Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Configuration Management
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 18 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 0.68% 1.69% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 2.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
East Midlands median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -10.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 119 93 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 81.51% 78.81% 75.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 53 85
10th Percentile £131 £136 £196
25th Percentile £313 £250 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £388 £449
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -13.70% +8.52%
75th Percentile £539 £488 £563
90th Percentile £638 £576 £625
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £410 £445
% change year-on-year +15.85% -7.87% -6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £16.31 £18.85 £14.45
25th Percentile £17.88 £19.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.70 £20.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -9.89% +11.96%
75th Percentile £30.94 £21.03 £25.56
90th Percentile £33.75 £21.19 £27.48
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £18.94 £17.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +11.38% -35.80%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 2 July 2026. 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
Leicester -1 1 £550 -15.38% 1
Configuration Management
East Midlands

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Energy Management
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Server Building
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft