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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 179 139
Rank change year-on-year -38 -40 +5
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 535 452 738
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.55% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.71% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 299 434
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £607 £634 £638
90th Percentile £775 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £504 £550
% change year-on-year +1.69% -8.37% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 18 151
10th Percentile £35.30 £38.18 £37.91
25th Percentile £50.00 £46.75 £40.94
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -0.83%
75th Percentile £85.50 £67.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £88.00 - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% +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 39,818 26,498 37,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.82% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,090 17,105 24,099
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.52% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,069 2,428
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.82 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.66 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.87% -16.94% -6.17%
75th Percentile £65.88 £62.24 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £28.00 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.89% -22.27% +0.06%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -38 479 £525 - 178
UK excluding London -23 349 £513 +1.69% 152
Work from Home -18 163 £525 - 100
London -102 138 £525 -4.55% 50
South East -38 87 £435 -13.00% 47
North of England -47 81 £525 +10.53% 18
South West -14 63 £450 -21.78% 50
Midlands -38 55 £526 +0.14% 10
North West -17 51 £588 +23.79% 8
West Midlands -27 51 £527 +1.06% 6
East of England -15 44 £350 +29.63% 32
Scotland +1 23 £535 +12.63% 1
Yorkshire -57 22 £493 +3.68% 6
North East -9 8 £413 - 4
East Midlands -44 4 £410 -26.13% 4
Wales - 3 £750 -

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 20 (3.74%) SAS
2 17 (3.18%) Confluence
3 9 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.50%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.93%) Apache
7 5 (0.93%) CMS
7 5 (0.93%) Mattermost
7 5 (0.93%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.75%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.75%) JBoss
9 3 (0.56%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 3 (0.56%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.37%) nginx
10 2 (0.37%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.93%) PTC Creo
3 2 (0.37%) Weka
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%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (2.80%) Teamcenter
2 7 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.12%) LabWindows
4 5 (0.93%) 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%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 96 (17.94%) AWS
1 96 (17.94%) Azure
2 49 (9.16%) OpenShift
3 48 (8.97%) GitHub
4 35 (6.54%) IaaS
5 33 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 33 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (5.79%) Amazon S3
7 28 (5.23%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
9 26 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
11 18 (3.36%) PaaS
12 17 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (3.18%) Serverless
13 14 (2.62%) Azure AKS
13 14 (2.62%) GCP
14 13 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (2.24%) Entra ID
15 12 (2.24%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.11%) Firewall
2 21 (3.93%) DNS
3 20 (3.74%) VPN
4 12 (2.24%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.06%) Network Security
6 10 (1.87%) WAN
7 9 (1.68%) DHCP
8 6 (1.12%) BGP
8 6 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (1.12%) LAN
8 6 (1.12%) OSPF
8 6 (1.12%) VoIP
9 5 (0.93%) EIGRP
9 5 (0.93%) VLAN
9 5 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.75%) 5G
10 4 (0.75%) HTTP
10 4 (0.75%) SSH
10 4 (0.75%) SSL
11 3 (0.56%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.23%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (4.11%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.80%) Oracle Database
3 15 (2.80%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 11 (2.06%) Power BI
5 10 (1.87%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.68%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 6 (1.12%) InfluxDB
7 6 (1.12%) Metadata
7 6 (1.12%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 5 (0.93%) MySQL
9 4 (0.75%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.75%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.75%) Redis
10 3 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.56%) Base SAS
10 3 (0.56%) Big Data
10 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 63 (11.78%) Jenkins
2 51 (9.53%) GitLab
3 45 (8.41%) Git
4 30 (5.61%) JIRA
5 27 (5.05%) Rational DOORS
6 9 (1.68%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.50%) Postman
7 8 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.93%) Selenium
9 4 (0.75%) JMeter
10 3 (0.56%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.56%) JUnit
10 3 (0.56%) LabVIEW
10 3 (0.56%) Maven
10 3 (0.56%) MSI
10 3 (0.56%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.37%) Gradle
11 2 (0.37%) NUnit
11 2 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.37%) SonarQube
General
1 107 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 75 (14.02%) Finance
3 59 (11.03%) Public Sector
4 56 (10.47%) Aerospace
5 50 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (3.93%) Banking
7 15 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.43%) Retail
9 10 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.12%) Military
12 4 (0.75%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.75%) Law
13 3 (0.56%) Avionics
13 3 (0.56%) Games
13 3 (0.56%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.56%) Local Government
13 3 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 54 (10.09%) Architect
2 48 (8.97%) Configuration Manager
3 44 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (6.92%) Senior
5 30 (5.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 29 (5.42%) Lead
7 28 (5.23%) Site Engineer
7 28 (5.23%) Software Engineer
8 27 (5.05%) Systems Manager
9 24 (4.49%) Product Manager
10 22 (4.11%) Analyst
10 22 (4.11%) Delivery Manager
11 21 (3.93%) Product Delivery Manager
11 21 (3.93%) Systems Delivery Manager
12 19 (3.55%) Change Manager
13 18 (3.36%) Administrator
14 14 (2.62%) Consultant
15 13 (2.43%) Release Manager
16 12 (2.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 12 (2.24%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (6.54%) REST
2 23 (4.30%) JSON
3 17 (3.18%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (2.80%) YAML
5 13 (2.43%) Kafka
6 9 (1.68%) ARM Templates
6 9 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (1.68%) RESTful
7 8 (1.50%) Node.js
8 7 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.31%) React
9 5 (0.93%) Middleware
9 5 (0.93%) OAuth
9 5 (0.93%) OpenID
10 4 (0.75%) Loki
10 4 (0.75%) OAuth2
10 4 (0.75%) Spring
10 4 (0.75%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.75%) VML
10 4 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.84%) CMDB
2 38 (7.10%) Product Ownership
3 29 (5.42%) Cloud Native
4 25 (4.67%) Data Structures
4 25 (4.67%) Management Information System
5 24 (4.49%) PKI
5 24 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (3.55%) Data Centre
7 18 (3.36%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.50%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.12%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.93%) NHS
13 4 (0.75%) FPGA
13 4 (0.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 118 (22.06%) Linux
2 65 (12.15%) Windows
3 22 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.62%) Unix
5 11 (2.06%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.31%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.12%) Debian
8 4 (0.75%) VMS
8 4 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.56%) Solaris
10 2 (0.37%) Android
10 2 (0.37%) CentOS
10 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.37%) Rocky
10 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (28.60%) CI/CD
2 135 (25.23%) Agile
2 135 (25.23%) DevOps
3 119 (22.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 107 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 87 (16.26%) ITIL
6 82 (15.33%) Containerisation
7 79 (14.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 76 (14.21%) Service Management
9 61 (11.40%) Observability
10 57 (10.65%) Software Engineering
11 54 (10.09%) Change Management
12 52 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
13 48 (8.97%) Change Control
14 46 (8.60%) ITSM
15 45 (8.41%) Roadmaps
15 45 (8.41%) Test Automation
16 44 (8.22%) Computer Science
17 43 (8.04%) Migration
18 42 (7.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 121 (22.62%) Python
2 80 (14.95%) Bash
3 70 (13.08%) PowerShell
4 43 (8.04%) SQL
5 24 (4.49%) Shell Script
6 20 (3.74%) Java
7 15 (2.80%) Go
8 11 (2.06%) Bicep
9 10 (1.87%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.68%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.68%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.50%) C++
12 7 (1.31%) C
13 6 (1.12%) C#
13 6 (1.12%) Ruby
14 5 (0.93%) Perl
15 4 (0.75%) Ada
15 4 (0.75%) Groovy
16 3 (0.56%) SAS Macro
16 3 (0.56%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 220 (41.12%) Security Cleared
2 151 (28.22%) SC Cleared
3 58 (10.84%) Degree
4 27 (5.05%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.62%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (2.43%) ITIL Certification
7 12 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.50%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.31%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.31%) CCNP
9 7 (1.31%) CISSP
9 7 (1.31%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (1.31%) PMP
10 5 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (0.93%) APMP
10 5 (0.93%) CCSP
10 5 (0.93%) RHCE
11 4 (0.75%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.67%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.55%) QA
4 13 (2.43%) GDPR
5 12 (2.24%) NIST
6 11 (2.06%) SLA
7 6 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.12%) PMO
8 5 (0.93%) Def Stans
8 5 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.75%) COBIT
10 3 (0.56%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.37%) DO-254
11 2 (0.37%) NCSC
12 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.19%) GRC
12 1 (0.19%) PSD2
12 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 70 (13.08%) Docker
2 26 (4.86%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.87%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.12%) KVM
7 4 (0.75%) NFS
8 3 (0.56%) QEMU
9 2 (0.37%) Corosync
9 2 (0.37%) Firmware
9 2 (0.37%) GPFS
9 2 (0.37%) Lustre
9 2 (0.37%) Postfix
9 2 (0.37%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.37%) Varnish
9 2 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.19%) Ceph
10 1 (0.19%) iptables
10 1 (0.19%) zsh
Systems Management
1 133 (24.86%) Ansible
2 114 (21.31%) Terraform
3 96 (17.94%) Kubernetes
4 62 (11.59%) Grafana
5 48 (8.97%) Prometheus
6 43 (8.04%) Puppet
7 39 (7.29%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.87%) SCCM
9 8 (1.50%) Argo
9 8 (1.50%) NetBackup
10 6 (1.12%) Packer
10 6 (1.12%) Podman
11 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.75%) Data Guard
12 4 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (0.56%) HAProxy
13 3 (0.56%) Istio
Vendors
1 66 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 51 (9.53%) ServiceNow
3 35 (6.54%) Oracle
4 29 (5.42%) Red Hat
5 26 (4.86%) IBM
6 23 (4.30%) VMware
7 20 (3.74%) Splunk
8 13 (2.43%) SAP
9 11 (2.06%) Atlassian
9 11 (2.06%) PagerDuty
10 10 (1.87%) Cisco
11 8 (1.50%) Commvault
11 8 (1.50%) Siemens
12 7 (1.31%) Snow
12 7 (1.31%) Veritas
13 6 (1.12%) Meraki
13 6 (1.12%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.93%) F5
14 5 (0.93%) Intel
14 5 (0.93%) Remedy