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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 177 134
Rank change year-on-year -65 -43 +24
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 541 481 750
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.55% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.71% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 303 429
10th Percentile £340 £325 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £607 £600 £630
90th Percentile £773 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.10% -1.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 15 143
10th Percentile £32.40 £35.00 £38.75
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.00 £40.94
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -0.42%
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% +2.06%

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 43,739 28,136 37,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.86% 85.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,189 17,763 23,600
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £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 2,627 1,381 2,550
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.84% -34.42% +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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -60 470 £500 -4.76% 210
UK excluding London -58 332 £500 - 162
London -94 152 £525 -4.55% 70
Work from Home -69 138 £513 +2.50% 106
South East -40 88 £469 -6.20% 42
South West -9 67 £500 -13.04% 51
North of England -71 63 £493 +3.68% 29
Midlands -36 48 £525 +0.48% 17
West Midlands -39 47 £525 +0.77% 10
East of England +5 41 £680 +240.00% 14
North West -42 37 £492 +3.58% 23
Scotland -8 26 £653 +41.08% 7
Yorkshire -56 19 £500 +5.26% 5
North East -24 7 £413 - 1
Wales - 7 £750 - 3
East Midlands -24 1 £550 - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 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 19 (3.51%) SAS
2 17 (3.14%) Confluence
3 14 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.85%) Apache
5 6 (1.11%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.92%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.92%) Mattermost
7 4 (0.74%) CMS
7 4 (0.74%) JBoss
8 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.55%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 3 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.37%) Appian
9 2 (0.37%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.37%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.92%) PTC Creo
3 2 (0.37%) CATIA
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.18%) Weka
4 1 (0.18%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (3.14%) Teamcenter
2 9 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.11%) Primavera
3 6 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.74%) LabWindows
5 3 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.55%) 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
1 119 (22.00%) Azure
2 106 (19.59%) AWS
3 51 (9.43%) GitHub
4 37 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (6.84%) OpenShift
5 27 (4.99%) GCP
5 27 (4.99%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (4.25%) PaaS
7 22 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
7 22 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (3.88%) Amazon S3
9 19 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (3.51%) Power Platform
10 18 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (3.33%) Entra ID
11 16 (2.96%) Azure AKS
12 11 (2.03%) Serverless
13 10 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (1.66%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.28%) DNS
2 15 (2.77%) Firewall
3 14 (2.59%) Network Security
3 14 (2.59%) VPN
4 12 (2.22%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.85%) DHCP
5 10 (1.85%) SSL
6 9 (1.66%) WAN
7 7 (1.29%) VLAN
8 6 (1.11%) LAN
9 5 (0.92%) 5G
10 4 (0.74%) Internet
11 3 (0.55%) 4G
11 3 (0.55%) BGP
11 3 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (0.55%) NAS
11 3 (0.55%) OSPF
11 3 (0.55%) SAN
11 3 (0.55%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.07%) Oracle Database
2 19 (3.51%) Power BI
3 15 (2.77%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 14 (2.59%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 12 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.22%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.48%) Metadata
7 7 (1.29%) MySQL
8 6 (1.11%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 6 (1.11%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.92%) Redis
10 3 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.55%) Base SAS
10 3 (0.55%) Big Data
10 3 (0.55%) Data Mart
10 3 (0.55%) InfluxDB
10 3 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 59 (10.91%) Jenkins
2 55 (10.17%) GitLab
3 50 (9.24%) Git
4 41 (7.58%) JIRA
5 35 (6.47%) Rational DOORS
6 11 (2.03%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.48%) Rational Rhapsody
9 7 (1.29%) Postman
10 5 (0.92%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.74%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.74%) JMeter
11 4 (0.74%) Selenium
11 4 (0.74%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.55%) LabVIEW
12 3 (0.55%) Maven
12 3 (0.55%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.37%) JUnit
13 2 (0.37%) MSBuild
13 2 (0.37%) NUnit
General
1 120 (22.18%) Social Skills
2 75 (13.86%) Finance
3 57 (10.54%) Public Sector
4 54 (9.98%) Aerospace
5 33 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (5.55%) Banking
7 12 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.03%) Retail
9 10 (1.85%) Military
10 9 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.92%) Publishing
13 4 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.74%) Marketing
13 4 (0.74%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.55%) Aviation
14 3 (0.55%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (11.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (9.61%) Senior
3 38 (7.02%) Architect
3 38 (7.02%) Configuration Manager
4 33 (6.10%) Lead
5 28 (5.18%) Delivery Manager
6 27 (4.99%) Analyst
6 27 (4.99%) Systems Manager
7 24 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
7 24 (4.44%) Product Manager
7 24 (4.44%) Software Engineer
8 21 (3.88%) Product Delivery Manager
8 21 (3.88%) Systems Delivery Manager
9 19 (3.51%) Linux Engineer
10 18 (3.33%) Consultant
11 17 (3.14%) Systems Engineer
12 16 (2.96%) AWS DevOps
12 16 (2.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 16 (2.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 15 (2.77%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.88%) REST
2 16 (2.96%) YAML
3 12 (2.22%) JSON
4 11 (2.03%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (1.85%) XML
6 9 (1.66%) ARM Templates
6 9 (1.66%) Kafka
7 8 (1.48%) .NET
7 8 (1.48%) Middleware
7 8 (1.48%) React
7 8 (1.48%) RESTful
8 7 (1.29%) Node.js
8 7 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (1.11%) Django
10 5 (0.92%) AWS CDK
10 5 (0.92%) Loki
10 5 (0.92%) OAuth
10 5 (0.92%) SOAP
10 5 (0.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.91%) CMDB
2 38 (7.02%) Cloud Native
3 36 (6.65%) Product Ownership
4 33 (6.10%) Management Information System
5 25 (4.62%) Data Structures
6 22 (4.07%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (2.96%) Data Centre
9 12 (2.22%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.85%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.11%) PKI
14 5 (0.92%) Operational Technology
14 5 (0.92%) Replication
14 5 (0.92%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 131 (24.21%) Linux
2 81 (14.97%) Windows
3 43 (7.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (4.81%) Ubuntu
5 24 (4.44%) Windows Server
6 16 (2.96%) Unix
7 10 (1.85%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (1.11%) Solaris
10 4 (0.74%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.74%) Android
10 4 (0.74%) CentOS
10 4 (0.74%) Debian
11 3 (0.55%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.37%) Rocky
13 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (31.42%) DevOps
2 155 (28.65%) CI/CD
3 134 (24.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 125 (23.11%) Agile
5 120 (22.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 89 (16.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 85 (15.71%) Service Management
8 82 (15.16%) ITIL
9 76 (14.05%) Containerisation
10 65 (12.01%) ITSM
11 56 (10.35%) Change Management
12 55 (10.17%) Observability
13 54 (9.98%) Roadmaps
14 53 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
14 53 (9.80%) Validation
15 50 (9.24%) Change Control
15 50 (9.24%) Platform Engineering
15 50 (9.24%) Software Engineering
16 49 (9.06%) Stakeholder Management
16 49 (9.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 131 (24.21%) Python
2 81 (14.97%) Bash
3 52 (9.61%) PowerShell
4 34 (6.28%) SQL
5 27 (4.99%) Java
6 21 (3.88%) Shell Script
7 17 (3.14%) Bicep
8 13 (2.40%) JavaScript
9 12 (2.22%) PL/SQL
10 11 (2.03%) Go
11 8 (1.48%) C++
12 7 (1.29%) C
12 7 (1.29%) Ruby
13 6 (1.11%) Perl
14 5 (0.92%) Ada
14 5 (0.92%) C#
14 5 (0.92%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.55%) Groovy
15 3 (0.55%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 203 (37.52%) Security Cleared
2 127 (23.48%) SC Cleared
3 66 (12.20%) Degree
4 24 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.59%) AWS Certification
5 14 (2.59%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.66%) CISSP
10 7 (1.29%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.11%) RHCE
12 5 (0.92%) CCNA
12 5 (0.92%) CCNP
12 5 (0.92%) CISA
12 5 (0.92%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.92%) PMP
12 5 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.73%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (2.77%) QA
4 14 (2.59%) SLA
5 12 (2.22%) NIST
6 11 (2.03%) GDPR
7 5 (0.92%) Def Stans
7 5 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.74%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.74%) COBIT
8 4 (0.74%) GRC
8 4 (0.74%) PMO
8 4 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.37%) DO-254
9 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.37%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 64 (11.83%) Docker
2 29 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (4.99%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.48%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.48%) KVM
6 7 (1.29%) NFS
7 5 (0.92%) Firmware
7 5 (0.92%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.74%) Postfix
8 4 (0.74%) Varnish
9 3 (0.55%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.37%) Ceph
10 2 (0.37%) Corosync
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.37%) QEMU
10 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 159 (29.39%) Ansible
2 122 (22.55%) Terraform
3 99 (18.30%) Kubernetes
4 47 (8.69%) Grafana
5 45 (8.32%) Prometheus
6 39 (7.21%) Puppet
7 30 (5.55%) Progress Chef
8 11 (2.03%) Packer
9 9 (1.66%) SCCM
10 7 (1.29%) Argo
10 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.29%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.92%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.92%) Istio
11 5 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.74%) Data Guard
12 4 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.74%) Podman
12 4 (0.74%) SELinux
12 4 (0.74%) systemd
Vendors
1 63 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 58 (10.72%) ServiceNow
3 41 (7.58%) Oracle
4 35 (6.47%) IBM
5 32 (5.91%) VMware
6 27 (4.99%) Red Hat
7 20 (3.70%) Splunk
8 14 (2.59%) SAP
9 10 (1.85%) Cisco
9 10 (1.85%) Siemens
10 9 (1.66%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.66%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.66%) Snow
11 7 (1.29%) Commvault
11 7 (1.29%) Google
11 7 (1.29%) Okta
11 7 (1.29%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.29%) Veritas
12 6 (1.11%) Remedy
12 6 (1.11%) Tenable