Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Configuration Management
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 22 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 6 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 3.73% 0.65% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 0.94% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £277 - £383
25th Percentile £316 - £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £765 £425
Median % change year-on-year -49.02% +80.00% -
75th Percentile £471 - £444
90th Percentile £516 - £448
Hampshire median daily rate £598 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +13.81% -12.50% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 - -
Median hourly rate £58.50 - -
75th Percentile £60.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £41.00 £33.75 £39.50
% change year-on-year +21.48% -14.56% -39.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 137 106 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 85.09% 69.28% 84.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 72 122
10th Percentile £170 £200 £263
25th Percentile £230 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £416 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.72% -20.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £614
90th Percentile £673 £638 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 6
10th Percentile £22.50 - £24.13
25th Percentile £26.25 - £27.00
Median hourly rate £44.25 - £29.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +61.99%
75th Percentile £72.63 - £34.31
90th Percentile £78.85 - £36.63
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £65.85 £52.50
% change year-on-year -68.55% +25.43% +16.67%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Configuration Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in Southampton

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Configuration Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Southampton over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Southampton

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Configuration Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Project Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Support Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Project Support Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) CAN bus
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) SysML
3 2 (33.33%) UML
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Project Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) C++
1 2 (33.33%) Embedded C++
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Puppet
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) PagerDuty
2 1 (16.67%) SAP