Configuration Management Contracts in the East Midlands

Configuration Management
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 46 54 60
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 10 12 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.87% 1.55% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 1.99% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 22
10th Percentile £500 £347 £363
25th Percentile £538 £473 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -3.30% +7.31%
75th Percentile £614 - £625
90th Percentile £670 - -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £48.48 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.42% -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £50.42
% change year-on-year +20.00% -0.83% +9.79%

All Process and 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 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the East Midlands

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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 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
Leicestershire - 5 £618 - 7
Nottinghamshire +8 2 £500 - 7
Derbyshire - 1 - - 17
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
1 5 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 5 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
1 5 (50.00%) IPsec
2 4 (40.00%) HSRP
2 4 (40.00%) OSPF
2 4 (40.00%) VLAN
3 2 (20.00%) SAN
3 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) Chocolatey
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
1 5 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (20.00%) Debian
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 2 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (20.00%) Open Source
3 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (20.00%) Server Building
3 2 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) CCNP
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco
1 5 (50.00%) F5
1 5 (50.00%) Juniper
1 5 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (20.00%) Databricks
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow