Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in Central London

Configuration Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 110 98
Rank change year-on-year +1 -12 +33
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 16 24 54
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.85% 1.03% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.12% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 41
10th Percentile £391 £203 £413
25th Percentile £414 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £535 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -10.83% -
75th Percentile £706 £656 £688
90th Percentile £775 £733 £713
London median daily rate £600 £538 £588
% change year-on-year +11.63% -8.51% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.68 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% -55.53% +36.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,767 2,151 2,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 94.19% 92.04% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,210 1,359 1,921
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £766 £776 £813
London median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 18
10th Percentile £17.25 £19.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.63 £28.06 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +30.84% -37.06%
75th Percentile £35.88 £74.38 £45.64
90th Percentile £63.05 £124.75 £57.73
London median hourly rate £30.25 £37.79 £38.71
% change year-on-year -19.94% -2.39% +0.89%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in Central London

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Central London over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Central London

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
City of London +1 14 £675 +25.87% 24
City of Westminster - 2 £475 -
Configuration Management
London

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (6.25%) Datadog
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.25%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) DNS
2 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
3 2 (12.50%) BGP
3 2 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (12.50%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) HTTP
3 2 (12.50%) IGMP
3 2 (12.50%) Multicast
3 2 (12.50%) SSL
3 2 (12.50%) VPN
3 2 (12.50%) VXLAN
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (6.25%) Internet
4 1 (6.25%) NAS
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security
4 1 (6.25%) OSPF
4 1 (6.25%) SAN
4 1 (6.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) CouchDB
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (12.50%) Git
3 2 (12.50%) Robot Framework
4 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (6.25%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.25%) Front Office
5 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Python Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
1 1 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (6.25%) HTML
1 1 (6.25%) LDAP
1 1 (6.25%) Memcached
1 1 (6.25%) Swing
1 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Hedge funds
1 2 (12.50%) Private Cloud
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.25%) CMDB
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
1 5 (31.25%) Unix
2 3 (18.75%) Windows
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) High Availability
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
4 3 (18.75%) Load Balancing
4 3 (18.75%) Low Latency
5 2 (12.50%) Application Packaging
5 2 (12.50%) Change Management
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps
5 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (12.50%) Log Aggregation
5 2 (12.50%) Microservices
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) Perl
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) C++
4 1 (6.25%) Go
4 1 (6.25%) PHP
4 1 (6.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (6.25%) CCIE
2 1 (6.25%) CCNP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CISMP
2 1 (6.25%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Postgraduate
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NCSC
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Ansible
2 6 (37.50%) Terraform
3 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
4 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 2 (12.50%) Puppet
4 2 (12.50%) SCCM
5 1 (6.25%) Packer
5 1 (6.25%) yum
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) F5
3 2 (12.50%) Arista
3 2 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
4 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.25%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (6.25%) LogRhythm
4 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.25%) SAP
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds