Configuration Management Contracts in the South East

Configuration Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 96 132
Rank change year-on-year -1 +36 -11
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 70 108 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.13% 1.90% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.29% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 59 59
10th Percentile £321 £277 £384
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £501 £650 £681
90th Percentile £572 £693 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.64% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 7
10th Percentile - £40.00 £35.87
25th Percentile - £48.40 £45.62
Median hourly rate £41.00 £70.39 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.75% +43.65% -24.62%
75th Percentile £67.50 £91.50 £59.69
90th Percentile - £92.37 £64.89
England median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +2.04% +1.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,973 4,709 5,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.64% 82.73% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,851 2,740 3,569
10th Percentile £250 £255 £252
25th Percentile £398 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £623
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 448 236
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.32 £21.89
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% - +122.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.86 £64.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the South East

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the South East

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the South East over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the South East

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management in the South East over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Thames Valley +17 50 £500 -10.71% 55
Berkshire +21 38 £500 -18.37% 28
Hampshire +18 16 £500 -12.66% 38
Buckinghamshire +6 11 £544 -1.05% 16
Surrey +18 2 - - 11
West Sussex +3 1 - - 8
Oxfordshire 0 1 - - 12
East Sussex -6 1 £475 -40.63% 2
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.43%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Windchill
2 1 (1.43%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Maximo
1 1 (1.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 33 (47.14%) Azure
2 20 (28.57%) AWS
3 10 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (12.86%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (12.86%) OpenShift
5 7 (10.00%) GitHub
6 4 (5.71%) GCP
7 3 (4.29%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (4.29%) SaaS
8 2 (2.86%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.86%) IaaS
8 2 (2.86%) PaaS
9 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.00%) HTTP
2 2 (2.86%) Firewall
2 2 (2.86%) SAN
2 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.43%) FTP
3 1 (1.43%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.43%) Network Security
3 1 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.14%) Big Data
2 2 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (38.57%) Jenkins
2 16 (22.86%) GitLab
3 14 (20.00%) JIRA
4 13 (18.57%) Cucumber
4 13 (18.57%) REST Assured
4 13 (18.57%) Selenium
5 9 (12.86%) SonarQube
6 5 (7.14%) Git
General
1 19 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.43%) Law
4 5 (7.14%) Finance
5 4 (5.71%) Police
6 3 (4.29%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.86%) Electronics
7 2 (2.86%) Retail
8 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 11 (15.71%) Software Engineer
3 9 (12.86%) Java Engineer
3 9 (12.86%) Java Software Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) Configuration Manager
4 6 (8.57%) Developer
4 6 (8.57%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) Senior
5 5 (7.14%) Architect
5 5 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Analyst
6 4 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Consultant
6 4 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) ServiceNow Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (24.29%) REST
2 13 (18.57%) Java EE
3 9 (12.86%) ARM Templates
3 9 (12.86%) Middleware
3 9 (12.86%) React
4 7 (10.00%) Web Services
5 4 (5.71%) Ajax
5 4 (5.71%) CSS
5 4 (5.71%) HTML
5 4 (5.71%) SOAP
5 4 (5.71%) XML
6 1 (1.43%) Jinja
6 1 (1.43%) JSON
6 1 (1.43%) NETCONF
6 1 (1.43%) RESTCONF
6 1 (1.43%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.86%) CMDB
1 9 (12.86%) Private Cloud
2 4 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Replication
5 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.29%) Windows
2 8 (11.43%) Windows Server
3 7 (10.00%) Linux
3 7 (10.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.86%) Debian
4 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.43%) VMS
5 1 (1.43%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.43%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (40.00%) DevOps
2 25 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (25.71%) Software Engineering
4 17 (24.29%) Containerisation
5 16 (22.86%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (21.43%) Test Automation
7 14 (20.00%) Migration
7 14 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (18.57%) Software Architecture
8 13 (18.57%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (15.71%) ITIL
10 10 (14.29%) Agile
10 10 (14.29%) High Availability
11 9 (12.86%) Change Management
11 9 (12.86%) Decision-Making
12 8 (11.43%) ITSM
12 8 (11.43%) Open Source
13 7 (10.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (35.71%) Python
2 23 (32.86%) PowerShell
3 22 (31.43%) Java
4 12 (17.14%) SQL
5 9 (12.86%) C#
5 9 (12.86%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.14%) Bicep
7 2 (2.86%) Ada
7 2 (2.86%) Korn
Qualifications
1 34 (48.57%) Security Cleared
2 30 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.57%) Degree
4 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) CCNP
5 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.43%) HNC
5 1 (1.43%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) ARP4754
1 2 (2.86%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.43%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 13 (18.57%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 27 (38.57%) Ansible
2 23 (32.86%) Kubernetes
3 20 (28.57%) Terraform
4 9 (12.86%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (12.86%) Podman
5 4 (5.71%) SCCM
6 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.29%) Puppet
7 1 (1.43%) Grafana
7 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.71%) Red Hat
3 8 (11.43%) ServiceNow
4 5 (7.14%) Databricks
5 3 (4.29%) BMC
5 3 (4.29%) Google
6 2 (2.86%) Ab Initio
6 2 (2.86%) Cisco
6 2 (2.86%) PTC
6 2 (2.86%) VMware
7 1 (1.43%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.43%) Micro Focus
7 1 (1.43%) SAP
7 1 (1.43%) Snow