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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 99 103
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 +27
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 17 26 37
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.82% 1.21% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.31% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 30
10th Percentile £400 £211 £423
25th Percentile £421 £422 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -10.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £697 £581 £688
90th Percentile £775 £614 £726
London median daily rate £575 £565 £575
% change year-on-year +1.77% -1.74% -8.00%

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 1,841 1,981 2,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.33% 92.35% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,289 1,246 1,680
10th Percentile £352 £363 £362
25th Percentile £431 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +1.05% -3.15%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £778 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 24
10th Percentile £19.90 £18.10 £17.58
25th Percentile £24.31 £22.00 £21.85
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -17.60%
75th Percentile £41.80 - £40.19
90th Percentile £46.05 £43.75 £65.00
London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.33
% change year-on-year -2.86% +15.40% -15.16%

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 23 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 23 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 -13 13 £575 +6.98% 9
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 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
3 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (11.76%) Datadog
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.76%) Sumo Logic
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) Nutanix
4 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) HTTP
1 2 (11.76%) SSL
1 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) CouchDB
2 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Robot Framework
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
3 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Front Office
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Banking Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Banking Business Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) PowerShell Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Python Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Security Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Business Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Banking Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Payments Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (5.88%) HTML
1 1 (5.88%) LDAP
1 1 (5.88%) Memcached
1 1 (5.88%) REST
1 1 (5.88%) SOAP
1 1 (5.88%) Swing
1 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (11.76%) Hedge funds
1 2 (11.76%) PMI
1 2 (11.76%) Private Cloud
1 2 (11.76%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) CMDB
2 1 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Unix
3 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps
1 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (23.53%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) Change Management
2 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
2 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
2 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (17.65%) High Availability
3 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (11.76%) Backlog Management
4 2 (11.76%) Business Process Modelling
4 2 (11.76%) Focus Group
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (11.76%) Story Mapping
4 2 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) Perl
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) Go
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) PHP
4 1 (5.88%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) CBAP
3 2 (11.76%) CISMP
3 2 (11.76%) CompTIA CySA+
3 2 (11.76%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
3 2 (11.76%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.88%) APMP
4 1 (5.88%) CCNA
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.88%) PMP
4 1 (5.88%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.76%) NCSC
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Ansible
2 5 (29.41%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) SCCM
4 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) VMware
2 2 (11.76%) CyberArk
2 2 (11.76%) F5
2 2 (11.76%) LogRhythm
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow