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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 113 110
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 17 23 22
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.65% 1.12% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.19% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 21
10th Percentile £416 £409 £363
25th Percentile £469 £461 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +2.80% -13.01%
75th Percentile £702 £688 £725
90th Percentile £771 £733 £763
London median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
London median hourly rate £58.50 £22.00 £63.34
% change year-on-year +165.91% -65.27% +25.62%

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 2,287 1,928 2,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.03% 93.82% 91.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,562 1,274 1,448
10th Percentile £363 £326 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £788
London median daily rate £550 £541 £550
% change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 32 20
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.08 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.43
Median hourly rate £23.08 £30.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.16% +11.24% -22.86%
75th Percentile £55.56 £50.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £64.38 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £36.00 £29.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year +22.03% -16.31% -14.59%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -14 12 £613 +11.36% 8
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £500 -
City of Westminster - 1 £525 - 1
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 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Subversion
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Local Government
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Automation Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Senior
2 2 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Systems Manager
3 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Automation Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Designer
3 1 (5.88%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Support Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Information Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.88%) Ajax
2 1 (5.88%) CSS
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
2 1 (5.88%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) CMDB
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Windows
3 2 (11.76%) Unix
4 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Service Management
2 5 (29.41%) ITIL
3 4 (23.53%) Change Management
3 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (23.53%) ITSM
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) Problem Management
4 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
4 3 (17.65%) Software Deployment
5 2 (11.76%) Capacity Management
5 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
5 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (11.76%) Release Management
5 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.88%) CCSP
3 1 (5.88%) CISA
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.88%) CISM
3 1 (5.88%) CISSP
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
2 1 (5.88%) COBIT
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) BitLocker
1 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Ansible
2 3 (17.65%) Puppet
2 3 (17.65%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.88%) SCCM
4 1 (5.88%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
1 5 (29.41%) ServiceNow
2 3 (17.65%) Okta
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.76%) SaltStack
4 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) VMware
4 1 (5.88%) Zscaler