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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 178 131
Rank change year-on-year -52 -47 +18
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 522 432 737
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.48% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.63% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 285 431
10th Percentile £332 £342 £358
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £614 £650
90th Percentile £688 £675 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 14 149
10th Percentile £35.30 £34.08 £37.91
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.19 £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 £59.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -0.83% +20.00% +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 40,493 26,571 36,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.28% 90.99% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,428 17,064 23,633
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,382 1,097 2,442
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.26 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.72 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.23 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.39% -32.73% +7.14%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -50 464 £500 -4.76% 158
UK excluding London -15 353 £500 -3.85% 141
Work from Home -37 143 £493 -6.19% 67
London -112 120 £500 -9.09% 34
South East -34 85 £410 -18.00% 42
North of England -35 78 £525 +6.60% 25
South West -2 70 £475 -17.39% 36
Midlands -42 52 £525 - 11
North West -19 50 £588 +21.24% 11
East of England 0 48 £350 +29.63% 20
West Midlands -30 48 £525 +0.19% 6
Scotland 0 24 £535 +25.88% 9
Yorkshire -48 20 £472 -10.05% 10
North East -14 8 £413 - 4
East Midlands -36 4 £410 -26.13% 5
Wales - 3 £750 - 1

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 (3.83%) SAS
2 15 (2.87%) Confluence
3 9 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.34%) Apache
4 7 (1.34%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.96%) CMS
6 5 (0.96%) Mattermost
6 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.77%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.77%) JBoss
8 3 (0.57%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 3 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.38%) nginx
9 2 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.19%) CloudStack
10 1 (0.19%) IIS
10 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.96%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.19%) CATIA
4 1 (0.19%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.19%) Weka
4 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (3.26%) Teamcenter
2 9 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.15%) LabWindows
4 5 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.57%) 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 92 (17.62%) Azure
2 85 (16.28%) AWS
3 49 (9.39%) OpenShift
4 45 (8.62%) GitHub
5 26 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (3.64%) Amazon S3
8 19 (3.64%) PaaS
9 17 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (2.87%) Azure AKS
11 15 (2.87%) Power Platform
12 13 (2.49%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (2.49%) GCP
12 13 (2.49%) Serverless
13 12 (2.30%) IaaS
14 10 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (1.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.17%) DNS
2 21 (4.02%) Firewall
3 20 (3.83%) VPN
4 13 (2.49%) DHCP
5 11 (2.11%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.92%) Network Security
6 10 (1.92%) WAN
7 6 (1.15%) BGP
7 6 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (1.15%) LAN
7 6 (1.15%) OSPF
7 6 (1.15%) VLAN
7 6 (1.15%) VoIP
8 5 (0.96%) EIGRP
8 5 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.77%) 5G
9 4 (0.77%) HTTP
9 4 (0.77%) SSH
9 4 (0.77%) SSL
10 3 (0.57%) PCoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
1 16 (3.07%) Oracle Database
1 16 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
1 16 (3.07%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.87%) Power BI
2 15 (2.87%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 9 (1.72%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 8 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.15%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 5 (0.96%) InfluxDB
7 4 (0.77%) Metadata
7 4 (0.77%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.77%) MySQL
7 4 (0.77%) Redis
8 3 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.57%) Base SAS
8 3 (0.57%) Big Data
8 3 (0.57%) Data Mart
8 3 (0.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 58 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 53 (10.15%) GitLab
3 44 (8.43%) Git
4 33 (6.32%) Rational DOORS
5 26 (4.98%) JIRA
6 9 (1.72%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.53%) Postman
7 8 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.34%) Rational Rhapsody
9 5 (0.96%) Selenium
10 4 (0.77%) JMeter
11 3 (0.57%) JUnit
11 3 (0.57%) LabVIEW
11 3 (0.57%) Maven
11 3 (0.57%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.38%) Gradle
12 2 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 116 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 71 (13.60%) Finance
3 54 (10.34%) Aerospace
4 50 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 31 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (5.36%) Banking
7 15 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.49%) Retail
9 9 (1.72%) Military
10 8 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.15%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.77%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.57%) Games
13 3 (0.57%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.57%) Marketing
14 2 (0.38%) Law
14 2 (0.38%) Legal
14 2 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (9.00%) Configuration Manager
2 46 (8.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (7.09%) Senior
4 34 (6.51%) Architect
5 27 (5.17%) Software Engineer
5 27 (5.17%) Systems Manager
6 25 (4.79%) Analyst
6 25 (4.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 24 (4.60%) Lead
7 24 (4.60%) Product Manager
8 22 (4.21%) Delivery Manager
9 21 (4.02%) Product Delivery Manager
9 21 (4.02%) Systems Delivery Manager
10 19 (3.64%) Change Manager
11 18 (3.45%) Site Engineer
12 17 (3.26%) Administrator
13 16 (3.07%) Consultant
13 16 (3.07%) Systems Engineer
14 15 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (2.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
1 17 (3.26%) YAML
2 16 (3.07%) REST
3 10 (1.92%) Kafka
4 9 (1.72%) Node.js
4 9 (1.72%) RESTful
5 8 (1.53%) ARM Templates
6 7 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.15%) JSON
7 6 (1.15%) Loki
8 5 (0.96%) Middleware
9 4 (0.77%) .NET
9 4 (0.77%) OpenID
9 4 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.77%) PySpark
9 4 (0.77%) React
9 4 (0.77%) VML
9 4 (0.77%) XML
10 3 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 62 (11.88%) CMDB
2 37 (7.09%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.98%) Cloud Native
4 25 (4.79%) Data Structures
4 25 (4.79%) Management Information System
5 21 (4.02%) Data Centre
6 20 (3.83%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.15%) PKI
9 6 (1.15%) Private Cloud
9 6 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (0.96%) Smartphone
11 4 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.77%) Operational Technology
11 4 (0.77%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 118 (22.61%) Linux
2 70 (13.41%) Windows
3 25 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (4.41%) Windows Server
5 16 (3.07%) Unix
6 11 (2.11%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.34%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.96%) Debian
8 5 (0.96%) VMS
8 5 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.77%) Solaris
10 2 (0.38%) Android
10 2 (0.38%) CentOS
10 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.38%) Rocky
10 2 (0.38%) 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
1 145 (27.78%) CI/CD
2 131 (25.10%) DevOps
3 121 (23.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 105 (20.11%) Agile
5 99 (18.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 86 (16.48%) ITIL
7 84 (16.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 76 (14.56%) Containerisation
9 74 (14.18%) Service Management
10 58 (11.11%) Observability
11 55 (10.54%) Change Management
12 53 (10.15%) Problem-Solving
13 52 (9.96%) Software Engineering
14 50 (9.58%) Change Control
15 47 (9.00%) ITSM
16 45 (8.62%) Computer Science
16 45 (8.62%) Migration
17 42 (8.05%) Roadmaps
18 41 (7.85%) Asset Management
19 40 (7.66%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 116 (22.22%) Python
2 79 (15.13%) Bash
3 51 (9.77%) PowerShell
4 43 (8.24%) SQL
5 22 (4.21%) Shell Script
6 19 (3.64%) Java
7 13 (2.49%) Go
8 12 (2.30%) Bicep
8 12 (2.30%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.72%) JavaScript
9 9 (1.72%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.34%) C++
10 7 (1.34%) Ruby
11 6 (1.15%) C
11 6 (1.15%) C#
11 6 (1.15%) Perl
12 4 (0.77%) Ada
12 4 (0.77%) Groovy
13 3 (0.57%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 201 (38.51%) Security Cleared
2 131 (25.10%) SC Cleared
3 59 (11.30%) Degree
4 23 (4.41%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.87%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.49%) ITIL Certification
7 12 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.34%) CCNP
8 7 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
8 7 (1.34%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.15%) PMP
9 6 (1.15%) RHCE
10 5 (0.96%) APMP
10 5 (0.96%) CISSP
10 5 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (0.77%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.83%) QA
3 18 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.11%) GDPR
4 11 (2.11%) SLA
5 9 (1.72%) NIST
6 5 (0.96%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.96%) Def Stans
6 5 (0.96%) PMO
7 4 (0.77%) COBIT
7 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.38%) DO-254
9 2 (0.38%) NCSC
9 2 (0.38%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.19%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (11.49%) Docker
2 24 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 24 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.30%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.34%) KVM
6 6 (1.15%) NFS
7 4 (0.77%) VMware Workstation
8 3 (0.57%) Postfix
8 3 (0.57%) QEMU
8 3 (0.57%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.57%) Varnish
9 2 (0.38%) Ceph
9 2 (0.38%) Corosync
9 2 (0.38%) Firmware
9 2 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.19%) iptables
10 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 135 (25.86%) Ansible
2 104 (19.92%) Terraform
3 96 (18.39%) Kubernetes
4 52 (9.96%) Grafana
5 48 (9.20%) Prometheus
6 40 (7.66%) Puppet
7 36 (6.90%) Progress Chef
8 12 (2.30%) SCCM
9 9 (1.72%) Packer
10 8 (1.53%) NetBackup
11 7 (1.34%) Argo
12 6 (1.15%) Podman
13 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.77%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.77%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
15 3 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
15 3 (0.57%) Istio
15 3 (0.57%) SELinux
Vendors
1 58 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 53 (10.15%) ServiceNow
3 36 (6.90%) Oracle
4 32 (6.13%) IBM
5 30 (5.75%) Red Hat
6 28 (5.36%) VMware
7 19 (3.64%) Splunk
8 14 (2.68%) SAP
9 11 (2.11%) Cisco
10 10 (1.92%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.92%) Siemens
11 8 (1.53%) Commvault
12 7 (1.34%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.34%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.34%) Snow
12 7 (1.34%) Veritas
13 6 (1.15%) Meraki
14 5 (0.96%) F5
14 5 (0.96%) Remedy
15 4 (0.77%) CheckPoint