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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 183 138
Rank change year-on-year -39 -45 +11
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 519 431 734
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.48% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.63% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 285 425
10th Percentile £313 £347 £358
25th Percentile £413 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £688 £675 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 14 149
10th Percentile £37.20 £34.08 £37.91
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 £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 40,228 26,443 36,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.35% 90.98% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,265 17,000 23,677
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,380 1,081 2,436
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.42 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.31 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +69.81% -30.26% +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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -60 461 £500 -4.76% 158
UK excluding London -10 350 £500 -3.85% 139
Work from Home -22 146 £496 -5.48% 64
London -108 120 £500 -9.09% 34
South East -30 85 £410 -18.00% 37
North of England -33 77 £525 +6.60% 24
South West -5 69 £450 -21.74% 45
Midlands -46 52 £525 - 9
North West -13 49 £588 +21.24% 11
West Midlands -35 48 £525 +0.19% 5
East of England -4 47 £350 +29.63% 19
Scotland +6 24 £535 +25.88% 4
Yorkshire -53 20 £472 -10.05% 9
North East -12 8 £413 - 4
East Midlands -34 4 £410 -26.13% 4
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 20 (3.85%) SAS
2 16 (3.08%) Confluence
3 9 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.35%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.16%) Apache
5 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
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
8 3 (0.58%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 3 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.39%) nginx
9 2 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.96%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.19%) CATIA
3 1 (0.19%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.19%) Weka
3 1 (0.19%) Windchill
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%) assyst
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 93 (17.92%) Azure
2 89 (17.15%) AWS
3 48 (9.25%) OpenShift
4 46 (8.86%) GitHub
5 26 (5.01%) Amazon EKS
5 26 (5.01%) AWS CloudFormation
5 26 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (4.24%) Amazon S3
8 20 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (3.66%) PaaS
10 18 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (2.89%) Azure AKS
12 15 (2.89%) Serverless
13 14 (2.70%) GCP
13 14 (2.70%) Power Platform
14 13 (2.50%) IaaS
15 11 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.01%) DNS
2 21 (4.05%) Firewall
3 20 (3.85%) VPN
4 12 (2.31%) DHCP
5 11 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.93%) WAN
7 9 (1.73%) Network Security
8 6 (1.16%) BGP
8 6 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (1.16%) LAN
8 6 (1.16%) OSPF
8 6 (1.16%) VoIP
9 5 (0.96%) EIGRP
9 5 (0.96%) VLAN
9 5 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.77%) 5G
10 4 (0.77%) HTTP
10 4 (0.77%) SSH
10 4 (0.77%) SSL
11 3 (0.58%) PCoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (3.28%) SQL Server
3 16 (3.08%) Oracle Database
4 15 (2.89%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 14 (2.70%) Power BI
6 9 (1.73%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.73%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 6 (1.16%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 5 (0.96%) InfluxDB
8 5 (0.96%) Metadata
9 4 (0.77%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.77%) MySQL
9 4 (0.77%) Redis
10 3 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
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
Development Applications
1 60 (11.56%) Jenkins
2 55 (10.60%) GitLab
3 45 (8.67%) Git
4 32 (6.17%) Rational DOORS
5 26 (5.01%) JIRA
6 9 (1.73%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.54%) Postman
7 8 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.16%) Rational Rhapsody
9 5 (0.96%) Selenium
10 4 (0.77%) JMeter
11 3 (0.58%) JUnit
11 3 (0.58%) LabVIEW
11 3 (0.58%) Maven
11 3 (0.58%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.39%) Gradle
12 2 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 114 (21.97%) Social Skills
2 72 (13.87%) Finance
3 54 (10.40%) Aerospace
4 50 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 31 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (5.01%) Banking
7 15 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.50%) Retail
9 8 (1.54%) Military
9 8 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.58%) Games
12 3 (0.58%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.39%) Aviation
13 2 (0.39%) Back Office
13 2 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (9.06%) Configuration Manager
2 44 (8.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (7.13%) Senior
4 35 (6.74%) Architect
5 27 (5.20%) Software Engineer
5 27 (5.20%) Systems Manager
6 26 (5.01%) Lead
6 26 (5.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 24 (4.62%) Analyst
7 24 (4.62%) Product Manager
8 22 (4.24%) Delivery Manager
9 21 (4.05%) Product Delivery Manager
9 21 (4.05%) Systems Delivery Manager
10 19 (3.66%) Change Manager
10 19 (3.66%) Site Engineer
11 16 (3.08%) Administrator
11 16 (3.08%) Consultant
12 15 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (2.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (2.89%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
1 17 (3.28%) YAML
2 16 (3.08%) REST
3 10 (1.93%) Kafka
4 9 (1.73%) Node.js
4 9 (1.73%) RESTful
5 8 (1.54%) ARM Templates
6 7 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.16%) JSON
7 6 (1.16%) Loki
8 5 (0.96%) Middleware
9 4 (0.77%) .NET
9 4 (0.77%) OpenID
9 4 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.77%) PySpark
9 4 (0.77%) React
9 4 (0.77%) VML
9 4 (0.77%) XML
10 3 (0.58%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 62 (11.95%) CMDB
2 38 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 28 (5.39%) Cloud Native
4 25 (4.82%) Data Structures
4 25 (4.82%) Management Information System
5 20 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 19 (3.66%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.54%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.16%) PKI
9 6 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.96%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.77%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.77%) Smartphone
11 4 (0.77%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 121 (23.31%) Linux
2 70 (13.49%) Windows
3 26 (5.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (4.24%) Windows Server
5 16 (3.08%) Unix
6 10 (1.93%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.54%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.96%) Debian
8 5 (0.96%) VMS
8 5 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.77%) Solaris
10 2 (0.39%) Android
10 2 (0.39%) CentOS
10 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.39%) Rocky
10 2 (0.39%) 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
1 146 (28.13%) CI/CD
2 132 (25.43%) DevOps
3 121 (23.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 106 (20.42%) Agile
5 102 (19.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 89 (17.15%) ITIL
7 83 (15.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 80 (15.41%) Containerisation
9 75 (14.45%) Service Management
10 61 (11.75%) Observability
11 55 (10.60%) Change Management
12 53 (10.21%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (10.21%) Software Engineering
13 50 (9.63%) Change Control
14 49 (9.44%) ITSM
15 45 (8.67%) Computer Science
15 45 (8.67%) Migration
16 43 (8.29%) Roadmaps
17 40 (7.71%) Asset Management
17 40 (7.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 118 (22.74%) Python
2 82 (15.80%) Bash
3 51 (9.83%) PowerShell
4 43 (8.29%) SQL
5 22 (4.24%) Shell Script
6 21 (4.05%) Java
7 13 (2.50%) Go
8 12 (2.31%) Bicep
8 12 (2.31%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.73%) JavaScript
9 9 (1.73%) 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%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 200 (38.54%) Security Cleared
2 130 (25.05%) SC Cleared
3 59 (11.37%) Degree
4 23 (4.43%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.89%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
8 12 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.54%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.35%) CCNP
10 7 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (1.35%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.16%) CISSP
11 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.16%) PMP
11 6 (1.16%) RHCE
12 5 (0.96%) APMP
12 5 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.77%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.39%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.85%) QA
3 19 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.12%) GDPR
4 11 (2.12%) SLA
5 10 (1.93%) NIST
6 6 (1.16%) 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%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.39%) DO-254
10 2 (0.39%) NCSC
11 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.19%) GRC
11 1 (0.19%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (12.14%) Docker
2 24 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 23 (4.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (2.12%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.16%) KVM
7 5 (0.96%) NFS
8 3 (0.58%) Postfix
8 3 (0.58%) QEMU
8 3 (0.58%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.58%) Varnish
8 3 (0.58%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.39%) Corosync
9 2 (0.39%) Firmware
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.19%) GPFS
10 1 (0.19%) Lustre
10 1 (0.19%) zsh
Systems Management
1 133 (25.63%) Ansible
2 106 (20.42%) Terraform
3 97 (18.69%) Kubernetes
4 53 (10.21%) Grafana
5 48 (9.25%) Prometheus
6 41 (7.90%) Puppet
7 37 (7.13%) 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%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.77%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.77%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
15 3 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
15 3 (0.58%) Istio
16 2 (0.39%) Consul
Vendors
1 60 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 54 (10.40%) ServiceNow
3 36 (6.94%) Oracle
4 31 (5.97%) IBM
5 29 (5.59%) Red Hat
6 27 (5.20%) VMware
7 19 (3.66%) Splunk
8 14 (2.70%) SAP
9 11 (2.12%) Cisco
10 10 (1.93%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.93%) Siemens
11 8 (1.54%) Commvault
12 7 (1.35%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.35%) Snow
12 7 (1.35%) Veritas
13 6 (1.16%) Meraki
13 6 (1.16%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.96%) F5
14 5 (0.96%) PagerDuty
14 5 (0.96%) Remedy