Configuration Management Contracts in Manchester

Configuration Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 71 82
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 8 25 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.86% 1.65% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.89% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 27
10th Percentile £473 £375 £378
25th Percentile - £395 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile - £608 £650
90th Percentile £490 £659 £665
North West median daily rate £493 £490 £510
% change year-on-year +0.46% -3.87% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £60.00 £11.00 £61.13
% change year-on-year +445.45% -82.00% +74.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Manchester

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in Manchester

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in Manchester

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bolton - 2 - - 8
Configuration Management
North West

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) GitHub
1 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Electronics
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) IT Operations Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CMDB
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) VMS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Digital Twin
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
2 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Compliance Management
3 2 (25.00%) Earned Value Management
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Istio
2 3 (37.50%) Kustomize
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) ZABBIX
4 1 (12.50%) Ansible
4 1 (12.50%) Grafana
4 1 (12.50%) Nagios
4 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds