Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Configuration Management
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 1.12% - 4.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% - 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.63%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £550 £525 £582
% change year-on-year +4.76% -9.79% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £53.38 - -
25th Percentile £54.69 - -
Median hourly rate £58.75 - -
75th Percentile £62.19 - -
90th Percentile £63.13 - -
South West median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% -10.71% +2.10%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 187 90 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 70.04% 87.38% 87.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 52 69
10th Percentile £348 £185 £175
25th Percentile £402 £244 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £469 £488
Median % change year-on-year +14.67% -3.85% -9.30%
75th Percentile £668 £550 £630
90th Percentile £788 £565 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 6
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.88 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.25 £14.71
Median hourly rate £52.00 £15.50 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year +235.48% -0.77% -72.35%
75th Percentile £71.50 £15.75 £22.79
90th Percentile £74.68 £19.10 £43.84
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +7.14%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in Dorset

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Configuration Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 23 September 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
Bournemouth - 1 £430 - 2
Configuration Management
South West

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (33.33%) RS-232
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive
1 1 (33.33%) Avionics
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
1 1 (33.33%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analogue Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (33.33%) GNSS
1 1 (33.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Battery Management
1 1 (33.33%) CAD
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
1 1 (33.33%) Observability
1 1 (33.33%) Power Management
1 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
1 1 (33.33%) Requirements Management
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) UML
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
1 1 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) EMC
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle