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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 188 159
Rank change year-on-year -42 -29 0
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 606 511 607
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.56% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.73% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 324 339
10th Percentile £353 £314 £300
25th Percentile £447 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -1.59% -3.09%
75th Percentile £611 £620 £624
90th Percentile £739 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £520 £523
% change year-on-year -0.43% -0.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 18 87
10th Percentile £25.95 £13.93 £26.68
25th Percentile £50.00 £27.14 -
Median hourly rate £67.75 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.56% -10.00% -9.50%
75th Percentile £88.00 £64.69 £70.00
90th Percentile - £67.50 £70.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £45.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -10.00% -9.50%

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 45,367 29,590 33,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.44% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,794 18,422 20,982
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
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 2,879 1,766 1,695
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.75% +6.25%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -43 526 £525 - 220
UK excluding London -39 368 £518 -0.43% 195
London -66 183 £550 +1.73% 59
Work from Home -71 158 £525 +0.38% 109
South East -37 94 £525 +4.90% 45
North of England -54 91 £500 - 39
South West -31 66 £550 +4.76% 56
Midlands -57 55 £477 -8.00% 16
West Midlands -61 54 £477 -7.69% 9
North West -33 51 £492 +1.44% 23
East of England -10 32 £510 +50.00% 28
Scotland -16 31 £538 +7.50% 17
Yorkshire -46 28 £500 -2.44% 11
North East -30 12 £500 - 6
Wales -8 7 £750 +76.47% 2
East Midlands -15 1 £385 -40.77% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 2

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 17 (2.81%) SAS
2 15 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.48%) Confluence
3 10 (1.65%) Apache
3 10 (1.65%) JBoss
4 6 (0.99%) CMS
5 4 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.50%) Appian
6 3 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.50%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.33%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.33%) IIS
7 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.33%) nginx
7 2 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.17%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) CATIA
6 1 (0.17%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.17%) Houdini
6 1 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.17%) NUKE
6 1 (0.17%) Weka
6 1 (0.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (0.99%) Primavera
1 6 (0.99%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.17%) LabWindows
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
1 158 (26.07%) Azure
2 151 (24.92%) AWS
3 60 (9.90%) GCP
3 60 (9.90%) GitHub
4 54 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
6 42 (6.93%) Amazon EKS
7 34 (5.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 32 (5.28%) OpenShift
9 31 (5.12%) Entra ID
10 29 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (3.96%) Azure AKS
12 21 (3.47%) PaaS
13 20 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (3.30%) Amazon S3
14 18 (2.97%) Datadog
14 18 (2.97%) Serverless
15 17 (2.81%) IaaS
15 17 (2.81%) Power Platform
16 16 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 42 (6.93%) DNS
2 29 (4.79%) Firewall
2 29 (4.79%) Network Security
3 19 (3.14%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.48%) SSL
4 15 (2.48%) VPN
5 14 (2.31%) DHCP
6 11 (1.82%) HTTP
6 11 (1.82%) VLAN
7 10 (1.65%) WAN
8 8 (1.32%) Kerberos
9 7 (1.16%) LAN
10 5 (0.83%) BGP
10 5 (0.83%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.66%) Broadband
11 4 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (0.66%) Internet
11 4 (0.66%) OSPF
11 4 (0.66%) SSH
11 4 (0.66%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.47%) Oracle Database
2 17 (2.81%) Power BI
3 15 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.48%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 15 (2.48%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 12 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.65%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.49%) MySQL
7 8 (1.32%) Metadata
8 7 (1.16%) Big Data
9 6 (0.99%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.99%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.66%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.66%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.66%) Redis
10 4 (0.66%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 3 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 72 (11.88%) GitLab
1 72 (11.88%) Jenkins
2 69 (11.39%) Git
3 41 (6.77%) JIRA
4 36 (5.94%) Rational DOORS
5 11 (1.82%) Rational Rhapsody
6 10 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.16%) Bitbucket
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%) LabVIEW
12 2 (0.33%) MSBuild
12 2 (0.33%) NUnit
General
1 155 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 99 (16.34%) Finance
3 61 (10.07%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (6.44%) Aerospace
6 26 (4.29%) Banking
7 13 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.98%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.49%) Telecoms
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 3 (0.50%) Law
15 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.33%) Automotive
16 2 (0.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 82 (13.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 67 (11.06%) Senior
3 59 (9.74%) Architect
4 40 (6.60%) Lead
5 32 (5.28%) Delivery Manager
5 32 (5.28%) Linux Engineer
6 31 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
7 29 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 26 (4.29%) Configuration Manager
8 26 (4.29%) Systems Engineer
9 25 (4.13%) Product Manager
9 25 (4.13%) Systems Manager
10 23 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (3.80%) Product Delivery Manager
11 22 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 21 (3.47%) Analyst
12 21 (3.47%) Systems Delivery Manager
13 19 (3.14%) AWS DevOps
13 19 (3.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 19 (3.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (28.22%) Terraform
2 29 (4.79%) REST
3 20 (3.30%) YAML
4 17 (2.81%) Kafka
5 15 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (2.15%) ARM Templates
7 11 (1.82%) JSON
7 11 (1.82%) XML
8 9 (1.49%) .NET
8 9 (1.49%) Middleware
9 8 (1.32%) React
9 8 (1.32%) RESTful
9 8 (1.32%) SOAP
10 7 (1.16%) Azure Blueprints
10 7 (1.16%) Django
10 7 (1.16%) Web Services
11 6 (0.99%) HTML
11 6 (0.99%) Node.js
11 6 (0.99%) OAuth
11 6 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 78 (12.87%) CMDB
2 50 (8.25%) Cloud Native
3 39 (6.44%) Product Ownership
4 28 (4.62%) Onboarding
5 26 (4.29%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.96%) Security Posture
7 23 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (3.63%) Data Structures
8 22 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
9 20 (3.30%) Private Cloud
10 16 (2.64%) Data Centre
11 15 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (2.48%) Public Cloud
12 13 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.82%) Clustering
15 10 (1.65%) Virtual Team
16 9 (1.49%) PKI
17 7 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
18 6 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 158 (26.07%) Linux
2 85 (14.03%) Windows
3 65 (10.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (4.79%) Unix
4 29 (4.79%) Windows Server
5 28 (4.62%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.65%) Windows 10
7 7 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (0.99%) CentOS
8 6 (0.99%) Solaris
9 5 (0.83%) Android
10 4 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.66%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.66%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.50%) Debian
11 3 (0.50%) VMS
12 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.33%) Rocky
12 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (35.64%) DevOps
2 209 (34.49%) CI/CD
3 192 (31.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 145 (23.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 137 (22.61%) Agile
6 108 (17.82%) Containerisation
7 103 (17.00%) ITIL
8 92 (15.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 84 (13.86%) Observability
9 84 (13.86%) Platform Engineering
10 78 (12.87%) Service Management
11 74 (12.21%) Change Management
12 72 (11.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 71 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
13 71 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
14 70 (11.55%) Validation
15 65 (10.73%) Test Automation
16 64 (10.56%) ITSM
17 60 (9.90%) Deployment Automation
18 56 (9.24%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 183 (30.20%) Python
2 102 (16.83%) Bash
3 79 (13.04%) PowerShell
4 35 (5.78%) SQL
5 33 (5.45%) Java
6 27 (4.46%) Shell Script
7 20 (3.30%) Bicep
7 20 (3.30%) Perl
8 18 (2.97%) C++
9 13 (2.15%) Go
9 13 (2.15%) JavaScript
10 12 (1.98%) C
11 8 (1.32%) Ada
11 8 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.16%) Ruby
13 5 (0.83%) Groovy
14 4 (0.66%) C#
15 3 (0.50%) Korn
15 3 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 207 (34.16%) Security Cleared
2 137 (22.61%) SC Cleared
3 76 (12.54%) Degree
4 29 (4.79%) AWS Certification
5 24 (3.96%) Azure Certification
5 24 (3.96%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.48%) CISSP
7 14 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 7 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (1.16%) CCNA
13 6 (0.99%) CCNP
13 6 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.83%) GCIH
14 5 (0.83%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.66%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.79%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.46%) QA
3 19 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.97%) SLA
5 17 (2.81%) NIST
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%) MISRA
12 3 (0.50%) MISRA C
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/IEC 19770
13 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 81 (13.37%) Docker
2 46 (7.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (6.27%) 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%) Postfix
8 5 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
9 4 (0.66%) Varnish
10 3 (0.50%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
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%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 177 (29.21%) Ansible
2 129 (21.29%) Kubernetes
3 56 (9.24%) Grafana
4 53 (8.75%) Puppet
5 49 (8.09%) Prometheus
6 46 (7.59%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.48%) Packer
8 13 (2.15%) SCCM
9 10 (1.65%) Istio
10 9 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
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%) Oracle RMAN
15 4 (0.66%) SELinux
15 4 (0.66%) systemd
Vendors
1 86 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 74 (12.21%) ServiceNow
3 52 (8.58%) VMware
4 43 (7.10%) Oracle
5 39 (6.44%) IBM
6 37 (6.11%) Red Hat
7 30 (4.95%) Google
8 29 (4.79%) Splunk
9 21 (3.47%) Cisco
10 18 (2.97%) Snow
11 15 (2.48%) SaltStack
12 11 (1.82%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.65%) Salesforce
14 8 (1.32%) BMC
14 8 (1.32%) Okta
15 7 (1.16%) F5
15 7 (1.16%) SAP
16 6 (0.99%) Databricks
16 6 (0.99%) Siemens
17 5 (0.83%) CrowdStrike