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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 187 136
Rank change year-on-year -26 -51 -1
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 531 449 739
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.15% 1.52% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.68% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 292 436
10th Percentile £345 £350 £367
25th Percentile £420 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £612 £638 £646
90th Percentile £781 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £501 £550
% change year-on-year +2.40% -9.00% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 17 152
10th Percentile £36.00 £41.25 £37.91
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.00 £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 £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% +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 39,324 26,741 37,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.82% 90.76% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,807 17,298 24,232
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.09% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,359 1,048 2,416
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.31 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £28.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.01% -17.86% -6.67%

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 22 April 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 April 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 April 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 -44 477 £525 - 167
UK excluding London -20 340 £513 +2.40% 149
Work from Home -9 167 £525 - 76
London -68 146 £525 -4.55% 34
South East -29 87 £435 -13.00% 40
North of England -44 79 £525 +10.53% 21
South West -18 61 £463 -20.94% 48
Midlands -43 51 £525 - 13
North West -27 50 £588 +23.79% 11
West Midlands -29 47 £525 +1.80% 10
East of England -14 42 £350 +2.94% 26
Scotland -7 24 £498 +10.56% 2
Yorkshire -50 22 £490 +15.29% 5
North East -14 7 - - 5
East Midlands -41 4 £410 -26.13% 3
Wales - 3 £750 - 2

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 21 (3.95%) SAS
2 17 (3.20%) Confluence
3 9 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.51%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.13%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.94%) Apache
7 5 (0.94%) CMS
7 5 (0.94%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.75%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.75%) JBoss
8 4 (0.75%) Mattermost
9 3 (0.56%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 3 (0.56%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.38%) nginx
10 2 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.94%) PTC Creo
3 2 (0.38%) Weka
4 1 (0.19%) CATIA
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (2.82%) Teamcenter
2 7 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.13%) LabWindows
4 4 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) assyst
6 1 (0.19%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 95 (17.89%) Azure
2 94 (17.70%) AWS
3 47 (8.85%) OpenShift
4 45 (8.47%) GitHub
5 42 (7.91%) IaaS
6 33 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
6 33 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (5.65%) Amazon S3
8 27 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (3.39%) PaaS
13 16 (3.01%) Serverless
14 15 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (2.82%) GCP
15 13 (2.45%) Azure AKS
15 13 (2.45%) Entra ID
16 12 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.71%) Firewall
2 19 (3.58%) VPN
3 18 (3.39%) DNS
4 13 (2.45%) Network Security
5 11 (2.07%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.88%) WAN
7 9 (1.69%) DHCP
8 7 (1.32%) BGP
9 6 (1.13%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (1.13%) LAN
9 6 (1.13%) OSPF
9 6 (1.13%) VoIP
10 5 (0.94%) 5G
10 5 (0.94%) EIGRP
10 5 (0.94%) VLAN
10 5 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.75%) MPLS
11 4 (0.75%) SSH
12 3 (0.56%) 4G
12 3 (0.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (3.95%) SQL Server
3 16 (3.01%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 14 (2.64%) Oracle Database
5 11 (2.07%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.69%) Power BI
6 9 (1.69%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 6 (1.13%) InfluxDB
7 6 (1.13%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 5 (0.94%) Big Data
9 4 (0.75%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.75%) Metadata
9 4 (0.75%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.75%) MySQL
9 4 (0.75%) Redis
10 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.56%) Base SAS
10 3 (0.56%) Data Mart
10 3 (0.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 60 (11.30%) Jenkins
2 50 (9.42%) GitLab
3 45 (8.47%) Git
4 29 (5.46%) JIRA
5 27 (5.08%) Rational DOORS
6 9 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.51%) Postman
8 7 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.94%) Selenium
10 4 (0.75%) JMeter
11 3 (0.56%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.56%) JUnit
11 3 (0.56%) LabVIEW
11 3 (0.56%) Maven
11 3 (0.56%) MSI
11 3 (0.56%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.38%) git-flow
12 2 (0.38%) Gradle
12 2 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 105 (19.77%) Social Skills
2 77 (14.50%) Finance
3 59 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 56 (10.55%) Aerospace
4 56 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (4.14%) Banking
6 15 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.45%) Retail
8 10 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.13%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.13%) Military
11 5 (0.94%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.75%) Law
13 3 (0.56%) Avionics
13 3 (0.56%) Games
13 3 (0.56%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.56%) Local Government
13 3 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 61 (11.49%) Architect
2 43 (8.10%) Configuration Manager
3 42 (7.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (6.78%) Senior
5 30 (5.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 28 (5.27%) Site Engineer
7 27 (5.08%) Software Engineer
7 27 (5.08%) Systems Manager
8 26 (4.90%) Lead
9 24 (4.52%) Product Manager
10 22 (4.14%) Analyst
10 22 (4.14%) Delivery Manager
11 21 (3.95%) Product Delivery Manager
11 21 (3.95%) Systems Delivery Manager
12 19 (3.58%) Change Manager
13 18 (3.39%) Administrator
14 14 (2.64%) Consultant
14 14 (2.64%) Release Manager
15 12 (2.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (2.26%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (8.10%) REST
2 30 (5.65%) JSON
3 17 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (2.82%) YAML
5 13 (2.45%) Kafka
6 9 (1.69%) ARM Templates
6 9 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (1.69%) RESTful
7 8 (1.51%) Node.js
8 7 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.32%) React
9 5 (0.94%) Middleware
9 5 (0.94%) OAuth
10 4 (0.75%) Loki
10 4 (0.75%) OpenID
10 4 (0.75%) PySpark
10 4 (0.75%) Spring
10 4 (0.75%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.75%) VML
10 4 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.92%) CMDB
2 38 (7.16%) Product Ownership
3 33 (6.21%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (5.65%) PKI
5 27 (5.08%) Cloud Native
6 25 (4.71%) Data Structures
7 21 (3.95%) Management Information System
8 19 (3.58%) Onboarding
9 18 (3.39%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.88%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.69%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.13%) Private Cloud
15 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Storage
15 5 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.94%) NHS
16 4 (0.75%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 113 (21.28%) Linux
2 63 (11.86%) Windows
3 22 (4.14%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.26%) Unix
6 11 (2.07%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.13%) Debian
7 6 (1.13%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.75%) VMS
9 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.38%) Android
10 2 (0.38%) CentOS
10 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.38%) Rocky
10 2 (0.38%) Solaris
10 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (28.63%) CI/CD
2 140 (26.37%) Agile
3 133 (25.05%) DevOps
4 115 (21.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 103 (19.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 89 (16.76%) ITIL
7 80 (15.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 79 (14.88%) Containerisation
9 78 (14.69%) Service Management
10 57 (10.73%) Observability
11 55 (10.36%) Software Engineering
12 53 (9.98%) Change Management
12 53 (9.98%) Problem-Solving
13 47 (8.85%) ITSM
14 46 (8.66%) Change Control
14 46 (8.66%) Roadmaps
15 44 (8.29%) Computer Science
15 44 (8.29%) Test Automation
16 43 (8.10%) Migration
17 42 (7.91%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 117 (22.03%) Python
2 78 (14.69%) PowerShell
3 76 (14.31%) Bash
4 45 (8.47%) SQL
5 24 (4.52%) Shell Script
6 19 (3.58%) Java
7 14 (2.64%) Go
8 11 (2.07%) Bicep
9 10 (1.88%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.69%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.69%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.32%) C++
12 6 (1.13%) C
12 6 (1.13%) C#
12 6 (1.13%) Ruby
13 5 (0.94%) Perl
14 3 (0.56%) Ada
14 3 (0.56%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.56%) SystemVerilog
15 2 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 223 (42.00%) Security Cleared
2 155 (29.19%) SC Cleared
3 58 (10.92%) Degree
4 26 (4.90%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.82%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
6 14 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.51%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.51%) CISSP
8 8 (1.51%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.32%) CCNP
9 7 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (1.32%) PMP
10 6 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.13%) CCSP
11 5 (0.94%) APMP
11 5 (0.94%) RHCE
12 4 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.71%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (3.01%) QA
4 14 (2.64%) GDPR
5 13 (2.45%) NIST
6 11 (2.07%) SLA
7 6 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.13%) PMO
8 5 (0.94%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.75%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.75%) COBIT
10 3 (0.56%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.38%) DO-254
11 2 (0.38%) NCSC
11 2 (0.38%) PSD2
12 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.19%) GRC
12 1 (0.19%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (12.99%) Docker
2 24 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.69%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.94%) KVM
6 3 (0.56%) NFS
6 3 (0.56%) QEMU
7 2 (0.38%) Corosync
7 2 (0.38%) Firmware
7 2 (0.38%) GPFS
7 2 (0.38%) Lustre
7 2 (0.38%) Postfix
7 2 (0.38%) Sendmail
7 2 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.38%) Varnish
7 2 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.19%) Ceph
8 1 (0.19%) iptables
8 1 (0.19%) zsh
Systems Management
1 129 (24.29%) Ansible
2 110 (20.72%) Terraform
3 93 (17.51%) Kubernetes
4 60 (11.30%) Grafana
5 46 (8.66%) Prometheus
6 44 (8.29%) Puppet
7 39 (7.34%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.88%) SCCM
9 8 (1.51%) Argo
9 8 (1.51%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.94%) Podman
11 4 (0.75%) Data Guard
11 4 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.56%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.56%) Istio
12 3 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 65 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 53 (9.98%) ServiceNow
3 34 (6.40%) Oracle
4 29 (5.46%) Red Hat
5 26 (4.90%) IBM
6 21 (3.95%) VMware
7 19 (3.58%) Splunk
8 13 (2.45%) SAP
9 11 (2.07%) Atlassian
9 11 (2.07%) PagerDuty
10 10 (1.88%) Cisco
11 8 (1.51%) Commvault
11 8 (1.51%) Siemens
12 7 (1.32%) Snow
12 7 (1.32%) Veritas
13 6 (1.13%) F5
13 6 (1.13%) Meraki
13 6 (1.13%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.94%) Intel
15 4 (0.75%) CheckPoint