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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 92 97
Rank change year-on-year -53 +5 +21
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 96 73 102
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.45% 2.11% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 2.34% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 30 56
10th Percentile £251 £404 £318
25th Percentile £306 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -11.50% -3.21%
75th Percentile £600 £571 £650
90th Percentile £641 £619 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 5 12
10th Percentile £70.00 - £40.00
25th Percentile £80.50 - £51.14
Median hourly rate £88.00 £41.00 £70.39
Median % change year-on-year +114.63% -41.75% +43.65%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £90.50
90th Percentile - - £92.33
England median hourly rate £60.00 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +41.18% -15.00% +1.01%

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 5,373 3,118 4,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.16% 90.19% 82.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,382 1,954 2,575
10th Percentile £280 £250 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.39% +0.49%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 538 273 366
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.50 £14.47
25th Percentile £26.06 £15.13 £20.25
Median hourly rate £57.25 £22.07 £55.04
Median % change year-on-year +159.40% -59.90% +10.08%
75th Percentile £82.25 £51.10 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £78.13
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -45 61 £375 -25.00% 9
Berkshire -16 53 £268 -46.40% 6
Hampshire -39 20 £550 -7.56% 13
Surrey -16 8 £550 - 7
Buckinghamshire -46 5 £610 +10.91% 2
Kent - 4 £525 - 4
Oxfordshire -19 3 £800 - 1
West Sussex -25 1 - - 2
Middlesex - 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 £375 - 1
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 (2.08%) JBoss
1 2 (2.08%) WebSphere
1 2 (2.08%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.04%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.04%) Confluence
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.04%) CATIA
2 1 (1.04%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (1.04%) Houdini
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) NUKE
2 1 (1.04%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.04%) ProductWriter
2 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.46%) Azure
2 9 (9.38%) Power Platform
3 8 (8.33%) AWS
4 5 (5.21%) OpenShift
5 4 (4.17%) GitHub
5 4 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.08%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.08%) GCP
6 2 (2.08%) IaaS
6 2 (2.08%) PaaS
6 2 (2.08%) Smartsheet
6 2 (2.08%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.04%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) Firewall
1 2 (2.08%) SSL
1 2 (2.08%) VPN
2 1 (1.04%) Broadband
2 1 (1.04%) CATAPAN
2 1 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.04%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (1.04%) DHCP
2 1 (1.04%) DNS
2 1 (1.04%) IPsec
2 1 (1.04%) LAN
2 1 (1.04%) Network Security
2 1 (1.04%) NGFW
2 1 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) Power BI
2 3 (3.13%) Metadata
3 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 25 (26.04%) Rational DOORS
2 9 (9.38%) JIRA
3 5 (5.21%) GitLab
4 4 (4.17%) Postman
5 3 (3.13%) Git
5 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.08%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.04%) JUnit
7 1 (1.04%) NUnit
7 1 (1.04%) Selenium
General
1 35 (36.46%) Aerospace
2 13 (13.54%) Finance
3 11 (11.46%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.21%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.08%) Marketing
7 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.04%) Retail
7 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (27.08%) Delivery Manager
2 24 (25.00%) Product Manager
3 21 (21.88%) Product Delivery Manager
3 21 (21.88%) Systems Delivery Manager
3 21 (21.88%) Systems Manager
4 9 (9.38%) Architect
5 8 (8.33%) IT Manager
6 6 (6.25%) Senior
7 5 (5.21%) Security Architect
7 5 (5.21%) Service Delivery Manager
7 5 (5.21%) Service Manager
7 5 (5.21%) Service Owner
8 4 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Security Manager
8 4 (4.17%) Software Test Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.17%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Configuration Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.21%) REST
2 4 (4.17%) GraphQL
2 4 (4.17%) RESTful
3 2 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.08%) Loki
3 2 (2.08%) Middleware
3 2 (2.08%) Node.js
3 2 (2.08%) YAML
4 1 (1.04%) Flask
4 1 (1.04%) JSON
4 1 (1.04%) pytest
4 1 (1.04%) SOAP
4 1 (1.04%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.08%) Product Ownership
2 21 (21.88%) Data Structures
3 10 (10.42%) CMDB
4 6 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.21%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.21%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.13%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.08%) FPGA
8 2 (2.08%) PKI
8 2 (2.08%) PMI
8 2 (2.08%) Verilog
8 2 (2.08%) VHDL
9 1 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (1.04%) EPoS
9 1 (1.04%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (1.04%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.33%) Linux
1 8 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.04%) Debian
2 1 (1.04%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.04%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (45.83%) Continuous Improvement
2 40 (41.67%) Agile
3 31 (32.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 26 (27.08%) Computer Science
4 26 (27.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 25 (26.04%) Programme Management
5 25 (26.04%) Service Management
5 25 (26.04%) Systems Engineering
6 24 (25.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 24 (25.00%) Requirements Management
7 23 (23.96%) PRINCE2
7 23 (23.96%) SysML
7 23 (23.96%) UML
8 22 (22.92%) Change Control
8 22 (22.92%) DoDAF
8 22 (22.92%) ITSM
8 22 (22.92%) Roadmaps
9 19 (19.79%) ITIL
10 15 (15.63%) DevOps
11 13 (13.54%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.42%) Python
2 6 (6.25%) Bash
2 6 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 5 (5.21%) Java
4 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.08%) Perl
4 2 (2.08%) Scala
4 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.08%) SystemVerilog
4 2 (2.08%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.04%) Bicep
5 1 (1.04%) C#
5 1 (1.04%) C++
5 1 (1.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 59 (61.46%) Security Cleared
2 28 (29.17%) Degree
3 18 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.29%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.08%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.04%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.17%) NIST
4 3 (3.13%) GRC
5 2 (2.08%) Def Stans
5 2 (2.08%) DO-254
5 2 (2.08%) ISO 9001
5 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (2.08%) QA
6 1 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.04%) GDPR
6 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (3.13%) Docker
2 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (9.38%) Kubernetes
1 9 (9.38%) Terraform
2 8 (8.33%) Ansible
3 5 (5.21%) Grafana
4 4 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.13%) Puppet
6 1 (1.04%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.04%) QRadar
6 1 (1.04%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (25.00%) IBM
2 19 (19.79%) ServiceNow
3 6 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.21%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.08%) Actel
5 2 (2.08%) Altera
5 2 (2.08%) Intel
5 2 (2.08%) Mentor Graphics
5 2 (2.08%) Microsemi
5 2 (2.08%) VMware
5 2 (2.08%) Xilinx
6 1 (1.04%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.04%) Becrypt
6 1 (1.04%) Broadcom
6 1 (1.04%) Cisco
6 1 (1.04%) Foundry
6 1 (1.04%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.04%) Siemens
6 1 (1.04%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.04%) Splunk