Configuration Management Contracts in England

Configuration Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 170 130 147
Rank change year-on-year -40 +17 +4
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 394 648 916
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.62% 1.74% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 2.01% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 378 639
10th Percentile £336 £358 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 131 30
10th Percentile £36.13 £37.91 £37.25
25th Percentile £44.06 £41.81 £41.80
Median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -0.83% +9.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £61.68 £58.40
90th Percentile - £70.00 £65.20
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £50.42
% change year-on-year +20.00% -0.83% +7.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in England

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in England

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in England

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in England

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in England

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in 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 England 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
London -17 168 £550 - 141
South East +11 63 £500 -9.09% 101
North of England +10 52 £493 -0.81% 68
South West +6 47 £575 +4.07% 52
North West +4 32 £493 +0.46% 41
Midlands +16 31 £525 +43.21% 42
East of England -27 23 £270 -46.00% 38
West Midlands +10 21 £523 +45.54% 28
Yorkshire +10 18 £475 -14.80% 18
East Midlands +8 10 £555 +0.91% 12
North East 0 1 - - 10
Configuration Management
UK

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (3.55%) Confluence
2 5 (1.27%) Apache
3 4 (1.02%) CMS
3 4 (1.02%) IIS
4 3 (0.76%) JBoss
4 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.76%) nginx
4 3 (0.76%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.76%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.51%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.51%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (3.05%) Windchill
2 11 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.25%) CATIA
6 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.02%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.51%) Shopify
4 1 (0.25%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.25%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.25%) Maximo
4 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 129 (32.74%) Azure
2 126 (31.98%) AWS
3 43 (10.91%) GCP
4 31 (7.87%) GitHub
5 27 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (3.81%) OpenShift
9 13 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (3.30%) Power Platform
9 13 (3.30%) PowerApps
10 11 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.79%) Serverless
11 10 (2.54%) Azure AKS
12 9 (2.28%) Amazon S3
13 8 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.03%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.78%) SaaS
14 7 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (9.39%) Firewall
2 27 (6.85%) DNS
3 17 (4.31%) HTTP
4 15 (3.81%) OSPF
5 14 (3.55%) TCP/IP
6 11 (2.79%) HSRP
6 11 (2.79%) VPN
7 10 (2.54%) Network Security
8 9 (2.28%) BGP
9 7 (1.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 7 (1.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 7 (1.78%) Internet
9 7 (1.78%) IPsec
9 7 (1.78%) SAN
10 6 (1.52%) DHCP
10 6 (1.52%) Multicast
10 6 (1.52%) SSH
10 6 (1.52%) VLAN
11 5 (1.27%) IGMP
11 5 (1.27%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.28%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (1.52%) Big Data
6 5 (1.27%) MySQL
7 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.51%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.51%) DB2
7 2 (0.51%) IDOL
7 2 (0.51%) IMS/DB
7 2 (0.51%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.51%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.25%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.25%) Metadata
8 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 92 (23.35%) Jenkins
2 68 (17.26%) GitLab
3 59 (14.97%) Git
4 43 (10.91%) JIRA
5 24 (6.09%) Bitbucket
6 21 (5.33%) SonarQube
7 18 (4.57%) Selenium
8 14 (3.55%) Cucumber
9 13 (3.30%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.27%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.02%) JMeter
12 3 (0.76%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.51%) HP UFT
13 2 (0.51%) LoadRunner
13 2 (0.51%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.51%) TestNG
14 1 (0.25%) Ant
14 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 133 (33.76%) Social Skills
2 63 (15.99%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (14.47%) Finance
4 29 (7.36%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.58%) Banking
6 15 (3.81%) Law
7 14 (3.55%) Telecoms
8 10 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.78%) Police
9 7 (1.78%) Retail
10 6 (1.52%) Electronics
11 5 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.76%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.76%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.76%) Military
12 3 (0.76%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.51%) Automotive
13 2 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 63 (15.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (9.39%) Architect
3 36 (9.14%) Senior
4 33 (8.38%) Lead
5 23 (5.84%) Developer
5 23 (5.84%) Platform Engineer
6 21 (5.33%) Automation Engineer
6 21 (5.33%) Network Engineer
7 20 (5.08%) Software Engineer
8 16 (4.06%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (4.06%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (4.06%) Consultant
8 16 (4.06%) Senior DevOps
8 16 (4.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 15 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (3.81%) Linux Engineer
9 15 (3.81%) Technical Leader
10 14 (3.55%) Analyst
11 13 (3.30%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (3.05%) Configuration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.63%) REST
2 22 (5.58%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (4.82%) SOAP
4 13 (3.30%) Java EE
5 11 (2.79%) Web Services
5 11 (2.79%) XML
6 10 (2.54%) Kafka
7 9 (2.28%) ARM Templates
8 8 (2.03%) LDAP
9 7 (1.78%) Ajax
10 5 (1.27%) CSS
10 5 (1.27%) HTML
10 5 (1.27%) JSON
10 5 (1.27%) Middleware
10 5 (1.27%) React
11 4 (1.02%) Node.js
11 4 (1.02%) RESTful
12 3 (0.76%) .NET
12 3 (0.76%) DCOM
12 3 (0.76%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.69%) CMDB
2 20 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 17 (4.31%) Cloud Native
4 16 (4.06%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.05%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.54%) Hedge funds
6 10 (2.54%) Replication
7 8 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.03%) Private Cloud
7 8 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.78%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.27%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.27%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.76%) Podcast
11 3 (0.76%) Smartphone
11 3 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 112 (28.43%) Linux
2 79 (20.05%) Windows
3 37 (9.39%) Windows Server
4 21 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (5.33%) Unix
5 15 (3.81%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.28%) CentOS
7 7 (1.78%) AIX
8 5 (1.27%) VMS
9 4 (1.02%) HPUX
9 4 (1.02%) Rocky
9 4 (1.02%) Solaris
9 4 (1.02%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.51%) Debian
10 2 (0.51%) SUSE
10 2 (0.51%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.25%) Android
11 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (42.39%) DevOps
2 107 (27.16%) CI/CD
3 105 (26.65%) Problem-Solving
4 95 (24.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 85 (21.57%) Agile
6 79 (20.05%) Containerisation
7 62 (15.74%) ITIL
8 59 (14.97%) Software Engineering
9 58 (14.72%) Service Management
10 50 (12.69%) Continuous Integration
10 50 (12.69%) Infrastructure Automation
11 48 (12.18%) ITSM
12 41 (10.41%) Test Automation
13 39 (9.90%) Deployment Automation
14 38 (9.64%) Migration
14 38 (9.64%) Problem Management
15 32 (8.12%) High Availability
15 32 (8.12%) Platform Engineering
16 31 (7.87%) Task Automation
16 31 (7.87%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 131 (33.25%) Python
2 75 (19.04%) PowerShell
3 70 (17.77%) Bash
4 36 (9.14%) Java
4 36 (9.14%) SQL
5 22 (5.58%) Go
6 13 (3.30%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.79%) Shell Script
8 9 (2.28%) Ruby
9 8 (2.03%) Perl
10 7 (1.78%) C#
11 6 (1.52%) Bicep
12 3 (0.76%) C
13 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.51%) REXX
14 1 (0.25%) COBOL
14 1 (0.25%) Groovy
14 1 (0.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 153 (38.83%) Security Cleared
2 126 (31.98%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.12%) DV Cleared
4 30 (7.61%) Degree
5 29 (7.36%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (6.35%) CCNP
7 18 (4.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 11 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.79%) OCA
8 11 (2.79%) Oracle Certification
8 11 (2.79%) RHCE
9 10 (2.54%) RHCA
10 8 (2.03%) AWS Certification
10 8 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.52%) CCNA
11 6 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.02%) CISSP
13 3 (0.76%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.55%) QA
2 10 (2.54%) NIST
3 9 (2.28%) SLA
4 7 (1.78%) Def Stans
5 5 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.76%) GDPR
7 2 (0.51%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.51%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.25%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 67 (17.01%) Docker
2 23 (5.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (5.33%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.76%) FreeRADIUS
5 3 (0.76%) iptables
5 3 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.51%) Firmware
6 2 (0.51%) KVM
6 2 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.25%) NFS
7 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 165 (41.88%) Ansible
2 126 (31.98%) Terraform
3 112 (28.43%) Kubernetes
4 72 (18.27%) Puppet
5 55 (13.96%) Progress Chef
6 26 (6.60%) Grafana
6 26 (6.60%) SCCM
7 21 (5.33%) Prometheus
8 16 (4.06%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (3.55%) Podman
10 11 (2.79%) vCenter Server
11 10 (2.54%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (2.28%) Nagios
13 6 (1.52%) ZABBIX
14 5 (1.27%) Consul
14 5 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (1.27%) WSUS
15 4 (1.02%) FortiGate
15 4 (1.02%) Kustomize
15 4 (1.02%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 52 (13.20%) VMware
2 37 (9.39%) Microsoft
3 36 (9.14%) ServiceNow
4 33 (8.38%) Cisco
5 26 (6.60%) Oracle
6 25 (6.35%) Red Hat
7 13 (3.30%) Atlassian
7 13 (3.30%) SolarWinds
8 12 (3.05%) BMC
9 11 (2.79%) Fortinet
9 11 (2.79%) Juniper
9 11 (2.79%) Splunk
10 9 (2.28%) Remedy
11 8 (2.03%) F5
12 7 (1.78%) Databricks
12 7 (1.78%) Google
12 7 (1.78%) SAP
13 5 (1.27%) Arista
13 5 (1.27%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.27%) Snow