Configuration Management Contracts in Bedfordshire

Configuration Management
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Configuration Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Configuration Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 31 32
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.92% 1.63% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.88% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
East of England median daily rate £270 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -46.00% +5.26% -13.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £42.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% - -
East of England median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £41.91
% change year-on-year +20.00% +19.32% -27.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Configuration Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 213 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 94.23% 86.59% 91.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 123 120
10th Percentile £463 £303 £207
25th Percentile £500 £406 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +10.53% -3.06%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £626
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 35 6
10th Percentile £20.26 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £28.21 £15.39 £29.31
Median hourly rate £60.75 £21.50 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +182.56% -66.27% +15.91%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.33 £87.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.75 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Bedfordshire

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in Bedfordshire

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in Bedfordshire

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Luton +1 2 - - 8
Configuration Management
East of England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Control
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) PLM
1 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Product Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Def Stans
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP