Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in the South East

Configuration Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 90 97
Rank change year-on-year -38 +7 +20
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 86 60 101
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.46% 1.99% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 2.18% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 35 58
10th Percentile £231 £309 £272
25th Percentile £268 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% -9.09% -7.17%
75th Percentile £561 £501 £650
90th Percentile £649 £580 £725
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.57% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 2 15
10th Percentile £41.25 - £40.00
25th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £50.55
Median hourly rate £88.00 £65.00 £70.39
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -7.66% +22.42%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £91.00
90th Percentile - - £92.37
England median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -0.83%

All Process & 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 4,773 2,757 4,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.94% 91.32% 84.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,125 1,761 2,708
10th Percentile £280 £250 £250
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -0.20% -1.76%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 428 172 435
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.54 £13.00
25th Percentile £23.99 £15.19 £18.20
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +96.43% -41.05% -4.04%
75th Percentile £82.25 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £46.80 £29.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.55% -20.14% -2.14%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Configuration Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Configuration Management

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 10 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the South East

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Configuration Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Configuration Management

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 10 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the South East

Configuration Management
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 10 May 2026. 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 -38 53 £268 -46.40% 7
Berkshire -14 52 £268 -46.40%
Hampshire -5 22 £563 +10.29% 12
Surrey - 8 - - 3
West Sussex -12 2 - - 1
Buckinghamshire -40 1 £550 +100.91% 5
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (2.33%) JBoss
1 2 (2.33%) WebSphere
1 2 (2.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.16%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.16%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.16%) CATIA
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.16%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.63%) AWS
2 9 (10.47%) Power Platform
3 7 (8.14%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (8.14%) Azure
4 5 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (5.81%) GitHub
4 5 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (4.65%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.49%) Azure AKS
6 3 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.49%) PaaS
7 2 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.33%) IaaS
7 2 (2.33%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.16%) Google Ads
8 1 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.16%) DNS
2 1 (1.16%) Firewall
2 1 (1.16%) HTTP
2 1 (1.16%) Internet
2 1 (1.16%) SAN
2 1 (1.16%) SSL
2 1 (1.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.47%) Power BI
2 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (29.07%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (6.98%) Git
3 5 (5.81%) GitLab
3 5 (5.81%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.65%) Postman
5 2 (2.33%) JIRA
6 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.16%) JUnit
6 1 (1.16%) NUnit
6 1 (1.16%) Selenium
6 1 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (44.19%) Aerospace
2 11 (12.79%) Finance
3 10 (11.63%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.49%) Marketing
5 3 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Avionics
6 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Electronics
7 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (27.91%) Product Manager
2 21 (24.42%) Delivery Manager
2 21 (24.42%) Product Delivery Manager
2 21 (24.42%) Systems Delivery Manager
2 21 (24.42%) Systems Manager
3 8 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (6.98%) Configuration Engineer
4 6 (6.98%) IT Manager
4 6 (6.98%) Senior
5 4 (4.65%) Architect
5 4 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (4.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (4.65%) Lead
5 4 (4.65%) Security Manager
5 4 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (4.65%) Software Test Engineer
5 4 (4.65%) Test Engineer
6 3 (3.49%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (3.49%) Security Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.65%) Loki
1 4 (4.65%) REST
1 4 (4.65%) RESTful
2 3 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.33%) GraphQL
3 2 (2.33%) Middleware
3 2 (2.33%) Node.js
3 2 (2.33%) YAML
4 1 (1.16%) Flask
4 1 (1.16%) JSON
4 1 (1.16%) pytest
4 1 (1.16%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 26 (30.23%) Product Ownership
2 21 (24.42%) Data Structures
3 9 (10.47%) CMDB
4 5 (5.81%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.81%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.33%) FPGA
6 2 (2.33%) Verilog
6 2 (2.33%) VHDL
7 1 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.16%) NHS
7 1 (1.16%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.79%) Linux
2 8 (9.30%) Windows
3 1 (1.16%) Debian
3 1 (1.16%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.16%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (45.35%) Agile
2 38 (44.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 27 (31.40%) Computer Science
4 26 (30.23%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 26 (30.23%) Systems Engineering
5 25 (29.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (27.91%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 24 (27.91%) Programme Management
6 24 (27.91%) Requirements Management
7 23 (26.74%) SysML
7 23 (26.74%) UML
8 22 (25.58%) Change Control
8 22 (25.58%) DoDAF
9 21 (24.42%) PRINCE2
10 20 (23.26%) Service Management
11 17 (19.77%) ITSM
12 16 (18.60%) Roadmaps
13 13 (15.12%) CI/CD
13 13 (15.12%) DevOps
14 12 (13.95%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.28%) Python
2 10 (11.63%) Bash
3 7 (8.14%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.33%) Java
4 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.33%) Perl
4 2 (2.33%) Scala
4 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.33%) SystemVerilog
4 2 (2.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.16%) Bicep
5 1 (1.16%) C#
5 1 (1.16%) C++
Qualifications
1 56 (65.12%) Security Cleared
2 27 (31.40%) Degree
3 16 (18.60%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.16%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.79%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.81%) Def Stans
4 2 (2.33%) DO-254
4 2 (2.33%) QA
5 1 (1.16%) NCSC
5 1 (1.16%) NIST
5 1 (1.16%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (6.98%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (12.79%) Ansible
1 11 (12.79%) Kubernetes
1 11 (12.79%) Terraform
2 10 (11.63%) Grafana
3 8 (9.30%) Prometheus
3 8 (9.30%) Puppet
4 3 (3.49%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.33%) Argo
5 2 (2.33%) SCCM
6 1 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 24 (27.91%) IBM
2 10 (11.63%) ServiceNow
3 9 (10.47%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.81%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.33%) Actel
5 2 (2.33%) Altera
5 2 (2.33%) Intel
5 2 (2.33%) Mentor Graphics
5 2 (2.33%) Microsemi
5 2 (2.33%) SAP
5 2 (2.33%) VMware
5 2 (2.33%) Xilinx
6 1 (1.16%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.16%) Broadcom
6 1 (1.16%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.16%) Siemens
6 1 (1.16%) Splunk