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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 187 159
Rank change year-on-year -34 -28 +3
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 660 495 589
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.20% 1.50% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.65% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 308 305
10th Percentile £355 £343 £288
25th Percentile £445 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £607 £636 £622
90th Percentile £735 £697 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 23 67
10th Percentile £24.99 £13.08 £26.68
25th Percentile £41.41 £13.92 -
Median hourly rate £60.75 £41.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.17% -18.00% -11.48%
75th Percentile £72.63 £63.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.00 £64.75 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.00 £41.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +43.90% -18.00% +2.04%

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 46,293 29,942 32,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.37% 90.52% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,017 18,609 19,950
10th Percentile £325 £300 £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 £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,198 1,849 1,396
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.23 £17.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £66.00 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.78% -47.67% +1.18%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -37 569 £525 - 720
UK excluding London -38 396 £525 - 498
London -43 200 £535 -10.83% 269
Work from Home -46 166 £525 +0.38% 265
North of England -49 93 £474 -6.37% 73
South East -55 79 £550 +9.89% 142
South West -18 70 £544 +3.57% 100
East of England +1 55 £550 +7.32% 74
Midlands -58 54 £476 -9.16% 45
North West -22 51 £463 -2.63% 41
West Midlands -60 51 £477 -8.97% 26
Scotland -12 40 £525 -4.55% 50
Yorkshire -47 34 £500 -2.44% 24
Wales -2 9 £750 +76.47% 11
North East -33 8 £485 -3.00% 8
East Midlands - 3 £418 - 19
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 11

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 (2.73%) Confluence
2 15 (2.27%) SAS
3 14 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.52%) Apache
4 10 (1.52%) JBoss
5 5 (0.76%) CMS
5 5 (0.76%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.61%) nginx
7 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.45%) Appian
7 3 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.30%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.30%) FactoryTalk
8 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.15%) WinCC
Applications
1 12 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.91%) 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%) NUKE
6 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.15%) Weka
6 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (1.36%) Remedy ITSM
1 9 (1.36%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.91%) Primavera
3 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.15%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.15%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 166 (25.15%) AWS
2 158 (23.94%) Azure
3 74 (11.21%) GCP
4 69 (10.45%) GitHub
5 56 (8.48%) GitHub Actions
6 51 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (6.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 40 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 33 (5.00%) Entra ID
11 32 (4.85%) OpenShift
12 23 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (3.48%) Amazon S3
12 23 (3.48%) Datadog
13 22 (3.33%) Azure AKS
14 20 (3.03%) Power Platform
14 20 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 19 (2.88%) Serverless
16 18 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 43 (6.52%) DNS
2 34 (5.15%) Firewall
3 33 (5.00%) Network Security
4 21 (3.18%) TCP/IP
5 16 (2.42%) SSL
5 16 (2.42%) VPN
6 14 (2.12%) DHCP
7 11 (1.67%) HTTP
7 11 (1.67%) VLAN
8 10 (1.52%) WAN
9 8 (1.21%) BGP
9 8 (1.21%) Kerberos
10 7 (1.06%) SAN
11 6 (0.91%) Internet
11 6 (0.91%) LAN
12 5 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.76%) Ethernet
12 5 (0.76%) MPLS
12 5 (0.76%) OSPF
12 5 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.03%) Oracle Database
2 19 (2.88%) Power BI
3 14 (2.12%) Metadata
3 14 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.12%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 13 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (1.97%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 12 (1.82%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.67%) BigQuery
7 10 (1.52%) MySQL
8 7 (1.06%) Big Data
8 7 (1.06%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.91%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.91%) Looker
9 6 (0.91%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.61%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.61%) Redis
10 4 (0.61%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 3 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 76 (11.52%) GitLab
2 74 (11.21%) Git
3 73 (11.06%) Jenkins
4 43 (6.52%) JIRA
5 14 (2.12%) Rational DOORS
6 11 (1.67%) Artifactory
6 11 (1.67%) Rational Rhapsody
6 11 (1.67%) SonarQube
6 11 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.91%) JUnit
8 5 (0.76%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.61%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.45%) Maven
10 3 (0.45%) Mockito
10 3 (0.45%) Selenium
11 2 (0.30%) Ant
11 2 (0.30%) LabVIEW
11 2 (0.30%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.30%) NUnit
11 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
General
1 181 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 114 (17.27%) Finance
3 69 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (9.39%) Public Sector
5 35 (5.30%) Aerospace
6 29 (4.39%) Banking
7 24 (3.64%) Manufacturing
8 18 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.82%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.36%) Military
11 8 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.91%) Automotive
12 6 (0.91%) Aviation
12 6 (0.91%) Law
12 6 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.76%) Publishing
13 5 (0.76%) Retail
14 4 (0.61%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 80 (12.12%) Senior
2 78 (11.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 74 (11.21%) Architect
4 41 (6.21%) Lead
5 36 (5.45%) Linux Engineer
6 35 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
6 35 (5.30%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 27 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
9 26 (3.94%) Configuration Manager
9 26 (3.94%) Windows Engineer
10 25 (3.79%) Systems Engineer
11 23 (3.48%) Automation Engineer
12 22 (3.33%) Security Engineer
13 21 (3.18%) AWS DevOps
13 21 (3.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 20 (3.03%) Analyst
15 18 (2.73%) Developer
15 18 (2.73%) Network Engineer
15 18 (2.73%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (28.03%) Terraform
2 30 (4.55%) REST
3 27 (4.09%) Kafka
4 22 (3.33%) Middleware
5 15 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (2.12%) YAML
7 10 (1.52%) ARM Templates
7 10 (1.52%) JSON
7 10 (1.52%) React
7 10 (1.52%) XML
8 9 (1.36%) .NET
8 9 (1.36%) Django
9 8 (1.21%) Azure Blueprints
9 8 (1.21%) Flask
9 8 (1.21%) OAuth
9 8 (1.21%) SOAP
10 7 (1.06%) Node.js
10 7 (1.06%) Web Services
11 6 (0.91%) HTML
11 6 (0.91%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 91 (13.79%) CMDB
2 58 (8.79%) Cloud Native
3 43 (6.52%) Security Posture
4 41 (6.21%) Onboarding
5 39 (5.91%) Private Cloud
6 35 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
7 33 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
8 32 (4.85%) Management Information System
9 25 (3.79%) Data Centre
10 22 (3.33%) Product Ownership
11 19 (2.88%) Public Cloud
12 15 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (1.97%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.82%) Clustering
16 9 (1.36%) PKI
17 8 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
18 7 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
18 7 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
19 6 (0.91%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 183 (27.73%) Linux
2 120 (18.18%) Windows
3 71 (10.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 46 (6.97%) Windows Server
5 34 (5.15%) Unix
6 25 (3.79%) Ubuntu
7 13 (1.97%) Windows 10
8 9 (1.36%) Solaris
8 9 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.91%) CentOS
10 4 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.61%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.45%) Android
11 3 (0.45%) Debian
11 3 (0.45%) VMS
12 2 (0.30%) AIX
12 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.30%) SUSE
12 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (36.36%) CI/CD
1 240 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 228 (34.55%) DevOps
3 162 (24.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 118 (17.88%) ITIL
5 115 (17.42%) Containerisation
6 114 (17.27%) Agile
7 110 (16.67%) Observability
8 106 (16.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 102 (15.45%) Change Management
9 102 (15.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 102 (15.45%) Platform Engineering
10 92 (13.94%) Service Management
11 90 (13.64%) Validation
12 86 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
13 82 (12.42%) Root Cause Analysis
14 76 (11.52%) Roadmaps
15 75 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 72 (10.91%) ITSM
17 69 (10.45%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 206 (31.21%) Python
2 112 (16.97%) Bash
3 92 (13.94%) PowerShell
4 44 (6.67%) SQL
5 36 (5.45%) Java
6 31 (4.70%) Shell Script
7 26 (3.94%) Perl
8 19 (2.88%) C++
8 19 (2.88%) JavaScript
9 18 (2.73%) Bicep
10 16 (2.42%) C
10 16 (2.42%) Go
11 8 (1.21%) Ada
12 7 (1.06%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.91%) Ruby
14 5 (0.76%) C#
14 5 (0.76%) Google Apps Script
14 5 (0.76%) Groovy
14 5 (0.76%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.61%) Korn
Qualifications
1 227 (34.39%) Security Cleared
2 153 (23.18%) SC Cleared
3 63 (9.55%) Degree
4 51 (7.73%) DV Cleared
5 31 (4.70%) AWS Certification
6 20 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (2.88%) CISSP
8 15 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (1.21%) CCNA
12 8 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.91%) CCNP
13 6 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.76%) CISM
14 5 (0.76%) GIAC
14 5 (0.76%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.61%) SLA
2 33 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 29 (4.39%) QA
4 24 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.88%) NIST
6 12 (1.82%) GDPR
7 10 (1.52%) GRC
8 9 (1.36%) PCI DSS
9 7 (1.06%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.76%) NCSC
11 4 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.45%) MISRA
12 3 (0.45%) MISRA C
13 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.30%) DO-254
13 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.30%) IEC 61508
13 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 84 (12.73%) Docker
2 61 (9.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (8.94%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.67%) Firmware
5 11 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (1.36%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.36%) KVM
7 6 (0.91%) NFS
8 5 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.76%) VMware Workstation
9 4 (0.61%) Postfix
10 3 (0.45%) Varnish
11 2 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.30%) Ceph
11 2 (0.30%) Corosync
11 2 (0.30%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.30%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 196 (29.70%) Ansible
2 148 (22.42%) Kubernetes
3 55 (8.33%) Grafana
4 51 (7.73%) Puppet
5 50 (7.58%) Prometheus
6 45 (6.82%) Progress Chef
7 19 (2.88%) SCCM
8 15 (2.27%) Packer
9 9 (1.36%) Istio
9 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.21%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (1.21%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.91%) Argo
12 5 (0.76%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.76%) Salt
12 5 (0.76%) systemd
13 4 (0.61%) Data Guard
13 4 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.61%) Podman
Vendors
1 105 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 88 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 73 (11.06%) VMware
4 42 (6.36%) Google
5 40 (6.06%) Oracle
5 40 (6.06%) Red Hat
6 32 (4.85%) Splunk
7 23 (3.48%) Cisco
8 22 (3.33%) SaltStack
9 21 (3.18%) IBM
10 18 (2.73%) Snow
11 15 (2.27%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.52%) Remedy
13 9 (1.36%) Qualys
13 9 (1.36%) Salesforce
13 9 (1.36%) Siemens
14 8 (1.21%) BMC
14 8 (1.21%) F5
14 8 (1.21%) Okta
14 8 (1.21%) Tenable