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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 176 132
Rank change year-on-year -55 -44 +20
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 520 453 747
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.55% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.71% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 289 429
10th Percentile £358 £344 £358
25th Percentile £425 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £717 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +1.46% -6.82% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 15 147
10th Percentile £34.57 £35.00 £38.75
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £41.10
Median hourly rate £59.50 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +20.00% -0.83%
75th Percentile £85.50 £67.50 £61.86
90th Percentile £88.00 - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.25 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.92% +20.00% +2.04%

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 41,434 26,510 36,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.66% 90.99% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,895 16,942 23,625
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 2,481 1,120 2,526
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.98% -23.38% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £60.71
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -71 457 £525 - 178
UK excluding London -20 344 £520 +1.46% 137
Work from Home -55 134 £500 -4.76% 92
London -116 123 £500 -9.09% 57
South East -35 87 £435 -13.00% 39
North of England -54 73 £525 +6.60% 27
South West -1 72 £513 -10.87% 31
Midlands -36 48 £525 - 10
West Midlands -30 46 £525 +0.19% 7
North West -28 44 £588 +22.50% 13
East of England -7 43 £450 +125.00% 20
Scotland +2 25 £550 +30.95% 9
Yorkshire -63 21 £482 -3.60% 10
North East -19 8 £413 - 4
Wales - 3 £750 -
East Midlands -35 2 £465 -16.22% 3

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 (3.65%) SAS
2 15 (2.88%) Confluence
3 10 (1.92%) Apache
4 9 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.15%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.96%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.96%) CMS
6 5 (0.96%) Mattermost
7 4 (0.77%) JBoss
7 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.58%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 3 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.38%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.38%) nginx
9 2 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.96%) PTC Creo
4 4 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.19%) CATIA
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.19%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (3.08%) Teamcenter
2 9 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.15%) LabWindows
4 5 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.38%) Primavera
7 1 (0.19%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.19%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 99 (19.04%) Azure
2 90 (17.31%) AWS
3 48 (9.23%) GitHub
4 47 (9.04%) OpenShift
5 30 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (3.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (3.46%) GCP
8 18 (3.46%) PaaS
8 18 (3.46%) Power Platform
9 17 (3.27%) Amazon S3
10 14 (2.69%) Entra ID
11 13 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (2.50%) Azure AKS
11 13 (2.50%) Serverless
12 12 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.77%) DNS
2 17 (3.27%) Firewall
3 16 (3.08%) VPN
4 14 (2.69%) DHCP
5 10 (1.92%) Network Security
6 9 (1.73%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.73%) WAN
7 8 (1.54%) VLAN
8 7 (1.35%) LAN
9 6 (1.15%) BGP
9 6 (1.15%) OSPF
9 6 (1.15%) SSL
10 4 (0.77%) 5G
10 4 (0.77%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (0.77%) Internet
10 4 (0.77%) SAN
10 4 (0.77%) VoIP
11 3 (0.58%) 4G
11 3 (0.58%) NAS
11 3 (0.58%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.46%) Oracle Database
1 18 (3.46%) Power BI
2 15 (2.88%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 13 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (2.12%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.73%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 7 (1.35%) Metadata
7 7 (1.35%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.15%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 4 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.77%) InfluxDB
9 4 (0.77%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.77%) MySQL
10 3 (0.58%) Base SAS
10 3 (0.58%) Big Data
10 3 (0.58%) Data Mart
10 3 (0.58%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.58%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 58 (11.15%) GitLab
2 56 (10.77%) Jenkins
3 45 (8.65%) Git
4 34 (6.54%) Rational DOORS
5 27 (5.19%) JIRA
6 10 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (1.73%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.54%) Postman
8 8 (1.54%) Rational Rhapsody
9 6 (1.15%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.96%) Selenium
11 4 (0.77%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.77%) JMeter
11 4 (0.77%) LabVIEW
12 3 (0.58%) JUnit
12 3 (0.58%) Maven
12 3 (0.58%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.38%) Gradle
13 2 (0.38%) NUnit
General
1 123 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 69 (13.27%) Finance
3 53 (10.19%) Aerospace
4 52 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 28 (5.38%) Banking
6 26 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (2.31%) Retail
9 10 (1.92%) Military
10 8 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.15%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.58%) Aviation
13 3 (0.58%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.58%) Marketing
14 2 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 49 (9.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (8.27%) Architect
3 42 (8.08%) Configuration Manager
4 40 (7.69%) Senior
5 30 (5.77%) Lead
6 27 (5.19%) Systems Manager
7 26 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 24 (4.62%) Product Manager
9 22 (4.23%) Analyst
9 22 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
10 21 (4.04%) Product Delivery Manager
10 21 (4.04%) Systems Delivery Manager
11 20 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 19 (3.65%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (3.08%) Administrator
13 16 (3.08%) AWS DevOps
13 16 (3.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 16 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (3.08%) Linux Engineer
13 16 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.46%) YAML
2 17 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (2.50%) REST
4 9 (1.73%) RESTful
5 8 (1.54%) ARM Templates
5 8 (1.54%) Kafka
6 7 (1.35%) .NET
6 7 (1.35%) JSON
6 7 (1.35%) Node.js
6 7 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (1.15%) Loki
7 6 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (0.96%) Middleware
8 5 (0.96%) React
9 4 (0.77%) Azure Blueprints
9 4 (0.77%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.77%) PySpark
9 4 (0.77%) XML
10 3 (0.58%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 59 (11.35%) CMDB
2 39 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 32 (6.15%) Cloud Native
4 29 (5.58%) Management Information System
5 24 (4.62%) Data Structures
6 22 (4.23%) Onboarding
7 19 (3.65%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.54%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.35%) PKI
12 7 (1.35%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.15%) Private Cloud
14 5 (0.96%) Smartphone
15 4 (0.77%) Enterprise Storage
15 4 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
15 4 (0.77%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 128 (24.62%) Linux
2 78 (15.00%) Windows
3 34 (6.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 19 (3.65%) Ubuntu
6 18 (3.46%) Unix
7 10 (1.92%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (1.15%) Debian
9 6 (1.15%) Solaris
10 4 (0.77%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.77%) CentOS
10 4 (0.77%) VMS
11 3 (0.58%) Android
11 3 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.38%) Rocky
13 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (28.85%) DevOps
2 148 (28.46%) CI/CD
3 126 (24.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 113 (21.73%) Agile
5 106 (20.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 86 (16.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 78 (15.00%) ITIL
8 74 (14.23%) Containerisation
9 72 (13.85%) Service Management
10 56 (10.77%) Observability
11 52 (10.00%) Roadmaps
12 51 (9.81%) Software Engineering
13 49 (9.42%) Change Control
14 48 (9.23%) ITSM
15 47 (9.04%) Computer Science
15 47 (9.04%) Migration
16 45 (8.65%) Change Management
17 44 (8.46%) Problem-Solving
18 43 (8.27%) Test Automation
19 41 (7.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 120 (23.08%) Python
2 87 (16.73%) Bash
3 53 (10.19%) PowerShell
4 37 (7.12%) SQL
5 22 (4.23%) Java
6 19 (3.65%) Shell Script
7 15 (2.88%) Bicep
8 12 (2.31%) Go
8 12 (2.31%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.73%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.35%) C
10 7 (1.35%) C#
10 7 (1.35%) C++
10 7 (1.35%) Ruby
10 7 (1.35%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.15%) Perl
12 4 (0.77%) Ada
13 3 (0.58%) Groovy
13 3 (0.58%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.58%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 204 (39.23%) Security Cleared
2 131 (25.19%) SC Cleared
3 62 (11.92%) Degree
4 21 (4.04%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.69%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.54%) CISSP
11 7 (1.35%) CCNP
11 7 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (1.35%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.15%) PMP
12 6 (1.15%) RHCE
13 5 (0.96%) APMP
13 5 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.58%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.85%) QA
3 12 (2.31%) GDPR
3 12 (2.31%) NIST
4 11 (2.12%) SLA
5 5 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.96%) Def Stans
5 5 (0.96%) PMO
6 4 (0.77%) COBIT
6 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.38%) DO-254
7 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.38%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 58 (11.15%) Docker
2 29 (5.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (5.00%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (2.12%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.73%) KVM
7 7 (1.35%) NFS
8 5 (0.96%) VMware Workstation
9 4 (0.77%) Postfix
9 4 (0.77%) Varnish
10 3 (0.58%) Ceph
10 3 (0.58%) Firmware
10 3 (0.58%) QEMU
10 3 (0.58%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.38%) Corosync
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 146 (28.08%) Ansible
2 110 (21.15%) Terraform
3 96 (18.46%) Kubernetes
4 51 (9.81%) Grafana
5 48 (9.23%) Prometheus
6 38 (7.31%) Puppet
7 33 (6.35%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.73%) Packer
9 8 (1.54%) Argo
9 8 (1.54%) SCCM
10 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.35%) NetBackup
11 6 (1.15%) Podman
12 5 (0.96%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.96%) Istio
13 4 (0.77%) Data Guard
13 4 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.77%) SELinux
14 3 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 60 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.85%) ServiceNow
3 37 (7.12%) Oracle
4 32 (6.15%) IBM
4 32 (6.15%) VMware
5 30 (5.77%) Red Hat
6 22 (4.23%) Splunk
7 14 (2.69%) SAP
8 11 (2.12%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.92%) Cisco
10 9 (1.73%) Siemens
11 7 (1.35%) Commvault
11 7 (1.35%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.35%) Snow
11 7 (1.35%) Veritas
12 6 (1.15%) Qualys
12 6 (1.15%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.96%) Google
13 5 (0.96%) Remedy
13 5 (0.96%) Tenable