Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Configuration Management
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 20 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 2 10 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.42% 12.99% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 14.49% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% - -
South London median daily rate £535 £475 -
% change year-on-year +12.63% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 121 69 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 85.82% 89.61% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 45 54
10th Percentile £404 £287 £380
25th Percentile £484 £483 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £633 £540
90th Percentile £672 £714 £567
South London median daily rate £537 £525 £494
% change year-on-year +2.29% +6.33% -5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £17.87 - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £30.30 - £19.50
75th Percentile £33.60 - £35.06
90th Percentile - - £59.03
South London median hourly rate £19.00 £15.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +19.95% -18.77% -62.64%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in Croydon

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Configuration Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Route 53
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) IMAP
1 1 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (50.00%) SMTP
1 1 (50.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Vagrant
General
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) DFS Replication
2 1 (50.00%) Dovecot
2 1 (50.00%) Postfix
2 1 (50.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Nessus
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Proxmox
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow