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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 177 134
Rank change year-on-year -65 -43 +18
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 521 461 748
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.57% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.72% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 296 434
10th Percentile £347 £343 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £615 £643
90th Percentile £691 £684 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 16 147
10th Percentile £34.48 £36.00 £38.75
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.19 £41.10
Median hourly rate £60.00 £56.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +12.00% -0.83%
75th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 £61.86
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.00 £56.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +5.36% +12.00% +2.05%

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 42,291 26,731 37,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 91.01% 85.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,385 16,984 23,772
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,541 1,182 2,587
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £61.16
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -70 460 £516 -1.67% 141
UK excluding London -27 333 £520 +4.00% 127
London -108 136 £500 -9.09% 29
Work from Home -61 134 £500 -4.76% 79
South East -37 87 £435 -13.00% 33
North of England -69 68 £525 +10.53% 27
South West 0 67 £500 -13.04% 32
Midlands -49 50 £525 +0.10% 12
West Midlands -35 48 £525 +0.48% 9
North West -31 43 £588 +23.79% 14
East of England -1 41 £450 +125.00% 19
Scotland -12 23 £555 +32.14% 7
Yorkshire -63 17 £500 - 10
North East -21 8 £413 - 3
Wales - 3 £750 -
East Midlands -35 2 £465 -16.22% 3
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 22 (4.22%) SAS
2 15 (2.88%) Confluence
3 14 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.92%) Apache
5 6 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.96%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.96%) Mattermost
7 4 (0.77%) CMS
7 4 (0.77%) JBoss
7 4 (0.77%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.58%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 3 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.38%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.19%) IIS
10 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.96%) PTC Creo
3 4 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.38%) CATIA
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.19%) Weka
5 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (3.26%) Teamcenter
2 9 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.15%) LabWindows
3 6 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.96%) Primavera
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.19%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 104 (19.96%) Azure
2 91 (17.47%) AWS
3 47 (9.02%) GitHub
4 40 (7.68%) OpenShift
5 31 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (4.41%) PaaS
8 22 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (3.65%) GCP
9 19 (3.65%) Power Platform
10 18 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (2.88%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.88%) Entra ID
13 12 (2.30%) Azure AKS
14 11 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (2.11%) Serverless
15 9 (1.73%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.14%) DNS
2 16 (3.07%) Firewall
3 14 (2.69%) VPN
4 12 (2.30%) DHCP
5 9 (1.73%) Network Security
5 9 (1.73%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.54%) SSL
7 7 (1.34%) VLAN
8 6 (1.15%) WAN
9 5 (0.96%) LAN
10 4 (0.77%) 5G
10 4 (0.77%) BGP
10 4 (0.77%) Internet
10 4 (0.77%) OSPF
11 3 (0.58%) 3GPP
11 3 (0.58%) 4G
11 3 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (0.58%) NAS
11 3 (0.58%) PCoIP
11 3 (0.58%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.41%) Oracle Database
2 19 (3.65%) Power BI
3 18 (3.45%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 14 (2.69%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 9 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.34%) Metadata
7 6 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.15%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 6 (1.15%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (0.77%) MySQL
9 3 (0.58%) Base SAS
9 3 (0.58%) Big Data
9 3 (0.58%) Data Mart
9 3 (0.58%) InfluxDB
9 3 (0.58%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.58%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (10.56%) GitLab
2 53 (10.17%) Jenkins
3 45 (8.64%) Git
4 34 (6.53%) Rational DOORS
5 29 (5.57%) JIRA
6 8 (1.54%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.54%) Rational Rhapsody
6 8 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.34%) Postman
8 5 (0.96%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.77%) JMeter
9 4 (0.77%) LabVIEW
9 4 (0.77%) Selenium
10 3 (0.58%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.58%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.38%) JUnit
11 2 (0.38%) Maven
11 2 (0.38%) NUnit
12 1 (0.19%) AppScan
General
1 119 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 71 (13.63%) Finance
3 55 (10.56%) Public Sector
4 54 (10.36%) Aerospace
5 28 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (5.37%) Banking
6 12 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.11%) Retail
8 10 (1.92%) Military
8 10 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.96%) Publishing
12 4 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.58%) Aviation
13 3 (0.58%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 53 (10.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (8.06%) Architect
2 42 (8.06%) Senior
3 40 (7.68%) Configuration Manager
4 32 (6.14%) Lead
5 27 (5.18%) Systems Manager
6 25 (4.80%) Analyst
6 25 (4.80%) Software Engineer
7 24 (4.61%) Delivery Manager
7 24 (4.61%) Product Manager
8 21 (4.03%) Product Delivery Manager
8 21 (4.03%) Systems Delivery Manager
9 20 (3.84%) AWS Engineer
10 17 (3.26%) Consultant
10 17 (3.26%) Linux Engineer
11 16 (3.07%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (3.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (3.07%) Release Manager
11 16 (3.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 16 (3.07%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.07%) YAML
2 13 (2.50%) REST
3 11 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (1.73%) RESTful
5 8 (1.54%) ARM Templates
5 8 (1.54%) JSON
5 8 (1.54%) Kafka
6 7 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (1.15%) .NET
7 6 (1.15%) Loki
7 6 (1.15%) XML
8 5 (0.96%) Middleware
8 5 (0.96%) Node.js
8 5 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (0.96%) Web Services
9 4 (0.77%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.77%) PySpark
9 4 (0.77%) React
9 4 (0.77%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 60 (11.52%) CMDB
2 42 (8.06%) Product Ownership
3 31 (5.95%) Cloud Native
4 30 (5.76%) Management Information System
5 24 (4.61%) Data Structures
6 21 (4.03%) Onboarding
7 17 (3.26%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.92%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.34%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.15%) PKI
13 5 (0.96%) Smartphone
14 4 (0.77%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.77%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 122 (23.42%) Linux
2 81 (15.55%) Windows
3 38 (7.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (4.61%) Windows Server
5 20 (3.84%) Ubuntu
6 16 (3.07%) Unix
7 10 (1.92%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (1.15%) Solaris
10 5 (0.96%) Debian
11 4 (0.77%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.77%) Android
11 4 (0.77%) CentOS
12 3 (0.58%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.58%) VMS
12 3 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.38%) Rocky
14 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (29.37%) DevOps
2 145 (27.83%) CI/CD
3 124 (23.80%) Continuous Improvement
4 118 (22.65%) Agile
5 104 (19.96%) Infrastructure as Code
6 90 (17.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 75 (14.40%) ITIL
7 75 (14.40%) Service Management
8 70 (13.44%) Containerisation
9 55 (10.56%) ITSM
10 53 (10.17%) Observability
11 52 (9.98%) Roadmaps
12 51 (9.79%) Migration
13 50 (9.60%) Change Control
14 47 (9.02%) Change Management
14 47 (9.02%) Validation
15 45 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
15 45 (8.64%) Software Engineering
16 44 (8.45%) Computer Science
17 43 (8.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 114 (21.88%) Python
2 82 (15.74%) Bash
3 51 (9.79%) PowerShell
4 32 (6.14%) SQL
5 22 (4.22%) Java
6 19 (3.65%) Shell Script
7 15 (2.88%) Bicep
8 12 (2.30%) PL/SQL
9 11 (2.11%) Go
9 11 (2.11%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.34%) C
10 7 (1.34%) C++
10 7 (1.34%) Ruby
11 6 (1.15%) Perl
11 6 (1.15%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.96%) C#
13 4 (0.77%) Ada
14 3 (0.58%) Groovy
14 3 (0.58%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 201 (38.58%) Security Cleared
2 129 (24.76%) SC Cleared
3 62 (11.90%) Degree
4 19 (3.65%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.69%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.11%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.54%) CISSP
10 7 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (1.34%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.15%) CCNP
11 6 (1.15%) PMP
11 6 (1.15%) RHCE
12 5 (0.96%) APMP
12 5 (0.96%) CCNA
12 5 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.14%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (3.65%) QA
3 12 (2.30%) GDPR
3 12 (2.30%) NIST
4 11 (2.11%) SLA
5 5 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.96%) Def Stans
5 5 (0.96%) PMO
6 4 (0.77%) COBIT
6 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.58%) GRC
8 2 (0.38%) DO-254
8 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.38%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (10.56%) Docker
2 28 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (5.18%) Active Directory
4 15 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.73%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.73%) KVM
6 7 (1.34%) NFS
7 5 (0.96%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.77%) Postfix
8 4 (0.77%) Varnish
9 3 (0.58%) Ceph
9 3 (0.58%) Firmware
9 3 (0.58%) QEMU
9 3 (0.58%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.38%) Corosync
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 144 (27.64%) Ansible
2 107 (20.54%) Terraform
3 90 (17.27%) Kubernetes
4 46 (8.83%) Grafana
5 45 (8.64%) Prometheus
6 37 (7.10%) Puppet
7 29 (5.57%) Progress Chef
8 11 (2.11%) Packer
9 10 (1.92%) SCCM
10 8 (1.54%) Argo
10 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.34%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.96%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.96%) Istio
12 5 (0.96%) Podman
13 4 (0.77%) Data Guard
13 4 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.77%) SELinux
13 4 (0.77%) systemd
14 3 (0.58%) yum
Vendors
1 58 (11.13%) Microsoft
2 50 (9.60%) ServiceNow
3 42 (8.06%) Oracle
4 32 (6.14%) IBM
5 30 (5.76%) VMware
6 28 (5.37%) Red Hat
7 19 (3.65%) Splunk
8 14 (2.69%) SAP
9 11 (2.11%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.92%) Siemens
11 8 (1.54%) Cisco
12 7 (1.34%) Commvault
12 7 (1.34%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.34%) Snow
12 7 (1.34%) Veritas
13 6 (1.15%) Qualys
13 6 (1.15%) Remedy
13 6 (1.15%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.96%) BMC
14 5 (0.96%) Google