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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 90 94
Rank change year-on-year -30 +4 +25
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 88 61 107
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.46% 2.05% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.25% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 27 60
10th Percentile £231 £320 £279
25th Percentile £268 £435 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% -11.50% -4.64%
75th Percentile £609 £501 £650
90th Percentile £729 £569 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 4 14
10th Percentile £40.00 - £40.00
25th Percentile £77.88 £41.00 £48.40
Median hourly rate £88.00 £53.00 £70.39
Median % change year-on-year +66.04% -24.71% +22.42%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £91.50
90th Percentile - - £92.37
England median hourly rate £58.75 £48.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +21.13% -3.00% -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 4,865 2,713 4,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.63% 91.29% 82.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,104 1,734 2,720
10th Percentile £280 £250 £255
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -1.57% +0.10%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £660 £700
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 464 185 458
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.59 £15.00 £18.32
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £82.25 £58.75 £62.64
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.90
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.08% -23.73% +3.81%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -37 56 £270 -46.00% 13
Berkshire -19 52 £268 -46.40% 4
Hampshire -12 23 £550 +7.84% 14
Surrey - 8 - - 2
Oxfordshire -26 3 £800 - 6
West Sussex -19 1 - - 2
Buckinghamshire -47 1 £520 - 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 2 (2.27%) JBoss
1 2 (2.27%) WebSphere
1 2 (2.27%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.14%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.14%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) CATIA
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.14%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.14%) ProductWriter
2 1 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.23%) Power Platform
2 7 (7.95%) AWS
3 6 (6.82%) Azure
3 6 (6.82%) GitHub
3 6 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (6.82%) OpenShift
4 4 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.27%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.27%) PaaS
5 2 (2.27%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) Firewall
1 2 (2.27%) SSL
1 2 (2.27%) VPN
2 1 (1.14%) CATAPAN
2 1 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.14%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (1.14%) DHCP
2 1 (1.14%) DNS
2 1 (1.14%) IPsec
2 1 (1.14%) LAN
2 1 (1.14%) Network Security
2 1 (1.14%) NGFW
2 1 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.23%) Power BI
2 3 (3.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (28.41%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (6.82%) GitLab
3 5 (5.68%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.55%) Git
4 4 (4.55%) JIRA
4 4 (4.55%) Postman
5 3 (3.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.27%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.14%) JUnit
7 1 (1.14%) NUnit
7 1 (1.14%) Selenium
General
1 36 (40.91%) Aerospace
2 12 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.36%) Finance
4 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Marketing
5 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (27.27%) Product Manager
2 23 (26.14%) Delivery Manager
3 21 (23.86%) Product Delivery Manager
3 21 (23.86%) Systems Delivery Manager
3 21 (23.86%) Systems Manager
4 7 (7.95%) Architect
5 6 (6.82%) Configuration Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) IT Manager
5 6 (6.82%) Senior
6 4 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) Security Manager
6 4 (4.55%) Software Test Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) Technical Architect
6 4 (4.55%) Test Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Lead
7 3 (3.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.55%) GraphQL
1 4 (4.55%) Loki
1 4 (4.55%) REST
1 4 (4.55%) RESTful
2 3 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.27%) Middleware
3 2 (2.27%) Node.js
3 2 (2.27%) YAML
4 1 (1.14%) Flask
4 1 (1.14%) JSON
4 1 (1.14%) pytest
4 1 (1.14%) SOAP
4 1 (1.14%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 26 (29.55%) Product Ownership
2 21 (23.86%) Data Structures
3 10 (11.36%) CMDB
4 6 (6.82%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.68%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.27%) FPGA
8 2 (2.27%) PKI
8 2 (2.27%) Verilog
8 2 (2.27%) VHDL
9 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.14%) EPoS
9 1 (1.14%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.23%) Linux
1 9 (10.23%) Windows
2 1 (1.14%) Debian
2 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.14%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (46.59%) Continuous Improvement
2 39 (44.32%) Agile
3 28 (31.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 26 (29.55%) Computer Science
4 26 (29.55%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 25 (28.41%) Systems Engineering
6 24 (27.27%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 24 (27.27%) Requirements Management
7 23 (26.14%) Programme Management
7 23 (26.14%) SysML
7 23 (26.14%) UML
8 22 (25.00%) Change Control
8 22 (25.00%) DoDAF
9 21 (23.86%) PRINCE2
9 21 (23.86%) Roadmaps
9 21 (23.86%) Service Management
10 19 (21.59%) ITSM
11 16 (18.18%) DevOps
12 14 (15.91%) CI/CD
12 14 (15.91%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.50%) Python
2 8 (9.09%) Bash
3 6 (6.82%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.68%) Java
5 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.27%) Perl
5 2 (2.27%) Scala
5 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.27%) SystemVerilog
5 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.14%) Bicep
6 1 (1.14%) C#
6 1 (1.14%) C++
6 1 (1.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 57 (64.77%) Security Cleared
2 26 (29.55%) Degree
3 15 (17.05%) SC Cleared
4 8 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.14%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.68%) Def Stans
4 3 (3.41%) QA
5 2 (2.27%) DO-254
5 2 (2.27%) NIST
6 1 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 10 (11.36%) Ansible
2 10 (11.36%) Terraform
3 9 (10.23%) Grafana
4 8 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.68%) Puppet
6 2 (2.27%) Argo
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (27.27%) IBM
2 14 (15.91%) ServiceNow
3 6 (6.82%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.68%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.27%) Actel
5 2 (2.27%) Altera
5 2 (2.27%) Intel
5 2 (2.27%) Mentor Graphics
5 2 (2.27%) Microsemi
5 2 (2.27%) VMware
5 2 (2.27%) Xilinx
6 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.14%) Becrypt
6 1 (1.14%) Broadcom
6 1 (1.14%) Cisco
6 1 (1.14%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.14%) SAP
6 1 (1.14%) Siemens
6 1 (1.14%) SolarWinds