Configuration Management Jobs with Work from Home Options

Configuration Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 242 221
Rank change year-on-year -11 -21 -41
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 425 582 1,276
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.26% 1.40% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.46% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 254 411 735
10th Percentile £40,375 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,125 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,554 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,625 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,250 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £59,350 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -12.07% +8.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,965 39,955 66,612
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.45% 96.10% 96.96%
Number of salaries quoted 23,443 27,739 41,261
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Configuration Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Configuration Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Configuration Management
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Configuration Management.

Configuration Management salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Configuration Management salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 24 (5.65%) Confluence
2 23 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (4.24%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.65%) nginx
5 3 (0.71%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.47%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) CMS
6 2 (0.47%) Drupal
6 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.65%) Simulink
2 7 (1.65%) Stateflow
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.24%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 185 (43.53%) Azure
2 174 (40.94%) AWS
3 125 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
4 99 (23.29%) SaaS
5 95 (22.35%) GCP
6 31 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (5.88%) GitHub
8 21 (4.94%) Serverless
9 15 (3.53%) Amazon S3
9 15 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (3.06%) Azure AKS
11 13 (3.06%) Power Platform
12 12 (2.82%) PaaS
12 12 (2.82%) Pulumi
13 11 (2.59%) IaaS
14 9 (2.12%) Datadog
15 8 (1.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.29%) Firewall
2 28 (6.59%) VPN
3 27 (6.35%) DNS
4 20 (4.71%) DHCP
5 19 (4.47%) 5G
6 14 (3.29%) TCP/IP
6 14 (3.29%) WAN
7 11 (2.59%) Network Security
8 8 (1.88%) IPv4
8 8 (1.88%) SD-WAN
9 7 (1.65%) OSPF
9 7 (1.65%) VLAN
10 6 (1.41%) LAN
10 6 (1.41%) NGFW
10 6 (1.41%) SAN
11 5 (1.18%) AMQP
11 5 (1.18%) BGP
11 5 (1.18%) MPLS
11 5 (1.18%) SSL
11 5 (1.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (3.06%) NoSQL
3 13 (3.06%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (2.82%) Power BI
5 10 (2.35%) MySQL
6 8 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.88%) Redis
7 7 (1.65%) MariaDB
7 7 (1.65%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.41%) InfluxDB
8 6 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.18%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.71%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 42 (9.88%) Jenkins
1 42 (9.88%) JIRA
2 30 (7.06%) Git
3 21 (4.94%) Subversion
4 15 (3.53%) CMake
5 14 (3.29%) GitLab
6 11 (2.59%) Bitbucket
7 10 (2.35%) Trac
8 9 (2.12%) Rational DOORS
9 8 (1.88%) ClearCase
9 8 (1.88%) ClearQuest
9 8 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.65%) Plastic SCM
10 7 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.18%) DTrace
11 5 (1.18%) GDB
11 5 (1.18%) LabVIEW
11 5 (1.18%) Rational Rhapsody
12 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 81 (19.06%) Presentation Skills
2 68 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 56 (13.18%) Finance
4 29 (6.82%) Legal
5 28 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (4.47%) Military
7 19 (4.47%) Retail
7 19 (4.47%) Telecoms
8 16 (3.76%) Aerospace
9 11 (2.59%) Automotive
9 11 (2.59%) Law
10 9 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.88%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.65%) Electronics
12 7 (1.65%) Marketing
13 6 (1.41%) Banking
13 6 (1.41%) Tech for Good
14 5 (1.18%) Fire and Rescue
14 5 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 90 (21.18%) Architect
2 81 (19.06%) Cloud Architect
3 50 (11.76%) Senior
4 47 (11.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (9.18%) Software Engineer
6 37 (8.71%) Lead
7 34 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
8 32 (7.53%) Cloud Engineer
8 32 (7.53%) Platform Engineer
9 30 (7.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 28 (6.59%) AWS Engineer
11 26 (6.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 21 (4.94%) C++ Software Engineer
13 19 (4.47%) Analyst
13 19 (4.47%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (4.24%) Automation Engineer
14 18 (4.24%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
15 15 (3.53%) Cloud Automation Engineer
16 13 (3.06%) Linux Engineer
16 13 (3.06%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.71%) XML
2 15 (3.53%) MFC
2 15 (3.53%) Qt
2 15 (3.53%) STL
3 12 (2.82%) JSON
4 9 (2.12%) ADO
4 9 (2.12%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (2.12%) React
5 8 (1.88%) .NET
5 8 (1.88%) ARM Templates
6 6 (1.41%) .NET Core
6 6 (1.41%) REST
6 6 (1.41%) SOAP
6 6 (1.41%) Web Services
7 5 (1.18%) Middleware
7 5 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.18%) SAML
7 5 (1.18%) Spring
7 5 (1.18%) YAML
8 4 (0.94%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 85 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 81 (19.06%) PKI
3 45 (10.59%) Algorithms
4 31 (7.29%) Linux Command Line
5 29 (6.82%) Management Information System
6 25 (5.88%) CMDB
7 23 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (4.24%) Data Centre
8 18 (4.24%) Data Structures
8 18 (4.24%) Product Ownership
9 15 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.82%) Cloud Native
12 10 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (2.12%) Embedded Systems
14 6 (1.41%) Client/Server
14 6 (1.41%) Replication
15 4 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
15 4 (0.94%) Virtual Team
16 3 (0.71%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 108 (25.41%) Linux
2 102 (24.00%) Windows
3 39 (9.18%) Windows Server
4 19 (4.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (3.53%) Unix
6 8 (1.88%) Android
6 8 (1.88%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.18%) VMS
9 3 (0.71%) SUSE
9 3 (0.71%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.71%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.71%) Windows Vista
10 2 (0.47%) CentOS
10 2 (0.47%) Windows Embedded Compact
11 1 (0.24%) Debian
11 1 (0.24%) Fedora
11 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (29.65%) Project Management
2 117 (27.53%) DevOps
3 104 (24.47%) Migration
4 103 (24.24%) Agile
5 100 (23.53%) TOGAF
6 99 (23.29%) Actionable Insight
7 81 (19.06%) Application Virtualisation
7 81 (19.06%) Presales
8 80 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (16.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 72 (16.94%) Software Engineering
10 69 (16.24%) CI/CD
11 67 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 58 (13.65%) ITIL
13 53 (12.47%) Computer Science
14 45 (10.59%) Mentoring
14 45 (10.59%) Platform Engineering
15 43 (10.12%) Service Management
16 38 (8.94%) Information Security
17 37 (8.71%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (23.53%) Python
2 72 (16.94%) PowerShell
3 47 (11.06%) Java
4 46 (10.82%) SQL
5 32 (7.53%) Bash
6 31 (7.29%) Go
7 25 (5.88%) C#
8 23 (5.41%) Ruby
9 22 (5.18%) C++
9 22 (5.18%) Perl
10 21 (4.94%) C
11 19 (4.47%) JavaScript
12 16 (3.76%) PHP
13 13 (3.06%) TypeScript
14 12 (2.82%) Groovy
14 12 (2.82%) Shell Script
15 9 (2.12%) MATLAB
16 8 (1.88%) Embedded C
17 7 (1.65%) T-SQL
18 5 (1.18%) SystemTap
Qualifications
1 98 (23.06%) Degree
2 90 (21.18%) Security Cleared
3 55 (12.94%) SC Cleared
4 32 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (3.53%) PMI Certification
7 13 (3.06%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.82%) APMG
8 12 (2.82%) PMP
9 11 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (2.59%) CISM
9 11 (2.59%) CISSP
10 9 (2.12%) Azure Certification
10 9 (2.12%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.65%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (1.41%) CCNA
12 6 (1.41%) GIAC
12 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.41%) SANS
13 5 (1.18%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.24%) QA
2 11 (2.59%) SLA
3 8 (1.88%) MISRA
4 6 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.41%) COBIT
4 6 (1.41%) NIST
4 6 (1.41%) Web Application Security Consortium
5 5 (1.18%) JSP 440
5 5 (1.18%) NCSC
5 5 (1.18%) RMADS
6 4 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.94%) PMO
7 3 (0.71%) GDPR
7 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.47%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 1 (0.24%) P3O
9 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 70 (16.47%) Docker
2 48 (11.29%) Active Directory
3 25 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 25 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (3.76%) pfSense
5 11 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (2.35%) DFS Replication
6 10 (2.35%) NFS
7 7 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.71%) Ceph
9 3 (0.71%) Gluster
9 3 (0.71%) KVM
9 3 (0.71%) oVirt
10 1 (0.24%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 88 (20.71%) Ansible
1 88 (20.71%) Kubernetes
2 75 (17.65%) Terraform
3 54 (12.71%) Puppet
4 48 (11.29%) Progress Chef
5 32 (7.53%) Grafana
6 22 (5.18%) Prometheus
7 19 (4.47%) ZABBIX
8 17 (4.00%) Salt
9 16 (3.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (2.59%) SCCM
11 10 (2.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (2.35%) SCDPM
12 8 (1.88%) Packer
13 6 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (1.41%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (1.41%) NetBackup
13 6 (1.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 5 (1.18%) Kibana
14 5 (1.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 169 (39.76%) Microsoft
2 86 (20.24%) Google
3 45 (10.59%) VMware
4 37 (8.71%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.00%) Fortinet
6 16 (3.76%) Juniper
6 16 (3.76%) Veeam
7 12 (2.82%) IBM
7 12 (2.82%) Oracle
7 12 (2.82%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.82%) SaltStack
8 10 (2.35%) Cisco
8 10 (2.35%) McAfee
9 9 (2.12%) New Relic
10 7 (1.65%) Lauterbach
10 7 (1.65%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.41%) Citrix
11 6 (1.41%) Meraki
12 5 (1.18%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.18%) iManage