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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 177 139
Rank change year-on-year -64 -38 +17
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 564 521 683
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.59% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.76% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 336 381
10th Percentile £358 £313 £320
25th Percentile £428 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £627
90th Percentile £757 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £517 £540
% change year-on-year -3.24% -4.31% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 15 121
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.60 £40.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £66.50 £52.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.88% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 £64.25
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £52.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.88% +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 45,002 29,684 34,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.46% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,855 18,648 21,888
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,714 1,621 1,980
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.89 £17.33 £17.74
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.55% -41.56% -

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -59 486 £523 -0.48% 242
UK excluding London -52 336 £500 -3.24% 182
London -80 169 £525 -4.55% 79
Work from Home -86 139 £525 +5.00% 105
South East -46 97 £500 - 47
South West -16 67 £525 -8.70% 49
North of England -72 66 £500 +1.52% 39
Midlands -59 45 £513 -2.19% 17
West Midlands -61 44 £519 -1.00% 11
North West -49 39 £513 +5.67% 24
East of England -2 32 £710 +255.00% 17
Scotland -10 30 £535 +7.00% 11
Yorkshire -58 19 £500 - 10
North East -38 8 £413 - 5
Wales -9 7 £750 +76.47% 4
East Midlands -15 1 £385 -30.00% 6
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 20 (3.55%) Confluence
2 18 (3.19%) SAS
3 14 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.95%) Apache
5 7 (1.24%) JBoss
6 6 (1.06%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.89%) Mattermost
7 5 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.71%) CMS
9 3 (0.53%) Appian
9 3 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.53%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.35%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.18%) IIS
11 1 (0.18%) nginx
11 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) CATIA
5 1 (0.18%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.18%) Houdini
5 1 (0.18%) NUKE
5 1 (0.18%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.18%) Weka
5 1 (0.18%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (1.24%) Teamcenter
2 6 (1.06%) Primavera
2 6 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.53%) LabWindows
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.35%) 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
1 140 (24.82%) Azure
2 130 (23.05%) AWS
3 62 (10.99%) GitHub
4 51 (9.04%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (7.80%) GCP
6 41 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
8 33 (5.85%) OpenShift
9 32 (5.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 27 (4.79%) Entra ID
11 21 (3.72%) PaaS
12 19 (3.37%) Amazon S3
13 18 (3.19%) Azure AKS
14 17 (3.01%) Datadog
14 17 (3.01%) Power Platform
15 16 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (2.66%) Serverless
17 13 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
18 12 (2.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (6.56%) DNS
2 21 (3.72%) Firewall
3 19 (3.37%) Network Security
4 16 (2.84%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.48%) VPN
6 12 (2.13%) DHCP
6 12 (2.13%) SSL
7 9 (1.60%) WAN
8 8 (1.42%) VLAN
9 6 (1.06%) HTTP
10 5 (0.89%) 5G
10 5 (0.89%) LAN
11 4 (0.71%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (0.71%) Internet
11 4 (0.71%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.71%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.71%) SNMP
12 3 (0.53%) 4G
12 3 (0.53%) OSPF
12 3 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.72%) Oracle Database
2 17 (3.01%) Power BI
3 14 (2.48%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 14 (2.48%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 13 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.95%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (1.60%) MySQL
7 8 (1.42%) Metadata
8 6 (1.06%) Big Data
8 6 (1.06%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.06%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 5 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.89%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.71%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.71%) Redis
11 3 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.53%) Data Mart
11 3 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 70 (12.41%) Jenkins
2 63 (11.17%) Git
2 63 (11.17%) GitLab
3 46 (8.16%) JIRA
4 35 (6.21%) Rational DOORS
5 12 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.42%) Rational Rhapsody
8 6 (1.06%) JUnit
8 6 (1.06%) Postman
8 6 (1.06%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.89%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.71%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.53%) Maven
11 3 (0.53%) Mockito
11 3 (0.53%) Selenium
11 3 (0.53%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.35%) LabVIEW
12 2 (0.35%) MSBuild
12 2 (0.35%) NUnit
General
1 132 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 85 (15.07%) Finance
3 58 (10.28%) Public Sector
4 46 (8.16%) Aerospace
5 44 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.61%) Banking
7 10 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.77%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.60%) Military
9 8 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.06%) Retail
11 5 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.89%) Publishing
12 4 (0.71%) Marketing
13 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.35%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.35%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.35%) Local Government
14 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (12.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 63 (11.17%) Senior
3 42 (7.45%) Architect
4 40 (7.09%) Lead
5 30 (5.32%) Configuration Manager
6 27 (4.79%) Delivery Manager
6 27 (4.79%) Linux Engineer
6 27 (4.79%) Systems Manager
7 26 (4.61%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (4.26%) Analyst
8 24 (4.26%) Product Manager
8 24 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
9 23 (4.08%) Software Engineer
10 21 (3.72%) Product Delivery Manager
10 21 (3.72%) Systems Delivery Manager
11 20 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (2.84%) AWS DevOps
14 16 (2.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.50%) REST
2 19 (3.37%) YAML
3 14 (2.48%) ARM Templates
3 14 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (2.30%) JSON
4 13 (2.30%) Kafka
4 13 (2.30%) XML
5 9 (1.60%) .NET
5 9 (1.60%) SOAP
6 8 (1.42%) Middleware
6 8 (1.42%) RESTful
6 8 (1.42%) Web Services
7 7 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (1.24%) React
8 6 (1.06%) Azure Blueprints
8 6 (1.06%) Django
8 6 (1.06%) Node.js
9 5 (0.89%) HTML
9 5 (0.89%) OAuth
9 5 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.82%) CMDB
2 49 (8.69%) Cloud Native
3 35 (6.21%) Product Ownership
4 34 (6.03%) Management Information System
5 24 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 23 (4.08%) Data Structures
7 20 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (3.19%) Security Posture
9 16 (2.84%) Data Centre
10 15 (2.66%) Public Cloud
11 13 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.42%) Clustering
13 8 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.42%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.42%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.24%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 138 (24.47%) Linux
2 80 (14.18%) Windows
3 53 (9.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (5.14%) Ubuntu
5 28 (4.96%) Windows Server
6 21 (3.72%) Unix
7 11 (1.95%) Windows 10
8 6 (1.06%) Solaris
8 6 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.89%) Android
9 5 (0.89%) CentOS
10 4 (0.71%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.71%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.53%) Debian
12 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.35%) Rocky
12 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (34.40%) DevOps
2 175 (31.03%) CI/CD
3 153 (27.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 144 (25.53%) Agile
5 133 (23.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 91 (16.13%) Containerisation
7 90 (15.96%) ITIL
8 86 (15.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 85 (15.07%) Service Management
10 65 (11.52%) ITSM
10 65 (11.52%) Observability
10 65 (11.52%) Platform Engineering
11 62 (10.99%) Change Management
11 62 (10.99%) Test Automation
12 59 (10.46%) Roadmaps
13 58 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
14 55 (9.75%) Validation
15 53 (9.40%) Stakeholder Management
16 52 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 52 (9.22%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 157 (27.84%) Python
2 95 (16.84%) Bash
3 66 (11.70%) PowerShell
4 33 (5.85%) SQL
5 31 (5.50%) Java
6 19 (3.37%) Bicep
6 19 (3.37%) Shell Script
7 13 (2.30%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.95%) C++
8 11 (1.95%) Go
9 10 (1.77%) C
9 10 (1.77%) Perl
9 10 (1.77%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.24%) Ruby
11 5 (0.89%) Ada
12 4 (0.71%) C#
13 3 (0.53%) Groovy
13 3 (0.53%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.53%) Scala
13 3 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 203 (35.99%) Security Cleared
2 127 (22.52%) SC Cleared
3 68 (12.06%) Degree
4 24 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 21 (3.72%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.19%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.95%) CISSP
10 10 (1.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.24%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (1.06%) CCNA
12 6 (1.06%) CCNP
12 6 (1.06%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.89%) RHCE
13 5 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.71%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.61%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.26%) QA
3 17 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.66%) SLA
5 14 (2.48%) NIST
6 11 (1.95%) GDPR
7 9 (1.60%) GRC
8 5 (0.89%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.71%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.71%) PMO
10 3 (0.53%) NCSC
10 3 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.35%) DO-254
11 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.35%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.18%) Def Stans
System Software
1 74 (13.12%) Docker
2 35 (6.21%) Active Directory
2 35 (6.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.60%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.42%) KVM
6 7 (1.24%) NFS
7 5 (0.89%) Firmware
7 5 (0.89%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.71%) Postfix
8 4 (0.71%) Varnish
9 3 (0.53%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.35%) Ceph
10 2 (0.35%) Corosync
10 2 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.18%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 167 (29.61%) Ansible
2 148 (26.24%) Terraform
3 112 (19.86%) Kubernetes
4 53 (9.40%) Grafana
5 51 (9.04%) Puppet
6 46 (8.16%) Prometheus
7 35 (6.21%) Progress Chef
8 14 (2.48%) Packer
9 8 (1.42%) Argo
9 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.42%) SCCM
10 7 (1.24%) Istio
10 7 (1.24%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.89%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.71%) Data Guard
12 4 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.71%) Podman
12 4 (0.71%) Salt
12 4 (0.71%) SELinux
Vendors
1 69 (12.23%) Microsoft
2 60 (10.64%) ServiceNow
3 41 (7.27%) Oracle
4 38 (6.74%) VMware
5 35 (6.21%) IBM
6 32 (5.67%) Red Hat
7 25 (4.43%) Splunk
8 17 (3.01%) Google
9 15 (2.66%) Cisco
10 11 (1.95%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.77%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.77%) Snow
12 8 (1.42%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.42%) SaltStack
13 7 (1.24%) Commvault
13 7 (1.24%) Okta
13 7 (1.24%) SAP
13 7 (1.24%) Veritas
14 6 (1.06%) Palo Alto
14 6 (1.06%) Remedy