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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 180 139
Rank change year-on-year -49 -41 +12
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 519 426 734
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.48% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.62% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 277 429
10th Percentile £358 £343 £358
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £684 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £516 £545
% change year-on-year -0.73% -5.28% +0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 14 147
10th Percentile £34.30 £34.08 £38.42
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.19 £40.94
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -0.83%
75th Percentile £85.50 £67.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £88.00 - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.67% +20.00% +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 40,767 26,234 36,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.37% 91.05% 86.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,562 16,839 23,562
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.66% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,395 1,067 2,440
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.36 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.96 £18.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +50.82% -21.82% +0.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £59.95 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -44 460 £500 -4.76% 174
UK excluding London -12 347 £513 -0.73% 146
Work from Home -33 139 £496 -5.48% 77
London -102 121 £500 -9.09% 41
South East -24 89 £435 -13.00% 47
North of England -41 75 £536 +8.88% 29
South West -2 71 £488 -15.22% 37
Midlands -49 49 £525 - 12
North West -25 46 £588 +22.50% 16
West Midlands -31 45 £525 +0.19% 8
East of England -2 44 £350 +75.00% 15
Scotland 0 23 £550 +29.41% 8
Yorkshire -48 21 £482 -5.95% 10
North East -21 8 £413 - 3
East Midlands -30 4 £410 -26.13% 4
Wales - 3 £750 - 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 (3.85%) SAS
2 15 (2.89%) Confluence
3 9 (1.73%) Apache
3 9 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.35%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.16%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.96%) CMS
6 5 (0.96%) Mattermost
7 4 (0.77%) Apache Spark
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 (0.39%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.39%) nginx
9 2 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.96%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.19%) CATIA
4 1 (0.19%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.19%) Weka
Business Applications
1 17 (3.28%) Teamcenter
2 9 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.16%) 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 1 (0.19%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.19%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 92 (17.73%) Azure
2 84 (16.18%) AWS
3 48 (9.25%) OpenShift
4 47 (9.06%) GitHub
5 26 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
8 20 (3.85%) PaaS
9 17 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (3.28%) Amazon S3
10 15 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (2.89%) Azure AKS
10 15 (2.89%) Power Platform
11 13 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (2.50%) GCP
11 13 (2.50%) IaaS
12 11 (2.12%) Serverless
13 10 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (1.73%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.59%) DNS
2 19 (3.66%) Firewall
3 18 (3.47%) VPN
4 14 (2.70%) DHCP
5 10 (1.93%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.73%) Network Security
7 8 (1.54%) WAN
8 6 (1.16%) VLAN
9 5 (0.96%) BGP
9 5 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (0.96%) LAN
9 5 (0.96%) OSPF
9 5 (0.96%) VoIP
10 4 (0.77%) 5G
10 4 (0.77%) EIGRP
10 4 (0.77%) HTTP
10 4 (0.77%) SSL
10 4 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.58%) 4G
11 3 (0.58%) PCoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.28%) Oracle Database
2 16 (3.08%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.89%) Power BI
3 15 (2.89%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 14 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.73%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 6 (1.16%) Metadata
6 6 (1.16%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.16%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 4 (0.77%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.77%) MySQL
8 3 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.58%) Base SAS
8 3 (0.58%) Big Data
8 3 (0.58%) Data Mart
8 3 (0.58%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.58%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.58%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (11.37%) Jenkins
2 55 (10.60%) GitLab
3 45 (8.67%) Git
4 33 (6.36%) Rational DOORS
5 26 (5.01%) JIRA
6 10 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (1.73%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.54%) Postman
9 7 (1.35%) Rational Rhapsody
10 5 (0.96%) Selenium
11 4 (0.77%) JMeter
11 4 (0.77%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.58%) JUnit
12 3 (0.58%) LabVIEW
12 3 (0.58%) Maven
12 3 (0.58%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.39%) Gradle
13 2 (0.39%) NUnit
General
1 117 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 70 (13.49%) Finance
3 52 (10.02%) Aerospace
3 52 (10.02%) Public Sector
4 31 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (5.59%) Banking
6 13 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (2.50%) Retail
7 9 (1.73%) Military
8 8 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.16%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.77%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.58%) Aviation
11 3 (0.58%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.58%) Marketing
12 2 (0.39%) Games
12 2 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 45 (8.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (8.29%) Configuration Manager
3 37 (7.13%) Architect
3 37 (7.13%) Senior
4 27 (5.20%) Systems Manager
5 26 (5.01%) Lead
5 26 (5.01%) Software Engineer
6 24 (4.62%) Product Manager
7 22 (4.24%) Delivery Manager
7 22 (4.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 21 (4.05%) Analyst
8 21 (4.05%) Product Delivery Manager
8 21 (4.05%) Systems Delivery Manager
9 19 (3.66%) Change Manager
10 18 (3.47%) Administrator
11 16 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (3.08%) Consultant
11 16 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (2.89%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (3.28%) YAML
3 15 (2.89%) REST
4 10 (1.93%) Kafka
5 9 (1.73%) RESTful
6 8 (1.54%) ARM Templates
6 8 (1.54%) Node.js
7 7 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.16%) JSON
8 6 (1.16%) Loki
9 5 (0.96%) Middleware
9 5 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.77%) .NET
10 4 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.77%) PySpark
10 4 (0.77%) React
10 4 (0.77%) XML
11 3 (0.58%) SOAP
11 3 (0.58%) Spring
11 3 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 63 (12.14%) CMDB
2 37 (7.13%) Product Ownership
3 27 (5.20%) Cloud Native
4 26 (5.01%) Management Information System
5 25 (4.82%) Data Structures
6 24 (4.62%) Onboarding
7 21 (4.05%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.54%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.35%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.16%) PKI
11 6 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.96%) Smartphone
13 4 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.77%) Operational Technology
13 4 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 119 (22.93%) Linux
2 71 (13.68%) Windows
3 27 (5.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (4.43%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.28%) Unix
6 14 (2.70%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.54%) Windows 10
8 6 (1.16%) Debian
8 6 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.96%) Solaris
9 5 (0.96%) VMS
10 3 (0.58%) CentOS
11 2 (0.39%) Android
11 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.39%) Rocky
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (27.75%) CI/CD
2 137 (26.40%) DevOps
3 125 (24.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 107 (20.62%) Agile
5 100 (19.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 86 (16.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 85 (16.38%) ITIL
8 76 (14.64%) Containerisation
9 73 (14.07%) Service Management
10 56 (10.79%) Observability
11 54 (10.40%) Change Management
12 53 (10.21%) Software Engineering
13 52 (10.02%) Problem-Solving
14 51 (9.83%) Change Control
15 48 (9.25%) ITSM
15 48 (9.25%) Migration
16 47 (9.06%) Computer Science
16 47 (9.06%) Roadmaps
17 42 (8.09%) Asset Management
17 42 (8.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 113 (21.77%) Python
2 81 (15.61%) Bash
3 51 (9.83%) PowerShell
4 40 (7.71%) SQL
5 19 (3.66%) Java
5 19 (3.66%) Shell Script
6 12 (2.31%) Bicep
6 12 (2.31%) PL/SQL
7 11 (2.12%) Go
8 9 (1.73%) JavaScript
9 8 (1.54%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.35%) C++
10 7 (1.35%) Ruby
11 6 (1.16%) C
11 6 (1.16%) C#
11 6 (1.16%) Perl
12 4 (0.77%) Ada
12 4 (0.77%) Groovy
13 3 (0.58%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 202 (38.92%) Security Cleared
2 133 (25.63%) SC Cleared
3 61 (11.75%) Degree
4 20 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.89%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (1.35%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.16%) CCNP
10 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.16%) PMP
10 6 (1.16%) RHCE
11 5 (0.96%) APMP
11 5 (0.96%) CISSP
11 5 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.77%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.59%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.85%) QA
3 18 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.31%) SLA
5 11 (2.12%) GDPR
6 9 (1.73%) NIST
7 5 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.96%) Def Stans
7 5 (0.96%) PMO
8 4 (0.77%) COBIT
8 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.39%) DO-254
10 2 (0.39%) NCSC
10 2 (0.39%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.19%) GRC
11 1 (0.19%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 58 (11.18%) Docker
2 26 (5.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.82%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (2.50%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.54%) 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%) QEMU
10 3 (0.58%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.39%) Corosync
11 2 (0.39%) Firmware
11 2 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.19%) Samba
Systems Management
1 137 (26.40%) Ansible
2 105 (20.23%) Terraform
3 95 (18.30%) Kubernetes
4 51 (9.83%) Grafana
5 47 (9.06%) Prometheus
6 40 (7.71%) Puppet
7 34 (6.55%) Progress Chef
8 12 (2.31%) SCCM
9 9 (1.73%) Packer
10 8 (1.54%) NetBackup
11 7 (1.35%) Argo
12 6 (1.16%) Podman
13 5 (0.96%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.77%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.77%) SELinux
15 3 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
15 3 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
15 3 (0.58%) Istio
Vendors
1 56 (10.79%) Microsoft
2 54 (10.40%) ServiceNow
3 37 (7.13%) Oracle
4 32 (6.17%) IBM
4 32 (6.17%) Red Hat
5 30 (5.78%) VMware
6 19 (3.66%) Splunk
7 14 (2.70%) SAP
8 10 (1.93%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.93%) Siemens
9 9 (1.73%) Cisco
10 8 (1.54%) Commvault
11 7 (1.35%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.35%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.35%) Snow
11 7 (1.35%) Veritas
12 5 (0.96%) Meraki
12 5 (0.96%) Remedy
13 4 (0.77%) F5
13 4 (0.77%) PagerDuty