%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.47%) COBOL
16 2 (0.47%) REXX
Qualifications
1 189 (44.58%) Security Cleared
2 144 (33.96%) SC Cleared
3 48 (11.32%) DV Cleared
4 42 (9.91%) Degree
5 13 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (1.89%) PMP
8 7 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.42%) CCNP
10 4 (0.94%) CCIE
10 4 (0.94%) CCNA
11 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.47%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.47%) CISSP
12 2 (0.47%) PhD
12 2 (0.47%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.07%) QA
2 11 (2.59%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.59%) GDPR
3 7 (1.65%) NIST
3 7 (1.65%) PMO
4 6 (1.42%) SLA
5 5 (1.18%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.94%) MISRA
6 4 (0.94%) MISRA C
7 3 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.47%) NCSC
9 1 (0.24%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.24%) GRC
9 1 (0.24%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.24%) RMADS
9 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (11.08%) Docker
2 17 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.59%) Firmware
4 9 (2.12%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.42%) XenApp
5 6 (1.42%) XenDesktop
6 3 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.47%) KVM
7 2 (0.47%) vSphere
8 1 (0.24%) NFS
8 1 (0.24%) Samba
8 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 84 (19.81%) Ansible
2 58 (13.68%) Terraform
3 52 (12.26%) Kubernetes
4 30 (7.08%) Grafana
5 23 (5.42%) PowerCLI
6 22 (5.19%) Puppet
7 19 (4.48%) Docker Swarm
7 19 (4.48%) Progress Chef
8 17 (4.01%) Prometheus
9 14 (3.30%) Podman
10 10 (2.36%) SCCM
11 5 (1.18%) Graylog
11 5 (1.18%) HP Fortify
11 5 (1.18%) Nagios
11 5 (1.18%) Nessus
11 5 (1.18%) Packer
11 5 (1.18%) WebInspect
12 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.71%) Rancher
13 3 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 50 (11.79%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.20%) VMware
3 29 (6.84%) Atlassian
4 27 (6.37%) ServiceNow
5 25 (5.90%) HP
6 22 (5.19%) Dell
7 21 (4.95%) Red Hat
8 19 (4.48%) IBM
9 17 (4.01%) Lauterbach
10 15 (3.54%) Denodo
10 15 (3.54%) Talend
11 13 (3.07%) Splunk
12 12 (2.83%) Google
13 9 (2.12%) Oracle
13 9 (2.12%) SAP
14 8 (1.89%) Siemens
15 7 (1.65%) Remedy
16 6 (1.42%) Citrix
17 5 (1.18%) Checkmarx
17 5 (1.18%) Veracode