Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Configuration Management
England > East Midlands

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 36 55
Rank change year-on-year -39 +19 +12
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 4 17 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.42% 3.00% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 3.46% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 8
10th Percentile £385 £500 £347
25th Percentile £393 £513 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.13% +0.91% +0.92%
75th Percentile £483 £592 -
90th Percentile £523 £659 £569
England median daily rate £530 £535 £561
% change year-on-year -0.93% -4.63% +3.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 814 491 650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.70% 86.60% 81.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 299 447
10th Percentile £190 £230 £188
25th Percentile £356 £345 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £436 £445
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% -2.13% -1.11%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £550
90th Percentile £611 £604 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 20 61
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.06 £11.21
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.95 £23.34 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.11% +33.37% +3.98%
75th Percentile £24.49 £30.44 £33.25
90th Percentile £25.56 £41.21 £51.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +2.66%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Configuration Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the East Midlands

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Configuration Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 February 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
Northamptonshire -24 2 £395 -
Derbyshire -6 1 - - 2
Leicestershire -9 1 £550 -5.98%
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Migration Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Wintel Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) API Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (25.00%) DataOps
2 1 (25.00%) EAM
2 1 (25.00%) Energy Management
2 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) IT Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (25.00%) Server Building
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Intel
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Siemens
2 1 (25.00%) Sophos