Configuration Management Contracts in Bristol

Configuration Management
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 51 50 89
Rank change year-on-year -1 +39 -20
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 4 24 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.74% 2.27% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 2.73% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £425 £446 £391
25th Percentile £443 £476 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £523 £591 £613
90th Percentile £540 £615 £681
South West median daily rate £575 £553 £525
% change year-on-year +4.07% +5.24% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 18 3
10th Percentile - - £31.42
25th Percentile £31.00 - £32.76
Median hourly rate £32.00 £70.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.29% +75.00% -46.67%
75th Percentile £33.00 - £62.96
90th Percentile - £76.00 £73.04
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +75.00% -46.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 493 879 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.81% 83.16% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 484 750
10th Percentile £222 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £567 £602 £631
90th Percentile £657 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 184 220
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £42.51 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +36.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £83.88
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Bristol

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in Bristol

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in Bristol

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CATIA
1 1 (25.00%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) PLM
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) PDM
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Ruby
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat