Configuration Management Contracts in the East of England

Configuration Management
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 41 97
Rank change year-on-year -35 +56 +27
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 16 81 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.45% 4.21% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 4.98% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 10
10th Percentile - £282 £338
25th Percentile £195 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% -3.38% -5.91%
75th Percentile £460 £550 £572
90th Percentile £538 £560 £591
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 70 3
10th Percentile - £41.18 -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £41.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +19.62% -33.12%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £41.81
90th Percentile - £51.00 £41.81
England median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £50.42
% change year-on-year -15.00% -0.83% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 983 1,625 1,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.04% 84.50% 87.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 651 1,015
10th Percentile £212 £200 £229
25th Percentile £363 £313 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 608 348
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.17 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.94 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.38 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the East of England

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the East of England

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the East of England

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the East of England

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Cambridgeshire +23 9 £200 +11.11% 18
Hertfordshire -23 5 £340 -35.24% 13
Bedfordshire -5 2 £500 -9.09% 12
Configuration Management
England

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

Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (31.25%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) Serverless
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 2 (12.50%) Aviation
4 1 (6.25%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Configuration Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Configuration Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) CMDB
2 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Asset Management
1 6 (37.50%) Data Entry
1 6 (37.50%) Inventory Management
1 6 (37.50%) IT Asset Management
1 6 (37.50%) ITSM
1 6 (37.50%) PLM
1 6 (37.50%) Service Management
1 6 (37.50%) Time Management
2 4 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Change Control
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (12.50%) Workload Management
5 1 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.25%) High Availability
5 1 (6.25%) Process Improvement
5 1 (6.25%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Def Stans
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Consul
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Twitter
2 1 (6.25%) SAP