Configuration Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South West

Configuration Engineer
England > South West

The median Configuration Engineer daily rate in the South West is £346, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 108 -
Rank change year-on-year -40 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Configuration Engineer 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.22% 0.053% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.059% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £317 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £346 - -
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £498 £450 £138
% change year-on-year +10.56% +227.27% -73.56%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 3,379 1,683 2,571
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.47% 88.81% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,841 974 1,656
10th Percentile £325 £225 £250
25th Percentile £425 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £624 £625 £613
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 193 331
10th Percentile £16.64 £13.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £32.42 £18.13 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.25 £25.15 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +147.51% -61.31% +3.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £43.10 £25.32 £45.00
% change year-on-year +70.23% -43.73% +7.40%

Configuration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Configuration Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Configuration Engineer job vacancy trend in the South West

Configuration Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Configuration Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Configuration Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Configuration Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Configuration Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Configuration Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Configuration Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Bristol -17 3 £346 - 2
Somerset - 3 - -
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Devon - 1 - - 1
Configuration Engineer
England

Configuration Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 14 August 2026, Configuration Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring Configuration Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Ansible
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Batch Processing
4 1 (12.50%) Batch Scheduling
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Coaching
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) eggPlant
4 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) PLM
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) QA
4 1 (12.50%) Remedy
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Siemens

Configuration Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) eggPlant
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Batch Processing
3 1 (12.50%) Batch Scheduling
3 1 (12.50%) Change Control
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Coaching
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) PLM
3 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Statistics
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Remedy
1 1 (12.50%) Siemens