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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 181 161
Rank change year-on-year -55 -20 -3
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 601 501 599
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.55% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.71% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 321 332
10th Percentile £350 £313 £300
25th Percentile £447 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -5.83%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £625
90th Percentile £725 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £515 £505
% change year-on-year +1.94% +1.98% -8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 17 78
10th Percentile £24.14 £13.79 £26.68
25th Percentile £41.71 £22.53 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £42.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.47% -15.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £85.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.00 £66.00 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +56.47% -15.00% -7.19%

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 45,398 29,222 32,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.44% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,773 18,158 20,413
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 2,911 1,744 1,558
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.20 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.84 £46.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.18 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +87.80% -47.37% +12.13%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -46 518 £525 +0.48% 639
UK excluding London -49 358 £525 +1.94% 427
London -71 185 £550 +2.33% 300
Work from Home -63 159 £515 +0.49% 275
North of England -55 90 £500 - 61
South East -50 78 £525 +4.90% 100
South West -24 69 £550 +4.76% 101
Midlands -57 53 £477 -8.00% 37
West Midlands -55 52 £477 -7.69% 17
North West -25 49 £477 +0.47% 35
East of England -1 36 £518 +52.21% 70
Scotland -23 33 £525 +5.00% 44
Yorkshire -53 28 £500 -2.44% 21
North East -25 13 £485 - 7
Wales -8 7 £750 +76.47% 8
East Midlands -21 1 £385 -40.77% 20
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 16

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 15 (2.50%) Confluence
2 14 (2.33%) SAS
3 13 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.50%) JBoss
5 8 (1.33%) Apache
6 5 (0.83%) CMS
7 4 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.50%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.50%) Appian
8 3 (0.50%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.33%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.33%) IIS
9 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.33%) nginx
9 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.17%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.17%) CATIA
5 1 (0.17%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.17%) Houdini
5 1 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.17%) NUKE
5 1 (0.17%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.17%) Weka
5 1 (0.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.33%) Teamcenter
2 6 (1.00%) Primavera
3 4 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.17%) ENOVIA
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.17%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 154 (25.62%) Azure
2 150 (24.96%) AWS
3 61 (10.15%) GCP
4 60 (9.98%) GitHub
5 54 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (8.15%) GitHub Actions
7 44 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
8 38 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 32 (5.32%) Entra ID
9 32 (5.32%) OpenShift
10 31 (5.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (3.83%) Azure AKS
12 22 (3.66%) Amazon S3
13 21 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (3.49%) Serverless
14 19 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (3.00%) Datadog
15 18 (3.00%) IaaS
15 18 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
16 17 (2.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (6.99%) DNS
2 31 (5.16%) Firewall
3 29 (4.83%) Network Security
4 20 (3.33%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.33%) DHCP
5 14 (2.33%) SSL
5 14 (2.33%) VPN
6 11 (1.83%) HTTP
6 11 (1.83%) VLAN
7 10 (1.66%) WAN
8 8 (1.33%) Kerberos
9 7 (1.16%) LAN
10 6 (1.00%) BGP
11 5 (0.83%) SAN
11 5 (0.83%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.67%) Broadband
12 4 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (0.67%) Internet
12 4 (0.67%) OSPF
12 4 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.00%) Oracle Database
2 16 (2.66%) Power BI
3 15 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (2.16%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 13 (2.16%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 10 (1.66%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.50%) Metadata
6 9 (1.50%) MySQL
7 7 (1.16%) Big Data
8 6 (1.00%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.00%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.00%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.67%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.67%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.67%) Redis
9 4 (0.67%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 3 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 74 (12.31%) GitLab
2 70 (11.65%) Jenkins
3 68 (11.31%) Git
4 42 (6.99%) JIRA
5 22 (3.66%) Rational DOORS
6 11 (1.83%) Rational Rhapsody
7 10 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.00%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.00%) JUnit
8 6 (1.00%) Postman
8 6 (1.00%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.83%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.50%) Maven
11 3 (0.50%) Mockito
11 3 (0.50%) Selenium
12 2 (0.33%) LabVIEW
12 2 (0.33%) MSBuild
12 2 (0.33%) NUnit
12 2 (0.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 158 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 101 (16.81%) Finance
3 62 (10.32%) Public Sector
4 60 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.49%) Aerospace
6 23 (3.83%) Banking
7 16 (2.66%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.66%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.50%) Military
11 6 (1.00%) Aviation
11 6 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.83%) Publishing
12 5 (0.83%) Retail
13 4 (0.67%) Automotive
13 4 (0.67%) Law
13 4 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.33%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 83 (13.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 71 (11.81%) Senior
3 60 (9.98%) Architect
4 40 (6.66%) Lead
5 33 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
6 31 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (5.16%) Linux Engineer
7 27 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 26 (4.33%) Systems Engineer
9 24 (3.99%) Configuration Manager
10 22 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (3.33%) Analyst
11 20 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
11 20 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 20 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
12 18 (3.00%) Security Architect
13 17 (2.83%) Administrator
13 17 (2.83%) Software Engineer
14 16 (2.66%) Security Engineer
15 15 (2.50%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (28.45%) Terraform
2 28 (4.66%) REST
3 20 (3.33%) YAML
4 19 (3.16%) Kafka
5 16 (2.66%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (2.33%) ARM Templates
7 11 (1.83%) XML
8 10 (1.66%) .NET
8 10 (1.66%) JSON
9 9 (1.50%) Middleware
10 8 (1.33%) Azure Blueprints
10 8 (1.33%) React
10 8 (1.33%) RESTful
10 8 (1.33%) SOAP
11 7 (1.16%) Django
11 7 (1.16%) Web Services
12 6 (1.00%) Flask
12 6 (1.00%) HTML
12 6 (1.00%) Node.js
12 6 (1.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 82 (13.64%) CMDB
2 52 (8.65%) Cloud Native
3 30 (4.99%) Onboarding
3 30 (4.99%) Security Posture
4 29 (4.83%) Management Information System
5 28 (4.66%) Product Ownership
6 27 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (4.16%) Private Cloud
8 23 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (3.33%) Data Centre
10 15 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (2.33%) Public Cloud
12 13 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (2.00%) Clustering
14 11 (1.83%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.50%) Data Structures
16 8 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
16 8 (1.33%) PKI
17 7 (1.16%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 162 (26.96%) Linux
2 95 (15.81%) Windows
3 66 (10.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 36 (5.99%) Windows Server
5 32 (5.32%) Unix
6 26 (4.33%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.83%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.16%) Solaris
8 7 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.83%) Android
9 5 (0.83%) CentOS
10 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.67%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.50%) Debian
11 3 (0.50%) VMS
12 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (35.94%) DevOps
2 214 (35.61%) CI/CD
3 202 (33.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 141 (23.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 123 (20.47%) Agile
6 110 (18.30%) Containerisation
7 102 (16.97%) ITIL
8 91 (15.14%) Observability
9 90 (14.98%) Platform Engineering
10 85 (14.14%) Change Management
11 82 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 79 (13.14%) Service Management
13 78 (12.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 77 (12.81%) Stakeholder Management
15 74 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
15 74 (12.31%) Validation
16 68 (11.31%) Test Automation
17 65 (10.82%) ITSM
18 63 (10.48%) Infrastructure Automation
19 61 (10.15%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 185 (30.78%) Python
2 101 (16.81%) Bash
3 82 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 35 (5.82%) SQL
5 33 (5.49%) Java
6 29 (4.83%) Shell Script
7 23 (3.83%) Perl
8 20 (3.33%) Bicep
9 18 (3.00%) C++
10 13 (2.16%) C
10 13 (2.16%) Go
10 13 (2.16%) JavaScript
11 8 (1.33%) Ada
11 8 (1.33%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.00%) Ruby
13 5 (0.83%) Groovy
14 4 (0.67%) C#
15 3 (0.50%) Korn
15 3 (0.50%) Search Processing Language
15 3 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 201 (33.44%) Security Cleared
2 136 (22.63%) SC Cleared
3 65 (10.82%) Degree
4 34 (5.66%) DV Cleared
5 31 (5.16%) AWS Certification
6 25 (4.16%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.66%) CISSP
8 15 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (1.33%) CCNA
12 8 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 7 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (1.00%) CCNP
14 6 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.83%) GCIH
16 4 (0.67%) ISSAP
16 4 (0.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.83%) QA
2 28 (4.66%) Data Quality
3 25 (4.16%) SLA
4 18 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (2.83%) NIST
6 11 (1.83%) GDPR
6 11 (1.83%) GRC
7 7 (1.16%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.00%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.83%) NCSC
10 4 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.50%) MISRA
11 3 (0.50%) MISRA C
11 3 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.33%) DO-254
12 2 (0.33%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 85 (14.14%) Docker
2 53 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (8.15%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.66%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.66%) KVM
6 8 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.16%) Firmware
8 6 (1.00%) NFS
9 5 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
10 4 (0.67%) Postfix
10 4 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.50%) Varnish
12 2 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.33%) Ceph
12 2 (0.33%) Corosync
12 2 (0.33%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.33%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 183 (30.45%) Ansible
2 131 (21.80%) Kubernetes
3 58 (9.65%) Grafana
4 52 (8.65%) Prometheus
4 52 (8.65%) Puppet
5 46 (7.65%) Progress Chef
6 18 (3.00%) SCCM
7 15 (2.50%) Packer
8 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.50%) Istio
9 9 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (1.00%) Argo
11 6 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.83%) Salt
13 4 (0.67%) Data Guard
13 4 (0.67%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.67%) Podman
14 3 (0.50%) CASB
Vendors
1 93 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 77 (12.81%) ServiceNow
3 61 (10.15%) VMware
4 40 (6.66%) Oracle
5 39 (6.49%) Red Hat
6 32 (5.32%) Google
7 31 (5.16%) Splunk
8 26 (4.33%) IBM
9 22 (3.66%) Cisco
10 18 (3.00%) Snow
11 17 (2.83%) SaltStack
12 12 (2.00%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.66%) Salesforce
14 8 (1.33%) BMC
14 8 (1.33%) F5
14 8 (1.33%) Okta
14 8 (1.33%) Siemens
15 7 (1.16%) SAP
16 6 (1.00%) Databricks
16 6 (1.00%) Qualys