Configuration Management Contracts in the Midlands

Configuration Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 80 96 66
Rank change year-on-year +16 -30 -8
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 31 37 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.62% 1.34% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.63% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 26 101
10th Percentile £401 £353 £350
25th Percentile £500 £358 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £366 £540
Median % change year-on-year +43.21% -32.18% +4.15%
75th Percentile £553 £513 £590
90th Percentile £607 £550 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £20.58
25th Percentile - £46.24 £27.98
Median hourly rate - £48.48 £40.64
Median % change year-on-year - +19.27% +129.62%
75th Percentile - £50.71 £52.98
90th Percentile - - £60.19
England median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £50.42
% change year-on-year +20.00% -0.83% +9.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the Midlands

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +10 21 £523 +45.54% 28
East Midlands +8 10 £555 +0.91% 12
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (48.39%) Azure
2 12 (38.71%) Power Platform
2 12 (38.71%) PowerApps
3 3 (9.68%) AWS
3 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub
4 1 (3.23%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) Firewall
2 5 (16.13%) DNS
2 5 (16.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 5 (16.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (16.13%) IPsec
2 5 (16.13%) OSPF
3 4 (12.90%) HSRP
3 4 (12.90%) VLAN
4 2 (6.45%) NGFW
4 2 (6.45%) SAN
4 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.45%) Wireless
5 1 (3.23%) BGP
5 1 (3.23%) EIGRP
5 1 (3.23%) IPv4
5 1 (3.23%) MPLS
5 1 (3.23%) Network Security
5 1 (3.23%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Big Data
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.23%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.23%) IDMS
2 1 (3.23%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
1 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.23%) CA Gen
3 1 (3.23%) Chocolatey
3 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Law
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Back Office
5 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Lead
2 8 (25.81%) Developer
2 8 (25.81%) Technical Leader
3 5 (16.13%) Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Network Architect
4 4 (12.90%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Business Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Configuration Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Configuration Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Data Manager
6 1 (3.23%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
6 1 (3.23%) Security Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) .NET
1 1 (3.23%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) CMDB
2 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
1 4 (12.90%) Ubuntu
2 2 (6.45%) Debian
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) Agile
2 16 (51.61%) DevOps
3 15 (48.39%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (45.16%) Data Modelling
4 14 (45.16%) Problem Management
5 13 (41.94%) Process Improvement
5 13 (41.94%) Test Strategy
6 12 (38.71%) OO
7 6 (19.35%) ITIL
8 3 (9.68%) Change Management
8 3 (9.68%) CI/CD
8 3 (9.68%) Continuous Delivery
9 2 (6.45%) Customer-Centric Approach
9 2 (6.45%) Customer-Centricity
9 2 (6.45%) Data Engineering
9 2 (6.45%) Matrix Organization
9 2 (6.45%) Microservices
9 2 (6.45%) Prototyping
9 2 (6.45%) Server Building
9 2 (6.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) SQL
2 4 (12.90%) Python
3 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.23%) C#
4 1 (3.23%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) SC Cleared
1 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 7 (22.58%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (16.13%) CCNP
4 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (6.45%) CCNA
4 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.45%) Degree
4 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) ISEB
5 1 (3.23%) ISTQB
5 1 (3.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Ansible
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) CSIRT
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Cisco
2 5 (16.13%) F5
2 5 (16.13%) Juniper
2 5 (16.13%) SolarWinds
3 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.45%) Databricks
5 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.45%) VMware
6 1 (3.23%) BMC
6 1 (3.23%) FireEye
6 1 (3.23%) Huawei
6 1 (3.23%) Remedy
6 1 (3.23%) Splunk
6 1 (3.23%) Tanium