Configuration Management Contracts in London

Configuration Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 186 171
Rank change year-on-year +8 -15 +13
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 182 237 393
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.50% 1.36% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.53% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 165 281
10th Percentile £388 £375 £400
25th Percentile £466 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £725
90th Percentile £700 £750 £745
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 8
10th Percentile - £33.92 £46.38
25th Percentile - £38.75 £49.69
Median hourly rate £22.00 £40.00 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% -20.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile - £41.25 £52.62
90th Percentile - £43.49 £56.58
England median hourly rate £52.00 £50.00 £50.42
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.83% +4.00%

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 11,225 15,457 23,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 88.42% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,536 11,093 16,726
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 316 265
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.80 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.35 £28.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year +11.95% -28.97% +12.39%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.05 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in London

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 30 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
Central London +12 29 £550 -14.73% 5
West London +14 3 £400 - 10
South London -5 3 £820 +32.26% 2
East London - 1 £675 - 2
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.30%) Apache
2 4 (2.20%) JBoss
2 4 (2.20%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.10%) CMS
4 2 (1.10%) Confluence
4 2 (1.10%) nginx
4 2 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.55%) IIS
5 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (1.65%) SAP SD
2 2 (1.10%) Shopify
3 1 (0.55%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 83 (45.60%) AWS
2 81 (44.51%) Azure
3 37 (20.33%) GCP
4 21 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
4 21 (11.54%) GitHub
5 16 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (8.24%) OpenShift
7 12 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (6.04%) Entra ID
8 11 (6.04%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (5.49%) Azure AKS
10 9 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (3.30%) IaaS
12 5 (2.75%) PaaS
12 5 (2.75%) SaaS
12 5 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (2.20%) Amazon S3
13 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (1.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.09%) Firewall
2 16 (8.79%) DNS
3 11 (6.04%) TCP/IP
4 10 (5.49%) HTTP
5 9 (4.95%) Internet
6 7 (3.85%) BGP
6 7 (3.85%) Multicast
6 7 (3.85%) Network Security
6 7 (3.85%) VPN
7 6 (3.30%) IGMP
7 6 (3.30%) SSH
8 5 (2.75%) HSRP
8 5 (2.75%) HTTPS
8 5 (2.75%) OSPF
8 5 (2.75%) SSL
8 5 (2.75%) VRRP
9 4 (2.20%) DHCP
9 4 (2.20%) SNMP
10 3 (1.65%) Telnet
10 3 (1.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.40%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.20%) MySQL
5 3 (1.65%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.10%) CockroachDB
6 2 (1.10%) DB2
6 2 (1.10%) IMS/DB
6 2 (1.10%) MariaDB
6 2 (1.10%) Metadata
6 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.55%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.55%) KDB
7 1 (0.55%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (24.73%) Jenkins
2 36 (19.78%) GitLab
3 28 (15.38%) Git
4 14 (7.69%) JIRA
5 10 (5.49%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.85%) Artifactory
7 6 (3.30%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (2.20%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.65%) LSMW
10 2 (1.10%) Ant
10 2 (1.10%) JMeter
10 2 (1.10%) Maven
10 2 (1.10%) PROIV
10 2 (1.10%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.10%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.55%) Hudson
11 1 (0.55%) NUnit
11 1 (0.55%) Travis CI
General
1 48 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.88%) Finance
3 22 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (12.09%) Banking
4 15 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.85%) Retail
6 6 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.75%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.65%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.10%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.10%) Law
10 2 (1.10%) Legal
11 1 (0.55%) Billing
11 1 (0.55%) Front Office
11 1 (0.55%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.55%) Local Government
11 1 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 39 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (14.84%) Architect
3 22 (12.09%) Senior
4 19 (10.44%) Network Engineer
5 16 (8.79%) Lead
6 14 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
6 14 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 13 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (6.59%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (5.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.49%) Linux Engineer
10 9 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.40%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (3.85%) Consultant
12 7 (3.85%) Developer
12 7 (3.85%) Software Engineer
13 6 (3.30%) Infrastructure Architect
13 6 (3.30%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (5.49%) Kafka
3 8 (4.40%) REST
4 7 (3.85%) Web Services
4 7 (3.85%) XML
5 5 (2.75%) LDAP
6 4 (2.20%) JSON
6 4 (2.20%) Middleware
6 4 (2.20%) React
6 4 (2.20%) RESTful
6 4 (2.20%) SOAP
7 3 (1.65%) Ajax
7 3 (1.65%) BAPI
7 3 (1.65%) EDI
7 3 (1.65%) IDoc
7 3 (1.65%) Material-UI
7 3 (1.65%) Node.js
7 3 (1.65%) SAP ALE
7 3 (1.65%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (1.10%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.79%) Data Centre
2 14 (7.69%) CMDB
2 14 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 13 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 11 (6.04%) Cloud Native
5 10 (5.49%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.30%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.30%) Replication
7 5 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.20%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.65%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.65%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.65%) PKI
9 3 (1.65%) Podcast
9 3 (1.65%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.65%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 65 (35.71%) Linux
2 33 (18.13%) Windows
3 13 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (6.59%) Unix
5 11 (6.04%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.65%) CentOS
6 3 (1.65%) Rocky
6 3 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.65%) VMS
7 2 (1.10%) SUSE
7 2 (1.10%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.55%) Android
8 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (49.45%) DevOps
2 67 (36.81%) CI/CD
2 67 (36.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 54 (29.67%) Containerisation
4 43 (23.63%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (15.93%) Infrastructure Automation
6 28 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
7 27 (14.84%) Software Engineering
8 24 (13.19%) Agile
9 22 (12.09%) ITIL
9 22 (12.09%) Migration
10 19 (10.44%) Deployment Automation
10 19 (10.44%) High Availability
11 16 (8.79%) Mentoring
11 16 (8.79%) Microservices
11 16 (8.79%) Test Automation
12 15 (8.24%) ITSM
12 15 (8.24%) Task Automation
13 13 (7.14%) SDLC
13 13 (7.14%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (40.66%) Python
2 33 (18.13%) Bash
3 28 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 25 (13.74%) Go
5 21 (11.54%) Java
6 15 (8.24%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.04%) SQL
8 8 (4.40%) C#
9 7 (3.85%) Groovy
9 7 (3.85%) Ruby
9 7 (3.85%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.75%) Perl
11 3 (1.65%) ABAP
11 3 (1.65%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.10%) C
12 2 (1.10%) C++
12 2 (1.10%) Korn
12 2 (1.10%) REXX
13 1 (0.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 55 (30.22%) Security Cleared
2 38 (20.88%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.24%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.85%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.30%) Degree
6 5 (2.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.20%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.65%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.65%) CCIE
8 3 (1.65%) CCNP
8 3 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.55%) CISSP
10 1 (0.55%) GIAC
10 1 (0.55%) JNCIE
10 1 (0.55%) RHCE
10 1 (0.55%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.49%) SLA
2 8 (4.40%) QA
3 5 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.20%) NIST
5 3 (1.65%) GDPR
6 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.10%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.55%) NCSC
7 1 (0.55%) PMO
7 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (23.08%) Docker
2 12 (6.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.65%) FreeRADIUS
4 3 (1.65%) iptables
5 2 (1.10%) Firmware
5 2 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.55%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.55%) NFS
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.55%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 97 (53.30%) Ansible
2 83 (45.60%) Terraform
3 76 (41.76%) Kubernetes
4 48 (26.37%) Puppet
5 26 (14.29%) Progress Chef
6 19 (10.44%) Grafana
7 18 (9.89%) Prometheus
8 10 (5.49%) SCCM
9 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (3.30%) Podman
11 5 (2.75%) Nagios
12 4 (2.20%) FortiGate
12 4 (2.20%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.65%) Cacti
13 3 (1.65%) Consul
13 3 (1.65%) Netcool
13 3 (1.65%) Proxmox
13 3 (1.65%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (1.65%) Salt
14 2 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 17 (9.34%) VMware
2 16 (8.79%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.79%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.59%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.49%) Oracle
5 8 (4.40%) Cisco
5 8 (4.40%) Splunk
6 6 (3.30%) Arista
6 6 (3.30%) Juniper
7 5 (2.75%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.75%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.75%) Google
7 5 (2.75%) SAP
8 4 (2.20%) Nokia
8 4 (2.20%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.20%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.65%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.65%) Reuters
9 3 (1.65%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.65%) Wallstreet Suite