Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Configuration Management
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 54 72
Rank change year-on-year -10 +18 -6
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 11 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.51% 1.48% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.70% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 1
10th Percentile £474 £433 -
25th Percentile £500 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.74% -7.32% -14.58%
75th Percentile £659 £638 £519
90th Percentile £738 £645 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £521 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +9.74% -7.32% -14.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 530 812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.05% 86.89% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 337 554
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £573 £573 £613
90th Percentile £645 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 6
10th Percentile - £15.59 £18.50
25th Percentile - £17.43 £18.74
Median hourly rate £14.25 £35.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -59.29% +66.61% -2.29%
75th Percentile £25.75 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £27.40 £98.25 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -31.88% +71.05% -11.63%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Configuration Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in Leeds

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Leeds over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Leeds

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
3 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) NuGet
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) MSI
3 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
3 1 (9.09%) JMeter
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
3 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Digital Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) React
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
2 1 (9.09%) J2EE
2 1 (9.09%) JPA
2 1 (9.09%) JWT
2 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Security Posture
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) NHS
2 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
1 4 (36.36%) Unix
2 2 (18.18%) Mac OS X
3 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
1 8 (72.73%) Test Automation
2 6 (54.55%) Continuous Deployment
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
4 4 (36.36%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (36.36%) Zero Trust
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (18.18%) Data Security
6 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
6 2 (18.18%) Information Security
6 2 (18.18%) Security Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) Security Testing
6 2 (18.18%) SIEM
6 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
6 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
3 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (18.18%) CCSP
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (18.18%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
1 2 (18.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (27.27%) Ansible
3 3 (27.27%) Grafana
4 2 (18.18%) Progress Chef
4 2 (18.18%) Puppet
4 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Cribl.io
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 1 (9.09%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle