Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Configuration Management
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 24 30
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 2.81% 1.14% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.11% 1.27% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £528 - -
25th Percentile £550 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +0.88% -12.31%
75th Percentile £650 £588 -
90th Percentile £673 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £363 £378 £550
% change year-on-year -3.97% -31.36% +37.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 161 157 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 90.45% 89.20% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 72 116
10th Percentile £357 £282 £219
25th Percentile £438 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £647 £553 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £581
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £520 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +15.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 20
10th Percentile £17.95 £19.80 £16.75
25th Percentile £44.91 £24.40 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +196.28% -68.91%
75th Percentile £69.38 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.50 £64.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Configuration Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Configuration Management

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Cambridge over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Cambridge

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Configuration Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Configuration Management

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Crystal Reports
General
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Environmental Health
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Games
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) ITSM Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IFS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Trainer
2 1 (20.00%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) IFS