Configuration Management Contracts in Birmingham

Configuration Management
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 58 65
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 3 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.60% 0.67% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.82% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 9
10th Percentile £468 - £324
25th Percentile £475 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -25.00% +3.18%
75th Percentile £525 £475 -
90th Percentile £533 - £640
West Midlands median daily rate £524 £370 £540
% change year-on-year +41.62% -31.48% +1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.64
Median hourly rate - - £16.29
75th Percentile - - £16.93
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £16.29
% change year-on-year - - -11.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 434 608 780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.32% 81.94% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 511
10th Percentile £163 £236 £300
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -8.65% +6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £577 £638
90th Percentile £689 £696 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 43 31
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £18.50 £12.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +25.57% +23.61%
75th Percentile £25.13 £47.13 £29.38
90th Percentile £35.77 £56.25 £53.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £21.69
% change year-on-year -15.56% +3.73% +28.92%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Birmingham

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in Birmingham

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in Birmingham

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Glacier
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) FTP
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) SMTP
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (33.33%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Business Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) CMDB
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Community of Practice
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Master Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Groovy
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) DFS Replication
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow