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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 104 110
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 +32
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 12 20 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.62% 0.87% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.95% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 40
10th Percentile £406 £305 £412
25th Percentile £461 £479 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £538 £608
Median % change year-on-year +25.58% -11.52% +1.25%
75th Percentile £731 £691 £688
90th Percentile £775 £736 £726
London median daily rate £575 £538 £590
% change year-on-year +6.98% -8.82% -3.56%
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 1,821 2,106 2,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.82% 92.09% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,217 1,362 2,052
10th Percentile £316 £375 £358
25th Percentile £413 £475 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £774 £787 £813
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 17
10th Percentile £18.96 £17.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.28 £16.61
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%
75th Percentile £50.75 £41.75 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £115.00 £59.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year -8.57% -11.67% +7.09%

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
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 12 £675 +25.58% 7
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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
1 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (16.67%) BGP
2 2 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) HTTP
2 2 (16.67%) IGMP
2 2 (16.67%) Multicast
2 2 (16.67%) SSL
2 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) VXLAN
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (8.33%) Internet
3 1 (8.33%) NAS
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security
3 1 (8.33%) OSPF
3 1 (8.33%) SAN
3 1 (8.33%) SSH
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (16.67%) Robot Framework
4 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Front Office
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Configuration Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (8.33%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Private Cloud
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (8.33%) CMDB
2 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) High Availability
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (25.00%) Load Balancing
4 3 (25.00%) Low Latency
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Log Aggregation
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) SDLC
5 2 (16.67%) Server Management
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (16.67%) Perl
5 1 (8.33%) Bash
5 1 (8.33%) Go
5 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CCIE
2 1 (8.33%) CCNP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Postgraduate
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Ansible
2 6 (50.00%) Terraform
3 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
4 2 (16.67%) Puppet
5 1 (8.33%) Grafana
5 1 (8.33%) Packer
5 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (8.33%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) F5
3 2 (16.67%) Arista
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (8.33%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds