Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Configuration Management
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 34 46
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 6 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.57% 1.37% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 1.64% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £601 - -
25th Percentile £603 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £588 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +3.07% -
75th Percentile £653 £600 £604
90th Percentile £674 - £624
East of England median daily rate £606 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +44.35% -16.00% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 333 305 440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.95% 83.79% 90.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 107 155
10th Percentile £303 £279 £206
25th Percentile £406 £340 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £625 £553 £561
90th Percentile £700 £618 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 86 193
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.31 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.58 £21.46 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £42.88 £29.95
East of England median hourly rate £21.14 £26.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -19.47% +31.25% -4.76%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Configuration Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Cambridge -6 6 £613 +4.26% 2
Configuration Management
East of England

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) Sumo Logic
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) InfiniBand
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (16.67%) Environmental Health
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Games
2 1 (16.67%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Configuration Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) ITSM Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IFS Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Trainer
2 1 (16.67%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) CMDB
2 1 (16.67%) Grid Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Def Stans
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) GPFS
1 1 (16.67%) Lustre
1 1 (16.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Consul
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) CloudEndure
2 1 (16.67%) IFS