Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Configuration Management
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 34 32
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 25 23 19
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 4.39% 5.56% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 6.20% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 18
10th Percentile £383 £425 £500
25th Percentile £450 £509 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £573 £587
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% -2.55% +6.81%
75th Percentile £525 £624 -
90th Percentile £582 £650 £636
South Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £573 £587
% change year-on-year -10.48% -2.55% +6.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 545 371 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.78% 89.61% 96.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 193 246
10th Percentile £304 £314 £394
25th Percentile £388 £450 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £587
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -10.64% +11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £679
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £520 £587
% change year-on-year -8.65% -11.48% +17.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £14.66 £15.05 £18.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.00 £18.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +3.70% +6.58%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £24.88
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.80 £28.70
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
% change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +14.69%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Sheffield

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Configuration Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Sheffield

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Configuration Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 7 (28.00%) Confluence
2 3 (12.00%) Apache
2 3 (12.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (12.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 15 (60.00%) Firewall
1 15 (60.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (12.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (12.00%) HBase
Development Applications
1 22 (88.00%) Jenkins
2 15 (60.00%) Postman
3 10 (40.00%) Git
4 7 (28.00%) GitLab
4 7 (28.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Senior
2 11 (44.00%) Technical Engineer
3 10 (40.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 9 (36.00%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (32.00%) Windows Engineer
6 6 (24.00%) Data Protection Engineer
7 5 (20.00%) Data Engineer
7 5 (20.00%) Senior Windows Engineer
8 3 (12.00%) Hadoop Engineer
8 3 (12.00%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (12.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 1 (4.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (4.00%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Windows
2 9 (36.00%) Linux
3 5 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (12.00%) AIX
4 3 (12.00%) Solaris
4 3 (12.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 3 (12.00%) Unix
5 1 (4.00%) CentOS
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (4.00%) SUSE
5 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (84.00%) DevOps
2 13 (52.00%) Data Management
3 10 (40.00%) Agile
3 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (32.00%) Scrum
5 7 (28.00%) Backlog Refinement
5 7 (28.00%) Data Protection
5 7 (28.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
5 7 (28.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 7 (28.00%) User Stories
6 6 (24.00%) Problem Management
7 3 (12.00%) Analytics
7 3 (12.00%) Data Analytics
7 3 (12.00%) Data Engineering
7 3 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (12.00%) Data Security
8 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (8.00%) Data Migration
8 2 (8.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) Bash
3 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 15 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (12.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (100.00%) Ansible
2 18 (72.00%) Puppet
3 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 7 (28.00%) NetBackup
4 7 (28.00%) SCCM
5 3 (12.00%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 15 (60.00%) MuleSoft
1 15 (60.00%) VMware
2 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (44.00%) Red Hat
4 7 (28.00%) Commvault
4 7 (28.00%) Veritas
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle