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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 105 113
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 +6
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 68 66 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.72% 1.58% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.88% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 45 66
10th Percentile £313 £288 £344
25th Percentile £385 £425 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £609 £610 £645
90th Percentile £696 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% -2.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £25.38
25th Percentile - - £38.56
Median hourly rate £52.00 - £58.88
75th Percentile - - £64.69
90th Percentile - - £66.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +3.14%

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 3,517 3,502 4,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.88% 84.02% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,233 2,133 3,175
10th Percentile £268 £300 £290
25th Percentile £375 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £553 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 252 209
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.11 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.09 £18.25
Median hourly rate £22.63 £25.80 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year -12.29% -11.95% +46.50%
75th Percentile £43.91 £48.19 £45.88
90th Percentile £73.13 £69.98 £56.62
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -8 37 £485 -3.00% 24
Yorkshire -5 30 £500 +5.26% 19
North East -4 1 - - 5
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 3 (4.41%) CICS
1 3 (4.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) Apache
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.47%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.29%) AWS
2 6 (8.82%) Azure
3 4 (5.88%) GCP
3 4 (5.88%) Serverless
4 3 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (4.41%) GitHub
4 3 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (2.94%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (2.94%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (2.94%) AWS KMS
5 2 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (30.88%) Firewall
2 17 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.41%) BGP
3 3 (4.41%) EIGRP
3 3 (4.41%) IPv4
3 3 (4.41%) Kerberos
3 3 (4.41%) MPLS
3 3 (4.41%) OSPF
3 3 (4.41%) SD-WAN
3 3 (4.41%) VPN
3 3 (4.41%) WAN
4 2 (2.94%) DNS
4 2 (2.94%) HTTP
4 2 (2.94%) Network Security
4 2 (2.94%) SAN
4 2 (2.94%) SSL
5 1 (1.47%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.94%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 31 (45.59%) Jenkins
2 22 (32.35%) Git
3 15 (22.06%) Postman
4 10 (14.71%) JIRA
5 9 (13.24%) GitLab
6 4 (5.88%) Selenium
7 3 (4.41%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (2.94%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.94%) TestNG
9 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.47%) JMeter
9 1 (1.47%) LabVIEW
General
1 19 (27.94%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (22.06%) Finance
4 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.94%) Banking
5 2 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (1.47%) Automotive
6 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (29.41%) Senior
2 11 (16.18%) Technical Engineer
3 10 (14.71%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 9 (13.24%) Windows Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Senior Manager
6 5 (7.35%) Senior Windows Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Consultant
7 4 (5.88%) Developer
7 4 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Implementation Consultant
7 4 (5.88%) IT Manager
7 4 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow Consultant
7 4 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) IP Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Project Manager
8 3 (4.41%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.82%) LDAP
2 5 (7.35%) REST
3 4 (5.88%) CSS
3 4 (5.88%) HTML
3 4 (5.88%) Web Services
4 3 (4.41%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.41%) ISPF
4 3 (4.41%) SOAP
5 2 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.94%) JWT
5 2 (2.94%) Middleware
5 2 (2.94%) pytest
5 2 (2.94%) SAML
6 1 (1.47%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) CMDB
2 3 (4.41%) IBM Mainframe
2 3 (4.41%) Mainframe
2 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.41%) Virtual Team
2 3 (4.41%) VSAM
3 2 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.94%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.94%) Replication
4 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.47%) FPGA
4 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.47%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.65%) Linux
1 12 (17.65%) Windows
2 5 (7.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (7.35%) Unix
3 3 (4.41%) AIX
3 3 (4.41%) Solaris
3 3 (4.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 3 (4.41%) zOS
4 1 (1.47%) CentOS
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.47%) SUSE
4 1 (1.47%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.47%) VMS
4 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (58.82%) DevOps
2 27 (39.71%) Agile
3 20 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 15 (22.06%) ITIL
5 14 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (19.12%) Data Management
6 13 (19.12%) Scrum
7 10 (14.71%) Release Management
7 10 (14.71%) Service Management
8 9 (13.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (13.24%) Migration
8 9 (13.24%) Problem Management
9 8 (11.76%) Test Automation
10 7 (10.29%) Task Automation
10 7 (10.29%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (8.82%) Containerisation
11 6 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (8.82%) Data Migration
11 6 (8.82%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (50.00%) Python
2 18 (26.47%) Bash
3 7 (10.29%) Java
3 7 (10.29%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.88%) SQL
5 3 (4.41%) C++
5 3 (4.41%) CLIST
5 3 (4.41%) JCL
5 3 (4.41%) REXX
5 3 (4.41%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.47%) C
6 1 (1.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (14.71%) SC Cleared
1 10 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.82%) Degree
3 5 (7.35%) CCNP
3 5 (7.35%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.41%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.94%) CCNA
6 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (2.94%) GDPR
2 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.94%) NIST
2 2 (2.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (22.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (10.29%) Docker
3 5 (7.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (4.41%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.41%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 36 (52.94%) Ansible
2 21 (30.88%) Puppet
3 15 (22.06%) Kubernetes
4 10 (14.71%) Microsoft Clustering
4 10 (14.71%) Terraform
5 8 (11.76%) Progress Chef
5 8 (11.76%) SCCM
6 5 (7.35%) Grafana
7 3 (4.41%) CA Endevor
7 3 (4.41%) OMEGAMON
7 3 (4.41%) Podman
7 3 (4.41%) SELinux
7 3 (4.41%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.94%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.94%) vRealize
9 1 (1.47%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.47%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (25.00%) VMware
2 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 15 (22.06%) MuleSoft
4 12 (17.65%) ServiceNow
5 5 (7.35%) Cisco
5 5 (7.35%) Oracle
5 5 (7.35%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.88%) Fortinet
6 4 (5.88%) Infoblox
6 4 (5.88%) Splunk
7 3 (4.41%) BMC
7 3 (4.41%) Huawei
7 3 (4.41%) IBM
7 3 (4.41%) Remedy
8 2 (2.94%) 3PAR
8 2 (2.94%) Brocade
8 2 (2.94%) EMC
8 2 (2.94%) ForgeRock
8 2 (2.94%) HP
9 1 (1.47%) Atlassian