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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 91 102
Rank change year-on-year -35 +11 +25
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 15 33 31
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.61% 1.65% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.77% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 25
10th Percentile £421 £500 £416
25th Percentile £458 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £690
90th Percentile £764 - £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £27.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £63.10 £22.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +186.82% -45.00% -20.67%

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 2,099 1,860 2,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.50% 93.00% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,423 1,206 1,562
10th Percentile £357 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 24 24
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £20.01
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.75 £22.38
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.97 £29.11
90th Percentile £59.56 £50.75 £41.29
London median hourly rate £35.61 £34.25 £28.50
% change year-on-year +3.96% +20.18% -26.92%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -27 10 £475 -17.39% 10
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £500 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (6.67%) Nutanix
2 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 4 (26.67%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Local Government
3 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Banking Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Banking Business Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Business Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Systems Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Information Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) CMDB
1 2 (13.33%) PMI
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Change Management
1 5 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) Service Management
2 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (20.00%) Project Management
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (13.33%) Backlog Management
4 2 (13.33%) Escalation Management
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) CBAP
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
2 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (6.67%) APMP
3 1 (6.67%) CCNA
3 1 (6.67%) CCSP
3 1 (6.67%) CISM
3 1 (6.67%) CISSP
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) PMP
3 1 (6.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) SLA
3 1 (6.67%) COBIT
3 1 (6.67%) NIST
3 1 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Packer
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
1 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) VMware