Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Configuration Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 69 82
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 +16
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 9 17 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.90% 1.43% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.64% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 11
10th Percentile £313 £375 £338
25th Percentile £425 £433 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +0.48% -0.48%
75th Percentile £650 £647 £554
90th Percentile £663 £674 £626
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £545
% change year-on-year -5.00% -8.26% +21.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £40.50
75th Percentile - - £64.06
90th Percentile - - £64.63
North West median hourly rate - - £47.75
% change year-on-year - - -2.27%

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 900 1,038 1,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.55% 87.45% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 639 1,082
10th Percentile £311 £325 £277
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £673 £723 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -9.55% -0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 34 58
10th Percentile £14.85 £16.26 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.02 £22.38 £16.68
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +96.20% +1.28%
75th Percentile £39.31 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £87.45 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +59.09%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Manchester

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

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 15 September 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
Cheadle - 2 £650 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 4 (44.44%) Git
3 3 (33.33%) JIRA
3 3 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (22.22%) GitLab
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) ISPF
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
1 3 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 3 (33.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
1 3 (33.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
4 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) Release Management
4 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
5 3 (33.33%) Kanban
5 3 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Problem Management
5 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (33.33%) Scrum
5 3 (33.33%) SDLC
5 3 (33.33%) Security Hardening
5 3 (33.33%) Software Architecture
5 3 (33.33%) UML
5 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Bash
3 3 (33.33%) C++
3 3 (33.33%) CLIST
3 3 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) JCL
3 3 (33.33%) REXX
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 3 (33.33%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) CA Endevor
2 3 (33.33%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (33.33%) Podman
2 3 (33.33%) SELinux
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Argo
3 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft