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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 175 137
Rank change year-on-year -48 -38 -5
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 535 462 761
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.58% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.74% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 300 451
10th Percentile £348 £339 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £650
90th Percentile £791 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £501 £550
% change year-on-year +4.90% -9.00% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 18 157
10th Percentile £36.00 £31.25 £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% +2.06%
75th Percentile £85.50 £67.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £88.00 - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% +19.32%

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 39,019 26,482 37,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 90.62% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,692 17,180 24,590
10th Percentile £315 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,006 2,380
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.38 £19.05 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.71 £31.04 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +18.27% -6.12% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.58
90th Percentile £77.75 £75.38 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £29.12 £33.03
% change year-on-year +27.08% -11.86% -6.76%

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 April 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 April 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 11 April 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 -34 487 £525 -1.18% 170
UK excluding London -25 351 £525 +4.90% 144
Work from Home -12 170 £525 - 75
London -97 142 £530 -3.64% 33
South East -34 89 £485 -3.10% 45
North of England -35 82 £525 +10.53% 32
South West -13 62 £488 -16.67% 29
Midlands -38 55 £527 +0.29% 19
North West -12 51 £588 +23.79% 16
West Midlands -30 51 £528 +2.43% 17
East of England -10 45 £450 +32.35% 19
Yorkshire -42 24 £496 +16.76% 7
Scotland -8 22 £520 +9.47% 1
North East -10 7 - - 9
East Midlands -46 4 £410 -26.13% 2
Wales - 3 £750 - 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 28 (5.23%) SAS
2 22 (4.11%) Confluence
3 9 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.31%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.93%) CMS
6 5 (0.93%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.75%) Apache
7 4 (0.75%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.75%) Mattermost
8 3 (0.56%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.19%) CICS
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.93%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.19%) CATIA
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.19%) Weka
4 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (2.80%) Teamcenter
2 7 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.12%) LabWindows
4 4 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) assyst
6 1 (0.19%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 94 (17.57%) Azure
2 92 (17.20%) AWS
3 47 (8.79%) GitHub
4 43 (8.04%) IaaS
4 43 (8.04%) OpenShift
5 33 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 33 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (5.98%) Amazon S3
7 30 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (3.36%) PaaS
11 17 (3.18%) Serverless
12 14 (2.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (2.62%) Entra ID
12 14 (2.62%) GCP
13 13 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.43%) Azure AKS
14 11 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.86%) Firewall
2 19 (3.55%) VPN
3 18 (3.36%) DNS
4 12 (2.24%) Network Security
5 10 (1.87%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.87%) WAN
6 9 (1.68%) DHCP
7 7 (1.31%) BGP
8 6 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (1.12%) LAN
8 6 (1.12%) OSPF
8 6 (1.12%) VoIP
9 5 (0.93%) 5G
9 5 (0.93%) EIGRP
9 5 (0.93%) HTTP
9 5 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.75%) MPLS
10 4 (0.75%) SSH
10 4 (0.75%) VLAN
11 3 (0.56%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.61%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (4.30%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 21 (3.93%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.43%) Oracle Database
6 12 (2.24%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.68%) Power BI
7 9 (1.68%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 6 (1.12%) InfluxDB
8 6 (1.12%) Metadata
8 6 (1.12%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 5 (0.93%) Big Data
9 5 (0.93%) MySQL
9 5 (0.93%) Redis
10 4 (0.75%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.75%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.56%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 65 (12.15%) Jenkins
2 48 (8.97%) GitLab
3 47 (8.79%) Git
4 34 (6.36%) JIRA
5 26 (4.86%) Rational DOORS
6 9 (1.68%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.50%) Postman
8 6 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.93%) Selenium
10 4 (0.75%) JMeter
11 3 (0.56%) JUnit
11 3 (0.56%) LabVIEW
11 3 (0.56%) MSI
11 3 (0.56%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.37%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.37%) git-flow
12 2 (0.37%) Gradle
12 2 (0.37%) Maven
12 2 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.37%) SonarQube
General
1 105 (19.63%) Social Skills
2 71 (13.27%) Finance
3 61 (11.40%) Public Sector
4 57 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (10.47%) Aerospace
6 23 (4.30%) Banking
7 14 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.43%) Retail
9 9 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.50%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.12%) Military
12 5 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.93%) Marketing
13 4 (0.75%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.56%) Avionics
14 3 (0.56%) Electronics
14 3 (0.56%) Games
14 3 (0.56%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 60 (11.21%) Architect
2 40 (7.48%) Configuration Manager
2 40 (7.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (6.54%) Senior
4 32 (5.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 30 (5.61%) Site Engineer
6 27 (5.05%) Analyst
6 27 (5.05%) Software Engineer
6 27 (5.05%) Systems Manager
7 24 (4.49%) Product Manager
8 23 (4.30%) Lead
9 22 (4.11%) Delivery Manager
10 21 (3.93%) Product Delivery Manager
10 21 (3.93%) Release Manager
10 21 (3.93%) Systems Delivery Manager
11 19 (3.55%) Change Manager
12 18 (3.36%) Administrator
13 14 (2.62%) Consultant
14 13 (2.43%) Platform Engineer
15 12 (2.24%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (8.60%) REST
2 31 (5.79%) JSON
3 16 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (2.62%) YAML
5 13 (2.43%) RESTful
6 12 (2.24%) Kafka
7 9 (1.68%) ARM Templates
7 9 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (1.50%) Node.js
8 8 (1.50%) React
9 7 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (1.12%) Middleware
11 5 (0.93%) OAuth
11 5 (0.93%) PySpark
11 5 (0.93%) Spring
11 5 (0.93%) Spring Boot
12 4 (0.75%) Loki
12 4 (0.75%) OAuth2
12 4 (0.75%) OpenID
12 4 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 57 (10.65%) CMDB
2 39 (7.29%) Product Ownership
3 34 (6.36%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (5.79%) PKI
5 27 (5.05%) Cloud Native
6 25 (4.67%) Data Structures
7 19 (3.55%) Management Information System
8 17 (3.18%) Data Centre
9 16 (2.99%) Onboarding
10 11 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.87%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.31%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.12%) Private Cloud
15 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
15 5 (0.93%) NHS
16 4 (0.75%) FPGA
16 4 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 105 (19.63%) Linux
2 62 (11.59%) Windows
3 22 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.06%) Unix
6 10 (1.87%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.93%) Debian
7 5 (0.93%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.75%) VMS
9 2 (0.37%) Android
9 2 (0.37%) CentOS
9 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.37%) Rocky
9 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (30.09%) CI/CD
2 145 (27.10%) Agile
3 133 (24.86%) DevOps
4 111 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 101 (18.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 88 (16.45%) ITIL
7 80 (14.95%) Service Management
8 77 (14.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 74 (13.83%) Containerisation
10 57 (10.65%) Software Engineering
11 56 (10.47%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (10.28%) Change Management
12 55 (10.28%) Observability
13 49 (9.16%) Migration
14 48 (8.97%) ITSM
15 46 (8.60%) Roadmaps
15 46 (8.60%) Test Automation
16 42 (7.85%) Change Control
16 42 (7.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 41 (7.66%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 113 (21.12%) Python
2 82 (15.33%) PowerShell
3 70 (13.08%) Bash
4 47 (8.79%) SQL
5 23 (4.30%) Shell Script
6 21 (3.93%) Java
7 13 (2.43%) Go
8 11 (2.06%) Bicep
9 10 (1.87%) C#
9 10 (1.87%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.87%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.50%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.12%) C++
12 5 (0.93%) C
12 5 (0.93%) Ruby
13 3 (0.56%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.56%) SystemVerilog
14 2 (0.37%) Ada
14 2 (0.37%) Embedded C++
14 2 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 234 (43.74%) Security Cleared
2 165 (30.84%) SC Cleared
3 55 (10.28%) Degree
4 28 (5.23%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.80%) ITIL Certification
6 14 (2.62%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.50%) CISSP
10 8 (1.50%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.31%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.31%) CCNP
11 7 (1.31%) PMP
12 6 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.93%) APMP
13 5 (0.93%) CCSP
13 5 (0.93%) RHCE
14 4 (0.75%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (2.99%) QA
4 13 (2.43%) NIST
5 12 (2.24%) GDPR
6 11 (2.06%) SLA
7 6 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.12%) PMO
8 5 (0.93%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.75%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.75%) COBIT
10 3 (0.56%) NCSC
10 3 (0.56%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.37%) DO-254
11 2 (0.37%) PSD2
12 1 (0.19%) GRC
12 1 (0.19%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (12.90%) Docker
2 26 (4.86%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.68%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.75%) KVM
7 3 (0.56%) NFS
8 2 (0.37%) Corosync
8 2 (0.37%) Firmware
8 2 (0.37%) Postfix
8 2 (0.37%) QEMU
8 2 (0.37%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.37%) Varnish
8 2 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.19%) Ceph
9 1 (0.19%) GPFS
9 1 (0.19%) iptables
9 1 (0.19%) Lustre
9 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.19%) zsh
Systems Management
1 122 (22.80%) Ansible
2 109 (20.37%) Terraform
3 89 (16.64%) Kubernetes
4 59 (11.03%) Grafana
5 45 (8.41%) Prometheus
6 41 (7.66%) Progress Chef
6 41 (7.66%) Puppet
7 10 (1.87%) SCCM
8 9 (1.68%) NetBackup
9 8 (1.50%) Argo
10 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.75%) Podman
11 4 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.56%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.56%) Istio
12 3 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.37%) HP Quality Center
13 2 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 66 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 50 (9.35%) ServiceNow
3 39 (7.29%) Oracle
4 30 (5.61%) Red Hat
5 25 (4.67%) IBM
6 21 (3.93%) VMware
7 16 (2.99%) Splunk
8 15 (2.80%) SAP
9 13 (2.43%) Atlassian
10 11 (2.06%) PagerDuty
11 9 (1.68%) Cisco
11 9 (1.68%) Commvault
12 8 (1.50%) Siemens
12 8 (1.50%) Veritas
13 6 (1.12%) F5
13 6 (1.12%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.93%) Databricks
14 5 (0.93%) Intel
14 5 (0.93%) Meraki
15 4 (0.75%) CheckPoint