Configuration Management Contracts

Configuration Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 138 158
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 -27
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 738 1,136 1,635
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.70% 1.90% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 2.11% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 784 1,097
10th Percentile £363 £356 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% +13.64%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £530
% change year-on-year +1.85% +1.89% +20.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 33 54
10th Percentile £37.91 £18.91 £17.70
25th Percentile £40.94 £39.55 £24.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £45.93
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +9.79% +8.06%
75th Percentile £60.75 £57.33 £64.06
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £48.99 £45.93
% change year-on-year +2.06% +6.67% +13.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +16 638 £550 +1.85% 316
UK excluding London +11 415 £550 +1.85% 260
Work from Home +9 241 £550 +1.85% 154
London -4 241 £550 - 78
South East +9 96 £550 -8.33% 57
East of England +72 94 £500 +5.26% 17
South West +50 92 £553 +5.24% 51
North of England -34 62 £497 -5.41% 65
North West -28 45 £490 -3.87% 43
Scotland -8 34 £600 - 20
Midlands -45 33 £416 -22.96% 46
West Midlands -33 20 £360 -33.29% 28
Yorkshire +8 16 £558 -7.08% 19
East Midlands +6 13 £550 -3.30% 18
Wales 0 5 £615 +14.42% 3
North East -3 1 - - 4

Configuration Management
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 43 (5.83%) Confluence
2 18 (2.44%) nginx
3 10 (1.36%) Apache
4 9 (1.22%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.95%) Apache Solr
5 7 (0.95%) CMS
6 6 (0.81%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.54%) IIS
8 4 (0.54%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.41%) CICS
9 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.41%) SAS
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.27%) Traefik
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (1.63%) Chatbot
2 11 (1.49%) Windchill
3 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.08%) CATIA
5 6 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.90%) Teamcenter
2 13 (1.76%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (1.08%) DELMIA
4 3 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.41%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.41%) SAP PLM
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.27%) Remedy AR System
5 2 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.14%) Aareon QL
6 1 (0.14%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.14%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.14%) Primavera
6 1 (0.14%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 157 (21.27%) AWS
2 99 (13.41%) Azure
3 45 (6.10%) GCP
4 34 (4.61%) Serverless
5 31 (4.20%) GitHub
6 28 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (2.44%) SaaS
11 17 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (2.03%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.03%) OpenShift
12 15 (2.03%) Slack
13 14 (1.90%) Apigee
13 14 (1.90%) Entra ID
13 14 (1.90%) IaaS
14 13 (1.76%) PaaS
15 10 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.42%) TCP/IP
2 35 (4.74%) Firewall
3 33 (4.47%) DNS
4 25 (3.39%) Network Security
5 22 (2.98%) Internet
6 21 (2.85%) DHCP
7 20 (2.71%) SAN
8 18 (2.44%) VPN
9 12 (1.63%) BGP
10 11 (1.49%) IPsec
10 11 (1.49%) MPLS
11 9 (1.22%) HTTP
12 8 (1.08%) HTTPS
12 8 (1.08%) SSL
13 7 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
13 7 (0.95%) IOS XR
14 6 (0.81%) FTP
14 6 (0.81%) OSPF
14 6 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.68%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.69%) SQL Server
2 33 (4.47%) MySQL
3 25 (3.39%) NoSQL
4 24 (3.25%) Relational Database
5 18 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
9 9 (1.22%) Couchbase
9 9 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.22%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.95%) Sybase ASE
11 6 (0.81%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.68%) DB2
12 5 (0.68%) InfluxDB
12 5 (0.68%) Power BI
12 5 (0.68%) Redis
13 4 (0.54%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 141 (19.11%) Jenkins
2 76 (10.30%) JIRA
3 70 (9.49%) Git
4 59 (7.99%) GitLab
5 30 (4.07%) Bitbucket
6 25 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 23 (3.12%) SonarQube
8 19 (2.57%) Selenium
9 16 (2.17%) Cucumber
10 15 (2.03%) TeamCity
11 14 (1.90%) Subversion
11 14 (1.90%) Visual Studio
12 13 (1.76%) Artifactory
13 12 (1.63%) REST Assured
14 9 (1.22%) LoadRunner
15 8 (1.08%) PVCS
16 7 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
17 6 (0.81%) AppScan
17 6 (0.81%) Burp Suite
17 6 (0.81%) Maven
General
1 184 (24.93%) Social Skills
2 88 (11.92%) Aerospace
3 66 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (8.81%) Public Sector
5 60 (8.13%) Finance
6 22 (2.98%) Banking
7 19 (2.57%) Legal
7 19 (2.57%) Telecoms
8 18 (2.44%) Electronics
9 15 (2.03%) Law
9 15 (2.03%) Military
10 13 (1.76%) Marketing
10 13 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.63%) Retail
12 11 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.36%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.36%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.08%) Police
15 7 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 91 (12.33%) Developer
2 87 (11.79%) Configuration Manager
3 77 (10.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 68 (9.21%) Senior
5 44 (5.96%) Analyst
5 44 (5.96%) Architect
6 38 (5.15%) Lead
7 36 (4.88%) Consultant
8 35 (4.74%) Software Engineer
9 23 (3.12%) Python Developer
10 22 (2.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 21 (2.85%) Embedded Engineer
11 21 (2.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 21 (2.85%) Network Engineer
12 19 (2.57%) Release Manager
13 16 (2.17%) Site Engineer
14 15 (2.03%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (2.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (2.03%) Project Manager
15 14 (1.90%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.45%) .NET
2 35 (4.74%) REST
3 28 (3.79%) .NET Core
4 25 (3.39%) JSON
4 25 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
5 22 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
6 21 (2.85%) RESTful
6 21 (2.85%) XML
7 15 (2.03%) Middleware
7 15 (2.03%) Node.js
8 14 (1.90%) ARM Templates
9 13 (1.76%) Java EE
9 13 (1.76%) SOAP
10 12 (1.63%) Kafka
11 10 (1.36%) LDAP
11 10 (1.36%) OpenAPI
11 10 (1.36%) Swagger
11 10 (1.36%) YAML
12 9 (1.22%) OAuth
13 8 (1.08%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 80 (10.84%) CMDB
2 65 (8.81%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.79%) Public Cloud
4 20 (2.71%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.30%) ARM Cortex
6 12 (1.63%) Cloud Native
6 12 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.49%) IVR
8 10 (1.36%) Private Cloud
8 10 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.22%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (0.95%) Client/Server
11 7 (0.95%) IoT
11 7 (0.95%) VHDL
12 6 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.81%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 155 (21.00%) Linux
2 59 (7.99%) Windows
3 38 (5.15%) Unix
4 27 (3.66%) Ubuntu
5 25 (3.39%) Windows Server
6 18 (2.44%) Debian
7 17 (2.30%) FreeRTOS
8 15 (2.03%) CentOS
9 11 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.95%) VMS
11 6 (0.81%) Android
12 5 (0.68%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.68%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
13 4 (0.54%) VxWorks
13 4 (0.54%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (23.17%) DevOps
2 153 (20.73%) CI/CD
3 130 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
4 128 (17.34%) Agile
5 117 (15.85%) ITIL
6 100 (13.55%) Continuous Integration
7 95 (12.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 89 (12.06%) Service Management
9 83 (11.25%) Coaching
10 81 (10.98%) Software Engineering
11 80 (10.84%) PLM
12 73 (9.89%) Collaborative Working
13 65 (8.81%) ITSM
14 59 (7.99%) Continuous Improvement
15 57 (7.72%) Change Management
16 54 (7.32%) Containerisation
17 52 (7.05%) Roadmaps
18 49 (6.64%) Analytics
19 48 (6.50%) Migration
19 48 (6.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 169 (22.90%) Python
2 99 (13.41%) PowerShell
3 80 (10.84%) SQL
4 55 (7.45%) Java
5 44 (5.96%) C#
6 42 (5.69%) Bash
7 38 (5.15%) C
7 38 (5.15%) Go
8 36 (4.88%) JavaScript
9 24 (3.25%) Ruby
10 22 (2.98%) Perl
11 21 (2.85%) Embedded C
12 17 (2.30%) C++
13 15 (2.03%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.36%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.08%) Groovy
16 6 (0.81%) Scala
17 5 (0.68%) COBOL
17 5 (0.68%) SELCOPY
17 5 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 268 (36.31%) Security Cleared
2 216 (29.27%) SC Cleared
3 80 (10.84%) Degree
4 62 (8.40%) DV Cleared
5 33 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (1.76%) CCNP
10 9 (1.22%) CCIE
10 9 (1.22%) PMP
11 6 (0.81%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (0.68%) CISSP
12 5 (0.68%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.54%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.54%) MCSE
13 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.41%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.52%) QA
2 19 (2.57%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.63%) GDPR
4 11 (1.49%) SLA
5 10 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.36%) NIST
6 7 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.95%) PMO
7 5 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.68%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.68%) NCSC
8 4 (0.54%) MISRA
8 4 (0.54%) MISRA C
9 3 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.41%) GPG13
9 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.14%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.14%) RMADS
System Software
1 86 (11.65%) Docker
2 35 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.49%) Firmware
4 11 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.08%) XenApp
6 6 (0.81%) XenDesktop
7 5 (0.68%) vSphere
8 4 (0.54%) Samba
8 4 (0.54%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.41%) vCloud
10 2 (0.27%) KVM
10 2 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.14%) Postfix
11 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 190 (25.75%) Ansible
2 129 (17.48%) Terraform
3 104 (14.09%) Kubernetes
4 64 (8.67%) Puppet
5 48 (6.50%) Progress Chef
6 44 (5.96%) Grafana
7 34 (4.61%) Prometheus
8 23 (3.12%) PowerCLI
9 20 (2.71%) Docker Swarm
10 19 (2.57%) SCCM
11 14 (1.90%) Podman
12 13 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (1.49%) Nagios
14 10 (1.36%) Packer
15 9 (1.22%) BladeLogic
15 9 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
15 9 (1.22%) ZABBIX
16 8 (1.08%) Graylog
17 7 (0.95%) Consul
18 6 (0.81%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 99 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.45%) ServiceNow
3 51 (6.91%) VMware
4 30 (4.07%) Atlassian
5 29 (3.93%) HP
6 28 (3.79%) Oracle
7 27 (3.66%) Red Hat
7 27 (3.66%) SAP
8 24 (3.25%) Dell
9 23 (3.12%) Google
10 22 (2.98%) IBM
10 22 (2.98%) Splunk
11 21 (2.85%) Citrix
12 17 (2.30%) Cisco
12 17 (2.30%) Lauterbach
13 14 (1.90%) Genesys
14 13 (1.76%) Remedy
14 13 (1.76%) Salesforce
15 11 (1.49%) Denodo
15 11 (1.49%) Talend