Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in the North West

Configuration Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 86 85
Rank change year-on-year -21 -1 -15
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 42 37 55
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.68% 1.71% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 1.97% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 13 27
10th Percentile £294 £406 £366
25th Percentile £396 £456 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.29% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £639
90th Percentile £665 - £645
England median daily rate £537 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -0.09% -6.52% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - - £17.75
25th Percentile - - £21.56
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year - +25.65% -8.80%
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - £64.38
England median hourly rate £50.00 £43.25 £48.72
% change year-on-year +15.61% -11.23% -0.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,213 1,874 2,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.38% 86.48% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,448 1,055 1,596
10th Percentile £213 £265 £295
25th Percentile £358 £390 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £567 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 108 157
10th Percentile £16.41 £16.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £20.63 £21.20 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £31.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -11.97% +33.81%
75th Percentile £51.76 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £69.78 £68.65 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Configuration Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in the North West

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Configuration Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the North West over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the North West

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Configuration Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Manchester -5 26 £575 +40.59% 7
Cumbria +6 5 £603 - 1
Lancashire -11 3 £158 -70.00% 1
Cheshire -21 3 £287 -54.08% 2
Merseyside -14 1 - - 1
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.14%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.29%) AWS
2 4 (9.52%) Azure
3 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.76%) GCP
4 2 (4.76%) GitHub
4 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) SSH
2 2 (4.76%) Firewall
2 2 (4.76%) LAN
2 2 (4.76%) MPLS
2 2 (4.76%) VPN
2 2 (4.76%) WAN
3 1 (2.38%) BGP
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.38%) DHCP
3 1 (2.38%) DNS
3 1 (2.38%) EIGRP
3 1 (2.38%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.38%) Internet
3 1 (2.38%) IPsec
3 1 (2.38%) OSPF
3 1 (2.38%) SNMP
3 1 (2.38%) SSL
3 1 (2.38%) TACACS
3 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.14%) Redis
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.90%) JIRA
3 4 (9.52%) Git
4 3 (7.14%) GitLab
4 3 (7.14%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 20 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Games
5 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (14.29%) Product Owner
1 6 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 5 (11.90%) Analyst
2 5 (11.90%) Architect
2 5 (11.90%) Service Architect
3 4 (9.52%) Senior
3 4 (9.52%) Senior Manager
4 3 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) IT Manager
4 3 (7.14%) Lead
4 3 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Software Integration Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) IT Technician
5 2 (4.76%) ITIL Service Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Senior IT Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Senior IT Technician
5 2 (4.76%) Senior Service Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) ISPF
1 3 (7.14%) Node.js
1 3 (7.14%) OAuth
1 3 (7.14%) OAuth2
1 3 (7.14%) OpenID
1 3 (7.14%) REST
2 2 (4.76%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) CMDB
2 6 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.14%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (7.14%) Mainframe
3 3 (7.14%) VSAM
4 2 (4.76%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) zOS
3 2 (4.76%) Windows
3 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.38%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (28.57%) DevOps
1 12 (28.57%) ITIL
2 11 (26.19%) CI/CD
3 9 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (19.05%) Service Management
4 8 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (16.67%) Agile
5 7 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 6 (14.29%) Product Strategy
6 6 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 6 (14.29%) Software Architecture
7 5 (11.90%) ITSM
7 5 (11.90%) Knowledge Transfer
7 5 (11.90%) Release Management
7 5 (11.90%) Requirements Analysis
7 5 (11.90%) Service Design
8 4 (9.52%) Asset Management
8 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.67%) Python
2 4 (9.52%) Bash
2 4 (9.52%) Java
2 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
3 3 (7.14%) C++
3 3 (7.14%) CLIST
3 3 (7.14%) JCL
3 3 (7.14%) REXX
3 3 (7.14%) SQL
4 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (26.19%) SC Cleared
3 9 (21.43%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.76%) Degree
5 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (19.05%) Ansible
2 6 (14.29%) Terraform
3 5 (11.90%) Kubernetes
4 3 (7.14%) CA Endevor
4 3 (7.14%) OMEGAMON
4 3 (7.14%) Podman
4 3 (7.14%) SCCM
4 3 (7.14%) SELinux
5 1 (2.38%) Argo
5 1 (2.38%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) ServiceNow
2 7 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.14%) IBM
4 2 (4.76%) Cisco
4 2 (4.76%) Gemalto
4 2 (4.76%) Thales
5 1 (2.38%) Forcepoint
5 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.38%) Meraki
5 1 (2.38%) Palo Alto