Configuration Management Contracts in the North of England

Configuration Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 114 124 94
Rank change year-on-year +10 -30 +28
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 52 62 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.58% 1.30% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.52% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 46 116
10th Percentile £404 £378 £326
25th Percentile £463 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £497 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% -5.42% -0.01%
75th Percentile £597 £610 £650
90th Percentile £649 £644 £725
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £53.60 - £56.43
25th Percentile £56.00 - £58.19
Median hourly rate £60.00 £11.00 £61.13
Median % change year-on-year +445.45% -82.00% +77.59%
75th Percentile - - £64.06
90th Percentile - - £65.83
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
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the North of England

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the North of England

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the North of England

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the North of England

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +4 32 £493 +0.46% 83
Yorkshire +10 18 £475 -14.80% 61
North East 0 1 - - 22
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (3.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.92%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.23%) Azure
2 9 (17.31%) AWS
3 5 (9.62%) GitHub
4 4 (7.69%) GCP
4 4 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (5.77%) Serverless
5 3 (5.77%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.85%) NuGet
6 2 (3.85%) PaaS
7 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.92%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.92%) SaaS
7 1 (1.92%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) DNS
1 5 (9.62%) Firewall
2 4 (7.69%) SAN
3 3 (5.77%) BGP
3 3 (5.77%) EIGRP
3 3 (5.77%) IPv4
3 3 (5.77%) Kerberos
3 3 (5.77%) MPLS
3 3 (5.77%) OSPF
3 3 (5.77%) SD-WAN
3 3 (5.77%) WAN
4 2 (3.85%) DHCP
4 2 (3.85%) HTTP
4 2 (3.85%) NAS
4 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.92%) Network Security
5 1 (1.92%) NGN
5 1 (1.92%) SMTP
5 1 (1.92%) SSH
5 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (17.31%) Jenkins
2 7 (13.46%) Git
3 6 (11.54%) JIRA
4 5 (9.62%) GitLab
4 5 (9.62%) Selenium
5 3 (5.77%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.85%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.85%) JMeter
6 2 (3.85%) TestNG
7 1 (1.92%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (1.92%) LabVIEW
7 1 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Finance
4 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.85%) Banking
6 2 (3.85%) Electronics
7 1 (1.92%) Automotive
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.92%) Legal
7 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (11.54%) Architect
1 6 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (11.54%) Senior
2 5 (9.62%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (7.69%) Consultant
3 4 (7.69%) Implementation Consultant
3 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow Consultant
4 3 (5.77%) Analyst
4 3 (5.77%) Change and Release Manager
4 3 (5.77%) Change Manager
4 3 (5.77%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (5.77%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.77%) Developer
4 3 (5.77%) IP Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) Lead
4 3 (5.77%) Project Manager
4 3 (5.77%) Release Manager
5 2 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) LDAP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) LDAP
1 3 (5.77%) REST
2 2 (3.85%) JWT
2 2 (3.85%) Middleware
2 2 (3.85%) pytest
2 2 (3.85%) SAML
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
3 1 (1.92%) Kafka
3 1 (1.92%) RESTful
3 1 (1.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) CMDB
2 3 (5.77%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.85%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.85%) Replication
3 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.92%) Clustering
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.92%) FPGA
4 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.46%) Linux
2 5 (9.62%) Windows
3 4 (7.69%) Unix
4 3 (5.77%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.85%) AIX
5 2 (3.85%) CentOS
5 2 (3.85%) HPUX
5 2 (3.85%) Solaris
5 2 (3.85%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) DevOps
2 18 (34.62%) CI/CD
3 12 (23.08%) Agile
4 11 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (19.23%) Task Automation
6 9 (17.31%) Test Automation
7 8 (15.38%) ITIL
8 7 (13.46%) Migration
8 7 (13.46%) Validation
9 5 (9.62%) Analytics
9 5 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (9.62%) Change Management
9 5 (9.62%) Containerisation
9 5 (9.62%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (9.62%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (9.62%) Release Management
9 5 (9.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (9.62%) Sprint Planning
10 4 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (7.69%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 18 (34.62%) Python
2 16 (30.77%) Bash
3 12 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.54%) SQL
5 3 (5.77%) Perl
6 2 (3.85%) Java
6 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.92%) C
7 1 (1.92%) C#
7 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (9.62%) CCNP
5 3 (5.77%) CCNA
6 1 (1.92%) Degree
6 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.69%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.85%) KVM
3 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (34.62%) Ansible
2 13 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (23.08%) Progress Chef
4 11 (21.15%) Terraform
5 8 (15.38%) Puppet
6 4 (7.69%) Grafana
7 3 (5.77%) Istio
7 3 (5.77%) Kustomize
8 2 (3.85%) SCCM
8 2 (3.85%) vRealize
8 2 (3.85%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.92%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.92%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) ServiceNow
2 6 (11.54%) Cisco
3 4 (7.69%) Fortinet
3 4 (7.69%) Infoblox
3 4 (7.69%) Oracle
3 4 (7.69%) VMware
4 3 (5.77%) BMC
4 3 (5.77%) Dynatrace
4 3 (5.77%) Huawei
4 3 (5.77%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.77%) Remedy
4 3 (5.77%) Splunk
5 2 (3.85%) 3PAR
5 2 (3.85%) Brocade
5 2 (3.85%) EMC
5 2 (3.85%) ForgeRock
5 2 (3.85%) Google
5 2 (3.85%) HP
5 2 (3.85%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft