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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 88 129
Rank change year-on-year -28 +41 -25
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 74 72 80
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.47% 2.36% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 2.58% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 44 63
10th Percentile £224 £307 £310
25th Percentile £270 £409 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £540 £625
90th Percentile £646 £634 £710
England median daily rate £525 £533 £553
% change year-on-year -1.41% -3.62% +2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 7
10th Percentile £40.00 - £35.57
25th Percentile £62.50 £31.25 £43.13
Median hourly rate £83.00 £35.00 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +137.14% -40.58% +20.23%
75th Percentile £88.00 £51.25 £66.48
90th Percentile - £67.50 £83.15
England median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -12.50% +23.15% -1.99%

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 4,188 2,794 4,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.38% 91.40% 87.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,749 1,744 2,904
10th Percentile £263 £250 £213
25th Percentile £403 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +0.90% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £610
90th Percentile £696 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 125 367
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.10 £13.22
25th Percentile £17.25 £21.43 £18.54
Median hourly rate £25.77 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.73% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 £62.50 £62.52
90th Percentile £86.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -17.14% +3.63% -6.18%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 4 March 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
Hampshire -17 33 £613 +22.50% 13
Thames Valley -61 33 £268 -46.40% 26
Berkshire -24 31 £268 -46.40% 14
West Sussex - 5 - - 1
Surrey -7 2 - - 4
Oxfordshire -16 1 £200 -59.08% 5
Buckinghamshire -30 1 £550 +29.41% 9
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 1 (1.35%) Confluence
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.35%) CATIA
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.35%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.22%) AWS
2 9 (12.16%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (8.11%) Azure
4 5 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.05%) GitHub
6 3 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.05%) IaaS
6 3 (4.05%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.70%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.70%) GCP
7 2 (2.70%) PaaS
7 2 (2.70%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.05%) DNS
3 2 (2.70%) DHCP
3 2 (2.70%) Firewall
4 1 (1.35%) HTTP
4 1 (1.35%) Internet
4 1 (1.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) Power BI
2 3 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 13 (17.57%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (14.86%) Jenkins
3 10 (13.51%) Git
4 8 (10.81%) JIRA
5 3 (4.05%) GitLab
6 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (36.49%) Aerospace
2 13 (17.57%) Finance
3 11 (14.86%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.16%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.76%) Marketing
5 5 (6.76%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.41%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.05%) Avionics
7 3 (4.05%) Electronics
7 3 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.05%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (14.86%) Product Manager
2 9 (12.16%) Delivery Manager
2 9 (12.16%) Product Delivery Manager
2 9 (12.16%) Systems Delivery Manager
2 9 (12.16%) Systems Manager
3 7 (9.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (9.46%) Senior
3 7 (9.46%) Software Engineer
4 6 (8.11%) Architect
4 6 (8.11%) C++ Software Engineer
4 6 (8.11%) Configuration Engineer
4 6 (8.11%) IT Manager
5 5 (6.76%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Embedded Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (5.41%) Configuration Manager
6 4 (5.41%) Lead
6 4 (5.41%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.70%) Loki
3 1 (1.35%) Middleware
3 1 (1.35%) React
3 1 (1.35%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.51%) Product Ownership
2 9 (12.16%) Data Structures
3 8 (10.81%) CMDB
4 6 (8.11%) CAN bus
5 5 (6.76%) Management Information System
5 5 (6.76%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.41%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.70%) FPGA
7 2 (2.70%) Verilog
7 2 (2.70%) VHDL
8 1 (1.35%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.35%) NHS
8 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.62%) Linux
2 14 (18.92%) Windows
3 3 (4.05%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.70%) CentOS
4 2 (2.70%) Unix
5 1 (1.35%) Debian
5 1 (1.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (40.54%) Agile
2 25 (33.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (22.97%) DevOps
4 16 (21.62%) SysML
4 16 (21.62%) UML
5 15 (20.27%) Roadmaps
6 14 (18.92%) Computer Science
6 14 (18.92%) Containerisation
6 14 (18.92%) Programme Management
6 14 (18.92%) Service Management
7 13 (17.57%) CI/CD
7 13 (17.57%) ITSM
7 13 (17.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 13 (17.57%) Systems Engineering
8 12 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (16.22%) ITIL
8 12 (16.22%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 12 (16.22%) Requirements Management
9 11 (14.86%) Asset Management
9 11 (14.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.22%) Python
2 10 (13.51%) Bash
3 9 (12.16%) PowerShell
4 8 (10.81%) C#
5 7 (9.46%) C++
6 6 (8.11%) Embedded C++
7 2 (2.70%) Perl
7 2 (2.70%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (1.35%) Java
8 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (63.51%) Security Cleared
2 18 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.92%) Degree
4 10 (13.51%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.70%) RHCE
5 2 (2.70%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.81%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.76%) Def Stans
3 4 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.70%) DO-254
4 2 (2.70%) QA
5 1 (1.35%) NCSC
5 1 (1.35%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (20.27%) Docker
2 6 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.70%) KVM
5 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (17.57%) Ansible
2 11 (14.86%) Kubernetes
2 11 (14.86%) Terraform
3 10 (13.51%) Puppet
4 9 (12.16%) Grafana
5 6 (8.11%) Prometheus
6 5 (6.76%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.70%) Argo
7 2 (2.70%) SCCM
8 1 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 12 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.51%) IBM
2 10 (13.51%) ServiceNow
3 6 (8.11%) Red Hat
4 5 (6.76%) VMware
5 3 (4.05%) SAP
6 2 (2.70%) Actel
6 2 (2.70%) Altera
6 2 (2.70%) Intel
6 2 (2.70%) Mentor Graphics
6 2 (2.70%) Microsemi
6 2 (2.70%) PagerDuty
6 2 (2.70%) Xilinx
7 1 (1.35%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.35%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.35%) Splunk