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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 186 162
Rank change year-on-year -42 -24 -4
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 604 509 606
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.55% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.72% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 326 337
10th Percentile £352 £320 £300
25th Percentile £445 £414 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -6.25%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £622
90th Percentile £733 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £519 £500
% change year-on-year +0.29% +3.70% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 16 80
10th Percentile £24.42 £13.66 £26.68
25th Percentile £41.71 £22.39 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £41.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.28% -16.50% -14.89%
75th Percentile £88.00 £60.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.00 £66.25 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £41.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +59.28% -16.50% -7.19%

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 45,369 29,617 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.56% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,730 18,446 20,728
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £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 £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,902 1,758 1,607
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.78 £17.30 £18.82
Median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.88 £47.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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 September 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 September 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 1 September 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 -47 521 £525 - 598
UK excluding London -42 358 £520 +0.29% 401
London -64 187 £550 - 277
Work from Home -56 162 £520 -0.19% 261
North of England -45 91 £496 -0.75% 66
South East -37 85 £525 +4.90% 82
South West -22 68 £550 +4.76% 109
Midlands -60 53 £477 -8.00% 31
West Midlands -57 52 £477 -8.00% 16
North West -33 50 £477 +0.47% 37
Scotland -19 32 £525 +5.00% 43
East of England -11 30 £510 +50.00% 59
Yorkshire -48 28 £500 -2.44% 20
North East -33 13 £485 - 11
Wales -8 7 £750 +76.47% 8
East Midlands -14 1 £385 -40.77% 15
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 12

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 17 (2.81%) Confluence
2 15 (2.48%) SAS
3 14 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.66%) JBoss
5 9 (1.49%) Apache
6 5 (0.83%) CMS
7 4 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.50%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.50%) Appian
8 3 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.50%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.33%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.33%) IIS
9 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.33%) nginx
9 2 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.17%) CATIA
5 1 (0.17%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.17%) Houdini
5 1 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.17%) NUKE
5 1 (0.17%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.17%) Weka
5 1 (0.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.32%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.99%) Primavera
3 4 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.17%) ENOVIA
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.17%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 157 (25.99%) Azure
2 151 (25.00%) AWS
3 61 (10.10%) GitHub
4 60 (9.93%) GCP
5 55 (9.11%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
7 44 (7.28%) Amazon EKS
8 37 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 32 (5.30%) OpenShift
10 31 (5.13%) Entra ID
11 30 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (3.97%) Azure AKS
13 22 (3.64%) Amazon S3
14 21 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (3.31%) Serverless
16 19 (3.15%) PaaS
17 18 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (2.98%) Datadog
18 17 (2.81%) IaaS
18 17 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 42 (6.95%) DNS
2 31 (5.13%) Firewall
3 28 (4.64%) Network Security
4 20 (3.31%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.48%) SSL
5 15 (2.48%) VPN
6 14 (2.32%) DHCP
7 12 (1.99%) VLAN
8 11 (1.82%) HTTP
9 10 (1.66%) WAN
10 8 (1.32%) Kerberos
11 7 (1.16%) LAN
12 6 (0.99%) BGP
13 5 (0.83%) SAN
13 5 (0.83%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
14 4 (0.66%) Internet
14 4 (0.66%) OSPF
14 4 (0.66%) SSH
14 4 (0.66%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.15%) Oracle Database
2 16 (2.65%) Power BI
3 15 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.32%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 14 (2.32%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 13 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (1.66%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.49%) Metadata
7 9 (1.49%) MySQL
8 7 (1.16%) Big Data
9 6 (0.99%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.99%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.66%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.66%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.66%) Redis
10 4 (0.66%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 3 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 74 (12.25%) GitLab
2 72 (11.92%) Git
3 71 (11.75%) Jenkins
4 44 (7.28%) JIRA
5 26 (4.30%) Rational DOORS
6 11 (1.82%) Rational Rhapsody
7 10 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.99%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.99%) JUnit
8 6 (0.99%) Postman
8 6 (0.99%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.83%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.66%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.50%) Maven
11 3 (0.50%) Mockito
11 3 (0.50%) Selenium
11 3 (0.50%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.33%) LabVIEW
12 2 (0.33%) MSBuild
12 2 (0.33%) NUnit
General
1 157 (25.99%) Social Skills
2 101 (16.72%) Finance
3 64 (10.60%) Public Sector
4 60 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (5.30%) Aerospace
6 24 (3.97%) Banking
7 15 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.48%) Manufacturing
8 10 (1.66%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.49%) Military
10 7 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.99%) Aviation
11 6 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.83%) Publishing
12 5 (0.83%) Retail
13 4 (0.66%) Automotive
13 4 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.50%) Law
15 2 (0.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 84 (13.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 69 (11.42%) Senior
3 59 (9.77%) Architect
4 40 (6.62%) Lead
5 33 (5.46%) AWS Engineer
6 32 (5.30%) Linux Engineer
7 30 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
8 26 (4.30%) Configuration Manager
8 26 (4.30%) Systems Engineer
9 25 (4.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (3.97%) Delivery Manager
11 22 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (3.31%) Analyst
12 20 (3.31%) AWS DevOps
12 20 (3.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 18 (2.98%) Administrator
13 18 (2.98%) Security Architect
14 17 (2.81%) Software Engineer
15 16 (2.65%) Product Manager
15 16 (2.65%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (28.64%) Terraform
2 29 (4.80%) REST
3 22 (3.64%) YAML
4 18 (2.98%) Kafka
5 15 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (2.15%) ARM Templates
7 11 (1.82%) JSON
7 11 (1.82%) XML
8 10 (1.66%) .NET
9 9 (1.49%) Middleware
10 8 (1.32%) React
10 8 (1.32%) RESTful
10 8 (1.32%) SOAP
11 7 (1.16%) Azure Blueprints
11 7 (1.16%) Django
11 7 (1.16%) Web Services
12 6 (0.99%) HTML
12 6 (0.99%) Node.js
12 6 (0.99%) OAuth
12 6 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 83 (13.74%) CMDB
2 51 (8.44%) Cloud Native
3 31 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 28 (4.64%) Management Information System
4 28 (4.64%) Onboarding
5 24 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (3.97%) Security Posture
6 22 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (3.64%) Private Cloud
7 20 (3.31%) Data Centre
8 15 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.32%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.15%) Data Structures
10 13 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.99%) Clustering
12 11 (1.82%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.49%) PKI
14 8 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.16%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 161 (26.66%) Linux
2 87 (14.40%) Windows
3 67 (11.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (5.30%) Unix
5 31 (5.13%) Windows Server
6 28 (4.64%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.66%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.16%) Solaris
8 7 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.99%) CentOS
10 5 (0.83%) Android
11 4 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.66%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.66%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.50%) Debian
12 3 (0.50%) VMS
13 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.33%) Rocky
13 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (36.09%) DevOps
2 215 (35.60%) CI/CD
3 200 (33.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 140 (23.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 128 (21.19%) Agile
6 109 (18.05%) Containerisation
7 106 (17.55%) ITIL
8 88 (14.57%) Observability
9 87 (14.40%) Platform Engineering
10 84 (13.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 82 (13.58%) Change Management
12 81 (13.41%) Service Management
13 79 (13.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 74 (12.25%) Stakeholder Management
15 73 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
15 73 (12.09%) Validation
16 67 (11.09%) Test Automation
17 65 (10.76%) ITSM
18 62 (10.26%) Infrastructure Automation
19 61 (10.10%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 186 (30.79%) Python
2 103 (17.05%) Bash
3 82 (13.58%) PowerShell
4 35 (5.79%) SQL
5 33 (5.46%) Java
6 29 (4.80%) Shell Script
7 21 (3.48%) Perl
8 20 (3.31%) Bicep
9 18 (2.98%) C++
10 13 (2.15%) C
10 13 (2.15%) Go
10 13 (2.15%) JavaScript
11 8 (1.32%) Ada
11 8 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.99%) Ruby
13 5 (0.83%) Groovy
14 4 (0.66%) C#
15 3 (0.50%) Korn
15 3 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 201 (33.28%) Security Cleared
2 138 (22.85%) SC Cleared
3 69 (11.42%) Degree
4 30 (4.97%) AWS Certification
5 28 (4.64%) DV Cleared
6 24 (3.97%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.48%) CISSP
7 15 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.32%) CCNA
11 8 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 7 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.99%) CCNP
13 6 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.83%) GCIH
15 4 (0.66%) ISSAP
15 4 (0.66%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.80%) Data Quality
1 29 (4.80%) QA
2 20 (3.31%) SLA
3 18 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.81%) NIST
5 12 (1.99%) GDPR
6 11 (1.82%) GRC
7 7 (1.16%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.99%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.83%) NCSC
9 5 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.50%) MISRA
10 3 (0.50%) MISRA C
10 3 (0.50%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.33%) DO-254
11 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 19770
11 2 (0.33%) PMO
11 2 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 85 (14.07%) Docker
2 50 (8.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (6.62%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.82%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.66%) KVM
7 7 (1.16%) Firmware
7 7 (1.16%) NFS
8 6 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
10 4 (0.66%) Postfix
11 3 (0.50%) Varnish
11 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.33%) Ceph
12 2 (0.33%) Corosync
12 2 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.33%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.33%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 183 (30.30%) Ansible
2 131 (21.69%) Kubernetes
3 59 (9.77%) Grafana
4 55 (9.11%) Puppet
5 52 (8.61%) Prometheus
6 47 (7.78%) Progress Chef
7 16 (2.65%) SCCM
8 15 (2.48%) Packer
9 10 (1.66%) Istio
10 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
12 7 (1.16%) Argo
13 6 (0.99%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.83%) Salt
15 4 (0.66%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.66%) HAProxy
15 4 (0.66%) Podman
15 4 (0.66%) SELinux
15 4 (0.66%) systemd
Vendors
1 90 (14.90%) Microsoft
2 77 (12.75%) ServiceNow
3 58 (9.60%) VMware
4 42 (6.95%) Oracle
5 39 (6.46%) Red Hat
6 31 (5.13%) Google
7 30 (4.97%) IBM
7 30 (4.97%) Splunk
8 22 (3.64%) Cisco
9 18 (2.98%) Snow
10 16 (2.65%) SaltStack
11 12 (1.99%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.66%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.32%) BMC
13 8 (1.32%) F5
13 8 (1.32%) Okta
13 8 (1.32%) Siemens
14 7 (1.16%) SAP
15 6 (0.99%) Databricks
15 6 (0.99%) Qualys