Configuration Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Configuration Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Configuration Management over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 114 115
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -10
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 423 550 706
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.04% 2.27% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 2.53% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 380 460
10th Percentile £358 £325 £365
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +1.89% +21.14%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £634
90th Percentile £700 £680 £678
UK median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +14.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 27 50
10th Percentile £37.91 £16.00 £17.56
25th Percentile £41.81 £37.50 £21.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 £48.99 £45.14
Median % change year-on-year +2.06% +8.53% +11.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £58.04 £64.06
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.80 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £45.14
% change year-on-year -0.83% +11.70% +12.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Configuration Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,627 21,715 27,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.89% 89.58% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,629 15,041 19,312
10th Percentile £243 £254 £231
25th Percentile £380 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,023 1,341 1,383
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.16 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +86.50% -8.17%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.59 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
South East +11 102 £550 -8.33% 52
East of England +73 96 £500 +5.26% 18
South West +51 89 £564 +7.38% 49
North of England -37 62 £500 -4.75% 65
North West -30 45 £493 -3.33% 44
Scotland -6 36 £600 - 18
Midlands -39 34 £433 -19.81% 42
West Midlands -36 21 £363 -32.87% 24
Yorkshire +8 16 £558 -7.08% 17
East Midlands +7 13 £550 -3.30% 18
Wales -2 5 £615 +14.42% 4
North East -4 1 - - 5
Configuration Management
UK

Configuration Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 28 (6.62%) Confluence
2 11 (2.60%) nginx
3 7 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.18%) CMS
5 4 (0.95%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.71%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.47%) CICS
7 2 (0.47%) SAS
7 2 (0.47%) Traefik
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.24%) MQSeries
Applications
1 11 (2.60%) Windchill
2 9 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.89%) CATIA
4 6 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.18%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.84%) Teamcenter
2 8 (1.89%) DELMIA
3 7 (1.65%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.71%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.71%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (14.89%) AWS
2 37 (8.75%) Azure
3 23 (5.44%) GCP
4 15 (3.55%) GitHub
5 12 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (2.36%) Serverless
7 9 (2.13%) Amazon S3
8 8 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (1.65%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.42%) CloudBees
11 5 (1.18%) OpenShift
12 4 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (0.95%) IaaS
13 3 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.71%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (0.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.62%) TCP/IP
2 20 (4.73%) SAN
3 18 (4.26%) DNS
4 12 (2.84%) Network Security
5 10 (2.36%) DHCP
6 9 (2.13%) Internet
7 8 (1.89%) Firewall
8 5 (1.18%) AMQP
8 5 (1.18%) HTTPS
8 5 (1.18%) IPsec
8 5 (1.18%) VPN
9 3 (0.71%) SSL
9 3 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.24%) BGP
10 1 (0.24%) DMZ
10 1 (0.24%) FTP
10 1 (0.24%) HTTP
10 1 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.24%) LAN
10 1 (0.24%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.44%) MySQL
2 20 (4.73%) SQL Server
3 13 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.36%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.13%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (1.18%) InfluxDB
7 5 (1.18%) Power BI
8 4 (0.95%) Couchbase
8 4 (0.95%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.71%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.47%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.47%) DB2
10 2 (0.47%) IDMS
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.24%) Flink
11 1 (0.24%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 66 (15.60%) Jenkins
2 55 (13.00%) JIRA
3 31 (7.33%) GitLab
4 26 (6.15%) Bitbucket
5 23 (5.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 23 (5.44%) Git
6 17 (4.02%) SonarQube
7 15 (3.55%) Selenium
8 13 (3.07%) Cucumber
9 12 (2.84%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.65%) LoadRunner
11 5 (1.18%) AppScan
11 5 (1.18%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.95%) Maven
13 3 (0.71%) gulp
14 2 (0.47%) ClearCase
14 2 (0.47%) ClearQuest
14 2 (0.47%) HP UFT
14 2 (0.47%) Hudson
14 2 (0.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 108 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 89 (21.04%) Aerospace
3 58 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.49%) Electronics
6 17 (4.02%) Finance
7 16 (3.78%) Legal
8 15 (3.55%) Military
9 12 (2.84%) Law
10 9 (2.13%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.89%) Police
12 7 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.65%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.42%) Banking
14 5 (1.18%) Retail
15 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.71%) Advertising
16 3 (0.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 70 (16.55%) Configuration Manager
2 61 (14.42%) Developer
3 35 (8.27%) Senior
4 30 (7.09%) Software Engineer
5 26 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (5.44%) Analyst
7 22 (5.20%) Embedded Engineer
7 22 (5.20%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 20 (4.73%) Architect
8 20 (4.73%) Python Developer
9 18 (4.26%) Lead
10 12 (2.84%) Consultant
11 11 (2.60%) Configuration Specialist
11 11 (2.60%) Project Manager
11 11 (2.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (2.36%) Configuration Engineer
12 10 (2.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (2.36%) Service Manager
13 9 (2.13%) Service Analyst
14 8 (1.89%) Support Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (7.09%) .NET
2 27 (6.38%) .NET Core
3 14 (3.31%) REST
4 13 (3.07%) ARM Templates
4 13 (3.07%) Java EE
5 10 (2.36%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (2.36%) RESTful
6 8 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.18%) JSON
7 5 (1.18%) Kafka
7 5 (1.18%) SAML
8 4 (0.95%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (0.95%) OAuth
8 4 (0.95%) YAML
9 3 (0.71%) Apache Beam
9 3 (0.71%) Blazor
9 3 (0.71%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.71%) Node.js
9 3 (0.71%) OpenID
9 3 (0.71%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.17%) Management Information System
2 40 (9.46%) CMDB
3 17 (4.02%) ARM Cortex
4 10 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.13%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.89%) VHDL
7 6 (1.42%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.42%) IoT
7 6 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.42%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.18%) Device Driver
8 5 (1.18%) IVR
8 5 (1.18%) PCIe
8 5 (1.18%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.18%) Verilog
9 4 (0.95%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.95%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.71%) Analogue Electronics
Operating Systems
1 104 (24.59%) Linux
2 21 (4.96%) Ubuntu
3 20 (4.73%) Windows
4 18 (4.26%) Debian
5 17 (4.02%) FreeRTOS
6 10 (2.36%) Unix
7 9 (2.13%) CentOS
7 9 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.42%) Android
9 5 (1.18%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (1.18%) VxWorks
10 4 (0.95%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.95%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.95%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (19.62%) Agile
2 78 (18.44%) CI/CD
2 78 (18.44%) Coaching
2 78 (18.44%) PLM
3 77 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (17.49%) Continuous Integration
5 69 (16.31%) DevOps
6 63 (14.89%) Software Engineering
7 62 (14.66%) Collaborative Working
8 61 (14.42%) ITIL
9 48 (11.35%) Infrastructure as Code
10 47 (11.11%) Service Management
11 36 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (7.80%) Containerisation
12 33 (7.80%) ITSM
13 32 (7.57%) Project Management
14 30 (7.09%) Asset Management
14 30 (7.09%) Task Automation
15 28 (6.62%) Infrastructure Automation
15 28 (6.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 90 (21.28%) Python
2 43 (10.17%) PowerShell
3 34 (8.04%) Java
4 32 (7.57%) C
5 26 (6.15%) SQL
6 22 (5.20%) Embedded C
7 17 (4.02%) Bash
8 16 (3.78%) Go
9 12 (2.84%) Ruby
10 9 (2.13%) JavaScript
11 8 (1.89%) C++
12 7 (1.65%) Groovy
12 7 (1.65%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.18%) C#
13 5 (1.18%) Perl
14 4 (0.95%) PHP
14 4 (0.95%) Scala
15 3 (0.71%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.47%) COBOL
16 2 (0.47%) REXX
Qualifications
1 181 (42.79%) Security Cleared
2 138 (32.62%) SC Cleared
3 46 (10.87%) DV Cleared
4 44 (10.40%) Degree
5 13 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.89%) PMP
9 6 (1.42%) CCNP
10 5 (1.18%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.95%) CCIE
11 4 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.71%) CCNA
13 2 (0.47%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.47%) MCSE
13 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.31%) QA
2 12 (2.84%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.84%) GDPR
3 7 (1.65%) NIST
3 7 (1.65%) PMO
4 6 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.42%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.42%) SLA
5 5 (1.18%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.18%) MISRA
5 5 (1.18%) MISRA C
6 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.47%) NCSC
8 1 (0.24%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) HAZOP
8 1 (0.24%) RMADS
8 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (10.64%) Docker
2 18 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.84%) Firmware
4 9 (2.13%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.42%) XenApp
5 6 (1.42%) XenDesktop
6 4 (0.95%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (0.71%) vSphere
8 2 (0.47%) KVM
8 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.47%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.24%) NFS
9 1 (0.24%) Samba
9 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 86 (20.33%) Ansible
2 58 (13.71%) Terraform
3 50 (11.82%) Kubernetes
4 25 (5.91%) Grafana
5 23 (5.44%) PowerCLI
6 19 (4.49%) Docker Swarm
6 19 (4.49%) Progress Chef
6 19 (4.49%) Puppet
7 17 (4.02%) Prometheus
8 14 (3.31%) Podman
9 11 (2.60%) SCCM
10 6 (1.42%) Nagios
10 6 (1.42%) Packer
11 5 (1.18%) Graylog
11 5 (1.18%) HP Fortify
11 5 (1.18%) Nessus
11 5 (1.18%) WebInspect
12 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.95%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.71%) Istio
Vendors
1 50 (11.82%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.46%) VMware
3 33 (7.80%) ServiceNow
4 30 (7.09%) Atlassian
5 25 (5.91%) HP
6 23 (5.44%) Dell
7 21 (4.96%) Red Hat
8 19 (4.49%) IBM
9 17 (4.02%) Lauterbach
10 13 (3.07%) Google
10 13 (3.07%) Splunk
11 10 (2.36%) Denodo
11 10 (2.36%) Talend
12 9 (2.13%) SAP
13 8 (1.89%) Oracle
13 8 (1.89%) Siemens
14 7 (1.65%) Genesys
14 7 (1.65%) Remedy
15 6 (1.42%) Citrix
16 5 (1.18%) Intel