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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 112 100
Rank change year-on-year -4 -12 +37
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 15 24 53
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.78% 1.02% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.11% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 41
10th Percentile £391 £203 £413
25th Percentile £403 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £706 £644 £688
90th Percentile £775 £733 £713
London median daily rate £625 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate - £26.68 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -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 1,796 2,154 2,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.64% 91.82% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 1,349 1,890
10th Percentile £338 £374 £362
25th Percentile £425 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £757 £776 £800
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 26 19
10th Percentile £17.97 £19.50 £16.45
25th Percentile £21.07 £28.06 £17.97
Median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -41.33%
75th Percentile £35.88 £74.38 £52.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £124.75 £69.75
London median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 -11 13 £575 +6.98% 71
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 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (13.33%) Datadog
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) Sumo Logic
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (13.33%) BGP
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (13.33%) HTTP
2 2 (13.33%) IGMP
2 2 (13.33%) Multicast
2 2 (13.33%) SSL
2 2 (13.33%) VXLAN
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (6.67%) Internet
3 1 (6.67%) NAS
3 1 (6.67%) Network Security
3 1 (6.67%) OSPF
3 1 (6.67%) SAN
3 1 (6.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) CouchDB
2 1 (6.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Robot Framework
3 1 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) Front Office
4 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) PowerShell Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Python Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Security Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Configuration Management Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
1 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (6.67%) HTML
1 1 (6.67%) LDAP
1 1 (6.67%) Memcached
1 1 (6.67%) Swing
1 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (13.33%) Hedge funds
1 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
1 2 (13.33%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.67%) CMDB
2 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Unix
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (26.67%) High Availability
4 3 (20.00%) Change Management
4 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 3 (20.00%) Low Latency
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) SDLC
5 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
5 2 (13.33%) Server Hardening
5 2 (13.33%) Server Management
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) Bash
4 2 (13.33%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) Perl
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) C++
5 1 (6.67%) Go
5 1 (6.67%) PHP
5 1 (6.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CISMP
1 2 (13.33%) CompTIA CySA+
1 2 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) CCIE
2 1 (6.67%) CCNP
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Postgraduate
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) NCSC
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Ansible
2 5 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (13.33%) SCCM
4 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.67%) Packer
4 1 (6.67%) yum
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) F5
3 2 (13.33%) Arista
3 2 (13.33%) CyberArk
3 2 (13.33%) LogRhythm
3 2 (13.33%) VMware
4 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.67%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) SAP
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds