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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 105 118
Rank change year-on-year -29 +13 -11
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 17 15 19
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.70% 0.78% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.83% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 17
10th Percentile £374 £390 £324
25th Percentile £416 £410 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £704 £716 £725
90th Percentile £757 £775 £740
London median daily rate £529 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -11.88% +11.63% -8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
London median hourly rate £53.75 £22.00 £26.68
% change year-on-year +144.32% -17.54% -55.61%

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 2,203 1,817 2,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.47% 93.90% 92.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,523 1,228 1,365
10th Percentile £360 £321 £363
25th Percentile £450 £421 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 27 28
10th Percentile £17.14 £18.15 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.18 £22.75 £24.83
Median hourly rate £25.00 £28.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% -18.57% +30.84%
75th Percentile £53.50 £50.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £119.65
London median hourly rate £32.63 £30.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +8.75% -16.67% -4.00%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 15 £613 -2.00% 18
City of Westminster -9 1 £525 +10.53% 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) JBoss
1 1 (5.88%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.88%) Alation
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Collibra
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.88%) Metadata
1 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.88%) Subversion
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Engineering Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Support
4 1 (5.88%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Middleware
1 3 (17.65%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Ajax
3 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) JSON
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.88%) SOAP
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
3 1 (5.88%) XML
3 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) CMDB
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Windows
3 3 (17.65%) Unix
4 1 (5.88%) AIX
4 1 (5.88%) CentOS
4 1 (5.88%) Solaris
4 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) ITSM
2 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (29.41%) Service Management
3 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
3 4 (23.53%) ITIL
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Change Management
4 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
4 3 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (17.65%) DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Runbook
4 3 (17.65%) Software Deployment
4 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (11.76%) Change Control
5 2 (11.76%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) Korn
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) CISA
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) BitLocker
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Ansible
2 3 (17.65%) Puppet
2 3 (17.65%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
3 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (11.76%) SCCM
4 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
4 1 (5.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) ServiceNow
3 3 (17.65%) Okta
3 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
4 2 (11.76%) SaltStack
4 2 (11.76%) VMware
5 1 (5.88%) BMC
5 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (5.88%) Databricks
5 1 (5.88%) Informatica
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle
5 1 (5.88%) Remedy
5 1 (5.88%) Splunk
5 1 (5.88%) Zscaler