Configuration Management Contracts in England

Configuration Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Configuration Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Configuration Management over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 146 155
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 647 899 1,319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.75% 1.80% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 1.99% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 628 872
10th Percentile £357 £357 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 31 43
10th Percentile £37.91 £37.50 £17.70
25th Percentile £41.81 £41.81 £22.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +6.15% +17.28%
75th Percentile £62.96 £58.04 £71.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £49.71 £47.11
% change year-on-year +0.58% +5.53% +10.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Configuration Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,926 45,112 64,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,947 31,664 45,849
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,598 1,761
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 -8 244 £550 - 84
South East +21 102 £550 -8.33% 52
East of England +60 92 £500 - 21
South West +51 90 £553 +5.24% 57
North of England -29 60 £500 -4.76% 64
North West -23 43 £497 -2.65% 43
Midlands -28 38 £363 -32.87% 34
West Midlands -32 26 £358 -33.70% 17
Yorkshire +12 16 £558 -7.08% 18
East Midlands +11 12 £550 -6.38% 17
North East -3 1 - - 3
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 42 (6.49%) Confluence
2 15 (2.32%) nginx
3 9 (1.39%) Apache
3 9 (1.39%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.08%) CMS
5 6 (0.93%) Apache Solr
6 5 (0.77%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.77%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.62%) IIS
7 4 (0.62%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.31%) CICS
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.31%) Traefik
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.55%) Windchill
2 8 (1.24%) CATIA
2 8 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.62%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (2.01%) Teamcenter
2 9 (1.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (1.24%) DELMIA
4 3 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.46%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.46%) SAP PLM
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.31%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.15%) Aareon QL
6 1 (0.15%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.15%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.15%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.15%) Primavera
6 1 (0.15%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 139 (21.48%) AWS
2 86 (13.29%) Azure
3 34 (5.26%) GCP
4 33 (5.10%) Serverless
5 27 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (4.02%) GitHub
7 23 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (2.32%) Amazon S3
12 13 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (2.01%) Entra ID
12 13 (2.01%) Slack
13 12 (1.85%) OpenShift
14 11 (1.70%) Apigee
14 11 (1.70%) PaaS
14 11 (1.70%) SaaS
15 10 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (1.39%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 33 (5.10%) Firewall
3 30 (4.64%) DNS
4 25 (3.86%) Network Security
5 20 (3.09%) SAN
6 18 (2.78%) DHCP
6 18 (2.78%) Internet
7 17 (2.63%) VPN
8 11 (1.70%) BGP
8 11 (1.70%) IPsec
9 10 (1.55%) MPLS
10 8 (1.24%) HTTP
10 8 (1.24%) HTTPS
11 7 (1.08%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (1.08%) IOS XR
11 7 (1.08%) SSL
12 6 (0.93%) FTP
12 6 (0.93%) OSPF
12 6 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.77%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.18%) SQL Server
2 33 (5.10%) MySQL
3 24 (3.71%) NoSQL
4 23 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 22 (3.40%) Relational Database
6 15 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
7 10 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (1.39%) Couchbase
8 9 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (1.24%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.08%) Sybase ASE
11 5 (0.77%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (0.77%) InfluxDB
11 5 (0.77%) Power BI
12 4 (0.62%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.62%) DB2
13 3 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.46%) ClickHouse
13 3 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 130 (20.09%) Jenkins
2 65 (10.05%) JIRA
3 58 (8.96%) Git
4 56 (8.66%) GitLab
5 27 (4.17%) Bitbucket
6 24 (3.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 20 (3.09%) SonarQube
8 18 (2.78%) Selenium
9 16 (2.47%) Cucumber
10 13 (2.01%) Subversion
10 13 (2.01%) TeamCity
11 12 (1.85%) REST Assured
12 10 (1.55%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.08%) LoadRunner
14 6 (0.93%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.77%) AppScan
15 5 (0.77%) Burp Suite
15 5 (0.77%) Maven
15 5 (0.77%) MSI
15 5 (0.77%) WiX
General
1 168 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 87 (13.45%) Aerospace
3 64 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (9.27%) Finance
5 44 (6.80%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.40%) Banking
7 19 (2.94%) Legal
8 15 (2.32%) Law
8 15 (2.32%) Military
9 14 (2.16%) Electronics
10 12 (1.85%) Marketing
10 12 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.70%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.39%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.24%) Police
15 7 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.08%) Retail
16 5 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 86 (13.29%) Developer
2 82 (12.67%) Configuration Manager
3 72 (11.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 63 (9.74%) Senior
5 44 (6.80%) Analyst
6 40 (6.18%) Architect
7 31 (4.79%) Software Engineer
8 30 (4.64%) Lead
9 29 (4.48%) Consultant
10 21 (3.25%) Network Engineer
10 21 (3.25%) Python Developer
11 20 (3.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 18 (2.78%) Release Manager
13 17 (2.63%) Embedded Engineer
13 17 (2.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 15 (2.32%) Project Manager
15 14 (2.16%) AWS Engineer
15 14 (2.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (2.16%) Site Engineer
16 13 (2.01%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (8.35%) .NET
2 30 (4.64%) REST
3 28 (4.33%) .NET Core
4 23 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
5 22 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
5 22 (3.40%) JSON
6 17 (2.63%) XML
7 14 (2.16%) Middleware
8 13 (2.01%) ARM Templates
8 13 (2.01%) Java EE
9 12 (1.85%) Node.js
10 11 (1.70%) RESTful
11 10 (1.55%) Kafka
12 9 (1.39%) LDAP
12 9 (1.39%) OAuth
12 9 (1.39%) OpenAPI
12 9 (1.39%) Swagger
13 8 (1.24%) SAML
13 8 (1.24%) SOAP
14 7 (1.08%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 76 (11.75%) CMDB
2 67 (10.36%) Management Information System
3 26 (4.02%) Public Cloud
4 17 (2.63%) ARM Cortex
5 15 (2.32%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.01%) Cloud Native
7 11 (1.70%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.39%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.08%) Client/Server
11 5 (0.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.77%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.77%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.77%) Social Media
11 5 (0.77%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 143 (22.10%) Linux
2 52 (8.04%) Windows
3 35 (5.41%) Unix
4 27 (4.17%) Ubuntu
5 22 (3.40%) Windows Server
6 18 (2.78%) Debian
7 17 (2.63%) FreeRTOS
8 15 (2.32%) CentOS
9 8 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (1.08%) VMS
11 5 (0.77%) Android
11 5 (0.77%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.62%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.62%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (23.18%) DevOps
2 133 (20.56%) CI/CD
3 115 (17.77%) Agile
4 114 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
5 106 (16.38%) ITIL
6 86 (13.29%) Continuous Integration
7 79 (12.21%) Software Engineering
8 78 (12.06%) PLM
9 73 (11.28%) Collaborative Working
9 73 (11.28%) Infrastructure as Code
10 70 (10.82%) Coaching
11 66 (10.20%) Service Management
12 52 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (7.57%) ITSM
14 47 (7.26%) Change Management
15 46 (7.11%) Migration
16 45 (6.96%) Containerisation
17 43 (6.65%) Analytics
18 42 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 42 (6.49%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 151 (23.34%) Python
2 92 (14.22%) PowerShell
3 76 (11.75%) SQL
4 49 (7.57%) Java
5 43 (6.65%) C#
6 41 (6.34%) Bash
7 35 (5.41%) Go
7 35 (5.41%) JavaScript
8 26 (4.02%) C
9 20 (3.09%) Perl
10 19 (2.94%) Ruby
11 17 (2.63%) C++
11 17 (2.63%) Embedded C
12 15 (2.32%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.39%) Groovy
14 6 (0.93%) Scala
15 5 (0.77%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.62%) COBOL
16 4 (0.62%) PHP
16 4 (0.62%) REXX
Qualifications
1 241 (37.25%) Security Cleared
2 194 (29.98%) SC Cleared
3 72 (11.13%) Degree
4 63 (9.74%) DV Cleared
5 32 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
8 14 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (2.01%) CCNP
10 9 (1.39%) CCIE
11 7 (1.08%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.93%) CISSP
12 6 (0.93%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.77%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (0.62%) A+ Certification
14 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 4 (0.62%) CCNA
15 3 (0.46%) CISA
15 3 (0.46%) MCSE
15 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.40%) QA
2 17 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.70%) GDPR
4 10 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.55%) NIST
4 10 (1.55%) SLA
5 7 (1.08%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.08%) PMO
6 5 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.77%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.77%) NCSC
7 3 (0.46%) GPG13
7 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.15%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.15%) GRC
8 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.15%) RMADS
8 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (11.75%) Docker
2 31 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.24%) XenApp
6 6 (0.93%) XenDesktop
7 4 (0.62%) Samba
8 3 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.46%) Firmware
8 3 (0.46%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.31%) KVM
9 2 (0.31%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.31%) vSphere
10 1 (0.15%) NFS
10 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 171 (26.43%) Ansible
2 113 (17.47%) Terraform
3 93 (14.37%) Kubernetes
4 54 (8.35%) Puppet
5 44 (6.80%) Grafana
6 39 (6.03%) Progress Chef
7 31 (4.79%) Prometheus
8 23 (3.55%) PowerCLI
9 19 (2.94%) Docker Swarm
10 17 (2.63%) SCCM
11 15 (2.32%) Podman
12 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (1.39%) BladeLogic
13 9 (1.39%) ITRS Geneos
13 9 (1.39%) Nagios
14 8 (1.24%) ZABBIX
15 7 (1.08%) Graylog
16 6 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 5 (0.77%) Consul
17 5 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.88%) ServiceNow
3 46 (7.11%) VMware
4 28 (4.33%) HP
5 27 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 26 (4.02%) Atlassian
7 23 (3.55%) Dell
7 23 (3.55%) Oracle
8 22 (3.40%) Google
9 21 (3.25%) IBM
10 20 (3.09%) Citrix
10 20 (3.09%) Splunk
11 18 (2.78%) SAP
12 17 (2.63%) Cisco
12 17 (2.63%) Lauterbach
13 16 (2.47%) Denodo
13 16 (2.47%) Talend
14 10 (1.55%) Dynatrace
14 10 (1.55%) Nokia
14 10 (1.55%) Salesforce