Configuration Management Contracts in Berkshire

Configuration Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 53 82 75
Rank change year-on-year +29 -7 +20
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 40 42 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.41% 2.12% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 2.38% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 28
10th Percentile £316 £283 £356
25th Percentile £413 £310 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £614 £615
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% -0.20% +32.45%
75th Percentile £513 £688 £688
90th Percentile £594 £705 £784
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £63.04 -
25th Percentile - £67.77 £56.88
Median hourly rate - £70.39 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +19.81% -
75th Percentile - - £60.63
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +21.74% +18.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Berkshire

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in Berkshire

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Berkshire

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in Berkshire

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire 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
Reading +22 17 £469 -26.47% 12
Windsor - 8 £500 - 1
Wokingham -10 6 £440 +44.26%
Bracknell +18 1 - -
Configuration Management
South East

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (65.00%) Azure
2 22 (55.00%) AWS
3 10 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (17.50%) GitHub
5 3 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (7.50%) SaaS
6 2 (5.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.00%) GCP
6 2 (5.00%) IaaS
6 2 (5.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) HTTP
2 2 (5.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Big Data
2 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (45.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (35.00%) GitLab
3 13 (32.50%) Cucumber
3 13 (32.50%) JIRA
3 13 (32.50%) REST Assured
3 13 (32.50%) Selenium
4 9 (22.50%) SonarQube
5 5 (12.50%) Git
General
1 14 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Law
3 6 (15.00%) Finance
4 4 (10.00%) Police
4 4 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Electronics
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Java Engineer
1 9 (22.50%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (22.50%) Software Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) ServiceNow Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Data Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Telecoms Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (42.50%) REST
2 13 (32.50%) Java EE
3 9 (22.50%) ARM Templates
4 5 (12.50%) Web Services
5 4 (10.00%) Ajax
5 4 (10.00%) CSS
5 4 (10.00%) HTML
5 4 (10.00%) SOAP
5 4 (10.00%) XML
6 1 (2.50%) Jinja
6 1 (2.50%) JSON
6 1 (2.50%) NETCONF
6 1 (2.50%) RESTCONF
6 1 (2.50%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) CMDB
2 4 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.00%) Replication
5 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Linux
1 7 (17.50%) Windows
2 5 (12.50%) Ubuntu
2 5 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.00%) AIX
3 2 (5.00%) Unix
4 1 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) DevOps
2 16 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 16 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 14 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (32.50%) Software Architecture
4 13 (32.50%) Technical Leadership
4 13 (32.50%) Test Automation
5 12 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 9 (22.50%) Agile
6 9 (22.50%) Decision-Making
7 7 (17.50%) High Availability
7 7 (17.50%) Incident Management
7 7 (17.50%) ITIL
7 7 (17.50%) ITSM
7 7 (17.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (12.50%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 5 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
8 5 (12.50%) Open Source
8 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) Python
2 13 (32.50%) Java
2 13 (32.50%) PowerShell
3 5 (12.50%) Bicep
4 2 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 18 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) CCNP
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (50.00%) Ansible
2 18 (45.00%) Terraform
3 14 (35.00%) Kubernetes
4 9 (22.50%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (22.50%) Podman
5 5 (12.50%) Puppet
5 5 (12.50%) SCCM
6 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (5.00%) Progress Chef
7 2 (5.00%) WSUS
8 1 (2.50%) Grafana
8 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) BMC
2 5 (12.50%) Databricks
2 5 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.00%) Cisco
3 2 (5.00%) Remedy
3 2 (5.00%) VMware
4 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.50%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) Snow