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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 172 137
Rank change year-on-year -69 -35 +19
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 545 515 720
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.58% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.75% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 326 401
10th Percentile £340 £314 £338
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -5.09% -0.92%
75th Percentile £611 £604 £630
90th Percentile £775 £678 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 15 134
10th Percentile £32.54 £29.60 £40.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.00 £42.57
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 £60.75
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £52.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% +19.59%

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 44,805 29,397 36,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.38% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,846 18,489 23,062
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,636 1,550 2,325
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.34 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.65 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.75 £70.00 £73.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.33 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.96% -36.18% -4.70%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -73 467 £500 -4.76% 139
UK excluding London -50 331 £500 - 104
London -109 154 £525 -4.55% 47
Work from Home -76 142 £525 +5.00% 56
South East -45 90 £469 -6.20% 38
South West -19 66 £513 -10.87% 26
North of England -75 64 £500 +5.26% 19
Midlands -51 47 £525 +0.77% 12
West Midlands -48 45 £525 +5.42% 7
North West -44 38 £525 +10.53% 12
East of England -4 36 £710 +255.00% 6
Scotland -8 29 £550 +10.00% 1
Yorkshire -54 19 £500 - 3
Wales -6 7 £750 +76.47% 4
North East -31 7 £413 - 4
East Midlands -19 2 £468 -15.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 -

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 (3.49%) Confluence
2 18 (3.30%) SAS
3 14 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.83%) Apache
5 5 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.92%) Mattermost
5 5 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.73%) CMS
6 4 (0.73%) JBoss
6 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.55%) Appian
7 3 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.37%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.37%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.18%) IIS
9 1 (0.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.55%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.37%) CATIA
7 1 (0.18%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.18%) Weka
7 1 (0.18%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (2.57%) Teamcenter
2 7 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.10%) Primavera
3 6 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.55%) LabWindows
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.18%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.18%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 130 (23.85%) Azure
2 116 (21.28%) AWS
3 56 (10.28%) GitHub
4 45 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (6.97%) GCP
6 36 (6.61%) OpenShift
7 32 (5.87%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (3.85%) Entra ID
9 21 (3.85%) PaaS
10 20 (3.67%) Amazon S3
11 19 (3.49%) Power Platform
12 18 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (2.94%) Azure AKS
14 12 (2.20%) Serverless
15 11 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.83%) IaaS
16 10 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.61%) DNS
2 18 (3.30%) Firewall
3 15 (2.75%) Network Security
4 14 (2.57%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.57%) VPN
5 11 (2.02%) DHCP
6 10 (1.83%) SSL
7 9 (1.65%) WAN
8 7 (1.28%) VLAN
9 6 (1.10%) LAN
10 5 (0.92%) 5G
11 4 (0.73%) HTTP
11 4 (0.73%) Internet
12 3 (0.55%) 3GPP
12 3 (0.55%) BGP
12 3 (0.55%) OSPF
12 3 (0.55%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.55%) SNMP
12 3 (0.55%) VoIP
12 3 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.85%) Oracle Database
2 19 (3.49%) Power BI
3 14 (2.57%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 14 (2.57%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 12 (2.20%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.47%) Metadata
8 7 (1.28%) MySQL
9 6 (1.10%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 5 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.92%) Redis
11 4 (0.73%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.55%) Base SAS
12 3 (0.55%) Big Data
12 3 (0.55%) Data Mart
12 3 (0.55%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.37%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 61 (11.19%) Jenkins
2 57 (10.46%) GitLab
3 55 (10.09%) Git
4 44 (8.07%) JIRA
5 35 (6.42%) Rational DOORS
6 11 (2.02%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.47%) Rational Rhapsody
7 8 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.28%) Postman
9 5 (0.92%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.73%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.73%) JMeter
10 4 (0.73%) Selenium
10 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.55%) Maven
11 3 (0.55%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.37%) LabVIEW
12 2 (0.37%) MSBuild
12 2 (0.37%) NUnit
General
1 123 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 75 (13.76%) Finance
3 57 (10.46%) Public Sector
4 50 (9.17%) Aerospace
5 37 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.77%) Banking
7 12 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.83%) Military
9 8 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.47%) Retail
10 7 (1.28%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.92%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.92%) Publishing
12 4 (0.73%) Marketing
13 3 (0.55%) Aviation
14 2 (0.37%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.37%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (12.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 59 (10.83%) Senior
3 38 (6.97%) Architect
4 34 (6.24%) Configuration Manager
4 34 (6.24%) Lead
5 27 (4.95%) Delivery Manager
5 27 (4.95%) Systems Manager
6 25 (4.59%) Analyst
7 24 (4.40%) Product Manager
8 23 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
8 23 (4.22%) Software Engineer
9 21 (3.85%) Product Delivery Manager
9 21 (3.85%) Systems Delivery Manager
10 20 (3.67%) Linux Engineer
10 20 (3.67%) Systems Engineer
11 18 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
12 16 (2.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 16 (2.94%) Consultant
12 16 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.40%) REST
2 17 (3.12%) YAML
3 13 (2.39%) ARM Templates
4 12 (2.20%) JSON
4 12 (2.20%) XML
5 9 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (1.65%) Kafka
6 8 (1.47%) .NET
6 8 (1.47%) React
6 8 (1.47%) RESTful
6 8 (1.47%) SOAP
6 8 (1.47%) Web Services
7 7 (1.28%) Node.js
7 7 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (1.10%) Django
8 6 (1.10%) Middleware
9 5 (0.92%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (0.92%) Loki
9 5 (0.92%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 60 (11.01%) CMDB
2 40 (7.34%) Cloud Native
3 36 (6.61%) Product Ownership
4 32 (5.87%) Management Information System
5 23 (4.22%) Data Structures
6 22 (4.04%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (2.75%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.57%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.39%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.28%) PKI
15 5 (0.92%) Operational Technology
15 5 (0.92%) Replication
15 5 (0.92%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 126 (23.12%) Linux
2 82 (15.05%) Windows
3 45 (8.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (4.77%) Ubuntu
4 26 (4.77%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.57%) Unix
6 12 (2.20%) Windows 10
7 7 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (1.10%) Solaris
9 4 (0.73%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.73%) Android
9 4 (0.73%) CentOS
10 3 (0.55%) Debian
10 3 (0.55%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.37%) Rocky
12 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (33.03%) DevOps
2 161 (29.54%) CI/CD
3 136 (24.95%) Agile
4 133 (24.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 131 (24.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 89 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 87 (15.96%) Service Management
8 82 (15.05%) Containerisation
8 82 (15.05%) ITIL
9 65 (11.93%) ITSM
10 58 (10.64%) Change Management
10 58 (10.64%) Observability
11 57 (10.46%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (10.46%) Roadmaps
12 53 (9.72%) Platform Engineering
12 53 (9.72%) Test Automation
13 52 (9.54%) Validation
14 48 (8.81%) Change Control
14 48 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
15 47 (8.62%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 147 (26.97%) Python
2 90 (16.51%) Bash
3 61 (11.19%) PowerShell
4 29 (5.32%) SQL
5 26 (4.77%) Java
6 22 (4.04%) Shell Script
7 18 (3.30%) Bicep
8 16 (2.94%) JavaScript
9 11 (2.02%) Go
9 11 (2.02%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.47%) C++
11 7 (1.28%) C
11 7 (1.28%) Ruby
12 6 (1.10%) Perl
13 5 (0.92%) Ada
13 5 (0.92%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.73%) C#
15 3 (0.55%) Groovy
15 3 (0.55%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 202 (37.06%) Security Cleared
2 123 (22.57%) SC Cleared
3 66 (12.11%) Degree
4 26 (4.77%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.30%) Azure Certification
6 17 (3.12%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.65%) CISSP
11 7 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (1.10%) RHCE
13 5 (0.92%) CCNA
13 5 (0.92%) CCNP
13 5 (0.92%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.73%) ISSAP
14 4 (0.73%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.95%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.67%) QA
3 17 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.39%) SLA
5 12 (2.20%) NIST
6 9 (1.65%) GDPR
7 5 (0.92%) GRC
8 4 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.73%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.55%) NCSC
9 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.55%) PMO
10 2 (0.37%) COBIT
10 2 (0.37%) DO-254
10 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.37%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 66 (12.11%) Docker
2 33 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 29 (5.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.65%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.47%) KVM
7 7 (1.28%) NFS
8 5 (0.92%) Firmware
8 5 (0.92%) VMware Workstation
9 4 (0.73%) Postfix
9 4 (0.73%) Varnish
10 3 (0.55%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.37%) Ceph
11 2 (0.37%) Corosync
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.18%) iptables
Systems Management
1 160 (29.36%) Ansible
2 133 (24.40%) Terraform
3 102 (18.72%) Kubernetes
4 50 (9.17%) Grafana
5 47 (8.62%) Prometheus
6 42 (7.71%) Puppet
7 31 (5.69%) Progress Chef
8 13 (2.39%) Packer
9 8 (1.47%) Argo
9 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.47%) SCCM
10 7 (1.28%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.92%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.92%) Istio
11 5 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.73%) Data Guard
12 4 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.73%) SELinux
12 4 (0.73%) systemd
13 3 (0.55%) Salt
Vendors
1 65 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 57 (10.46%) ServiceNow
3 40 (7.34%) Oracle
4 35 (6.42%) IBM
5 32 (5.87%) VMware
6 27 (4.95%) Red Hat
7 19 (3.49%) Splunk
8 14 (2.57%) Google
9 12 (2.20%) SAP
10 11 (2.02%) Cisco
11 9 (1.65%) Snow
12 8 (1.47%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.47%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.47%) Siemens
13 7 (1.28%) Commvault
13 7 (1.28%) Okta
13 7 (1.28%) Salesforce
13 7 (1.28%) Veritas
14 6 (1.10%) Remedy
14 6 (1.10%) Tenable