Configuration Management Contract Job Trends

Configuration Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 195 163
Rank change year-on-year -31 -32 -1
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 667 481 584
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.22% 1.46% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.61% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 299 319
10th Percentile £354 £350 £288
25th Percentile £447 £450 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -11.30%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £611
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £524 £475
% change year-on-year +0.19% +10.32% -16.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 24 46
10th Percentile £24.70 £13.13 £22.68
25th Percentile £37.38 £13.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £41.00 £55.33
Median % change year-on-year +52.44% -25.89% +13.56%
75th Percentile £72.63 £62.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.00 £64.63 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £41.00 £55.65
% change year-on-year +52.44% -26.33% +14.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,126 29,916 32,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.50% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,740 18,573 19,640
10th Percentile £325 £295 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,322 1,863 1,307
10th Percentile £13.63 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.95 £65.23 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.32 £42.50
% change year-on-year +68.05% -47.49% -

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 October 2026. 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
England -24 573 £525 - 740
UK excluding London -27 400 £525 +0.19% 499
London -42 203 £529 -10.95% 273
Work from Home -60 166 £514 +2.75% 296
North of England -36 95 £474 -7.55% 63
South East -37 82 £550 +9.89% 140
South West -3 77 £540 +2.86% 90
East of England +3 55 £550 -14.56% 79
North West -18 52 £463 -2.63% 41
Scotland -6 42 £500 - 66
Midlands -73 42 £470 -10.39% 46
West Midlands -72 39 £475 -9.44% 30
Yorkshire -45 33 £500 -3.85% 14
North East -31 10 £470 -6.00% 8
Wales +1 9 £775 +82.35% 13
East Midlands - 3 £418 - 16
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 7

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 19 (2.85%) Confluence
2 10 (1.50%) JBoss
3 9 (1.35%) Apache
4 7 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.05%) SAS
5 5 (0.75%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.60%) nginx
6 4 (0.60%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.45%) Appian
7 3 (0.45%) CMS
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.30%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.30%) FactoryTalk
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.15%) Documentum
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.15%) CATIA
6 1 (0.15%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.15%) Houdini
6 1 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) NUKE
6 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.15%) Weka
6 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (1.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.20%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.90%) Primavera
4 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.15%) ENOVIA
5 1 (0.15%) Maximo
5 1 (0.15%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 164 (24.59%) AWS
2 160 (23.99%) Azure
3 78 (11.69%) GCP
4 74 (11.09%) GitHub
5 59 (8.85%) GitHub Actions
6 55 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
7 52 (7.80%) Amazon EKS
8 43 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 39 (5.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 35 (5.25%) Entra ID
11 30 (4.50%) OpenShift
12 26 (3.90%) Amazon S3
13 25 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (3.60%) Azure AKS
15 23 (3.45%) Datadog
16 22 (3.30%) Power Platform
16 22 (3.30%) Serverless
16 22 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 20 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
18 19 (2.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.75%) DNS
2 38 (5.70%) Firewall
3 35 (5.25%) Network Security
4 23 (3.45%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.85%) VPN
6 17 (2.55%) SSL
7 16 (2.40%) DHCP
8 11 (1.65%) HTTP
8 11 (1.65%) VLAN
8 11 (1.65%) WAN
9 8 (1.20%) BGP
9 8 (1.20%) Kerberos
10 7 (1.05%) Internet
10 7 (1.05%) LAN
10 7 (1.05%) SAN
10 7 (1.05%) Wireless
11 6 (0.90%) Ethernet
11 6 (0.90%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.75%) NAS
12 5 (0.75%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.00%) Power BI
2 19 (2.85%) Metadata
3 17 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (1.95%) Oracle Database
4 13 (1.95%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.80%) BigQuery
6 11 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.50%) MySQL
8 9 (1.35%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.05%) Looker
9 7 (1.05%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 6 (0.90%) Big Data
10 6 (0.90%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.90%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.90%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 4 (0.60%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.60%) Redis
12 3 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 75 (11.24%) GitLab
2 74 (11.09%) Git
2 74 (11.09%) Jenkins
3 46 (6.90%) JIRA
4 15 (2.25%) Rational DOORS
5 12 (1.80%) Artifactory
5 12 (1.80%) Rational Rhapsody
5 12 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (1.65%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.60%) JUnit
8 4 (0.60%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.45%) Maven
9 3 (0.45%) Mockito
10 2 (0.30%) Ant
10 2 (0.30%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.15%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.15%) Selenium
11 1 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 187 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 107 (16.04%) Finance
3 71 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.85%) Public Sector
5 40 (6.00%) Aerospace
6 28 (4.20%) Manufacturing
7 27 (4.05%) Banking
8 15 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.95%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.80%) Military
11 9 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.20%) Automotive
12 8 (1.20%) Electronics
13 7 (1.05%) Avionics
13 7 (1.05%) Law
14 6 (0.90%) Aviation
14 6 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 81 (12.14%) DevOps Engineer
1 81 (12.14%) Senior
2 75 (11.24%) Architect
3 39 (5.85%) Lead
4 36 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
4 36 (5.40%) Linux Engineer
5 35 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 35 (5.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 28 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
7 26 (3.90%) Configuration Manager
7 26 (3.90%) Windows Engineer
8 25 (3.75%) Systems Engineer
9 24 (3.60%) Automation Engineer
10 22 (3.30%) AWS DevOps
10 22 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 21 (3.15%) Developer
11 21 (3.15%) Security Engineer
12 20 (3.00%) Analyst
12 20 (3.00%) Delivery Manager
13 18 (2.70%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (28.64%) Terraform
2 35 (5.25%) REST
3 28 (4.20%) Kafka
4 22 (3.30%) Middleware
5 15 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (2.25%) YAML
6 14 (2.10%) JSON
7 13 (1.95%) XML
8 12 (1.80%) OAuth
9 11 (1.65%) ARM Templates
9 11 (1.65%) React
10 9 (1.35%) .NET
10 9 (1.35%) Django
10 9 (1.35%) SOAP
11 8 (1.20%) Azure Blueprints
11 8 (1.20%) OpenID
11 8 (1.20%) Web Services
12 7 (1.05%) Node.js
13 6 (0.90%) AngularJS
13 6 (0.90%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 85 (12.74%) CMDB
2 54 (8.10%) Cloud Native
3 43 (6.45%) Security Posture
4 42 (6.30%) Onboarding
5 41 (6.15%) Private Cloud
6 39 (5.85%) Management Information System
7 36 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (5.40%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (3.90%) Data Centre
9 22 (3.30%) Product Ownership
10 18 (2.70%) Public Cloud
11 15 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.95%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.80%) Clustering
15 10 (1.50%) PKI
16 9 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
17 7 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
17 7 (1.05%) Robotics
17 7 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 188 (28.19%) Linux
2 130 (19.49%) Windows
3 71 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (7.35%) Windows Server
5 33 (4.95%) Unix
6 24 (3.60%) Ubuntu
7 14 (2.10%) Windows 10
8 9 (1.35%) Solaris
8 9 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.90%) CentOS
10 5 (0.75%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.60%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.60%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.45%) Android
12 3 (0.45%) VMS
13 2 (0.30%) AIX
13 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.30%) Debian
13 2 (0.30%) SUSE
13 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (36.73%) Infrastructure as Code
2 241 (36.13%) CI/CD
3 225 (33.73%) DevOps
4 164 (24.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 115 (17.24%) Agile
5 115 (17.24%) ITIL
6 110 (16.49%) Observability
6 110 (16.49%) Stakeholder Management
7 107 (16.04%) Containerisation
7 107 (16.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 106 (15.89%) Platform Engineering
9 103 (15.44%) Change Management
10 98 (14.69%) Validation
11 94 (14.09%) Service Management
12 89 (13.34%) Problem-Solving
13 85 (12.74%) Root Cause Analysis
14 79 (11.84%) Roadmaps
15 74 (11.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 71 (10.64%) ITSM
17 70 (10.49%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 211 (31.63%) Python
2 113 (16.94%) Bash
3 102 (15.29%) PowerShell
4 47 (7.05%) SQL
5 39 (5.85%) Java
6 30 (4.50%) Shell Script
7 28 (4.20%) Perl
8 23 (3.45%) JavaScript
9 22 (3.30%) Bicep
10 21 (3.15%) C++
11 17 (2.55%) Go
12 16 (2.40%) C
13 9 (1.35%) Ada
14 6 (0.90%) C#
15 5 (0.75%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (0.75%) Groovy
15 5 (0.75%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.60%) Korn
16 4 (0.60%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 235 (35.23%) Security Cleared
2 152 (22.79%) SC Cleared
3 66 (9.90%) Degree
4 55 (8.25%) DV Cleared
5 32 (4.80%) AWS Certification
6 23 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (3.15%) Azure Certification
8 19 (2.85%) CISSP
9 16 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (1.20%) CCNA
14 8 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 6 (0.90%) CCNP
16 5 (0.75%) CISM
16 5 (0.75%) GCIH
16 5 (0.75%) GIAC
16 5 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.55%) SLA
2 32 (4.80%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.80%) QA
3 23 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (3.15%) NIST
5 12 (1.80%) GDPR
6 10 (1.50%) GRC
7 9 (1.35%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.20%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.75%) NCSC
11 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.60%) MISRA
11 4 (0.60%) MISRA C
12 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.45%) PMO
13 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 80 (11.99%) Docker
2 64 (9.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (9.30%) Active Directory
4 15 (2.25%) Firmware
4 15 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (1.80%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (1.20%) KVM
8 5 (0.75%) NFS
8 5 (0.75%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (0.45%) Postfix
9 3 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.30%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.30%) Ceph
10 2 (0.30%) Corosync
10 2 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 202 (30.28%) Ansible
2 146 (21.89%) Kubernetes
3 58 (8.70%) Grafana
4 53 (7.95%) Puppet
5 51 (7.65%) Prometheus
6 48 (7.20%) Progress Chef
7 20 (3.00%) SCCM
8 15 (2.25%) Packer
9 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.35%) Istio
10 9 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
11 8 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.90%) Argo
13 5 (0.75%) Salt
13 5 (0.75%) systemd
14 4 (0.60%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.60%) logstash
14 4 (0.60%) Podman
15 3 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 114 (17.09%) Microsoft
2 87 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 77 (11.54%) VMware
4 44 (6.60%) Google
5 40 (6.00%) Red Hat
6 33 (4.95%) Splunk
7 29 (4.35%) Oracle
8 24 (3.60%) SaltStack
9 23 (3.45%) Cisco
10 21 (3.15%) IBM
11 17 (2.55%) Dynatrace
12 14 (2.10%) Snow
13 12 (1.80%) Qualys
14 11 (1.65%) Remedy
14 11 (1.65%) Tenable
15 10 (1.50%) Rapid7
16 9 (1.35%) Siemens
17 8 (1.20%) BMC
17 8 (1.20%) F5
17 8 (1.20%) Okta