Configuration Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Configuration Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Configuration Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 396 447
Rank change year-on-year +63 +51 +56
Contract jobs requiring a Configuration Analyst 3 3 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.014% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.016% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile £425 - £103
25th Percentile £444 £288 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £325 £275
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +18.18% -52.17%
75th Percentile £531 £363 £384
90th Percentile £550 - £447
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £413
% change year-on-year -2.50% +21.21% -4.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Configuration Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Configuration Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Analyst in the UK excluding London

Configuration Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Analyst in the UK excluding London

Configuration Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Analyst in the UK excluding London

Configuration Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Analyst in the UK excluding London

Configuration Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Analyst within the UK excluding London 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
North West +17 1 - - 2
North of England +17 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 £550 -
South East - 1 £425 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £550 -
Configuration Analyst
UK

Configuration Analyst Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Configuration Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Configuration Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Law
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) CMDB
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Micro Focus
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Linux

Configuration Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Micro Focus
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow