Configuration Management Jobs

Configuration Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Configuration Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Configuration Management over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 250 209
Rank change year-on-year -14 -41 -41
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 1,087 1,553 3,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.11% 1.48% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.55% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 630 925 1,548
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £41,838
25th Percentile £46,199 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,350 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,400 £59,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.25% -0.83% +4.35%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -19 910 £60,000 -11.11% 334
UK excluding London -6 811 £53,400 -10.25% 263
Work from Home -4 436 £65,000 -7.14% 169
South East +18 237 £52,550 -8.61% 56
London -75 212 £75,000 - 89
South West -12 177 £52,500 -11.76% 53
North of England +6 121 £52,500 -4.55% 66
Midlands +7 90 £57,500 -11.54% 47
Scotland -29 90 £75,000 +1.69% 20
West Midlands +19 67 £58,100 -10.62% 28
North West -12 66 £54,250 -1.36% 43
East of England -6 61 £57,500 +11.11% 17
Yorkshire +83 44 £52,500 -19.23% 20
Wales +17 23 £50,000 -24.81% 3
East Midlands -9 23 £50,000 -4.76% 19
Northern Ireland +27 13 £70,000 -3.45% 7
North East -12 11 £45,000 +12.50% 4
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1

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 48 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.50%) Apache
4 29 (2.67%) Confluence
5 25 (2.30%) Apache Spark
6 20 (1.84%) nginx
7 16 (1.47%) CMS
7 16 (1.47%) IIS
8 12 (1.10%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.28%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.28%) Drupal
9 3 (0.28%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.28%) WordPress
10 2 (0.18%) GlassFish
10 2 (0.18%) JCAPS
10 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.18%) WinCC
Applications
1 29 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.12%) Simulink
3 21 (1.93%) Stateflow
4 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (0.64%) CANalyzer
6 6 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.18%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.092%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.092%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.092%) Revit
8 1 (0.092%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.37%) SAP IS-U
3 2 (0.18%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.092%) Endur
4 1 (0.092%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 388 (35.69%) Azure
2 363 (33.39%) AWS
3 166 (15.27%) GCP
3 166 (15.27%) Microsoft 365
4 119 (10.95%) SaaS
5 88 (8.10%) Serverless
6 77 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
8 58 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
10 46 (4.23%) Power Platform
11 41 (3.77%) OpenShift
12 40 (3.68%) GitHub
13 37 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (3.13%) Amazon S3
15 29 (2.67%) PaaS
16 27 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (2.48%) Entra ID
17 26 (2.39%) IaaS
18 24 (2.21%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 111 (10.21%) Firewall
2 54 (4.97%) DNS
3 45 (4.14%) VPN
4 37 (3.40%) DHCP
5 32 (2.94%) WAN
6 29 (2.67%) AMQP
7 28 (2.58%) Network Security
8 25 (2.30%) TCP/IP
9 21 (1.93%) 5G
10 19 (1.75%) SD-WAN
11 18 (1.66%) VoIP
12 17 (1.56%) Internet
12 17 (1.56%) SNMP
13 16 (1.47%) VLAN
13 16 (1.47%) Wireless
14 15 (1.38%) SSL
15 14 (1.29%) J1939
16 13 (1.20%) LAN
16 13 (1.20%) MPLS
17 12 (1.10%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (6.81%) SQL Server
2 40 (3.68%) Power BI
3 35 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (2.76%) Big Data
5 24 (2.21%) Cloudera CDH
5 24 (2.21%) Hadoop
6 21 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.75%) Redis
7 19 (1.75%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
9 17 (1.56%) NoSQL
10 16 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (1.29%) MySQL
12 13 (1.20%) DynamoDB
12 13 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
13 9 (0.83%) MongoDB
14 8 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 112 (10.30%) Jenkins
2 109 (10.03%) Git
3 84 (7.73%) JIRA
4 54 (4.97%) GitLab
5 48 (4.42%) Subversion
6 29 (2.67%) Bitbucket
7 24 (2.21%) ClearCase
8 21 (1.93%) Plastic SCM
9 17 (1.56%) ClearQuest
9 17 (1.56%) CMake
10 15 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (1.29%) TeamCity
11 14 (1.29%) Visual Studio
12 12 (1.10%) Rational DOORS
13 10 (0.92%) Robot Framework
13 10 (0.92%) Trac
14 8 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
15 7 (0.64%) Moq
General
1 208 (19.14%) Finance
2 179 (16.47%) Social Skills
3 115 (10.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 87 (8.00%) Law
5 83 (7.64%) Legal
5 83 (7.64%) Presentation Skills
6 73 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (6.62%) Aerospace
8 56 (5.15%) Marketing
9 47 (4.32%) Retail
10 43 (3.96%) Electronics
11 41 (3.77%) Telecoms
12 36 (3.31%) Manufacturing
13 30 (2.76%) Banking
14 28 (2.58%) Military
15 26 (2.39%) Automotive
16 24 (2.21%) Public Sector
17 16 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
18 15 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 174 (16.01%) Software Engineer
2 127 (11.68%) Senior
3 123 (11.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 109 (10.03%) Architect
5 84 (7.73%) Cloud Architect
6 83 (7.64%) Systems Engineer
7 75 (6.90%) Lead
8 66 (6.07%) Analyst
9 57 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 49 (4.51%) Java Engineer
11 49 (4.51%) Java Software Engineer
12 47 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
13 46 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
14 45 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
15 44 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
16 43 (3.96%) Windows Engineer
17 38 (3.50%) Linux Engineer
18 36 (3.31%) Network Engineer
19 31 (2.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (6.90%) React
2 72 (6.62%) HTML
3 66 (6.07%) Node.js
4 62 (5.70%) AngularJS
5 51 (4.69%) Spring
6 41 (3.77%) HTML5
7 40 (3.68%) Middleware
8 36 (3.31%) .NET
9 35 (3.22%) REST
10 34 (3.13%) XML
11 31 (2.85%) Drools
11 31 (2.85%) jBPM
11 31 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
11 31 (2.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 26 (2.39%) Spring Boot
13 25 (2.30%) OpenAPI
13 25 (2.30%) Swagger
14 24 (2.21%) CSS
14 24 (2.21%) gRPC
14 24 (2.21%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 141 (12.97%) Public Cloud
2 99 (9.11%) Algorithms
3 89 (8.19%) Management Information System
4 81 (7.45%) PKI
5 71 (6.53%) CMDB
6 58 (5.34%) Cloud Native
7 50 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
8 45 (4.14%) Linux Command Line
9 39 (3.59%) Onboarding
10 31 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
12 25 (2.30%) Data Centre
13 19 (1.75%) Driving Licence
14 18 (1.66%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.66%) Product Ownership
15 16 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
15 16 (1.47%) Replication
16 15 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
17 14 (1.29%) Embedded Systems
17 14 (1.29%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 319 (29.35%) Linux
2 246 (22.63%) Windows
3 88 (8.10%) Windows Server
4 62 (5.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 52 (4.78%) Ubuntu
6 51 (4.69%) Debian
7 39 (3.59%) Unix
8 30 (2.76%) CentOS
9 23 (2.12%) Windows 10
10 22 (2.02%) VMS
11 11 (1.01%) Android
12 9 (0.83%) Apple iOS
13 8 (0.74%) Solaris
13 8 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
14 6 (0.55%) Mesosphere
15 5 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
16 3 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.28%) SUSE
16 3 (0.28%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (31.28%) Agile
2 304 (27.97%) DevOps
3 232 (21.34%) CI/CD
4 228 (20.98%) Software Engineering
5 197 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
6 171 (15.73%) Project Management
7 155 (14.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 153 (14.08%) ITIL
9 146 (13.43%) Actionable Insight
10 136 (12.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 132 (12.14%) Migration
12 131 (12.05%) Computer Science
13 120 (11.04%) Change Management
14 107 (9.84%) Containerisation
15 103 (9.48%) Service Management
15 103 (9.48%) TOGAF
16 95 (8.74%) Presales
17 93 (8.56%) SDLC
18 91 (8.37%) ITSM
18 91 (8.37%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 292 (26.86%) Python
2 156 (14.35%) Java
3 139 (12.79%) Bash
4 133 (12.24%) SQL
5 121 (11.13%) PowerShell
6 77 (7.08%) JavaScript
7 63 (5.80%) C
8 59 (5.43%) Go
9 55 (5.06%) C#
10 54 (4.97%) Perl
11 50 (4.60%) C++
12 47 (4.32%) Shell Script
13 36 (3.31%) Ruby
14 27 (2.48%) Embedded C
15 26 (2.39%) TypeScript
16 25 (2.30%) MATLAB
17 21 (1.93%) T-SQL
18 19 (1.75%) PHP
19 14 (1.29%) Groovy
20 9 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 252 (23.18%) Security Cleared
2 223 (20.52%) Degree
3 170 (15.64%) SC Cleared
4 83 (7.64%) DV Cleared
5 62 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (2.76%) AWS Certification
9 24 (2.21%) Azure Certification
10 23 (2.12%) Master's Degree
11 21 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (1.93%) PMI Certification
12 20 (1.84%) CCNA
13 18 (1.66%) CISSP
13 18 (1.66%) HND
13 18 (1.66%) PMP
14 17 (1.56%) A+ Certification
15 14 (1.29%) CCNP
16 13 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
17 11 (1.01%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.96%) QA
2 35 (3.22%) PMO
3 26 (2.39%) SLA
4 22 (2.02%) MISRA
5 16 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.29%) Automotive SPICE
7 14 (1.29%) AUTOSAR
7 14 (1.29%) ISO 26262
7 14 (1.29%) PCI DSS
7 14 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (1.01%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.92%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.83%) Data Quality
10 9 (0.83%) JSP 440
10 9 (0.83%) RMADS
11 7 (0.64%) DO-178B
11 7 (0.64%) NIST
12 6 (0.55%) GDPR
12 6 (0.55%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 164 (15.09%) Docker
2 110 (10.12%) Active Directory
3 50 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
4 49 (4.51%) Hyper-V
5 40 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 20 (1.84%) Firmware
7 17 (1.56%) Embedded Firmware
8 16 (1.47%) pfSense
9 11 (1.01%) DFS Replication
9 11 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.92%) NFS
11 9 (0.83%) vSphere
12 7 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (0.55%) VirtualBox
14 4 (0.37%) KVM
15 3 (0.28%) Ceph
15 3 (0.28%) Gluster
15 3 (0.28%) oVirt
16 2 (0.18%) iptables
16 2 (0.18%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 235 (21.62%) Ansible
2 221 (20.33%) Kubernetes
3 202 (18.58%) Terraform
4 148 (13.62%) Puppet
5 112 (10.30%) Progress Chef
6 45 (4.14%) Grafana
7 40 (3.68%) Prometheus
8 29 (2.67%) ZABBIX
9 22 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (1.93%) Salt
11 20 (1.84%) SCOM
12 19 (1.75%) SCCM
13 15 (1.38%) Packer
14 12 (1.10%) Kibana
15 11 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
16 10 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 10 (0.92%) SCDPM
17 9 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
18 8 (0.74%) Rancher
Vendors
1 291 (26.77%) Microsoft
2 120 (11.04%) Google
3 96 (8.83%) VMware
4 73 (6.72%) ServiceNow
5 65 (5.98%) Red Hat
6 57 (5.24%) SaltStack
7 37 (3.40%) Cisco
8 31 (2.85%) Oracle
9 28 (2.58%) IBM
10 27 (2.48%) Juniper
11 21 (1.93%) Lauterbach
11 21 (1.93%) Veeam
12 18 (1.66%) Dynatrace
13 17 (1.56%) Fortinet
13 17 (1.56%) New Relic
14 16 (1.47%) Atlassian
14 16 (1.47%) Snow
14 16 (1.47%) Splunk
15 15 (1.38%) Citrix
15 15 (1.38%) EMC