Configuration Management Contracts in Shropshire

Configuration Management
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 20 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 12 16 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 9.23% 11.94% 33.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.60% 19.28% 35.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 49
10th Percentile £441 £351 £526
25th Percentile £480 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £358 £540
Median % change year-on-year +45.53% -33.70% +1.89%
75th Percentile £524 £359 -
90th Percentile £529 £369 £598
West Midlands median daily rate £523 £359 £540
% change year-on-year +45.54% -33.52% +4.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 125 83 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 96.15% 61.94% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 51 125
10th Percentile £311 £260 £410
25th Percentile £403 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £378 £538
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% -29.74% +6.53%
75th Percentile £537 £497 £540
90th Percentile £544 £519 £595
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £12.18 £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -81.05% +214.29%
75th Percentile - £11.32 £57.50
90th Percentile - £14.26 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Shropshire

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in Shropshire

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in Shropshire

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire 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
Telford -4 12 £521 +45.53% 8
Configuration Management
West Midlands

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
1 11 (91.67%) Power Platform
1 11 (91.67%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (8.33%) CA Gen
1 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 11 (91.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Lead
2 7 (58.33%) Technical Leader
3 4 (33.33%) Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Gherkin
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
1 12 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 11 (91.67%) Data Modelling
2 11 (91.67%) DevOps
2 11 (91.67%) OO
2 11 (91.67%) Problem Management
2 11 (91.67%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (91.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (8.33%) BDD
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (8.33%) Microservices
3 1 (8.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (8.33%) Scrum
3 1 (8.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (8.33%) Test Management
3 1 (8.33%) Time Management
3 1 (8.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) ISEB
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) QA