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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 192 166
Rank change year-on-year -38 -26 -3
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 648 484 574
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.19% 1.48% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.64% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 298 304
10th Percentile £363 £343 £288
25th Percentile £450 £450 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £524
Median % change year-on-year - +0.24% -8.91%
75th Percentile £610 £637 £620
90th Percentile £735 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £524 £490
% change year-on-year +0.19% +6.88% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 24 60
10th Percentile £24.99 £13.13 £26.32
25th Percentile £39.50 £14.13 -
Median hourly rate £60.75 £41.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.17% -18.00% -
75th Percentile £72.63 £62.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.00 £64.63 £70.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.00 £41.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +43.90% -18.00% +2.63%

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 46,073 29,551 32,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.35% 90.64% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,867 18,364 19,652
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £403 £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 £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,200 1,847 1,359
10th Percentile £13.74 £14.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.23 £17.30 £20.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.05% -40.82% -1.16%
75th Percentile £65.88 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -48.10% +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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -39 558 £525 - 592
UK excluding London -36 385 £525 +0.19% 428
London -41 199 £535 -10.83% 183
Work from Home -49 164 £525 +1.60% 229
North of England -53 92 £474 -5.22% 66
South East -54 77 £550 +9.89% 112
South West -16 68 £550 +4.76% 87
East of England +8 54 £550 +4.76% 66
North West -27 51 £463 -2.63% 37
Midlands -58 50 £477 -8.97% 44
West Midlands -62 47 £477 -8.97% 28
Scotland -16 39 £513 -6.82% 44
Yorkshire -47 33 £500 -2.44% 21
Wales -6 8 £750 +76.47% 9
North East -34 8 £485 -3.00% 8
East Midlands - 3 £418 - 16
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 9

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 (2.78%) Confluence
2 12 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.85%) SAS
3 10 (1.54%) Apache
3 10 (1.54%) JBoss
4 5 (0.77%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.62%) nginx
6 3 (0.46%) Appian
6 3 (0.46%) CMS
7 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.31%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.31%) FactoryTalk
7 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.31%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.31%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.15%) IIS
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.46%) 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 (1.39%) Remedy ITSM
1 9 (1.39%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.93%) Primavera
3 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.15%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.15%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 161 (24.85%) AWS
2 155 (23.92%) Azure
3 75 (11.57%) GCP
4 69 (10.65%) GitHub
5 56 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
6 51 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (7.72%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 39 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 33 (5.09%) Entra ID
11 31 (4.78%) OpenShift
12 23 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (3.55%) Datadog
13 22 (3.40%) Amazon S3
13 22 (3.40%) Azure AKS
14 20 (3.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 19 (2.93%) Serverless
16 18 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (2.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (6.79%) DNS
2 35 (5.40%) Firewall
3 33 (5.09%) Network Security
4 22 (3.40%) TCP/IP
5 17 (2.62%) SSL
5 17 (2.62%) VPN
6 14 (2.16%) DHCP
7 11 (1.70%) HTTP
7 11 (1.70%) VLAN
8 10 (1.54%) WAN
9 8 (1.23%) BGP
9 8 (1.23%) Kerberos
10 7 (1.08%) SAN
11 6 (0.93%) Internet
11 6 (0.93%) LAN
12 5 (0.77%) Ethernet
12 5 (0.77%) MPLS
12 5 (0.77%) NAS
12 5 (0.77%) OSPF
12 5 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.78%) Oracle Database
2 16 (2.47%) Power BI
3 14 (2.16%) Metadata
4 13 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (1.85%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.85%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 11 (1.70%) BigQuery
6 11 (1.70%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 10 (1.54%) MySQL
8 7 (1.08%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.93%) Big Data
9 6 (0.93%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.93%) Looker
9 6 (0.93%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.62%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.62%) Redis
11 3 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 74 (11.42%) GitLab
2 71 (10.96%) Jenkins
3 70 (10.80%) Git
4 43 (6.64%) JIRA
5 14 (2.16%) Rational DOORS
6 12 (1.85%) Artifactory
6 12 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (1.70%) Rational Rhapsody
7 11 (1.70%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.77%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.62%) JUnit
9 4 (0.62%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.46%) Maven
10 3 (0.46%) Mockito
11 2 (0.31%) Ant
11 2 (0.31%) LabVIEW
11 2 (0.31%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.31%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.15%) Selenium
12 1 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 180 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 110 (16.98%) Finance
3 69 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 36 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 28 (4.32%) Banking
7 24 (3.70%) Manufacturing
8 17 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.85%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.39%) Military
11 8 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.93%) Automotive
12 6 (0.93%) Aviation
12 6 (0.93%) Electronics
12 6 (0.93%) Law
12 6 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.77%) Avionics
13 5 (0.77%) Publishing
13 5 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 77 (11.88%) DevOps Engineer
1 77 (11.88%) Senior
2 74 (11.42%) Architect
3 40 (6.17%) Lead
4 36 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
5 35 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (5.40%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (5.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 27 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
8 26 (4.01%) Windows Engineer
9 25 (3.86%) Configuration Manager
9 25 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
10 23 (3.55%) Automation Engineer
11 22 (3.40%) Security Engineer
12 21 (3.24%) AWS DevOps
12 21 (3.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 20 (3.09%) Analyst
14 18 (2.78%) Delivery Manager
14 18 (2.78%) Developer
14 18 (2.78%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (28.40%) Terraform
2 30 (4.63%) REST
3 28 (4.32%) Kafka
4 22 (3.40%) Middleware
5 16 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (2.01%) YAML
7 10 (1.54%) ARM Templates
7 10 (1.54%) JSON
7 10 (1.54%) React
7 10 (1.54%) XML
8 9 (1.39%) .NET
8 9 (1.39%) Django
8 9 (1.39%) OAuth
9 8 (1.23%) Azure Blueprints
9 8 (1.23%) SOAP
10 7 (1.08%) Node.js
10 7 (1.08%) OpenID
10 7 (1.08%) Web Services
11 6 (0.93%) HTML
11 6 (0.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 86 (13.27%) CMDB
2 56 (8.64%) Cloud Native
3 43 (6.64%) Security Posture
4 41 (6.33%) Onboarding
5 39 (6.02%) Private Cloud
6 35 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
7 33 (5.09%) Enterprise Software
8 32 (4.94%) Management Information System
9 25 (3.86%) Data Centre
10 22 (3.40%) Product Ownership
11 19 (2.93%) Public Cloud
12 15 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (2.01%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.85%) Clustering
16 10 (1.54%) PKI
17 8 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
18 7 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
18 7 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
19 6 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 184 (28.40%) Linux
2 123 (18.98%) Windows
3 71 (10.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 46 (7.10%) Windows Server
5 34 (5.25%) Unix
6 25 (3.86%) Ubuntu
7 13 (2.01%) Windows 10
8 9 (1.39%) Solaris
8 9 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.93%) CentOS
10 4 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.62%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.46%) Android
11 3 (0.46%) Debian
11 3 (0.46%) VMS
12 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.31%) SUSE
12 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (36.73%) Infrastructure as Code
2 235 (36.27%) CI/CD
3 223 (34.41%) DevOps
4 161 (24.85%) Continuous Improvement
5 116 (17.90%) ITIL
6 112 (17.28%) Containerisation
7 110 (16.98%) Agile
7 110 (16.98%) Observability
8 106 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 103 (15.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 103 (15.90%) Platform Engineering
10 100 (15.43%) Change Management
11 89 (13.73%) Service Management
11 89 (13.73%) Validation
12 86 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
13 82 (12.65%) Root Cause Analysis
14 76 (11.73%) Roadmaps
15 73 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 69 (10.65%) ITSM
17 68 (10.49%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 202 (31.17%) Python
2 112 (17.28%) Bash
3 92 (14.20%) PowerShell
4 44 (6.79%) SQL
5 37 (5.71%) Java
6 30 (4.63%) Shell Script
7 26 (4.01%) Perl
8 20 (3.09%) C++
8 20 (3.09%) JavaScript
9 18 (2.78%) Bicep
10 16 (2.47%) C
10 16 (2.47%) Go
11 8 (1.23%) Ada
12 6 (0.93%) C#
12 6 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.93%) Ruby
13 5 (0.77%) Google Apps Script
13 5 (0.77%) Groovy
13 5 (0.77%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.62%) Korn
Qualifications
1 223 (34.41%) Security Cleared
2 146 (22.53%) SC Cleared
3 63 (9.72%) Degree
4 52 (8.02%) DV Cleared
5 31 (4.78%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (3.09%) Azure Certification
8 19 (2.93%) CISSP
9 15 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (1.23%) CCNA
13 8 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 6 (0.93%) CCNP
15 5 (0.77%) CISM
15 5 (0.77%) GCIH
15 5 (0.77%) GIAC
15 5 (0.77%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.71%) SLA
2 30 (4.63%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.32%) QA
4 21 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.93%) NIST
6 12 (1.85%) GDPR
7 10 (1.54%) GRC
8 9 (1.39%) PCI DSS
9 7 (1.08%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.77%) NCSC
11 4 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.46%) MISRA
12 3 (0.46%) MISRA C
13 2 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 2 (0.31%) PMO
13 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 80 (12.35%) Docker
2 61 (9.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (9.10%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.01%) Firmware
5 12 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.39%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.39%) KVM
8 6 (0.93%) NFS
9 5 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.77%) VMware Workstation
10 4 (0.62%) Postfix
11 3 (0.46%) Varnish
12 2 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.31%) Ceph
12 2 (0.31%) Corosync
12 2 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.31%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 195 (30.09%) Ansible
2 145 (22.38%) Kubernetes
3 56 (8.64%) Grafana
4 52 (8.02%) Puppet
5 51 (7.87%) Prometheus
6 46 (7.10%) Progress Chef
7 19 (2.93%) SCCM
8 15 (2.31%) Packer
9 9 (1.39%) Istio
9 9 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.23%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (1.23%) Red Hat Satellite
11 7 (1.08%) Argo
12 5 (0.77%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.77%) Salt
12 5 (0.77%) systemd
13 4 (0.62%) Podman
14 3 (0.46%) Consul
14 3 (0.46%) yum
Vendors
1 105 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 87 (13.43%) ServiceNow
3 73 (11.27%) VMware
4 42 (6.48%) Google
5 40 (6.17%) Red Hat
6 37 (5.71%) Oracle
7 32 (4.94%) Splunk
8 23 (3.55%) Cisco
9 22 (3.40%) SaltStack
10 21 (3.24%) IBM
11 17 (2.62%) Snow
12 15 (2.31%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.54%) Remedy
14 9 (1.39%) Qualys
14 9 (1.39%) Siemens
15 8 (1.23%) BMC
15 8 (1.23%) F5
15 8 (1.23%) Okta
15 8 (1.23%) Salesforce
15 8 (1.23%) Tenable