Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Configuration Management
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 26 21
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 +9
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 12 10 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Farnborough 12.37% 5.88% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.63% 7.63% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 1
10th Percentile £534 £570 -
25th Percentile £585 £576 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £582 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% -10.46% +18.18%
75th Percentile £619 £585 £675
90th Percentile - £595 -
Hampshire median daily rate £548 £573 £588
% change year-on-year -4.37% -2.55% -11.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 95 131 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 97.94% 77.06% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 92 54
10th Percentile £368 £425 £300
25th Percentile £394 £523 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £531
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.94% +1.19%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £594
90th Percentile £675 £750 £667
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 21
10th Percentile £19.25 £69.00 £21.00
25th Percentile £29.63 £74.06 £27.50
Median hourly rate £64.50 £75.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +36.36% +46.67%
75th Percentile £73.13 - £60.00
90th Percentile £74.38 - £77.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +4.27% +30.49%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Farnborough

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Configuration Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Configuration Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Farnborough 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 10 (83.33%) Amazon EKS
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
1 10 (83.33%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) Middleware
1 10 (83.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (83.33%) Migration
2 10 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (41.67%) High Availability
5 4 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (33.33%) Open Source
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
7 1 (8.33%) Agile
7 1 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (8.33%) Design Patterns
7 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps
7 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
7 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (8.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 11 (91.67%) Java
2 11 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 11 (91.67%) Python
2 11 (91.67%) SQL
3 10 (83.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Ansible
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Proxmox
3 1 (8.33%) Rundeck
3 1 (8.33%) Salt
3 1 (8.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) VMware