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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 177 143
Rank change year-on-year -55 -34 +18
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 607 521 640
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.59% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.75% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 331 353
10th Percentile £353 £313 £302
25th Percentile £450 £413 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £524 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% -2.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £611 £619 £625
90th Percentile £746 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -0.68% -1.24% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 16 104
10th Percentile £25.94 £13.66 £36.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £36.25 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £47.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -5.50% -0.83%
75th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 £65.69
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £47.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year +40.74% -5.50% +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 45,331 29,700 33,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.46% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,838 18,524 21,130
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% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,836 1,729 1,767
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.33 £18.14
Median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £67.99 £49.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +83.17% -43.53% +17.65%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -61 531 £525 - 288
UK excluding London -56 370 £515 -0.68% 221
London -70 182 £525 -1.18% 101
Work from Home -75 161 £508 -1.79% 112
South East -28 94 £525 +4.90% 56
North of England -38 92 £500 - 38
South West -20 71 £550 +4.76% 62
Midlands -61 55 £477 -8.23% 18
West Midlands -59 54 £477 -8.00% 11
North West -20 52 £496 +2.27% 20
East of England -4 31 £610 +125.93% 25
Scotland -16 28 £550 +8.64% 21
Yorkshire -48 28 £500 -2.44% 11
North East -27 12 £500 - 7
Wales -9 7 £750 +76.47% 2
East Midlands -18 1 £385 -40.77% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 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 (3.13%) SAS
2 17 (2.80%) Confluence
3 15 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.65%) Apache
4 10 (1.65%) JBoss
5 6 (0.99%) CMS
6 5 (0.82%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.49%) Appian
8 3 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.49%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.33%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.33%) IIS
9 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.16%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.16%) CATIA
6 1 (0.16%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.16%) Houdini
6 1 (0.16%) NUKE
6 1 (0.16%) Weka
6 1 (0.16%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (0.99%) Primavera
1 6 (0.99%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.33%) LabWindows
3 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.16%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 154 (25.37%) Azure
2 149 (24.55%) AWS
3 62 (10.21%) GitHub
4 57 (9.39%) GCP
5 54 (8.90%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (7.74%) GitHub Actions
7 42 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
8 33 (5.44%) OpenShift
9 32 (5.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 31 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 31 (5.11%) Entra ID
11 24 (3.95%) Azure AKS
12 21 (3.46%) PaaS
13 20 (3.29%) Amazon S3
14 18 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (2.97%) Datadog
15 17 (2.80%) Power Platform
15 17 (2.80%) Serverless
16 16 (2.64%) IaaS
17 15 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.59%) DNS
2 28 (4.61%) Firewall
2 28 (4.61%) Network Security
3 17 (2.80%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.47%) SSL
4 15 (2.47%) VPN
5 13 (2.14%) DHCP
6 10 (1.65%) VLAN
6 10 (1.65%) WAN
7 9 (1.48%) HTTP
8 7 (1.15%) Kerberos
9 6 (0.99%) LAN
10 5 (0.82%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.66%) Broadband
11 4 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (0.66%) Internet
12 3 (0.49%) PCoIP
12 3 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.49%) VXLAN
12 3 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.46%) Oracle Database
2 17 (2.80%) Power BI
3 15 (2.47%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 15 (2.47%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 13 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (1.65%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.48%) Big Data
7 9 (1.48%) MySQL
8 8 (1.32%) Metadata
9 6 (0.99%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.99%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 6 (0.99%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.66%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.66%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.66%) Redis
12 3 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.49%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 73 (12.03%) Jenkins
2 71 (11.70%) GitLab
3 70 (11.53%) Git
4 42 (6.92%) JIRA
5 36 (5.93%) Rational DOORS
6 11 (1.81%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.81%) Rational Rhapsody
7 10 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.99%) JUnit
8 6 (0.99%) Postman
8 6 (0.99%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.82%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.66%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.49%) Maven
11 3 (0.49%) Mockito
11 3 (0.49%) Selenium
11 3 (0.49%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.33%) LabVIEW
12 2 (0.33%) MSBuild
General
1 152 (25.04%) Social Skills
2 100 (16.47%) Finance
3 62 (10.21%) Public Sector
4 58 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (6.75%) Aerospace
6 27 (4.45%) Banking
7 12 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.98%) Manufacturing
8 9 (1.48%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.32%) Military
9 8 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.99%) Retail
12 5 (0.82%) Publishing
13 4 (0.66%) Aviation
14 3 (0.49%) Law
15 2 (0.33%) Automotive
15 2 (0.33%) Back Office
15 2 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (13.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 64 (10.54%) Senior
3 57 (9.39%) Architect
4 43 (7.08%) Lead
5 32 (5.27%) Linux Engineer
6 31 (5.11%) Delivery Manager
7 30 (4.94%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
9 26 (4.28%) Systems Engineer
10 25 (4.12%) Configuration Manager
10 25 (4.12%) Product Manager
10 25 (4.12%) Systems Manager
11 23 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 23 (3.79%) Product Delivery Manager
12 22 (3.62%) Platform Engineer
12 22 (3.62%) Software Engineer
13 21 (3.46%) Analyst
13 21 (3.46%) Systems Delivery Manager
14 18 (2.97%) Release Manager
14 18 (2.97%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (27.84%) Terraform
2 30 (4.94%) REST
3 19 (3.13%) YAML
4 16 (2.64%) Kafka
5 14 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (2.14%) ARM Templates
7 11 (1.81%) JSON
7 11 (1.81%) XML
8 9 (1.48%) .NET
8 9 (1.48%) SOAP
9 8 (1.32%) Middleware
9 8 (1.32%) React
9 8 (1.32%) RESTful
10 7 (1.15%) Azure Blueprints
10 7 (1.15%) Web Services
11 6 (0.99%) Django
11 6 (0.99%) HTML
11 6 (0.99%) Node.js
11 6 (0.99%) OAuth
11 6 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 75 (12.36%) CMDB
2 53 (8.73%) Cloud Native
3 38 (6.26%) Product Ownership
4 28 (4.61%) Management Information System
5 27 (4.45%) Onboarding
6 23 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (3.79%) Security Posture
7 22 (3.62%) Data Structures
8 18 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (2.80%) Private Cloud
10 16 (2.64%) Data Centre
11 15 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (2.47%) Public Cloud
12 13 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.81%) Clustering
15 10 (1.65%) Virtual Team
16 9 (1.48%) PKI
17 6 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
17 6 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 156 (25.70%) Linux
2 87 (14.33%) Windows
3 64 (10.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 30 (4.94%) Unix
4 30 (4.94%) Windows Server
5 28 (4.61%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.65%) Windows 10
7 7 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (0.99%) CentOS
8 6 (0.99%) Solaris
9 5 (0.82%) Android
10 4 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.66%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.66%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.49%) Debian
12 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.33%) Rocky
12 2 (0.33%) VMS
12 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.16%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (34.93%) DevOps
2 206 (33.94%) CI/CD
3 188 (30.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 143 (23.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 140 (23.06%) Agile
6 107 (17.63%) Containerisation
7 100 (16.47%) ITIL
8 91 (14.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 82 (13.51%) Observability
9 82 (13.51%) Service Management
10 80 (13.18%) Platform Engineering
11 72 (11.86%) Change Management
11 72 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
12 71 (11.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 68 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 67 (11.04%) Validation
15 63 (10.38%) Deployment Automation
15 63 (10.38%) ITSM
15 63 (10.38%) Test Automation
16 57 (9.39%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 183 (30.15%) Python
2 103 (16.97%) Bash
3 78 (12.85%) PowerShell
4 33 (5.44%) Java
4 33 (5.44%) SQL
5 25 (4.12%) Shell Script
6 20 (3.29%) Bicep
7 18 (2.97%) C++
8 17 (2.80%) Perl
9 13 (2.14%) JavaScript
10 12 (1.98%) C
10 12 (1.98%) Go
11 8 (1.32%) Ada
11 8 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.15%) Ruby
13 4 (0.66%) C#
13 4 (0.66%) Groovy
14 3 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.49%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 211 (34.76%) Security Cleared
2 141 (23.23%) SC Cleared
3 75 (12.36%) Degree
4 28 (4.61%) AWS Certification
5 23 (3.79%) Azure Certification
5 23 (3.79%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (2.47%) CISSP
7 14 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.32%) CCNP
11 7 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 7 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.99%) CCNA
13 5 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.82%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.82%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.61%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.12%) QA
3 19 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.97%) SLA
5 17 (2.80%) NIST
6 12 (1.98%) GDPR
7 11 (1.81%) GRC
8 8 (1.32%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.99%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.66%) NCSC
12 3 (0.49%) MISRA
12 3 (0.49%) MISRA C
12 3 (0.49%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.49%) PMO
13 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.33%) DO-254
13 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.33%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 79 (13.01%) Docker
2 44 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (6.26%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.65%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.48%) KVM
7 7 (1.15%) NFS
8 5 (0.82%) Firmware
8 5 (0.82%) VMware Workstation
9 4 (0.66%) Postfix
9 4 (0.66%) Varnish
10 3 (0.49%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.33%) Ceph
11 2 (0.33%) Corosync
11 2 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.33%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.16%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 176 (29.00%) Ansible
2 129 (21.25%) Kubernetes
3 56 (9.23%) Puppet
4 53 (8.73%) Grafana
5 49 (8.07%) Progress Chef
6 47 (7.74%) Prometheus
7 15 (2.47%) Packer
8 13 (2.14%) SCCM
9 10 (1.65%) Istio
10 9 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (1.15%) Argo
12 7 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
13 6 (0.99%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.82%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.82%) Salt
15 4 (0.66%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
15 4 (0.66%) SELinux
15 4 (0.66%) systemd
Vendors
1 85 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 71 (11.70%) ServiceNow
3 50 (8.24%) VMware
4 42 (6.92%) Oracle
5 38 (6.26%) IBM
5 38 (6.26%) Red Hat
6 29 (4.78%) Google
7 26 (4.28%) Splunk
8 19 (3.13%) Cisco
9 17 (2.80%) Snow
10 13 (2.14%) SaltStack
11 11 (1.81%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.65%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.32%) BMC
13 8 (1.32%) Okta
14 7 (1.15%) F5
15 6 (0.99%) Databricks
15 6 (0.99%) Palo Alto
15 6 (0.99%) SAP
15 6 (0.99%) Siemens