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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 178 142
Rank change year-on-year -62 -36 +14
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 560 513 727
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.58% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.75% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 325 408
10th Percentile £341 £313 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% -5.09% -1.82%
75th Percentile £607 £603 £630
90th Percentile £774 £679 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 15 136
10th Percentile £32.40 £35.00 £40.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.00 £44.08
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 £60.75
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.25 £52.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +12.02% +4.00% +19.60%

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 45,068 29,357 36,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 90.46% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,042 18,505 23,449
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,667 1,497 2,458
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.45 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -2.91%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -65 484 £500 -4.76% 140
UK excluding London -49 343 £500 - 102
London -83 158 £525 -4.55% 54
Work from Home -73 145 £525 +5.00% 60
South East -42 90 £435 -13.00% 37
South West -7 71 £500 -13.04% 26
North of England -73 66 £500 +5.26% 15
Midlands -48 49 £525 +0.77% 14
West Midlands -50 47 £525 +5.42% 9
East of England -2 40 £710 +255.00% 5
North West -45 40 £525 +10.53% 10
Scotland -9 28 £553 +10.50% 2
Yorkshire -62 19 £500 +5.26% 3
Wales -8 7 £750 +76.47% 2
North East -26 7 £413 - 2
East Midlands -25 2 £468 -15.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 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 19 (3.39%) SAS
2 18 (3.21%) Confluence
3 14 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.79%) Apache
5 5 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.89%) Mattermost
5 5 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.71%) CMS
6 4 (0.71%) JBoss
6 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.54%) Appian
7 3 (0.54%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.36%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.36%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.18%) IIS
9 1 (0.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.89%) PTC Creo
3 2 (0.36%) CATIA
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.18%) Weka
4 1 (0.18%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (3.04%) Teamcenter
2 9 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.07%) Primavera
3 6 (1.07%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.54%) LabWindows
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.18%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.18%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 123 (21.96%) Azure
2 116 (20.71%) AWS
3 55 (9.82%) GitHub
4 38 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (6.61%) OpenShift
6 31 (5.54%) GCP
7 29 (5.18%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (4.11%) PaaS
10 22 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (3.75%) Amazon S3
12 20 (3.57%) Entra ID
13 19 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (3.39%) Power Platform
14 16 (2.86%) Azure AKS
15 11 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (1.96%) Serverless
16 10 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 9 (1.61%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.25%) DNS
2 16 (2.86%) Firewall
3 14 (2.50%) Network Security
3 14 (2.50%) VPN
4 13 (2.32%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.79%) DHCP
5 10 (1.79%) SSL
6 9 (1.61%) WAN
7 7 (1.25%) VLAN
8 6 (1.07%) LAN
9 5 (0.89%) 5G
10 4 (0.71%) Internet
11 3 (0.54%) BGP
11 3 (0.54%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (0.54%) NAS
11 3 (0.54%) OSPF
11 3 (0.54%) PCoIP
11 3 (0.54%) SAN
11 3 (0.54%) SNMP
11 3 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.93%) Oracle Database
2 19 (3.39%) Power BI
3 15 (2.68%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 14 (2.50%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 12 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.14%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.43%) Metadata
7 7 (1.25%) MySQL
8 6 (1.07%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 6 (1.07%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.89%) Redis
10 3 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.54%) Base SAS
10 3 (0.54%) Big Data
10 3 (0.54%) Data Mart
10 3 (0.54%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 60 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 57 (10.18%) GitLab
3 52 (9.29%) Git
4 41 (7.32%) JIRA
5 35 (6.25%) Rational DOORS
6 11 (1.96%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.43%) Rational Rhapsody
9 7 (1.25%) Postman
10 5 (0.89%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.71%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.71%) JMeter
11 4 (0.71%) Selenium
11 4 (0.71%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.54%) Maven
12 3 (0.54%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.36%) JUnit
13 2 (0.36%) LabVIEW
13 2 (0.36%) NUnit
General
1 125 (22.32%) Social Skills
2 78 (13.93%) Finance
3 56 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 53 (9.46%) Aerospace
5 38 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (5.00%) Banking
7 12 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.79%) Military
8 10 (1.79%) Retail
9 8 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.07%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.89%) Publishing
11 5 (0.89%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.71%) Marketing
12 4 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.54%) Aviation
13 3 (0.54%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.36%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 67 (11.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (10.18%) Senior
3 39 (6.96%) Architect
4 38 (6.79%) Configuration Manager
5 33 (5.89%) Lead
6 28 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
7 27 (4.82%) Systems Manager
8 26 (4.64%) AWS Engineer
9 25 (4.46%) Analyst
10 24 (4.29%) Product Manager
11 23 (4.11%) Software Engineer
12 21 (3.75%) Product Delivery Manager
12 21 (3.75%) Systems Delivery Manager
13 20 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
13 20 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
14 19 (3.39%) Consultant
15 18 (3.21%) AWS DevOps
15 18 (3.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 17 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
17 16 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.93%) REST
2 16 (2.86%) YAML
3 12 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (2.14%) JSON
4 10 (1.79%) XML
5 9 (1.61%) ARM Templates
5 9 (1.61%) Kafka
6 8 (1.43%) .NET
6 8 (1.43%) Middleware
6 8 (1.43%) React
6 8 (1.43%) RESTful
7 7 (1.25%) Node.js
7 7 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (1.07%) Django
8 6 (1.07%) SOAP
8 6 (1.07%) Web Services
9 5 (0.89%) AWS CDK
9 5 (0.89%) Loki
9 5 (0.89%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.89%) CMDB
2 39 (6.96%) Cloud Native
3 36 (6.43%) Product Ownership
4 33 (5.89%) Management Information System
5 25 (4.46%) Data Structures
6 24 (4.29%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (3.04%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.32%) Public Cloud
10 12 (2.14%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.07%) PKI
15 5 (0.89%) Operational Technology
15 5 (0.89%) Replication
15 5 (0.89%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 132 (23.57%) Linux
2 85 (15.18%) Windows
3 44 (7.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (4.64%) Ubuntu
4 26 (4.64%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.04%) Unix
6 12 (2.14%) Windows 10
7 7 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (1.07%) Solaris
9 4 (0.71%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.71%) Android
9 4 (0.71%) CentOS
10 3 (0.54%) Debian
10 3 (0.54%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.36%) Rocky
12 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (31.96%) DevOps
2 164 (29.29%) CI/CD
3 138 (24.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 128 (22.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 127 (22.68%) Agile
6 91 (16.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 90 (16.07%) Service Management
8 86 (15.36%) ITIL
9 82 (14.64%) Containerisation
10 68 (12.14%) ITSM
11 61 (10.89%) Observability
12 60 (10.71%) Roadmaps
13 59 (10.54%) Change Management
14 57 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
15 53 (9.46%) Validation
16 52 (9.29%) Change Control
16 52 (9.29%) Platform Engineering
17 51 (9.11%) Test Automation
18 50 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
19 49 (8.75%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 142 (25.36%) Python
2 86 (15.36%) Bash
3 57 (10.18%) PowerShell
4 33 (5.89%) SQL
5 27 (4.82%) Java
6 23 (4.11%) Shell Script
7 17 (3.04%) Bicep
8 15 (2.68%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.96%) Go
9 11 (1.96%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.43%) C++
11 7 (1.25%) C
11 7 (1.25%) Ruby
12 6 (1.07%) Perl
13 5 (0.89%) Ada
13 5 (0.89%) C#
13 5 (0.89%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.54%) Groovy
14 3 (0.54%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 209 (37.32%) Security Cleared
2 131 (23.39%) SC Cleared
3 66 (11.79%) Degree
4 26 (4.64%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.68%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.61%) CISSP
11 7 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (1.07%) RHCE
13 5 (0.89%) CCNA
13 5 (0.89%) CCNP
13 5 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.71%) CCSP
14 4 (0.71%) ISSAP
14 4 (0.71%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.54%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (3.21%) QA
3 15 (2.68%) SLA
4 12 (2.14%) NIST
5 10 (1.79%) GDPR
6 5 (0.89%) Def Stans
7 4 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.71%) GRC
7 4 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.54%) COBIT
8 3 (0.54%) NCSC
8 3 (0.54%) PMO
8 3 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.36%) DO-254
9 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.36%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 66 (11.79%) Docker
2 31 (5.54%) Active Directory
3 29 (5.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.43%) KVM
6 7 (1.25%) NFS
7 5 (0.89%) Firmware
7 5 (0.89%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.71%) Postfix
8 4 (0.71%) Varnish
9 3 (0.54%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.36%) Ceph
10 2 (0.36%) Corosync
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 161 (28.75%) Ansible
2 130 (23.21%) Terraform
3 103 (18.39%) Kubernetes
4 47 (8.39%) Grafana
5 46 (8.21%) Prometheus
6 41 (7.32%) Puppet
7 32 (5.71%) Progress Chef
8 12 (2.14%) Packer
9 11 (1.96%) SCCM
10 8 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.25%) Argo
11 7 (1.25%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.89%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.89%) Istio
12 5 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.71%) Data Guard
13 4 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.71%) SELinux
13 4 (0.71%) systemd
14 3 (0.54%) Salt
Vendors
1 65 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 58 (10.36%) ServiceNow
3 41 (7.32%) Oracle
4 35 (6.25%) IBM
5 32 (5.71%) VMware
6 28 (5.00%) Red Hat
7 20 (3.57%) Splunk
8 14 (2.50%) SAP
9 10 (1.79%) Cisco
9 10 (1.79%) Siemens
10 9 (1.61%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.61%) Google
10 9 (1.61%) Snow
11 8 (1.43%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.25%) Commvault
12 7 (1.25%) Okta
12 7 (1.25%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.25%) Veritas
13 6 (1.07%) Remedy
13 6 (1.07%) Tenable