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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 191 145
Rank change year-on-year -43 -46 +17
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 585 513 658
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.56% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.72% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 327 356
10th Percentile £358 £313 £300
25th Percentile £431 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £610 £631 £639
90th Percentile £750 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.80% -3.75% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 15 116
10th Percentile £26.40 £29.60 £40.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.00 £44.96
Median hourly rate £67.50 £52.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.81% +4.00% -0.42%
75th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 £63.28
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £52.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +28.85% +4.00% +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 45,312 29,789 33,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.84% 90.47% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,886 18,626 21,285
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,829 1,693 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +17.24%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -55 508 £510 -2.86% 331
UK excluding London -42 351 £500 -3.80% 233
London -80 175 £525 -4.55% 126
Work from Home -79 150 £515 -0.34% 122
South East -42 97 £525 +4.95% 66
North of England -68 74 £500 - 49
South West -12 70 £528 -8.26% 59
Midlands -56 52 £477 -8.71% 18
West Midlands -55 51 £482 -7.22% 11
North West -33 40 £500 +4.17% 27
East of England -7 32 £610 +205.00% 21
Scotland -15 27 £550 +7.32% 17
Yorkshire -54 23 £500 - 15
North East -32 11 £481 - 7
Wales -5 7 £750 +76.47% 4
East Midlands -12 1 £385 -35.83% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 5

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 18 (3.08%) Confluence
1 18 (3.08%) SAS
2 14 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.88%) Apache
4 9 (1.54%) JBoss
5 6 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.03%) CMS
6 5 (0.85%) Mattermost
6 5 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.51%) Appian
7 3 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.51%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.34%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.34%) IIS
8 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) CATIA
5 1 (0.17%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.17%) Houdini
5 1 (0.17%) NUKE
5 1 (0.17%) Weka
5 1 (0.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.03%) Primavera
3 5 (0.85%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.51%) LabWindows
4 3 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.17%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 149 (25.47%) Azure
2 139 (23.76%) AWS
3 67 (11.45%) GitHub
4 54 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (8.55%) GCP
6 48 (8.21%) GitHub Actions
7 39 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
8 33 (5.64%) OpenShift
9 31 (5.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 31 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 29 (4.96%) Entra ID
11 23 (3.93%) Azure AKS
12 21 (3.59%) Amazon S3
13 20 (3.42%) PaaS
14 18 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (3.08%) Datadog
15 17 (2.91%) Serverless
16 16 (2.74%) IaaS
16 16 (2.74%) Power Platform
17 15 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.84%) DNS
2 24 (4.10%) Firewall
3 23 (3.93%) Network Security
4 17 (2.91%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.39%) SSL
5 14 (2.39%) VPN
6 13 (2.22%) DHCP
7 10 (1.71%) VLAN
7 10 (1.71%) WAN
8 8 (1.37%) HTTP
9 6 (1.03%) Kerberos
9 6 (1.03%) LAN
10 5 (0.85%) 5G
10 5 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.85%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.68%) Broadband
11 4 (0.68%) Internet
11 4 (0.68%) SNMP
12 3 (0.51%) BGP
12 3 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.59%) Oracle Database
2 16 (2.74%) Power BI
3 14 (2.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 14 (2.39%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 13 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (1.71%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.54%) MySQL
8 8 (1.37%) Big Data
8 8 (1.37%) Metadata
9 6 (1.03%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.03%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 6 (1.03%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.85%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.68%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.68%) Redis
12 3 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.51%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 77 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 71 (12.14%) Git
3 69 (11.79%) GitLab
4 44 (7.52%) JIRA
5 36 (6.15%) Rational DOORS
6 12 (2.05%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.37%) Rational Rhapsody
9 6 (1.03%) JUnit
9 6 (1.03%) Postman
9 6 (1.03%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.85%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.68%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.51%) Maven
12 3 (0.51%) Mockito
12 3 (0.51%) Selenium
12 3 (0.51%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.34%) LabVIEW
13 2 (0.34%) MSBuild
General
1 138 (23.59%) Social Skills
2 89 (15.21%) Finance
3 62 (10.60%) Public Sector
4 50 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (7.69%) Aerospace
6 26 (4.44%) Banking
7 10 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.71%) Military
7 10 (1.71%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.03%) Retail
11 5 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.85%) Publishing
12 4 (0.68%) Aviation
13 3 (0.51%) Marketing
14 2 (0.34%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.34%) Local Government
14 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 67 (11.45%) Senior
3 48 (8.21%) Architect
4 40 (6.84%) Lead
5 30 (5.13%) Linux Engineer
6 29 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (4.79%) Delivery Manager
7 28 (4.79%) Systems Engineer
8 25 (4.27%) Configuration Manager
8 25 (4.27%) Product Manager
8 25 (4.27%) Systems Manager
9 23 (3.93%) Analyst
9 23 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (3.76%) Product Delivery Manager
11 21 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (3.59%) Software Engineer
11 21 (3.59%) Systems Delivery Manager
12 18 (3.08%) AWS DevOps
12 18 (3.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.30%) REST
2 18 (3.08%) YAML
3 14 (2.39%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (2.22%) ARM Templates
4 13 (2.22%) JSON
4 13 (2.22%) XML
5 12 (2.05%) Kafka
6 9 (1.54%) .NET
6 9 (1.54%) SOAP
7 8 (1.37%) Middleware
7 8 (1.37%) React
7 8 (1.37%) RESTful
7 8 (1.37%) Web Services
8 7 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (1.03%) Azure Blueprints
9 6 (1.03%) Django
9 6 (1.03%) HTML
9 6 (1.03%) Node.js
9 6 (1.03%) OAuth
10 5 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.94%) CMDB
2 52 (8.89%) Cloud Native
3 36 (6.15%) Product Ownership
4 30 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 26 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 23 (3.93%) Data Structures
7 22 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (3.42%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.56%) Public Cloud
10 14 (2.39%) Data Centre
10 14 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (2.22%) Private Cloud
12 12 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (1.71%) Clustering
14 10 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.54%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
16 8 (1.37%) PKI
17 6 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 147 (25.13%) Linux
2 83 (14.19%) Windows
3 60 (10.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (5.30%) Windows Server
5 29 (4.96%) Ubuntu
6 28 (4.79%) Unix
7 11 (1.88%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (1.03%) CentOS
9 6 (1.03%) Solaris
10 5 (0.85%) Android
11 4 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.68%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.51%) Debian
13 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.34%) Rocky
13 2 (0.34%) VMS
13 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (36.07%) DevOps
2 194 (33.16%) CI/CD
3 171 (29.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 145 (24.79%) Agile
5 139 (23.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 103 (17.61%) Containerisation
7 93 (15.90%) ITIL
8 84 (14.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 82 (14.02%) Service Management
10 75 (12.82%) Platform Engineering
11 73 (12.48%) Observability
12 66 (11.28%) Change Management
12 66 (11.28%) Test Automation
13 64 (10.94%) ITSM
13 64 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
14 61 (10.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 61 (10.43%) Validation
15 60 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
16 57 (9.74%) Deployment Automation
17 55 (9.40%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 172 (29.40%) Python
2 100 (17.09%) Bash
3 72 (12.31%) PowerShell
4 33 (5.64%) SQL
5 31 (5.30%) Java
6 21 (3.59%) Shell Script
7 19 (3.25%) Bicep
8 15 (2.56%) C++
8 15 (2.56%) Perl
9 14 (2.39%) JavaScript
10 13 (2.22%) C
11 12 (2.05%) Go
12 9 (1.54%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.20%) Ruby
14 5 (0.85%) Ada
15 4 (0.68%) C#
15 4 (0.68%) Groovy
16 3 (0.51%) SAS Macro
16 3 (0.51%) Scala
16 3 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 214 (36.58%) Security Cleared
2 136 (23.25%) SC Cleared
3 72 (12.31%) Degree
4 24 (4.10%) AWS Certification
4 24 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.42%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (2.05%) CISSP
9 11 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (1.03%) CCNA
12 6 (1.03%) CCNP
12 6 (1.03%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.85%) RHCE
13 5 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.27%) QA
2 24 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (2.74%) NIST
5 15 (2.56%) SLA
6 11 (1.88%) GDPR
7 10 (1.71%) GRC
8 6 (1.03%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.03%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.68%) NCSC
9 4 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.51%) DO-254
10 3 (0.51%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.51%) PMO
11 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.34%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.34%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.17%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 79 (13.50%) Docker
2 38 (6.50%) Active Directory
2 38 (6.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.71%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.54%) KVM
6 7 (1.20%) NFS
7 5 (0.85%) Firmware
7 5 (0.85%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.68%) Postfix
8 4 (0.68%) Varnish
9 3 (0.51%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.34%) Ceph
10 2 (0.34%) Corosync
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.17%) zsh
Systems Management
1 171 (29.23%) Ansible
2 162 (27.69%) Terraform
3 122 (20.85%) Kubernetes
4 58 (9.91%) Puppet
5 53 (9.06%) Grafana
6 46 (7.86%) Prometheus
7 43 (7.35%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.56%) Packer
9 10 (1.71%) SCCM
10 9 (1.54%) Istio
10 9 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.37%) Argo
11 8 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.03%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (1.03%) NetBackup
13 5 (0.85%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.85%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.85%) Salt
14 4 (0.68%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.68%) SELinux
Vendors
1 76 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 64 (10.94%) ServiceNow
3 41 (7.01%) VMware
4 40 (6.84%) Oracle
5 37 (6.32%) IBM
6 36 (6.15%) Red Hat
7 27 (4.62%) Splunk
8 22 (3.76%) Google
9 18 (3.08%) Cisco
10 13 (2.22%) Snow
11 12 (2.05%) SaltStack
12 11 (1.88%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.71%) Salesforce
14 8 (1.37%) Okta
15 7 (1.20%) Atlassian
15 7 (1.20%) Remedy
16 6 (1.03%) F5
16 6 (1.03%) Palo Alto
16 6 (1.03%) Qualys
16 6 (1.03%) Veritas