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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 195 158
Rank change year-on-year -26 -37 0
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 698 483 578
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.26% 1.46% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.61% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 302 321
10th Percentile £358 £350 £300
25th Percentile £450 £450 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £600 £622 £611
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £524 £475
% change year-on-year +0.19% +10.32% -15.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 25 42
10th Percentile £26.00 £13.18 £22.03
25th Percentile £37.38 £13.50 £32.19
Median hourly rate £62.50 £41.00 £57.83
Median % change year-on-year +52.44% -29.10% +18.69%
75th Percentile £72.63 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.00 £64.50 £88.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £41.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +34.15% -31.67% +23.15%

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 46,826 30,024 32,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.73% 90.50% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,144 18,679 19,408
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,407 1,886 1,245
10th Percentile £13.64 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.72 £65.07 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -8.14%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -25 602 £525 - 573
UK excluding London -22 418 £525 +0.19% 350
London -47 217 £525 -11.58% 244
Work from Home -50 172 £507 +0.10% 222
North of England -47 96 £474 -7.55% 41
South East -30 89 £550 +6.90% 115
South West 0 80 £540 +2.86% 66
East of England +8 56 £550 -10.20% 56
North West -25 50 £463 -3.65% 23
Midlands -74 44 £460 -12.30% 28
Scotland -11 43 £500 - 35
West Midlands -73 40 £475 -9.44% 21
Yorkshire -43 36 £501 -3.75% 10
Wales -3 11 £588 +38.24% 10
North East -33 10 £470 -6.00% 8
East Midlands - 4 £402 - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 4

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 (2.87%) Confluence
2 10 (1.43%) JBoss
3 9 (1.29%) Apache
4 7 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.00%) SAS
5 6 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.72%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.57%) CMS
7 4 (0.57%) nginx
8 3 (0.43%) Appian
9 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.29%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.29%) FactoryTalk
9 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) IIS
10 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.14%) WinCC
Applications
1 13 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.29%) Windchill
7 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.14%) CATIA
7 1 (0.14%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.14%) Houdini
7 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.14%) NUKE
7 1 (0.14%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.14%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (1.43%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.86%) Primavera
4 3 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.14%) ENOVIA
5 1 (0.14%) Maximo
5 1 (0.14%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 170 (24.36%) AWS
2 162 (23.21%) Azure
3 83 (11.89%) GCP
4 77 (11.03%) GitHub
5 60 (8.60%) GitHub Actions
6 55 (7.88%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (7.31%) Amazon EKS
8 44 (6.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 38 (5.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 35 (5.01%) Entra ID
11 34 (4.87%) OpenShift
12 26 (3.72%) Amazon S3
13 25 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (3.44%) Azure AKS
14 24 (3.44%) Datadog
15 23 (3.30%) Power Platform
16 21 (3.01%) Serverless
16 21 (3.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 20 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (2.87%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.45%) DNS
2 37 (5.30%) Firewall
3 33 (4.73%) Network Security
4 24 (3.44%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.72%) VPN
6 17 (2.44%) SSL
7 16 (2.29%) DHCP
8 12 (1.72%) VLAN
8 12 (1.72%) WAN
9 11 (1.58%) HTTP
10 9 (1.29%) BGP
11 8 (1.15%) Internet
11 8 (1.15%) Kerberos
12 7 (1.00%) Ethernet
12 7 (1.00%) LAN
12 7 (1.00%) SAN
12 7 (1.00%) Wireless
13 6 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.86%) MPLS
13 6 (0.86%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.01%) Power BI
2 20 (2.87%) Metadata
3 17 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (1.86%) BigQuery
4 13 (1.86%) Oracle Database
4 13 (1.86%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.43%) MySQL
7 9 (1.29%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.15%) Looker
9 7 (1.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 6 (0.86%) Big Data
10 6 (0.86%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.86%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.86%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 4 (0.57%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.57%) Redis
12 3 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 78 (11.17%) Git
2 77 (11.03%) GitLab
2 77 (11.03%) Jenkins
3 49 (7.02%) JIRA
4 16 (2.29%) Rational DOORS
5 13 (1.86%) Rational Rhapsody
5 13 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (1.72%) Artifactory
7 10 (1.43%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.57%) JUnit
9 4 (0.57%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.43%) Maven
10 3 (0.43%) Mockito
11 2 (0.29%) Ant
11 2 (0.29%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.29%) MSBuild
12 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.14%) ScriptRunner
12 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 194 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 110 (15.76%) Finance
3 77 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 46 (6.59%) Aerospace
6 31 (4.44%) Banking
7 30 (4.30%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.29%) Military
9 14 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (2.01%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.29%) Electronics
11 9 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.15%) Automotive
12 8 (1.15%) Avionics
12 8 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.00%) Law
14 6 (0.86%) Aviation
15 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 89 (12.75%) Senior
2 81 (11.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 75 (10.74%) Architect
4 42 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 42 (6.02%) Lead
5 37 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (5.30%) Linux Engineer
6 36 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
8 26 (3.72%) Configuration Manager
8 26 (3.72%) Windows Engineer
9 25 (3.58%) Security Engineer
9 25 (3.58%) Systems Engineer
10 23 (3.30%) Automation Engineer
11 22 (3.15%) AWS DevOps
11 22 (3.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 22 (3.15%) Delivery Manager
12 21 (3.01%) Developer
13 20 (2.87%) Analyst
14 19 (2.72%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (28.80%) Terraform
2 36 (5.16%) REST
3 29 (4.15%) Kafka
4 23 (3.30%) Middleware
5 16 (2.29%) YAML
6 15 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (2.01%) JSON
8 13 (1.86%) XML
9 12 (1.72%) OAuth
10 11 (1.58%) ARM Templates
11 10 (1.43%) React
12 9 (1.29%) .NET
12 9 (1.29%) Azure Blueprints
12 9 (1.29%) Django
12 9 (1.29%) SOAP
13 8 (1.15%) OpenID
13 8 (1.15%) Web Services
14 6 (0.86%) HTML
14 6 (0.86%) Node.js
14 6 (0.86%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 89 (12.75%) CMDB
2 56 (8.02%) Cloud Native
3 47 (6.73%) Security Posture
4 44 (6.30%) Management Information System
5 43 (6.16%) Onboarding
6 42 (6.02%) Private Cloud
7 38 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
8 36 (5.16%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (3.44%) Data Centre
10 23 (3.30%) Product Ownership
11 17 (2.44%) Virtual Team
12 16 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (2.29%) Public Cloud
13 15 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (1.43%) Clustering
14 10 (1.43%) PKI
15 8 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (1.15%) Robotics
16 7 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 196 (28.08%) Linux
2 135 (19.34%) Windows
3 72 (10.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (7.02%) Windows Server
5 33 (4.73%) Unix
6 25 (3.58%) Ubuntu
7 14 (2.01%) Windows 10
8 9 (1.29%) Solaris
8 9 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.86%) CentOS
9 6 (0.86%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.72%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.57%) macOS
12 3 (0.43%) Android
12 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.43%) VMS
13 2 (0.29%) AIX
13 2 (0.29%) Debian
13 2 (0.29%) SUSE
13 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (36.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 250 (35.82%) CI/CD
3 228 (32.66%) DevOps
4 184 (26.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 125 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 122 (17.48%) ITIL
7 114 (16.33%) Agile
7 114 (16.33%) Containerisation
7 114 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 113 (16.19%) Platform Engineering
9 112 (16.05%) Observability
10 106 (15.19%) Change Management
11 104 (14.90%) Service Management
12 101 (14.47%) Validation
13 96 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
14 84 (12.03%) Roadmaps
15 83 (11.89%) Root Cause Analysis
16 78 (11.17%) ITSM
16 78 (11.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 72 (10.32%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 225 (32.23%) Python
2 119 (17.05%) Bash
3 105 (15.04%) PowerShell
4 49 (7.02%) SQL
5 39 (5.59%) Java
6 32 (4.58%) Shell Script
7 29 (4.15%) Perl
8 24 (3.44%) Bicep
9 23 (3.30%) JavaScript
10 21 (3.01%) C++
11 17 (2.44%) Go
12 15 (2.15%) C
13 9 (1.29%) Ada
14 6 (0.86%) C#
15 5 (0.72%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (0.72%) Groovy
16 4 (0.57%) Korn
16 4 (0.57%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.57%) Ruby
16 4 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 249 (35.67%) Security Cleared
2 160 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 67 (9.60%) Degree
4 58 (8.31%) DV Cleared
5 33 (4.73%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (2.72%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.72%) CISSP
8 15 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (1.29%) CCNA
12 8 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.86%) CCNP
13 6 (0.86%) CISM
13 6 (0.86%) ISSAP
14 5 (0.72%) GCIH
14 5 (0.72%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.44%) SLA
2 36 (5.16%) Data Quality
3 33 (4.73%) QA
4 23 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (3.01%) NIST
6 10 (1.43%) GDPR
6 10 (1.43%) GRC
7 9 (1.29%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.15%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.72%) MISRA
10 5 (0.72%) MISRA C
10 5 (0.72%) NCSC
10 5 (0.72%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.57%) PMO
12 3 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.43%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.29%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 88 (12.61%) Docker
2 67 (9.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (9.03%) Active Directory
4 18 (2.58%) Firmware
5 17 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (1.86%) Hyper-V
7 12 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (1.29%) KVM
8 9 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.86%) NFS
10 5 (0.72%) VMware Workstation
11 4 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.43%) Postfix
12 3 (0.43%) vSphere
13 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.29%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.29%) Ceph
13 2 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.29%) Varnish
13 2 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 205 (29.37%) Ansible
2 152 (21.78%) Kubernetes
3 59 (8.45%) Grafana
4 53 (7.59%) Puppet
5 52 (7.45%) Prometheus
6 48 (6.88%) Progress Chef
7 20 (2.87%) SCCM
8 15 (2.15%) Packer
9 13 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.29%) Istio
10 9 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.86%) Argo
12 6 (0.86%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (0.72%) Salt
13 5 (0.72%) systemd
14 4 (0.57%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.57%) logstash
14 4 (0.57%) Podman
14 4 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 118 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 91 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 80 (11.46%) VMware
4 48 (6.88%) Google
5 41 (5.87%) Red Hat
6 36 (5.16%) Splunk
7 29 (4.15%) Oracle
8 25 (3.58%) SaltStack
9 24 (3.44%) Cisco
10 22 (3.15%) IBM
11 17 (2.44%) Dynatrace
12 14 (2.01%) Qualys
12 14 (2.01%) Remedy
12 14 (2.01%) Snow
12 14 (2.01%) Tenable
13 12 (1.72%) Rapid7
14 10 (1.43%) Siemens
15 9 (1.29%) Okta
16 8 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
16 8 (1.15%) F5