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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 98 92
Rank change year-on-year -39 -6 +31
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 96 67 101
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.43% 1.90% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 2.11% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 26 55
10th Percentile £259 £369 £312
25th Percentile £400 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -12.24% -2.36%
75th Percentile £591 £575 £650
90th Percentile £618 £619 £688
England median daily rate £514 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.14% -2.78% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 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 £66.50 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +56.47% -15.00% -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 5,430 3,168 4,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.94% 89.90% 82.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,351 1,981 2,489
10th Percentile £280 £250 £255
25th Percentile £414 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.31%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £706 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 589 291 322
10th Percentile £14.80 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £15.13 £26.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £21.25 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +158.82% -62.95% +14.70%
75th Percentile £78.75 £49.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £71.50 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +1.00%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -41 61 £430 -14.00% 25
Berkshire -13 51 £388 -22.50% 15
Hampshire -38 15 £550 -8.90% 14
Surrey -18 8 £550 +100.00% 4
Kent - 7 £525 - 5
Buckinghamshire -44 6 £610 +10.91% 6
Oxfordshire -21 4 £800 - 4
Middlesex - 3 - -
West Sussex -24 1 - - 3
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
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.04%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (1.04%) Houdini
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) ProductWriter
1 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.04%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 17 (17.71%) Azure
2 10 (10.42%) AWS
3 7 (7.29%) GitHub
3 7 (7.29%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.17%) GCP
6 4 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.13%) Datadog
7 3 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.13%) SaaS
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.08%) IaaS
8 2 (2.08%) Smartsheet
9 1 (1.04%) PaaS
9 1 (1.04%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) Broadband
2 2 (2.08%) Firewall
2 2 (2.08%) Multicast
2 2 (2.08%) RTMP
2 2 (2.08%) SSL
2 2 (2.08%) TETRA
2 2 (2.08%) VLAN
2 2 (2.08%) VPN
3 1 (1.04%) CATAPAN
3 1 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.04%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.04%) DHCP
3 1 (1.04%) DNS
3 1 (1.04%) IPsec
3 1 (1.04%) LAN
3 1 (1.04%) Network Security
3 1 (1.04%) NGFW
3 1 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.25%) Power BI
2 3 (3.13%) Metadata
3 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 26 (27.08%) Rational DOORS
2 8 (8.33%) GitLab
2 8 (8.33%) JIRA
3 6 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.17%) Postman
5 3 (3.13%) Git
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 33 (34.38%) Aerospace
2 12 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.38%) Finance
4 6 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.21%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.04%) Marketing
6 1 (1.04%) Military
6 1 (1.04%) Retail
6 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (28.13%) Delivery Manager
2 25 (26.04%) Product Manager
3 22 (22.92%) Product Delivery Manager
4 21 (21.88%) Systems Delivery Manager
4 21 (21.88%) Systems Manager
5 11 (11.46%) Architect
6 8 (8.33%) Security Architect
7 5 (5.21%) IT Manager
7 5 (5.21%) Lead
7 5 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Service Delivery Manager
7 5 (5.21%) Service Manager
7 5 (5.21%) Service Owner
8 4 (4.17%) Security Manager
8 4 (4.17%) Senior
8 4 (4.17%) Software Test Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Technical Architect
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%) HTML
3 2 (2.08%) HTML5
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 27 (28.13%) Product Ownership
2 21 (21.88%) Data Structures
3 7 (7.29%) CMDB
3 7 (7.29%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.21%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.21%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.13%) Social Media
7 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.08%) PKI
7 2 (2.08%) PMI
8 1 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.04%) EPoS
8 1 (1.04%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (1.04%) FPGA
8 1 (1.04%) Verilog
8 1 (1.04%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.42%) Windows
2 7 (7.29%) Linux
3 2 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.04%) Debian
4 1 (1.04%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (45.83%) Continuous Improvement
2 43 (44.79%) Agile
3 29 (30.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 28 (29.17%) Computer Science
5 27 (28.13%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 26 (27.08%) Systems Engineering
7 25 (26.04%) Programme Management
8 24 (25.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 24 (25.00%) Requirements Management
9 23 (23.96%) Change Control
9 23 (23.96%) PRINCE2
9 23 (23.96%) SysML
9 23 (23.96%) UML
10 22 (22.92%) DoDAF
11 19 (19.79%) Roadmaps
11 19 (19.79%) Service Management
12 17 (17.71%) DevOps
13 16 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (16.67%) ITIL
13 16 (16.67%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.38%) Python
2 7 (7.29%) PowerShell
3 5 (5.21%) Bash
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%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.04%) Bicep
5 1 (1.04%) C#
5 1 (1.04%) C++
5 1 (1.04%) SystemVerilog
5 1 (1.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 54 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 30 (31.25%) Degree
3 16 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.17%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.08%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.04%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) Data Quality
1 9 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.29%) QA
3 6 (6.25%) NIST
4 5 (5.21%) GRC
5 2 (2.08%) DO-254
5 2 (2.08%) ISO 9001
5 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
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%) IEC 61508
6 1 (1.04%) ISO 26262
6 1 (1.04%) NCSC
6 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (6.25%) Docker
2 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.08%) KVM
3 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (11.46%) Ansible
1 11 (11.46%) Kubernetes
1 11 (11.46%) Terraform
2 7 (7.29%) Grafana
3 4 (4.17%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.13%) Puppet
5 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.08%) SCCM
6 1 (1.04%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.04%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (26.04%) IBM
2 16 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 10 (10.42%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.17%) Splunk
5 3 (3.13%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.08%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.08%) Google
6 2 (2.08%) Peplink
6 2 (2.08%) Starlink
7 1 (1.04%) Altera
7 1 (1.04%) Becrypt
7 1 (1.04%) Cisco
7 1 (1.04%) Intel
7 1 (1.04%) Mentor Graphics
7 1 (1.04%) SAP
7 1 (1.04%) Siemens
7 1 (1.04%) VMware
7 1 (1.04%) Xilinx