Configuration Management Contracts in Cheshire

Configuration Management
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Configuration Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Configuration Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 49 29
Rank change year-on-year +8 -20 +21
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 17 9 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.79% 1.79% 6.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 2.12% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 25
10th Percentile - £530 £305
25th Percentile £463 £570 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £590 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% +47.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £638 £610 £469
90th Percentile £700 £616 £587
North West median daily rate £493 £490 £510
% change year-on-year +0.46% -3.87% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £67.00
North West median hourly rate £60.00 £11.00 £61.13
% change year-on-year +445.45% -82.00% +74.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Cheshire

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in Cheshire

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Cheshire

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in Cheshire

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Crewe -5 5 £625 +5.93%
Knutsford - 5 £475 - 3
Warrington - 3 - - 9
Configuration Management
North West

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) BGP
2 3 (17.65%) EIGRP
2 3 (17.65%) IPv4
2 3 (17.65%) MPLS
2 3 (17.65%) OSPF
2 3 (17.65%) SD-WAN
2 3 (17.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 4 (23.53%) JIRA
3 3 (17.65%) GitLab
3 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.88%) Selenium
4 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.88%) Automotive
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Architect
1 4 (23.53%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 3 (17.65%) IP Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Transmission Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IP Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
1 9 (52.94%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) Migration
2 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (35.29%) Task Automation
4 5 (29.41%) Agile
4 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (29.41%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
5 4 (23.53%) Backlog Refinement
5 4 (23.53%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (23.53%) Data Migration
5 4 (23.53%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (23.53%) Scrum
5 4 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Sprint Review
5 4 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (23.53%) Validation
6 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (17.65%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Bash
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) CCNP
1 5 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.76%) CCNA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Ansible
2 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
3 5 (29.41%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.88%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Fortinet
1 4 (23.53%) Infoblox
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle
1 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
2 3 (17.65%) BMC
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco
2 3 (17.65%) Huawei
2 3 (17.65%) Remedy
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce