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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 175 137
Rank change year-on-year -46 -38 -5
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 532 471 754
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.61% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.78% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 308 448
10th Percentile £349 £344 £362
25th Percentile £425 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £610 £633 £650
90th Percentile £789 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.50% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 22 152
10th Percentile £39.20 £31.25 £37.91
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.88 £40.94
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +2.06%
75th Percentile £86.25 £65.63 £60.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% +19.32%

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 39,061 26,469 37,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.38% 90.57% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,736 17,183 24,573
10th Percentile £314 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £636 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,329 996 2,365
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.77
25th Percentile £19.10 £19.99 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.51 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% -4.52% -11.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.38 £70.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +20.00% -7.69% -10.34%

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 April 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 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Top 16 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 April 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 -37 488 £525 -0.59% 170
UK excluding London -37 347 £523 +4.50% 144
Work from Home -12 167 £525 - 75
London -90 145 £530 -3.64% 33
South East -22 90 £485 -3.10% 45
North of England -29 81 £525 +10.53% 32
South West -14 60 £500 -14.53% 29
Midlands -38 55 £527 +0.29% 19
West Midlands -34 51 £528 +4.09% 17
North West -15 49 £588 +17.60% 16
East of England -14 44 £450 +32.35% 19
Yorkshire -42 25 £500 +17.65% 7
Scotland -16 21 £460 +2.22% 1
North East -11 7 - - 9
East Midlands -36 4 £410 -26.13% 2
Wales - 2 £750 - 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 28 (5.26%) SAS
2 25 (4.70%) Confluence
3 9 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.32%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.13%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.94%) CMS
6 5 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.75%) Apache
7 4 (0.75%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.75%) Mattermost
8 3 (0.56%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.19%) CICS
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.94%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.19%) CATIA
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.19%) Weka
4 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (2.82%) Teamcenter
2 7 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.13%) LabWindows
4 4 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) assyst
6 1 (0.19%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 95 (17.86%) Azure
2 94 (17.67%) AWS
3 48 (9.02%) GitHub
4 44 (8.27%) IaaS
4 44 (8.27%) OpenShift
5 34 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (6.20%) Amazon S3
6 33 (6.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (4.89%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (4.14%) Amazon ECS
11 19 (3.57%) PaaS
11 19 (3.57%) Serverless
12 16 (3.01%) GCP
13 15 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (2.63%) Azure AKS
15 13 (2.44%) Entra ID
16 11 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.08%) Firewall
2 23 (4.32%) VPN
3 20 (3.76%) DNS
4 11 (2.07%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.07%) WAN
5 10 (1.88%) DHCP
5 10 (1.88%) Network Security
6 7 (1.32%) BGP
7 6 (1.13%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (1.13%) LAN
7 6 (1.13%) OSPF
7 6 (1.13%) VoIP
8 5 (0.94%) 5G
8 5 (0.94%) EIGRP
8 5 (0.94%) HTTP
8 5 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.75%) MPLS
9 4 (0.75%) SSH
9 4 (0.75%) VLAN
10 3 (0.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (4.32%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 21 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.44%) Oracle Database
6 12 (2.26%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.69%) Power BI
7 9 (1.69%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 6 (1.13%) InfluxDB
8 6 (1.13%) Metadata
8 6 (1.13%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 5 (0.94%) Big Data
9 5 (0.94%) MySQL
9 5 (0.94%) Redis
10 4 (0.75%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.75%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.56%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 67 (12.59%) Jenkins
2 49 (9.21%) Git
2 49 (9.21%) GitLab
3 38 (7.14%) JIRA
4 26 (4.89%) Rational DOORS
5 9 (1.69%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.50%) Postman
7 6 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.94%) Selenium
9 4 (0.75%) JMeter
10 3 (0.56%) JUnit
10 3 (0.56%) LabVIEW
10 3 (0.56%) MSI
10 3 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.56%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.38%) git-flow
11 2 (0.38%) Gradle
11 2 (0.38%) Maven
11 2 (0.38%) NUnit
General
1 104 (19.55%) Social Skills
2 70 (13.16%) Finance
3 60 (11.28%) Public Sector
4 58 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (10.53%) Aerospace
6 23 (4.32%) Banking
7 13 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.44%) Retail
8 9 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.50%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.13%) Military
11 5 (0.94%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.94%) Marketing
12 4 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.56%) Avionics
13 3 (0.56%) Electronics
13 3 (0.56%) Games
13 3 (0.56%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 61 (11.47%) Architect
2 40 (7.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 38 (7.14%) Configuration Manager
4 36 (6.77%) Senior
5 32 (6.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 30 (5.64%) Site Engineer
7 27 (5.08%) Analyst
7 27 (5.08%) Software Engineer
7 27 (5.08%) Systems Manager
8 24 (4.51%) Product Manager
9 23 (4.32%) Lead
10 22 (4.14%) Delivery Manager
11 21 (3.95%) Product Delivery Manager
11 21 (3.95%) Release Manager
11 21 (3.95%) Systems Delivery Manager
12 19 (3.57%) Change Manager
13 17 (3.20%) Administrator
14 15 (2.82%) Consultant
15 13 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
16 12 (2.26%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (8.65%) REST
2 31 (5.83%) JSON
3 16 (3.01%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (2.63%) RESTful
4 14 (2.63%) YAML
5 12 (2.26%) Kafka
6 10 (1.88%) ARM Templates
7 9 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (1.32%) Middleware
8 7 (1.32%) Node.js
8 7 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.32%) React
9 5 (0.94%) OAuth
9 5 (0.94%) PySpark
9 5 (0.94%) Spring
9 5 (0.94%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.75%) OAuth2
10 4 (0.75%) OpenID
10 4 (0.75%) VML
10 4 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.34%) CMDB
2 40 (7.52%) Product Ownership
3 34 (6.39%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (5.83%) PKI
5 26 (4.89%) Cloud Native
6 25 (4.70%) Data Structures
7 17 (3.20%) Management Information System
7 17 (3.20%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.82%) Data Centre
9 11 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.88%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.13%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.94%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.75%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 104 (19.55%) Linux
2 64 (12.03%) Windows
3 22 (4.14%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.07%) Unix
6 10 (1.88%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.94%) Debian
7 5 (0.94%) VMS
7 5 (0.94%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.38%) Android
8 2 (0.38%) CentOS
8 2 (0.38%) Rocky
8 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (30.64%) CI/CD
2 146 (27.44%) Agile
3 137 (25.75%) DevOps
4 108 (20.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 102 (19.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 88 (16.54%) ITIL
7 80 (15.04%) Service Management
8 75 (14.10%) Containerisation
9 73 (13.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 58 (10.90%) Software Engineering
11 57 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (10.34%) Observability
13 54 (10.15%) Change Management
14 50 (9.40%) Migration
15 48 (9.02%) ITSM
16 46 (8.65%) Roadmaps
16 46 (8.65%) Test Automation
17 42 (7.89%) Change Control
17 42 (7.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 41 (7.71%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 116 (21.80%) Python
2 84 (15.79%) PowerShell
3 71 (13.35%) Bash
4 48 (9.02%) SQL
5 23 (4.32%) Shell Script
6 21 (3.95%) Java
7 14 (2.63%) Go
8 13 (2.44%) Bicep
9 11 (2.07%) C#
10 9 (1.69%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.69%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.50%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.13%) C++
13 5 (0.94%) Ruby
14 4 (0.75%) C
15 3 (0.56%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.56%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.56%) SystemVerilog
16 2 (0.38%) Perl
16 2 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 232 (43.61%) Security Cleared
2 162 (30.45%) SC Cleared
3 56 (10.53%) Degree
4 29 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
6 13 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.50%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.50%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.32%) CCNP
10 7 (1.32%) PMP
11 6 (1.13%) CISSP
11 6 (1.13%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (0.94%) APMP
13 4 (0.75%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.75%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.89%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (2.82%) QA
4 11 (2.07%) GDPR
4 11 (2.07%) NIST
4 11 (2.07%) SLA
5 6 (1.13%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.13%) PMO
6 5 (0.94%) Def Stans
7 4 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.75%) COBIT
7 4 (0.75%) NCSC
8 3 (0.56%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.38%) DO-254
9 2 (0.38%) PSD2
10 1 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.19%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 71 (13.35%) Docker
2 29 (5.45%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.88%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.75%) KVM
7 3 (0.56%) NFS
8 2 (0.38%) Firmware
8 2 (0.38%) Postfix
8 2 (0.38%) QEMU
8 2 (0.38%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.38%) Varnish
8 2 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.19%) Ceph
9 1 (0.19%) GPFS
9 1 (0.19%) iptables
9 1 (0.19%) Lustre
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.19%) Samba
9 1 (0.19%) zsh
Systems Management
1 123 (23.12%) Ansible
2 110 (20.68%) Terraform
3 90 (16.92%) Kubernetes
4 59 (11.09%) Grafana
5 45 (8.46%) Prometheus
6 43 (8.08%) Puppet
7 41 (7.71%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.88%) NetBackup
8 10 (1.88%) SCCM
9 8 (1.50%) Argo
10 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.75%) Podman
12 3 (0.56%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.56%) Istio
12 3 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
13 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
13 2 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 64 (12.03%) Microsoft
2 50 (9.40%) ServiceNow
3 39 (7.33%) Oracle
4 30 (5.64%) Red Hat
5 25 (4.70%) IBM
6 22 (4.14%) VMware
7 16 (3.01%) Splunk
8 13 (2.44%) Atlassian
8 13 (2.44%) SAP
9 11 (2.07%) PagerDuty
10 10 (1.88%) Commvault
11 9 (1.69%) Cisco
12 8 (1.50%) Siemens
12 8 (1.50%) Veritas
13 6 (1.13%) F5
14 5 (0.94%) Databricks
14 5 (0.94%) Intel
14 5 (0.94%) Meraki
14 5 (0.94%) Salesforce
15 4 (0.75%) CheckPoint