Configuration Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 100 130
Rank change year-on-year -49 +30 -4
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 226 430 444
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.73% 2.08% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.49% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 206 301
10th Percentile £312 £353 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +1.85% +0.42%
75th Percentile £585 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 140 23
10th Percentile £41.05 £40.00 £31.92
25th Percentile £41.25 £45.00 £39.55
Median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +2.04% +3.16%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.28 £59.69
90th Percentile - £70.00 £66.60
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £50.42
% change year-on-year +20.00% -0.83% +6.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,812 17,287 20,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.62% 83.43% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,347 10,277 13,944
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 2,126 1,244
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.41 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.43
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
South East +4 61 £500 -11.50% 71
North of England +9 54 £493 -0.81% 59
South West -7 44 £575 -1.71% 35
Midlands -7 31 £525 +23.53% 31
North West -8 28 £480 -2.09% 37
Yorkshire +23 25 £500 -10.31% 19
West Midlands -5 21 £524 +41.62% 17
Scotland -9 21 £420 -16.00% 22
East of England -27 18 £200 -60.00% 31
East Midlands +7 10 £555 +0.91% 13
North East +1 1 - - 3
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 12 (5.31%) Confluence
2 2 (0.88%) IIS
3 1 (0.44%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (6.64%) Windchill
2 9 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.44%) CATIA
5 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.54%) Teamcenter
2 6 (2.65%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.88%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.44%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 54 (23.89%) Azure
2 42 (18.58%) AWS
3 15 (6.64%) GitHub
4 14 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (5.31%) Power Platform
5 12 (5.31%) PowerApps
6 11 (4.87%) GCP
7 10 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (3.98%) OpenShift
9 6 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.65%) Serverless
10 5 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.21%) SaaS
10 5 (2.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.77%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.50%) Firewall
2 16 (7.08%) TCP/IP
3 14 (6.19%) DNS
4 11 (4.87%) HTTP
5 8 (3.54%) OSPF
6 6 (2.65%) SAN
7 5 (2.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 5 (2.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 5 (2.21%) IPsec
8 4 (1.77%) BGP
8 4 (1.77%) EIGRP
8 4 (1.77%) HSRP
8 4 (1.77%) IPv4
8 4 (1.77%) MPLS
8 4 (1.77%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.77%) SSL
8 4 (1.77%) VLAN
8 4 (1.77%) VPN
8 4 (1.77%) WAN
9 3 (1.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.21%) Big Data
2 5 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.88%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.44%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 60 (26.55%) Jenkins
2 47 (20.80%) Git
3 31 (13.72%) JIRA
4 28 (12.39%) GitLab
5 18 (7.96%) Bitbucket
6 17 (7.52%) Selenium
7 13 (5.75%) Cucumber
7 13 (5.75%) REST Assured
8 12 (5.31%) SonarQube
9 9 (3.98%) Postman
10 2 (0.88%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.88%) TestNG
11 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.44%) Chocolatey
11 1 (0.44%) JMeter
11 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.44%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 75 (33.19%) Social Skills
2 42 (18.58%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (13.72%) Finance
4 20 (8.85%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.87%) Law
6 9 (3.98%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.54%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.10%) Electronics
8 7 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.65%) Police
10 5 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.77%) Banking
12 3 (1.33%) Retail
13 2 (0.88%) Automotive
13 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.88%) Legal
13 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.88%) Marketing
13 2 (0.88%) Military
13 2 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (10.62%) DevOps Engineer
1 24 (10.62%) Senior
2 18 (7.96%) Architect
3 17 (7.52%) Lead
3 17 (7.52%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (7.08%) Developer
5 14 (6.19%) Automation Engineer
5 14 (6.19%) Software Engineer
6 11 (4.87%) Configuration Engineer
6 11 (4.87%) Configuration Manager
7 9 (3.98%) Analyst
7 9 (3.98%) Consultant
7 9 (3.98%) Java Engineer
7 9 (3.98%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (3.98%) Technical Leader
8 7 (3.10%) Linux Engineer
8 7 (3.10%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 7 (3.10%) ServiceNow Architect
8 7 (3.10%) Windows Engineer
9 6 (2.65%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.72%) REST
2 15 (6.64%) SOAP
3 13 (5.75%) Java EE
4 9 (3.98%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.10%) Web Services
6 6 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (2.65%) Middleware
7 5 (2.21%) React
8 4 (1.77%) Ajax
8 4 (1.77%) CSS
8 4 (1.77%) HTML
8 4 (1.77%) XML
9 3 (1.33%) LDAP
10 2 (0.88%) .NET
10 2 (0.88%) JWT
10 2 (0.88%) Loki
10 2 (0.88%) pytest
10 2 (0.88%) SAML
11 1 (0.44%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.44%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 40 (17.70%) CMDB
2 10 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.54%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.65%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.65%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.21%) Replication
6 4 (1.77%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.33%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.33%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.88%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (0.88%) FPGA
8 2 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.44%) Clustering
9 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.44%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 46 (20.35%) Linux
2 39 (17.26%) Windows
3 18 (7.96%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.98%) Ubuntu
4 9 (3.98%) Unix
5 5 (2.21%) AIX
5 5 (2.21%) Solaris
6 4 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.77%) VMS
7 3 (1.33%) CentOS
7 3 (1.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.88%) Debian
8 2 (0.88%) HPUX
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (38.94%) DevOps
2 70 (30.97%) Agile
3 68 (30.09%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (19.03%) CI/CD
4 43 (19.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (19.03%) ITIL
5 38 (16.81%) Service Management
6 32 (14.16%) Software Engineering
7 31 (13.72%) Problem Management
8 29 (12.83%) Process Improvement
9 28 (12.39%) Containerisation
9 28 (12.39%) ITSM
10 26 (11.50%) Change Management
10 26 (11.50%) Data Modelling
11 23 (10.18%) Continuous Integration
11 23 (10.18%) Migration
12 22 (9.73%) Test Automation
13 20 (8.85%) Infrastructure Automation
14 19 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (8.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 81 (35.84%) Python
2 55 (24.34%) PowerShell
3 33 (14.60%) Bash
4 27 (11.95%) SQL
5 22 (9.73%) Java
6 6 (2.65%) C#
6 6 (2.65%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.21%) Bicep
7 5 (2.21%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.77%) Perl
9 3 (1.33%) C
10 2 (0.88%) Korn
10 2 (0.88%) Ruby
11 1 (0.44%) C++
11 1 (0.44%) Go
11 1 (0.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 93 (41.15%) Security Cleared
2 79 (34.96%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.62%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (9.73%) Degree
5 21 (9.29%) CCNP
6 18 (7.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (4.87%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.87%) OCA
7 11 (4.87%) Oracle Certification
8 10 (4.42%) RHCA
8 10 (4.42%) RHCE
9 8 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (3.54%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (2.21%) CCNA
11 3 (1.33%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.33%) HNC
12 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.88%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.54%) Def Stans
2 6 (2.65%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.21%) QA
4 3 (1.33%) GDPR
4 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.33%) NIST
5 2 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.88%) ARP4754
5 2 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (11.95%) Docker
2 25 (11.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (1.33%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.88%) KVM
5 2 (0.88%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.44%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 81 (35.84%) Ansible
2 55 (24.34%) Terraform
3 46 (20.35%) Kubernetes
4 36 (15.93%) Puppet
5 24 (10.62%) Progress Chef
6 14 (6.19%) Grafana
7 12 (5.31%) SCCM
8 11 (4.87%) vCenter Server
9 10 (4.42%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (4.42%) Podman
9 10 (4.42%) Prometheus
10 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (2.21%) Kustomize
12 4 (1.77%) Istio
12 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.77%) WSUS
13 2 (0.88%) vRealize
13 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.44%) Consul
14 1 (0.44%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 37 (16.37%) VMware
2 28 (12.39%) ServiceNow
3 23 (10.18%) Cisco
4 20 (8.85%) Microsoft
5 15 (6.64%) Oracle
6 13 (5.75%) Red Hat
7 10 (4.42%) Atlassian
8 9 (3.98%) BMC
8 9 (3.98%) MuleSoft
8 9 (3.98%) Splunk
9 7 (3.10%) SolarWinds
10 6 (2.65%) Remedy
10 6 (2.65%) SAP
11 5 (2.21%) Databricks
11 5 (2.21%) F5
11 5 (2.21%) Fortinet
11 5 (2.21%) Google
11 5 (2.21%) Juniper
11 5 (2.21%) PTC
12 4 (1.77%) Infoblox