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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 104 126
Rank change year-on-year -27 +22 -33
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 55 71 78
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.24% 1.94% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 2.19% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 45 52
10th Percentile £293 £360 £315
25th Percentile £474 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £631 £625 £623
90th Percentile £660 £675 £631
England median daily rate £537 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -0.09% -6.52% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 6
10th Percentile £58.48 - £24.96
25th Percentile £61.06 £31.25 £29.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £33.75 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +92.59% -14.56% -7.45%
75th Percentile £67.50 £35.00 £58.39
90th Percentile - - £65.20
England median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £49.44
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.98% +1.19%

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 3,761 3,241 4,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.59% 88.38% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 2,028 2,886
10th Percentile £222 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -1.50% +1.07%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 119 237
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.99 £18.77
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.63 £27.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% -9.09% +46.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.22 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.09%

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 26 December 2025.

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
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 26 December 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
Hampshire -16 28 £613 +22.50% 27
Thames Valley -31 16 £550 +10.00% 51
Berkshire -15 9 £500 -6.10% 31
Buckinghamshire -1 6 £550 +29.41% 13
West Sussex -7 6 £275 -49.31% 6
Surrey -7 5 £275 -47.62% 18
Oxfordshire -14 1 £200 -59.08% 7
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 (3.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.82%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
2 14 (25.45%) Azure
3 13 (23.64%) AWS
4 7 (12.73%) OpenShift
5 6 (10.91%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (9.09%) GCP
7 4 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (5.45%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.45%) GitHub
8 3 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (5.45%) IaaS
9 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.64%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.82%) Google Ads
10 1 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) DNS
2 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.45%) DHCP
3 3 (5.45%) Network Security
4 1 (1.82%) HTTP
4 1 (1.82%) Internet
4 1 (1.82%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 16 (29.09%) Jenkins
2 10 (18.18%) Git
3 6 (10.91%) JIRA
4 2 (3.64%) GitLab
General
1 8 (14.55%) Public Sector
1 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.91%) Finance
3 5 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Manufacturing
4 4 (7.27%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Avionics
5 3 (5.45%) Electronics
5 3 (5.45%) Marketing
5 3 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (14.55%) Software Engineer
2 7 (12.73%) Architect
2 7 (12.73%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (10.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) C++ Software Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Embedded Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Configuration Manager
5 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (5.45%) Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Change Manager
6 3 (5.45%) Security Architect
6 3 (5.45%) Senior
7 2 (3.64%) Ada Software Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) Middleware
1 7 (12.73%) React
2 2 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.64%) Loki
3 1 (1.82%) REST
3 1 (1.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Cloud Native
1 7 (12.73%) Private Cloud
2 6 (10.91%) CAN bus
2 6 (10.91%) CMDB
3 4 (7.27%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.45%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.45%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.45%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.82%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.82%) NHS
5 1 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (29.09%) Linux
2 13 (23.64%) Windows
3 3 (5.45%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.64%) CentOS
4 2 (3.64%) Unix
5 1 (1.82%) Debian
5 1 (1.82%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.82%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.18%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 18 (32.73%) Containerisation
4 17 (30.91%) Agile
5 15 (27.27%) DevOps
6 11 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 9 (16.36%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (16.36%) High Availability
8 8 (14.55%) ITIL
8 8 (14.55%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (12.73%) Change Management
9 7 (12.73%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (12.73%) Migration
10 6 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (10.91%) SysML
10 6 (10.91%) Test Automation
10 6 (10.91%) UML
11 5 (9.09%) DevSecOps
11 5 (9.09%) Open Source
11 5 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.73%) Python
2 15 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 13 (23.64%) C#
4 10 (18.18%) Bash
4 10 (18.18%) SQL
5 8 (14.55%) Java
5 8 (14.55%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.91%) C++
6 6 (10.91%) Embedded C++
7 2 (3.64%) Ada
7 2 (3.64%) Perl
8 1 (1.82%) Go
Qualifications
1 30 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 21 (38.18%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.55%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (5.45%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.45%) CCSP
4 3 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.45%) CISSP
5 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.64%) Degree
5 2 (3.64%) RHCE
5 2 (3.64%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.45%) GDPR
2 3 (5.45%) NIST
2 3 (5.45%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.45%) PSD2
3 2 (3.64%) QA
4 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.82%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.82%) NCSC
4 1 (1.82%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (34.55%) Docker
2 6 (10.91%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.64%) KVM
5 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (36.36%) Ansible
2 19 (34.55%) Kubernetes
3 11 (20.00%) Terraform
4 10 (18.18%) Puppet
5 7 (12.73%) Grafana
6 5 (9.09%) Progress Chef
6 5 (9.09%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.64%) Argo
7 2 (3.64%) SCCM
8 1 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.82%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.82%) Rundeck
8 1 (1.82%) Salt
8 1 (1.82%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (10.91%) ServiceNow
4 5 (9.09%) VMware
5 4 (7.27%) SAP
6 2 (3.64%) JDA
6 2 (3.64%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.82%) Siemens
7 1 (1.82%) Splunk