Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Configuration Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 101 100
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +31
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 14 21 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.78% 1.11% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.21% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 25
10th Percentile £400 £234 £430
25th Percentile £421 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -10.42% +2.13%
75th Percentile £716 £588 £703
90th Percentile £775 £614 £730
Central London median daily rate £525 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -2.33% -10.42% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,608 1,738 2,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.53% 92.01% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,128 1,056 1,550
10th Percentile £350 £367 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £761 £791 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +46.67% -35.19%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £137.50 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -27.15%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Configuration Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in the City of London

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Configuration Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the City of London

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Configuration Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (14.29%) Datadog
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) Sumo Logic
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Nutanix
4 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) HTTP
1 2 (14.29%) SSL
1 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) CouchDB
2 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) Robot Framework
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 4 (28.57%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Front Office
5 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Banking Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Banking Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Python Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Security Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Configuration Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (7.14%) HTML
1 1 (7.14%) LDAP
1 1 (7.14%) Memcached
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
1 1 (7.14%) Swing
1 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) CMDB
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (14.29%) PMI
1 2 (14.29%) Private Cloud
1 2 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Change Management
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (21.43%) High Availability
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (21.43%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (14.29%) Low Latency
4 2 (14.29%) SIEM
4 2 (14.29%) Ultra-Low Latency
4 2 (14.29%) Use Case
4 2 (14.29%) User Stories
4 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) Perl
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) C++
4 1 (7.14%) Go
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) PHP
4 1 (7.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) CBAP
2 2 (14.29%) CISMP
2 2 (14.29%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Postgraduate
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (14.29%) NCSC
1 2 (14.29%) NIST
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Ansible
2 5 (35.71%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 2 (14.29%) F5
2 2 (14.29%) LogRhythm
2 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) VMware