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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 173 144
Rank change year-on-year -56 -29 +18
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 605 519 656
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.57% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.73% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 331 360
10th Percentile £355 £313 £309
25th Percentile £434 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £610 £624 £632
90th Percentile £748 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £521 £539
% change year-on-year -3.07% -3.29% -1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 17 113
10th Percentile £26.00 £13.79 £40.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.00 £46.24
Median hourly rate £68.00 £42.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -15.00% -0.42%
75th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 £64.25
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +58.82% -15.00% +2.06%

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 45,350 29,954 33,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.50% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,857 18,668 21,203
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £424 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,845 1,726 1,796
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.31 £18.23
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.97
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.61% -1.28%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -47 529 £525 - 434
UK excluding London -45 367 £505 -3.07% 306
London -72 183 £525 -4.55% 181
Work from Home -70 157 £515 -0.34% 194
South East -31 99 £525 +5.00% 72
North of England -55 85 £493 -2.72% 51
South West -15 71 £534 -2.95% 84
Midlands -51 53 £477 -8.71% 27
West Midlands -56 52 £477 -8.23% 17
North West -28 46 £496 +3.33% 28
East of England -8 32 £610 +205.00% 32
Scotland -11 28 £550 +8.64% 35
Yorkshire -40 28 £493 -3.90% 13
North East -32 11 £481 - 10
Wales -8 7 £750 +76.47% 3
East Midlands -18 1 £385 -35.83% 10
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 18 (2.98%) Confluence
1 18 (2.98%) SAS
2 14 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.82%) Apache
4 10 (1.65%) JBoss
5 6 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.99%) CMS
6 5 (0.83%) Mattermost
7 4 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.50%) Appian
8 3 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.50%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.33%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.33%) IIS
9 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.17%) nginx
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) CATIA
6 1 (0.17%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.17%) Houdini
6 1 (0.17%) NUKE
6 1 (0.17%) Weka
6 1 (0.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.99%) Primavera
2 6 (0.99%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.50%) LabWindows
3 3 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.17%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 152 (25.12%) Azure
2 147 (24.30%) AWS
3 64 (10.58%) GitHub
4 56 (9.26%) GCP
5 53 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (7.93%) GitHub Actions
7 40 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
8 33 (5.45%) OpenShift
9 31 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 31 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (4.96%) Entra ID
11 23 (3.80%) Azure AKS
12 21 (3.47%) Amazon S3
13 20 (3.31%) PaaS
14 19 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (3.14%) Datadog
15 17 (2.81%) Serverless
16 16 (2.64%) IaaS
16 16 (2.64%) Power Platform
17 15 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.45%) DNS
2 26 (4.30%) Network Security
3 25 (4.13%) Firewall
4 17 (2.81%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.48%) SSL
5 15 (2.48%) VPN
6 13 (2.15%) DHCP
7 10 (1.65%) VLAN
7 10 (1.65%) WAN
8 9 (1.49%) HTTP
9 7 (1.16%) Kerberos
10 6 (0.99%) LAN
11 5 (0.83%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.66%) 5G
12 4 (0.66%) Broadband
12 4 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (0.66%) Internet
13 3 (0.50%) 3GPP
13 3 (0.50%) BGP
13 3 (0.50%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.47%) Oracle Database
2 16 (2.64%) Power BI
3 14 (2.31%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 14 (2.31%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 13 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (1.65%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.49%) Big Data
7 9 (1.49%) MySQL
8 8 (1.32%) Metadata
9 6 (0.99%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.99%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 6 (0.99%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.66%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.66%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.66%) Redis
12 3 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.50%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 75 (12.40%) Jenkins
2 71 (11.74%) Git
2 71 (11.74%) GitLab
3 44 (7.27%) JIRA
4 36 (5.95%) Rational DOORS
5 12 (1.98%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.32%) Rational Rhapsody
8 6 (0.99%) JUnit
8 6 (0.99%) Postman
8 6 (0.99%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.83%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.66%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.50%) Maven
11 3 (0.50%) Mockito
11 3 (0.50%) Selenium
11 3 (0.50%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.33%) LabVIEW
12 2 (0.33%) MSBuild
General
1 153 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 98 (16.20%) Finance
3 60 (9.92%) Public Sector
4 57 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (7.44%) Aerospace
6 26 (4.30%) Banking
7 12 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.65%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.49%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.32%) Military
10 8 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.99%) Retail
13 5 (0.83%) Publishing
14 4 (0.66%) Aviation
15 2 (0.33%) Law
15 2 (0.33%) Local Government
15 2 (0.33%) Marketing
15 2 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (13.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 65 (10.74%) Senior
3 57 (9.42%) Architect
4 41 (6.78%) Lead
5 32 (5.29%) Linux Engineer
6 30 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
6 30 (4.96%) Delivery Manager
7 29 (4.79%) Systems Engineer
8 26 (4.30%) Product Manager
9 25 (4.13%) Systems Manager
10 24 (3.97%) Analyst
10 24 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 24 (3.97%) Configuration Manager
11 23 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (3.80%) Product Delivery Manager
12 22 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (3.47%) Software Engineer
13 21 (3.47%) Systems Delivery Manager
14 18 (2.98%) AWS DevOps
14 18 (2.98%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.12%) REST
2 19 (3.14%) YAML
3 14 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (2.31%) Kafka
4 12 (1.98%) ARM Templates
4 12 (1.98%) JSON
4 12 (1.98%) XML
5 9 (1.49%) .NET
5 9 (1.49%) SOAP
6 8 (1.32%) Middleware
6 8 (1.32%) React
6 8 (1.32%) RESTful
6 8 (1.32%) Web Services
7 6 (0.99%) Azure Blueprints
7 6 (0.99%) Django
7 6 (0.99%) HTML
7 6 (0.99%) Node.js
7 6 (0.99%) OAuth
7 6 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 70 (11.57%) CMDB
2 54 (8.93%) Cloud Native
3 38 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 30 (4.96%) Management Information System
5 27 (4.46%) Onboarding
6 23 (3.80%) Data Structures
6 23 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (3.47%) Security Posture
8 16 (2.64%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (2.48%) Private Cloud
9 15 (2.48%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.82%) Clustering
11 11 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.65%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.49%) PKI
14 8 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 152 (25.12%) Linux
2 84 (13.88%) Windows
3 63 (10.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (5.12%) Unix
5 30 (4.96%) Windows Server
6 29 (4.79%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.65%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.99%) CentOS
9 6 (0.99%) Solaris
10 5 (0.83%) Android
11 4 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.66%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.50%) Debian
13 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.33%) Rocky
13 2 (0.33%) VMS
13 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.17%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (35.37%) DevOps
2 203 (33.55%) CI/CD
3 182 (30.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (24.30%) Agile
5 144 (23.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 107 (17.69%) Containerisation
7 103 (17.02%) ITIL
8 91 (15.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 88 (14.55%) Service Management
10 81 (13.39%) Observability
11 79 (13.06%) Platform Engineering
12 69 (11.40%) Change Management
13 68 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 68 (11.24%) ITSM
13 68 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
15 65 (10.74%) Validation
16 64 (10.58%) Test Automation
17 61 (10.08%) Deployment Automation
18 60 (9.92%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 178 (29.42%) Python
2 100 (16.53%) Bash
3 74 (12.23%) PowerShell
4 33 (5.45%) SQL
5 31 (5.12%) Java
6 25 (4.13%) Shell Script
7 19 (3.14%) Bicep
8 17 (2.81%) Perl
9 15 (2.48%) C++
10 13 (2.15%) JavaScript
11 12 (1.98%) C
11 12 (1.98%) Go
12 8 (1.32%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.16%) Ruby
14 5 (0.83%) Ada
15 4 (0.66%) C#
15 4 (0.66%) Groovy
15 4 (0.66%) Search Processing Language
16 3 (0.50%) SAS Macro
16 3 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 219 (36.20%) Security Cleared
2 138 (22.81%) SC Cleared
3 75 (12.40%) Degree
4 27 (4.46%) DV Cleared
5 25 (4.13%) AWS Certification
6 20 (3.31%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.15%) CISSP
9 11 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.16%) CCNP
11 7 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 7 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.99%) CCNA
13 5 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.83%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.83%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.63%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.13%) QA
3 19 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.81%) NIST
5 16 (2.64%) SLA
6 12 (1.98%) GDPR
7 11 (1.82%) GRC
8 8 (1.32%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.99%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.66%) NCSC
12 3 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.50%) PMO
13 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.33%) DO-254
13 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.33%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.33%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 77 (12.73%) Docker
2 42 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (6.45%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.65%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.49%) KVM
7 7 (1.16%) NFS
8 5 (0.83%) Firmware
8 5 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
9 4 (0.66%) Postfix
9 4 (0.66%) Varnish
10 3 (0.50%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.33%) Ceph
11 2 (0.33%) Corosync
11 2 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.33%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.17%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 176 (29.09%) Ansible
2 168 (27.77%) Terraform
3 128 (21.16%) Kubernetes
4 57 (9.42%) Puppet
5 53 (8.76%) Grafana
6 46 (7.60%) Prometheus
7 45 (7.44%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.48%) Packer
9 11 (1.82%) SCCM
10 10 (1.65%) Istio
11 8 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (1.16%) Argo
12 7 (1.16%) Failover Clustering
13 6 (0.99%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.83%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.83%) Salt
15 4 (0.66%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.66%) SELinux
15 4 (0.66%) systemd
Vendors
1 82 (13.55%) Microsoft
2 68 (11.24%) ServiceNow
3 48 (7.93%) VMware
4 41 (6.78%) Oracle
5 39 (6.45%) IBM
6 37 (6.12%) Red Hat
7 27 (4.46%) Google
7 27 (4.46%) Splunk
8 19 (3.14%) Cisco
9 16 (2.64%) Snow
10 13 (2.15%) SaltStack
11 11 (1.82%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.65%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.32%) BMC
13 8 (1.32%) Okta
13 8 (1.32%) Remedy
14 7 (1.16%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.16%) F5
14 7 (1.16%) SAP
15 6 (0.99%) Siemens