Configuration Management Contracts in Lancashire

Configuration Management
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 31 30
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 1 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 0.55% 0.50% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.64% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile - - £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.22%
75th Percentile - - £775
90th Percentile - - £805
North West median daily rate £493 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.40% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £11.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £11.00 £61.13
% change year-on-year - -82.00% +81.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 166 157 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 90.71% 78.89% 87.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 75 116
10th Percentile £400 £257 £297
25th Percentile £463 £413 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.60% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £648 £602
90th Percentile £655 £720 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 53 47
10th Percentile £15.77 - £25.04
25th Percentile £23.87 £16.06 £29.30
Median hourly rate £28.75 £25.60 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.30% -39.76% +15.65%
75th Percentile £57.61 £45.88 £51.19
90th Percentile £63.40 £47.64 £56.38
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £23.80 £36.65
% change year-on-year +36.55% -35.06% +52.07%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Lancashire

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in Lancashire

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in Lancashire

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Preston - 1 £530 - 1
Configuration Management
North West

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (100.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA