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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 123 133
Rank change year-on-year +24 +10 -29
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 414 454 621
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.03% 1.98% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 2.22% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 308 409
10th Percentile £325 £350 £371
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £540 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +1.89% +23.26%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £682
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 24 38
10th Percentile £40.00 £32.62 £18.00
25th Percentile £45.00 £39.55 £26.56
Median hourly rate £50.00 £49.00 £47.11
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +4.02% +17.03%
75th Percentile £62.96 £59.22 £65.23
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.40 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £47.11
% change year-on-year -0.83% +7.04% +13.51%

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 17,095 20,476 27,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.93% 89.37% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,219 14,070 18,908
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £377 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,248 1,358
10th Percentile £12.37 £10.63 £12.29
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.63 £62.18
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +18 98 £550 -4.79% 49
South West +50 93 £600 +14.29% 43
East of England +54 84 £500 - 18
North of England -11 63 £497 -0.70% 51
North West -3 46 £490 -1.95% 33
Midlands -7 40 £363 -33.49% 37
Scotland 0 35 £500 -15.54% 14
West Midlands -12 28 £358 -33.70% 23
Yorkshire +15 16 £558 +1.36% 14
East Midlands +3 12 £550 -3.30% 14
Wales +7 3 £690 +17.45% 7
North East -4 1 - - 4
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 29 (7.00%) Confluence
2 9 (2.17%) nginx
3 7 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.21%) CMS
5 4 (0.97%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.72%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.48%) CICS
7 2 (0.48%) SAS
7 2 (0.48%) Traefik
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.24%) MQSeries
Applications
1 9 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.93%) CATIA
3 6 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.21%) Windchill
5 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (3.14%) Teamcenter
2 8 (1.93%) DELMIA
3 7 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.72%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.72%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (13.04%) AWS
2 40 (9.66%) Azure
3 17 (4.11%) GCP
4 11 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (2.42%) Serverless
6 9 (2.17%) Amazon S3
6 9 (2.17%) GitHub
7 8 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (1.93%) OpenShift
8 7 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (1.69%) Power Platform
9 6 (1.45%) CloudBees
10 4 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.72%) Apigee
11 3 (0.72%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (0.72%) Datadog
11 3 (0.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (0.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 17 (4.11%) DNS
3 16 (3.86%) SAN
4 11 (2.66%) Internet
4 11 (2.66%) Network Security
5 9 (2.17%) DHCP
6 7 (1.69%) Firewall
6 7 (1.69%) VPN
7 5 (1.21%) AMQP
7 5 (1.21%) HTTPS
7 5 (1.21%) IPsec
8 3 (0.72%) IPv4
8 3 (0.72%) OSPF
8 3 (0.72%) SSL
8 3 (0.72%) VLAN
8 3 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.24%) tcpdump
9 1 (0.24%) Wireless
9 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.52%) MySQL
2 19 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
2 19 (4.59%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.38%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (1.21%) InfluxDB
6 5 (1.21%) Power BI
7 4 (0.97%) Couchbase
7 4 (0.97%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.72%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.48%) DB2
9 2 (0.48%) IDMS
10 1 (0.24%) Flink
10 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 67 (16.18%) Jenkins
2 55 (13.29%) JIRA
3 32 (7.73%) Git
4 31 (7.49%) GitLab
5 26 (6.28%) Bitbucket
6 23 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 17 (4.11%) SonarQube
8 15 (3.62%) Selenium
9 13 (3.14%) Cucumber
10 12 (2.90%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.21%) AppScan
11 5 (1.21%) Burp Suite
11 5 (1.21%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.97%) Maven
13 3 (0.72%) gulp
14 2 (0.48%) Appium
14 2 (0.48%) ClearCase
14 2 (0.48%) HP UFT
14 2 (0.48%) Hudson
14 2 (0.48%) LoadRunner
General
1 105 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 89 (21.50%) Aerospace
3 56 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.97%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.35%) Electronics
6 17 (4.11%) Finance
7 16 (3.86%) Legal
8 15 (3.62%) Military
9 12 (2.90%) Law
10 9 (2.17%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.93%) Police
12 7 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.21%) Banking
13 5 (1.21%) Retail
14 4 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.72%) Advertising
15 3 (0.72%) Back Office
15 3 (0.72%) Marketing
15 3 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (16.91%) Configuration Manager
2 54 (13.04%) Developer
3 34 (8.21%) Senior
4 31 (7.49%) Analyst
4 31 (7.49%) Software Engineer
5 29 (7.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (6.76%) Architect
7 24 (5.80%) Embedded Engineer
7 24 (5.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 19 (4.59%) Lead
9 14 (3.38%) Python Developer
10 12 (2.90%) Project Manager
11 11 (2.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (2.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 11 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (2.42%) Configuration Specialist
12 10 (2.42%) Service Analyst
13 8 (1.93%) Engineering Manager
13 8 (1.93%) Project Controller
13 8 (1.93%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.21%) .NET
2 27 (6.52%) .NET Core
3 18 (4.35%) REST
4 13 (3.14%) ARM Templates
4 13 (3.14%) Java EE
5 10 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.21%) Kafka
7 5 (1.21%) SAML
8 4 (0.97%) JSON
8 4 (0.97%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (0.97%) OAuth
8 4 (0.97%) Playwright
8 4 (0.97%) RESTful
8 4 (0.97%) SOAP
8 4 (0.97%) WinForms
8 4 (0.97%) WPF
8 4 (0.97%) YAML
9 3 (0.72%) Node.js
9 3 (0.72%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.87%) Management Information System
2 41 (9.90%) CMDB
3 20 (4.83%) ARM Cortex
4 12 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.93%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.69%) VHDL
8 6 (1.45%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.45%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.21%) IoT
9 5 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.97%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.97%) Device Driver
10 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.97%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.97%) PCIe
10 4 (0.97%) Verilog
11 3 (0.72%) Analogue Electronics
11 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.72%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 102 (24.64%) Linux
2 21 (5.07%) Windows
3 20 (4.83%) FreeRTOS
4 17 (4.11%) Ubuntu
5 14 (3.38%) Debian
6 9 (2.17%) CentOS
7 6 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.97%) Android
8 4 (0.97%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.97%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.97%) Unix
8 4 (0.97%) VxWorks
8 4 (0.97%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.97%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.97%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.48%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (21.01%) Agile
2 80 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (19.08%) Continuous Integration
4 73 (17.63%) Coaching
4 73 (17.63%) PLM
5 70 (16.91%) CI/CD
5 70 (16.91%) DevOps
6 69 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 64 (15.46%) Collaborative Working
8 59 (14.25%) ITIL
9 48 (11.59%) Service Management
10 45 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (8.21%) Containerisation
13 33 (7.97%) Task Automation
14 31 (7.49%) Project Management
15 28 (6.76%) Infrastructure Automation
15 28 (6.76%) ITSM
16 26 (6.28%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (6.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 83 (20.05%) Python
2 46 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 32 (7.73%) C
4 31 (7.49%) Java
5 28 (6.76%) SQL
6 24 (5.80%) Embedded C
7 20 (4.83%) Bash
8 17 (4.11%) Go
9 12 (2.90%) Ruby
10 9 (2.17%) C#
10 9 (2.17%) JavaScript
11 7 (1.69%) Groovy
11 7 (1.69%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.45%) C++
13 4 (0.97%) Perl
13 4 (0.97%) PHP
13 4 (0.97%) Scala
13 4 (0.97%) VB
13 4 (0.97%) VB6
14 3 (0.72%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 180 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 135 (32.61%) SC Cleared
3 45 (10.87%) DV Cleared
4 44 (10.63%) Degree
5 13 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (1.93%) PMP
8 7 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.21%) CCNA
9 5 (1.21%) CCNP
10 4 (0.97%) CCIE
11 3 (0.72%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.48%) CISSP
12 2 (0.48%) NVQ Level 3
12 2 (0.48%) PhD
12 2 (0.48%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.11%) QA
2 11 (2.66%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.66%) GDPR
3 8 (1.93%) PMO
4 7 (1.69%) NIST
5 6 (1.45%) SLA
6 5 (1.21%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.21%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.97%) MISRA
7 4 (0.97%) MISRA C
8 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.48%) NCSC
10 1 (0.24%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.24%) GRC
10 1 (0.24%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.24%) RMADS
10 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (11.84%) Docker
2 15 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.66%) Firmware
4 9 (2.17%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.45%) XenApp
5 6 (1.45%) XenDesktop
6 3 (0.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.72%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.48%) KVM
7 2 (0.48%) vSphere
8 1 (0.24%) NFS
8 1 (0.24%) Samba
8 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 83 (20.05%) Ansible
2 57 (13.77%) Terraform
3 52 (12.56%) Kubernetes
4 33 (7.97%) Grafana
5 23 (5.56%) PowerCLI
6 20 (4.83%) Puppet
7 19 (4.59%) Docker Swarm
7 19 (4.59%) Prometheus
8 18 (4.35%) Progress Chef
9 14 (3.38%) Podman
10 9 (2.17%) SCCM
11 6 (1.45%) Nagios
12 5 (1.21%) Graylog
12 5 (1.21%) HP Fortify
12 5 (1.21%) Nessus
12 5 (1.21%) Packer
12 5 (1.21%) WebInspect
13 4 (0.97%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.72%) Rancher
Vendors
1 44 (10.63%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.97%) VMware
3 29 (7.00%) Atlassian
4 27 (6.52%) ServiceNow
5 24 (5.80%) HP
6 22 (5.31%) Dell
6 22 (5.31%) IBM
7 20 (4.83%) Lauterbach
8 17 (4.11%) Red Hat
9 16 (3.86%) Denodo
9 16 (3.86%) Talend
10 12 (2.90%) Splunk
11 11 (2.66%) Google
12 9 (2.17%) SAP
13 8 (1.93%) Siemens
14 7 (1.69%) Oracle
14 7 (1.69%) Remedy
15 6 (1.45%) Citrix
16 5 (1.21%) Checkmarx
16 5 (1.21%) Veracode