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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 103 126
Rank change year-on-year +7 +23 -15
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 33 30 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.65% 1.23% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.35% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 24 27
10th Percentile £500 £410 £334
25th Percentile £506 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.87%
75th Percentile £688 £696 £731
90th Percentile £694 £775 £748
London median daily rate £550 £550 £553
% change year-on-year - -0.45% -3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 - -
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 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +10 30 £575 -11.20% 8
Camden - 2 £550 -
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 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) Azure
2 13 (39.39%) AWS
3 6 (18.18%) GCP
4 4 (12.12%) GitHub
5 3 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (9.09%) Nutanix
5 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) DNS
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.03%) DHCP
3 1 (3.03%) Network Security
3 1 (3.03%) VPN
3 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) CockroachDB
1 2 (6.06%) MySQL
1 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) GitLab
1 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.12%) JIRA
3 3 (9.09%) Git
4 1 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.03%) Travis CI
General
1 7 (21.21%) Finance
2 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Architect
2 4 (12.12%) Senior
3 3 (9.09%) Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Integration Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Security Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (3.03%) Network Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.03%) Kafka
2 1 (3.03%) SailPoint
2 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) CMDB
2 3 (9.09%) Hedge funds
3 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.06%) Low-Code
3 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.06%) Operational Technology
3 2 (6.06%) PKI
3 2 (6.06%) Private Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Replication
3 2 (6.06%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.06%) Wiki
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (33.33%) Linux
2 8 (24.24%) Windows
3 5 (15.15%) Windows Server
4 4 (12.12%) Unix
5 3 (9.09%) Rocky
6 1 (3.03%) Android
6 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) DevOps
2 13 (39.39%) CI/CD
2 13 (39.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (30.30%) Containerisation
4 8 (24.24%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (24.24%) High Availability
5 6 (18.18%) Agile
5 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.15%) Change Management
6 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (15.15%) Migration
6 5 (15.15%) SDLC
7 4 (12.12%) Cloud Security
7 4 (12.12%) DevSecOps
7 4 (12.12%) ITIL
7 4 (12.12%) Security Management
7 4 (12.12%) Service Management
7 4 (12.12%) Software Engineering
8 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (48.48%) Python
2 6 (18.18%) Bash
2 6 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
4 3 (9.09%) Java
4 3 (9.09%) SQL
5 2 (6.06%) Go
6 1 (3.03%) Bicep
6 1 (3.03%) C
6 1 (3.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) CISA
3 2 (6.06%) CISM
3 2 (6.06%) CISSP
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
3 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (3.03%) CCNP
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) NIST
2 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (6.06%) NIST 800
2 2 (6.06%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) Docker
2 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.03%) BitLocker
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (54.55%) Ansible
2 14 (42.42%) Kubernetes
2 14 (42.42%) Terraform
3 6 (18.18%) SCCM
4 5 (15.15%) Progress Chef
4 5 (15.15%) Puppet
5 3 (9.09%) Consul
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (6.06%) Grafana
6 2 (6.06%) Nagios
6 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.03%) CASB
7 1 (3.03%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) VMware
3 4 (12.12%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.06%) Commvault
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.06%) Qualys
4 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.06%) Snow
5 1 (3.03%) Apple
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco
5 1 (3.03%) Citrix
5 1 (3.03%) F5
5 1 (3.03%) Juniper
5 1 (3.03%) NetScout
5 1 (3.03%) Nexthink
5 1 (3.03%) Remedy
5 1 (3.03%) TOWER Software