Configuration Management Contracts in London

Configuration Management
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Configuration Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Configuration Management over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 176 187
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -18
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 247 425 609
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.38% 1.55% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.70% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 293 432
10th Percentile £375 £359 £435
25th Percentile £475 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 3
10th Percentile £33.02 - £16.80
25th Percentile £38.75 - £18.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.42 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.67% +152.10% -
75th Percentile £49.88 £52.33 £49.38
90th Percentile £68.00 £58.99 £67.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £43.95
% change year-on-year -0.83% +14.72% +8.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Configuration Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,764 24,998 36,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.35% 91.09% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,289 17,888 26,458
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 285 428
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.63 £17.86
25th Percentile £19.94 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +7.64% +13.14%
75th Percentile £48.75 £60.75 £50.65
90th Percentile £66.93 £78.30 £69.05
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

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 19 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management in London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 19 April 2024. 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 +23 30 £648 +17.73% 5
South London +22 16 £620 +45.88% 1
East London - 2 - - 4
North London - 1 - -
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 14 (5.67%) Confluence
2 11 (4.45%) Apache
3 8 (3.24%) nginx
4 6 (2.43%) IIS
5 5 (2.02%) Anypoint
5 5 (2.02%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.21%) Apache Solr
6 3 (1.21%) MQSeries
6 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.81%) CMS
8 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.40%) Drupal
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.81%) Remedy AR System
2 2 (0.81%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.40%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.40%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.40%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.40%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.40%) Primavera
3 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 85 (34.41%) AWS
2 51 (20.65%) Azure
3 19 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 19 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (7.69%) Serverless
4 13 (5.26%) GCP
4 13 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (5.26%) Slack
5 12 (4.86%) PaaS
6 10 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (4.05%) Entra ID
6 10 (4.05%) GitHub
7 9 (3.64%) IaaS
7 9 (3.64%) SaaS
8 8 (3.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.83%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.43%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.31%) Firewall
2 15 (6.07%) DNS
3 14 (5.67%) Network Security
4 13 (5.26%) Internet
5 11 (4.45%) BGP
5 11 (4.45%) DHCP
6 10 (4.05%) MPLS
6 10 (4.05%) TCP/IP
7 8 (3.24%) VPN
8 7 (2.83%) IPsec
9 6 (2.43%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (2.43%) IOS XR
10 5 (2.02%) Broadband
10 5 (2.02%) FTP
10 5 (2.02%) HTTP
10 5 (2.02%) L2TP
11 4 (1.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 4 (1.62%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (1.62%) OSPF
11 4 (1.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.91%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.86%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.45%) MySQL
4 11 (4.45%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.83%) Sybase ASE
7 6 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.02%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (2.02%) Couchbase
8 5 (2.02%) Redis
9 4 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.62%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.21%) Big Data
10 3 (1.21%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.21%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.81%) DB2
11 2 (0.81%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 66 (26.72%) Jenkins
2 33 (13.36%) Git
3 24 (9.72%) GitLab
4 19 (7.69%) JIRA
5 13 (5.26%) Subversion
6 12 (4.86%) TeamCity
7 9 (3.64%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.02%) MSI
8 5 (2.02%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.02%) Visual Studio
8 5 (2.02%) WiX
9 3 (1.21%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.21%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.21%) Selenium
9 3 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.81%) AppScan
10 2 (0.81%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
General
1 60 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 41 (16.60%) Finance
3 17 (6.88%) Banking
4 11 (4.45%) Marketing
5 10 (4.05%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.64%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.83%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.43%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.02%) Legal
9 5 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.21%) Law
11 2 (0.81%) Back Office
11 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Retail
12 1 (0.40%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Electronics
12 1 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 43 (17.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (11.74%) Senior
3 24 (9.72%) Developer
4 21 (8.50%) Analyst
5 19 (7.69%) Consultant
5 19 (7.69%) Network Engineer
6 14 (5.67%) Architect
6 14 (5.67%) Release Manager
7 11 (4.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 10 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (4.05%) Configuration Manager
8 10 (4.05%) Lead
9 9 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (3.64%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (3.64%) Site Engineer
10 8 (3.24%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.24%) Software Engineer
11 7 (2.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (2.83%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (2.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.12%) .NET
2 16 (6.48%) XML
3 15 (6.07%) JSON
4 14 (5.67%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
5 13 (5.26%) REST
6 12 (4.86%) Middleware
7 11 (4.45%) LDAP
8 7 (2.83%) Kafka
8 7 (2.83%) OpenAPI
8 7 (2.83%) Swagger
8 7 (2.83%) WCF
8 7 (2.83%) WinForms
9 6 (2.43%) NETCONF
9 6 (2.43%) SOAP
9 6 (2.43%) YANG
10 5 (2.02%) ASP.NET
10 5 (2.02%) CSS
10 5 (2.02%) HTML
10 5 (2.02%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.55%) CMDB
2 21 (8.50%) Management Information System
3 15 (6.07%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.24%) Client/Server
4 8 (3.24%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.83%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.02%) Social Media
6 5 (2.02%) Web 2.0
7 4 (1.62%) NHS
8 3 (1.21%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.21%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.21%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.21%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.21%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 51 (20.65%) Linux
2 40 (16.19%) Windows
3 23 (9.31%) Unix
4 19 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.83%) VMS
6 6 (2.43%) CentOS
6 6 (2.43%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (35.63%) DevOps
2 62 (25.10%) CI/CD
3 48 (19.43%) ITIL
4 37 (14.98%) Agile
4 37 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (14.57%) SDLC
6 33 (13.36%) Cybersecurity
7 32 (12.96%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 26 (10.53%) Change Management
10 23 (9.31%) Disaster Recovery
10 23 (9.31%) ITSM
11 22 (8.91%) Analytics
11 22 (8.91%) Computer Science
11 22 (8.91%) Release Management
12 21 (8.50%) Migration
13 20 (8.10%) High Availability
14 19 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
15 18 (7.29%) Continuous Integration
15 18 (7.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (25.91%) Python
2 48 (19.43%) PowerShell
3 47 (19.03%) SQL
4 39 (15.79%) C#
5 23 (9.31%) JavaScript
6 19 (7.69%) Bash
7 18 (7.29%) Go
7 18 (7.29%) Java
8 15 (6.07%) Perl
9 11 (4.45%) C++
10 8 (3.24%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.83%) Ruby
12 5 (2.02%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.62%) AWK
14 2 (0.81%) Ada
14 2 (0.81%) COBOL
14 2 (0.81%) REXX
14 2 (0.81%) Scala
14 2 (0.81%) SELCOPY
14 2 (0.81%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 52 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 50 (20.24%) SC Cleared
3 31 (12.55%) Degree
4 19 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.86%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.24%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (2.83%) CCNP
9 5 (2.02%) CCIE
10 4 (1.62%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.62%) CISSP
11 3 (1.21%) CISA
11 3 (1.21%) CISM
12 2 (0.81%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.81%) MCSE
12 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.81%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.45%) QA
2 5 (2.02%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.62%) SLA
4 3 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.21%) GPG13
4 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.21%) NCSC
4 3 (1.21%) NIST
5 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) P3O
6 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (10.53%) Docker
2 22 (8.91%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.21%) Samba
6 2 (0.81%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.81%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 95 (38.46%) Ansible
2 53 (21.46%) Terraform
3 38 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 35 (14.17%) Puppet
5 24 (9.72%) Progress Chef
6 15 (6.07%) Grafana
6 15 (6.07%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.64%) BladeLogic
7 9 (3.64%) ITRS Geneos
8 6 (2.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (2.43%) SCCM
9 5 (2.02%) Salt
9 5 (2.02%) ZABBIX
10 4 (1.62%) Nagios
10 4 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.62%) WSUS
11 3 (1.21%) Consul
11 3 (1.21%) Netcool
11 3 (1.21%) Packer
Vendors
1 42 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.07%) Cisco
3 15 (6.07%) Citrix
4 12 (4.86%) Oracle
5 10 (4.05%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.05%) SAP
5 10 (4.05%) VMware
6 9 (3.64%) Altiris
6 9 (3.64%) Dynatrace
6 9 (3.64%) Nokia
7 7 (2.83%) Splunk
7 7 (2.83%) Sybase
8 6 (2.43%) Google
8 6 (2.43%) Juniper
8 6 (2.43%) Qualys
8 6 (2.43%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.02%) Arista
9 5 (2.02%) MuleSoft
9 5 (2.02%) WSO2