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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 98 109
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 +24
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 16 28 34
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.78% 1.31% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.42% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 25
10th Percentile £400 £302 £430
25th Percentile £421 £497 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% -10.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £663 £588 £703
90th Percentile £755 £630 £730
London median daily rate £575 £575 £571
% change year-on-year - +0.66% -4.79%

All Process & 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 1,836 1,975 2,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.13% 92.29% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,271 1,233 1,678
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +2.22% -3.85%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 26
10th Percentile £19.86 £18.10 £17.97
25th Percentile £23.15 £22.00 £22.63
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £39.50
90th Percentile £46.53 £43.75 £65.00
London median hourly rate £34.27 £35.00 £30.33
% change year-on-year -2.09% +15.40% -19.12%

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 30 January 2026.

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 30 January 2026. 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 -19 12 £525 -2.33% 10
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
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (12.50%) Datadog
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) Sumo Logic
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) CouchDB
2 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) Robot Framework
General
1 5 (31.25%) Banking
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.25%) Front Office
3 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Banking Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Banking Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Project Manager
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%) REST
1 1 (6.25%) SOAP
1 1 (6.25%) Swing
1 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (12.50%) Hedge funds
1 2 (12.50%) PMI
1 2 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) CMDB
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.25%) Unix
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
1 5 (31.25%) DevOps
1 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (25.00%) Agile
2 4 (25.00%) Change Management
2 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
3 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
4 2 (12.50%) Application Packaging
4 2 (12.50%) Backlog Management
4 2 (12.50%) Focus Group
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Story Mapping
4 2 (12.50%) Use Case
4 2 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 4 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) C++
4 1 (6.25%) Go
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) Perl
4 1 (6.25%) PHP
4 1 (6.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) CBAP
3 2 (12.50%) CISMP
3 2 (12.50%) CompTIA CySA+
3 2 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 2 (12.50%) PMI Certification
4 1 (6.25%) APMP
4 1 (6.25%) CCNA
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.25%) PMP
4 1 (6.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) NCSC
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
2 4 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) SCCM
4 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 3 (18.75%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) CyberArk
2 2 (12.50%) LogRhythm
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) F5
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow