Configuration Management Contracts in the South West

Configuration Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Configuration Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Configuration Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 70 111
Rank change year-on-year +6 +41 +3
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 47 92 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.80% 2.88% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 3.46% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 56 29
10th Percentile £388 £425 £350
25th Percentile £513 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £553 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% +5.24% +10.53%
75th Percentile £651 £700 £575
90th Percentile £675 - £639
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 23 11
10th Percentile £40.45 £44.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £54.63 - £37.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +75.00% -46.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 - £56.71
90th Percentile - £70.66 £57.33
England median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £50.42
% change year-on-year +20.00% -0.83% +9.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the South West

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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 Management within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wiltshire +31 34 £585 -16.43% 14
Bristol -1 4 £484 -10.42% 21
Devon +12 3 £513 -10.87% 23
Somerset +3 3 £600 +20.00% 12
Dorset -2 3 - - 7
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (21.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Windchill
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.13%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Teamcenter
2 1 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.77%) AWS
2 5 (10.64%) Azure
3 2 (4.26%) GCP
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) DNS
1 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.13%) DHCP
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) SSH
2 1 (2.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.13%) MySQL
1 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (42.55%) Git
2 13 (27.66%) Bitbucket
2 13 (27.66%) Jenkins
3 10 (21.28%) JIRA
4 2 (4.26%) GitLab
5 1 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (17.02%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.64%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Finance
5 3 (6.38%) Police
6 2 (4.26%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (2.13%) Electronics
7 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.13%) Marketing
7 1 (2.13%) Military
7 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (19.15%) Configuration Manager
2 8 (17.02%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Configuration Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Coordinator
7 2 (4.26%) IT Manager
7 2 (4.26%) IT Services Manager
7 2 (4.26%) Project Coordinator
7 2 (4.26%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.26%) Release Manager
7 2 (4.26%) Service Manager
8 1 (2.13%) Development Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) Junior
8 1 (2.13%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.53%) REST
2 11 (23.40%) SOAP
3 3 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.26%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (2.13%) .NET
5 1 (2.13%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.13%) React
5 1 (2.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.26%) CMDB
2 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.13%) Clustering
3 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (48.94%) Linux
2 20 (42.55%) Windows
3 10 (21.28%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.13%) CentOS
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (48.94%) Agile
2 19 (40.43%) NsoIT
2 19 (40.43%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (31.91%) Deployment Automation
3 15 (31.91%) Service Management
4 12 (25.53%) Validation
5 11 (23.40%) Infrastructure Automation
5 11 (23.40%) Reverse Engineering
5 11 (23.40%) Software Engineering
6 10 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (21.28%) System Testing
7 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (19.15%) ITIL
8 8 (17.02%) Process Improvement
9 7 (14.89%) DevOps
9 7 (14.89%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (14.89%) Project Management
10 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
11 5 (10.64%) Change Management
11 5 (10.64%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 25 (53.19%) Python
2 22 (46.81%) PowerShell
3 16 (34.04%) Bash
4 1 (2.13%) Perl
4 1 (2.13%) Ruby
4 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (72.34%) Security Cleared
2 31 (65.96%) SC Cleared
3 18 (38.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 11 (23.40%) OCA
4 11 (23.40%) Oracle Certification
5 10 (21.28%) CCNP
5 10 (21.28%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (21.28%) RHCA
5 10 (21.28%) RHCE
6 7 (14.89%) Degree
7 5 (10.64%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (8.51%) DV Cleared
9 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
10 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
10 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (2.13%) MCSA
10 1 (2.13%) MCSE
10 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) Def Stans
2 2 (4.26%) QA
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) NIST
3 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (27.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.26%) Docker
3 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (48.94%) Ansible
2 14 (29.79%) Puppet
3 13 (27.66%) Progress Chef
4 11 (23.40%) Terraform
4 11 (23.40%) vCenter Server
5 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
6 2 (4.26%) Grafana
6 2 (4.26%) PowerCLI
6 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (42.55%) VMware
2 13 (27.66%) Oracle
3 10 (21.28%) Atlassian
3 10 (21.28%) Cisco
4 3 (6.38%) PTC
5 2 (4.26%) Foundry
5 2 (4.26%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.26%) Splunk
6 1 (2.13%) BMC
6 1 (2.13%) Citrix
6 1 (2.13%) ESRI
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.13%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.13%) Remedy
6 1 (2.13%) SAP
6 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.13%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.13%) Veeam