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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 101 88
Rank change year-on-year -43 -13 +48
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 81 62 92
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.22% 1.78% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 2.00% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 22 49
10th Percentile £375 £413 £304
25th Percentile £481 £427 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% +2.14%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £625
90th Percentile £625 £619 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 11
10th Percentile £68.25 - £31.25
25th Percentile £70.00 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £41.00 £70.39
Median % change year-on-year +76.83% -41.75% +134.63%
75th Percentile £95.00 - £91.00
90th Percentile - - £92.37
England median hourly rate £66.50 £41.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +62.20% -18.00% -16.67%

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 5,318 3,106 3,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.41% 89.20% 82.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,176 1,936 2,273
10th Percentile £280 £220 £255
25th Percentile £425 £380 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%
75th Percentile £619 £591 £625
90th Percentile £713 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 635 304 248
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.77 £15.50 £30.41
Median hourly rate £51.50 £20.73 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +148.43% -63.85% +8.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £71.41
90th Percentile £87.56 £69.65 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.41 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.61% -41.51% -3.37%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -40 38 £575 +14.89% 44
Berkshire -23 27 £550 +9.95% 21
Hampshire -35 19 £575 +5.02% 26
Surrey -8 10 £400 +45.45% 22
Kent - 9 £525 - 3
Buckinghamshire -31 6 £610 +10.91% 11
Oxfordshire -25 5 £800 +301.00% 16
Middlesex - 3 - -
West Sussex -26 1 - - 5
East Sussex - 1 £375 - 3
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 4 (4.94%) Confluence
2 2 (2.47%) JBoss
2 2 (2.47%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.23%) CINEMA 4D
3 1 (1.23%) Houdini
3 1 (1.23%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) ProductWriter
1 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 20 (24.69%) Azure
2 12 (14.81%) AWS
3 8 (9.88%) GitHub
3 8 (9.88%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (8.64%) OpenShift
5 5 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (6.17%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (4.94%) GCP
6 4 (4.94%) SaaS
7 3 (3.70%) Datadog
7 3 (3.70%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.47%) IaaS
8 2 (2.47%) Smartsheet
9 1 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) Broadband
2 2 (2.47%) Multicast
2 2 (2.47%) RTMP
2 2 (2.47%) TETRA
2 2 (2.47%) VLAN
3 1 (1.23%) CATAPAN
3 1 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.23%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.23%) DHCP
3 1 (1.23%) DNS
3 1 (1.23%) Firewall
3 1 (1.23%) IPsec
3 1 (1.23%) LAN
3 1 (1.23%) Network Security
3 1 (1.23%) NGFW
3 1 (1.23%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.23%) SSL
3 1 (1.23%) VPN
3 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.64%) Metadata
2 3 (3.70%) Power BI
3 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (14.81%) GitLab
2 11 (13.58%) JIRA
3 8 (9.88%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.94%) Postman
5 2 (2.47%) Git
5 2 (2.47%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.23%) JUnit
6 1 (1.23%) NUnit
6 1 (1.23%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (1.23%) Selenium
General
1 19 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.28%) Aerospace
3 8 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.88%) Manufacturing
4 7 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.94%) Finance
6 2 (2.47%) Military
7 1 (1.23%) Automotive
7 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Retail
7 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (22.22%) Architect
2 16 (19.75%) Delivery Manager
3 10 (12.35%) Security Architect
4 5 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (6.17%) Product Delivery Manager
4 5 (6.17%) Product Manager
4 5 (6.17%) Senior
4 5 (6.17%) Service Delivery Manager
4 5 (6.17%) Service Manager
4 5 (6.17%) Service Owner
5 4 (4.94%) DevOps Architect
5 4 (4.94%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 4 (4.94%) Lead
5 4 (4.94%) Software Test Engineer
5 4 (4.94%) Test Engineer
6 3 (3.70%) Coordinator
6 3 (3.70%) Engineering Manager
6 3 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (3.70%) Project Manager
6 3 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.58%) Terraform
2 5 (6.17%) REST
3 4 (4.94%) GraphQL
3 4 (4.94%) RESTful
4 3 (3.70%) Middleware
5 2 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.47%) HTML
5 2 (2.47%) HTML5
5 2 (2.47%) Loki
5 2 (2.47%) Node.js
6 1 (1.23%) Flask
6 1 (1.23%) pytest
6 1 (1.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) CMDB
1 7 (8.64%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.41%) Security Posture
3 5 (6.17%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.94%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.70%) PMI
5 3 (3.70%) Social Media
6 2 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.23%) EPoS
7 1 (1.23%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.81%) Windows
2 11 (13.58%) Linux
3 3 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.23%) Debian
4 1 (1.23%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (34.57%) Agile
2 26 (32.10%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (28.40%) DevOps
3 23 (28.40%) ITIL
4 22 (27.16%) Service Management
4 22 (27.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (23.46%) CI/CD
6 17 (20.99%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (20.99%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (20.99%) Roadmaps
7 15 (18.52%) Change Management
8 14 (17.28%) Security Architecture
8 14 (17.28%) Software Engineering
8 14 (17.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (14.81%) Containerisation
9 12 (14.81%) Digital Engineering
9 12 (14.81%) PRINCE2
10 11 (13.58%) DevSecOps
10 11 (13.58%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 11 (13.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.88%) Python
2 6 (7.41%) Bash
2 6 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 5 (6.17%) Java
4 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.47%) Perl
4 2 (2.47%) Scala
4 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.47%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (51.85%) Security Cleared
2 29 (35.80%) SC Cleared
3 16 (19.75%) Degree
4 12 (14.81%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.94%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.70%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.47%) CISM
7 2 (2.47%) CISSP
7 2 (2.47%) GIAC
7 2 (2.47%) OSCP
7 2 (2.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.23%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.23%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (11.11%) NIST
3 8 (9.88%) Data Quality
4 7 (8.64%) QA
5 6 (7.41%) GRC
6 4 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 3 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (2.47%) ISO 9001
8 2 (2.47%) NCSC
9 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (1.23%) DO-254
9 1 (1.23%) GDPR
9 1 (1.23%) IEC 61508
9 1 (1.23%) ISO 26262
9 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (7.41%) Docker
2 3 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.47%) KVM
4 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (19.75%) Ansible
2 15 (18.52%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.64%) Grafana
4 4 (4.94%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.70%) SCCM
6 2 (2.47%) Puppet
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.23%) MOM
7 1 (1.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.81%) ServiceNow
3 5 (6.17%) Red Hat
3 5 (6.17%) VMware
4 4 (4.94%) Splunk
5 3 (3.70%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.70%) IBM
5 3 (3.70%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.47%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.47%) Google
6 2 (2.47%) Peplink
6 2 (2.47%) Qualys
6 2 (2.47%) Rapid7
6 2 (2.47%) Starlink
6 2 (2.47%) Tenable
7 1 (1.23%) Becrypt
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco
7 1 (1.23%) Foundry
7 1 (1.23%) Siemens
7 1 (1.23%) SolarWinds