Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in London

Configuration Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 218 153
Rank change year-on-year +7 -65 +39
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 166 162 301
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 1.08% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.19% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 105 227
10th Percentile £407 £310 £400
25th Percentile £463 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £838 £663 £688
90th Percentile - £688 £800
England median daily rate £537 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -0.09% -6.52% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 15
10th Percentile - £28.00 £34.03
25th Percentile - £40.00 £40.82
Median hourly rate £67.70 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.83% - +36.02%
75th Percentile - £80.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - £92.00 £74.75
England median hourly rate £50.00 £43.25 £48.72
% change year-on-year +15.61% -11.23% -0.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,063 13,572 16,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.44% 90.07% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,607 8,737 12,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £794
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 164 237
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in London

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
South London +14 16 £530 -35.37% 1
Central London -6 16 £575 +6.98% 9
East London - 1 £450 - 1
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (9.04%) Confluence
2 10 (6.02%) nginx
3 4 (2.41%) SAS
4 2 (1.20%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (6.02%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.60%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.60%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 57 (34.34%) Azure
2 47 (28.31%) AWS
3 33 (19.88%) IaaS
4 29 (17.47%) Amazon EC2
4 29 (17.47%) Amazon S3
5 24 (14.46%) Amazon ECS
6 22 (13.25%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (12.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 18 (10.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (9.04%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (9.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (9.04%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (8.43%) GitHub
11 11 (6.63%) Datadog
12 10 (6.02%) Amazon ELB
12 10 (6.02%) AWS KMS
12 10 (6.02%) Route 53
13 9 (5.42%) Entra ID
14 8 (4.82%) GCP
14 8 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.65%) Firewall
2 18 (10.84%) HTTP
3 13 (7.83%) DNS
4 11 (6.63%) SMTP
5 10 (6.02%) FTP
5 10 (6.02%) IMAP
5 10 (6.02%) OpenLDAP
5 10 (6.02%) SSH
5 10 (6.02%) TCP/IP
6 7 (4.22%) VPN
7 6 (3.61%) BGP
7 6 (3.61%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (3.61%) SSL
8 5 (3.01%) OSPF
8 5 (3.01%) WAN
8 5 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (2.41%) EIGRP
9 4 (2.41%) Network Security
9 4 (2.41%) VoIP
10 2 (1.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.25%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.83%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (6.02%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.41%) MySQL
7 3 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.81%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (1.20%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.20%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.60%) GIS
9 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.60%) MemSQL
9 1 (0.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (18.07%) Jenkins
1 30 (18.07%) JIRA
2 21 (12.65%) Git
3 11 (6.63%) Vagrant
4 7 (4.22%) GitLab
5 4 (2.41%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.60%) git-flow
General
1 52 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 46 (27.71%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (21.69%) Finance
4 18 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.23%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (5.42%) Banking
7 7 (4.22%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.41%) Retail
9 3 (1.81%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.81%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.81%) Military
10 2 (1.20%) Front Office
10 2 (1.20%) Legal
10 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Billing
11 1 (0.60%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 30 (18.07%) Architect
2 21 (12.65%) Developer
3 19 (11.45%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (10.84%) AWS Engineer
5 17 (10.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (8.43%) AWS DevOps
6 14 (8.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 14 (8.43%) ServiceNow Developer
7 13 (7.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 11 (6.63%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 10 (6.02%) Lead
9 10 (6.02%) Senior
10 9 (5.42%) Network Engineer
11 8 (4.82%) Analyst
11 8 (4.82%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.22%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (4.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.22%) Site Engineer
13 5 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (3.01%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (26.51%) REST
2 30 (18.07%) JSON
3 14 (8.43%) SOAP
4 13 (7.83%) LDAP
5 8 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (4.22%) Kafka
7 6 (3.61%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (2.41%) Ultra Messaging
8 4 (2.41%) VML
8 4 (2.41%) XML
9 3 (1.81%) .NET
9 3 (1.81%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.81%) AWS CDK
9 3 (1.81%) OAuth
10 2 (1.20%) HTML
10 2 (1.20%) Middleware
10 2 (1.20%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.20%) SAML
10 2 (1.20%) Swing
10 2 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.47%) CMDB
2 27 (16.27%) PKI
3 26 (15.66%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (9.64%) Replication
5 14 (8.43%) Cloud Native
6 9 (5.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (4.22%) Data Centre
8 7 (4.22%) Private Cloud
9 6 (3.61%) Algorithms
9 6 (3.61%) Hedge funds
10 5 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (3.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (2.41%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (2.41%) Management Information System
11 4 (2.41%) Onboarding
11 4 (2.41%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.81%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (1.20%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 56 (33.73%) Linux
2 33 (19.88%) Windows
3 12 (7.23%) Ubuntu
3 12 (7.23%) VMS
4 11 (6.63%) Unix
5 10 (6.02%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (4.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (4.82%) Windows Server
7 4 (2.41%) CentOS
8 3 (1.81%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.20%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.60%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (35.54%) DevOps
2 54 (32.53%) Agile
3 49 (29.52%) CI/CD
4 42 (25.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (19.28%) Containerisation
5 32 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (16.27%) Key Management
7 23 (13.86%) ITSM
7 23 (13.86%) Performance Tuning
8 22 (13.25%) Analytics
9 21 (12.65%) Change Management
10 20 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (12.05%) Data Protection
11 19 (11.45%) Cloud Security
11 19 (11.45%) Platform Engineering
12 18 (10.84%) Scrum
13 17 (10.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (9.64%) Infrastructure Automation
15 15 (9.04%) High Availability
15 15 (9.04%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (38.55%) PowerShell
2 56 (33.73%) Python
3 29 (17.47%) SQL
4 20 (12.05%) Bash
5 16 (9.64%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.02%) Groovy
7 8 (4.82%) Java
8 7 (4.22%) Perl
8 7 (4.22%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.41%) Go
10 3 (1.81%) C#
11 2 (1.20%) Bicep
11 2 (1.20%) C++
11 2 (1.20%) PHP
11 2 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.20%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (40.36%) Security Cleared
2 59 (35.54%) SC Cleared
3 20 (12.05%) Degree
4 13 (7.83%) AWS Certification
5 11 (6.63%) Azure Certification
6 7 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.01%) CCIE
7 5 (3.01%) CCNP
8 4 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.81%) RHCE
10 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.20%) CCNA
10 2 (1.20%) CISMP
10 2 (1.20%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.20%) Postgraduate
10 2 (1.20%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.61%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.01%) NIST
3 3 (1.81%) GDPR
3 3 (1.81%) QA
3 3 (1.81%) SLA
4 2 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.20%) ECSS
4 2 (1.20%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.20%) NCSC
5 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 19770
5 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (21.69%) Docker
2 11 (6.63%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.02%) DFS Replication
3 10 (6.02%) Dovecot
3 10 (6.02%) Postfix
3 10 (6.02%) Squid
4 6 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.81%) KVM
6 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.20%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.60%) Ceph
7 1 (0.60%) GPFS
7 1 (0.60%) Lustre
7 1 (0.60%) RACF
7 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.60%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 55 (33.13%) Terraform
2 41 (24.70%) Ansible
3 22 (13.25%) Puppet
4 21 (12.65%) Kubernetes
5 18 (10.84%) Grafana
6 15 (9.04%) Prometheus
7 12 (7.23%) Progress Chef
8 11 (6.63%) Nessus
9 10 (6.02%) Proxmox
10 6 (3.61%) ITRS Geneos
10 6 (3.61%) SCCM
11 5 (3.01%) NetBackup
11 5 (3.01%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (2.41%) Kibana
12 4 (2.41%) logstash
13 2 (1.20%) FortiGate
13 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (1.20%) Salt
14 1 (0.60%) HP Quality Center
14 1 (0.60%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 41 (24.70%) ServiceNow
2 19 (11.45%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.43%) F5
4 10 (6.02%) Jaspersoft
5 9 (5.42%) VMware
6 8 (4.82%) Red Hat
7 7 (4.22%) Cisco
7 7 (4.22%) PagerDuty
8 5 (3.01%) Commvault
9 4 (2.41%) Aruba
9 4 (2.41%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.41%) Meraki
9 4 (2.41%) Oracle
9 4 (2.41%) SnapLogic
9 4 (2.41%) Solace
9 4 (2.41%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.81%) Citrix
10 3 (1.81%) Google
10 3 (1.81%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.81%) SAP