Configuration Management Contracts in Central London

Configuration Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 105 121
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 +4
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 28 29 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.44% 1.24% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.35% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 32
10th Percentile £411 £402 £355
25th Percentile £502 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £598 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.04% +8.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £696
90th Percentile £689 £771 £738
London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -6.93%
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 £40.00 £50.42
% change year-on-year -45.00% -20.67% +27.16%

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 1,822 2,143 3,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.53% 91.27% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 1,499 2,261
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £450 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.80%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 23 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.50 £18.03
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%
75th Percentile £49.75 £36.50 £53.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £48.57 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.25 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +7.50% -25.00% +10.48%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Central London

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in Central London

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Central London over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Central London

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in Central London

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 30 June 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 +2 27 £538 -10.04% 33
Configuration Management
London

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (3.57%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) AWS
2 12 (42.86%) Azure
3 6 (21.43%) GCP
4 4 (14.29%) GitHub
5 3 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
6 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
3 2 (7.14%) BGP
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (7.14%) IGMP
3 2 (7.14%) Multicast
3 2 (7.14%) Network Security
3 2 (7.14%) VPN
3 2 (7.14%) VXLAN
4 1 (3.57%) Internet
4 1 (3.57%) NAS
4 1 (3.57%) OSPF
4 1 (3.57%) SAN
4 1 (3.57%) SSH
4 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) CockroachDB
1 2 (7.14%) MySQL
1 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
2 7 (25.00%) GitLab
3 5 (17.86%) Git
4 4 (14.29%) JIRA
5 3 (10.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (3.57%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (10.71%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Architect
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Developer
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Network Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Network Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.57%) Kafka
2 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Hedge funds
2 3 (10.71%) Virtual Team
3 2 (7.14%) CMDB
3 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Replication
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.57%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Unix
2 5 (17.86%) Windows
3 3 (10.71%) Rocky
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) DevOps
2 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 8 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (25.00%) High Availability
7 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (17.86%) SDLC
9 4 (14.29%) Agile
9 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 3 (10.71%) Change Management
10 3 (10.71%) DevSecOps
10 3 (10.71%) Microservices
10 3 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 3 (10.71%) Task Automation
10 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
11 2 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
11 2 (7.14%) Log Aggregation
11 2 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) Bash
3 5 (17.86%) Shell Script
4 4 (14.29%) Java
4 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 3 (10.71%) SQL
6 2 (7.14%) Go
7 1 (3.57%) Bicep
7 1 (3.57%) C
7 1 (3.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 2 (7.14%) CCNP
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) CCIE
4 1 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (67.86%) Ansible
2 14 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 13 (46.43%) Terraform
4 5 (17.86%) Progress Chef
4 5 (17.86%) Puppet
5 3 (10.71%) Consul
6 2 (7.14%) Grafana
6 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.57%) CASB
7 1 (3.57%) Packer
7 1 (3.57%) SCCM
7 1 (3.57%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Palo Alto
2 3 (10.71%) VMware
3 2 (7.14%) Arista
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco
3 2 (7.14%) F5
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.57%) Commvault
4 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.57%) Juniper
4 1 (3.57%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (3.57%) NetScout
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.57%) TOWER Software