Configuration Management Contracts in Reading

Configuration Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 43 65 63
Rank change year-on-year +22 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 17 26 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.85% 2.18% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 2.42% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 19
10th Percentile £306 £521 £363
25th Percentile £333 £581 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £638 £615
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +3.66% +17.14%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £694
90th Percentile £656 £716 £784
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £614 £615
% change year-on-year -18.53% -0.20% +32.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.14 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £70.39 £58.75
% change year-on-year - +19.81% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Reading

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) Azure
2 12 (70.59%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Cucumber
1 10 (58.82%) GitLab
1 10 (58.82%) Jenkins
1 10 (58.82%) JIRA
1 10 (58.82%) REST Assured
1 10 (58.82%) Selenium
2 6 (35.29%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Law
3 4 (23.53%) Police
4 1 (5.88%) Electronics
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Java Engineer
1 9 (52.94%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (52.94%) Software Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) SCCM Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) Java EE
1 10 (58.82%) REST
2 6 (35.29%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.88%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) CMDB
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) AIX
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) DevOps
1 11 (64.71%) Software Engineering
2 10 (58.82%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (58.82%) Software Architecture
2 10 (58.82%) Technical Leadership
2 10 (58.82%) Test Automation
3 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (35.29%) Decision-Making
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) Agile
6 2 (11.76%) Coaching
6 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (5.88%) ITIL
7 1 (5.88%) ITSM
7 1 (5.88%) Programme Management
7 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) Bicep
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 12 (70.59%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Ansible
1 9 (52.94%) Kubernetes
2 7 (41.18%) Terraform
3 6 (35.29%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (35.29%) Podman
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (17.65%) SCCM
5 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
5 2 (11.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow