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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 190 159
Rank change year-on-year -36 -31 +6
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 616 491 601
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.49% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.65% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 309 322
10th Percentile £353 £315 £289
25th Percentile £449 £423 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% -0.19% -6.75%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £617
90th Percentile £725 £691 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £519 £500
% change year-on-year +1.25% +3.70% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 16 77
10th Percentile £23.57 £13.66 £29.42
25th Percentile £40.25 £22.39 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £41.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.28% -16.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £72.25 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.00 £64.38 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.75 £41.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +50.30% -16.50% -15.79%

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 45,937 29,792 32,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.51% 85.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,939 18,514 20,418
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,060 1,790 1,498
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.10 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.13 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.36% -47.67% +7.50%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -37 531 £525 - 581
UK excluding London -49 363 £525 +1.25% 426
London -51 194 £550 - 217
Work from Home -63 162 £525 +2.44% 521
North of England -49 89 £490 -2.05% 65
South East -44 75 £550 +9.89% 107
South West -18 70 £550 +4.76% 91
Midlands -53 52 £477 -8.00% 45
West Midlands -59 51 £477 -8.00% 21
North West -39 46 £463 -2.63% 30
East of England +1 41 £510 +50.00% 68
Scotland -24 36 £525 +2.09% 37
Yorkshire -49 30 £526 +2.63% 30
North East -29 13 £485 - 6
Wales -7 8 £750 +76.47% 12
East Midlands - 1 £385 - 24
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 9

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 17 (2.76%) Confluence
2 14 (2.27%) SAS
3 13 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.62%) JBoss
5 8 (1.30%) Apache
6 5 (0.81%) CMS
7 3 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.49%) Appian
7 3 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.49%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.32%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.32%) nginx
8 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.97%) 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%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.16%) NUKE
6 1 (0.16%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.16%) Weka
6 1 (0.16%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.30%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.97%) Primavera
3 4 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.16%) ENOVIA
5 1 (0.16%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 157 (25.49%) AWS
2 156 (25.32%) Azure
3 69 (11.20%) GitHub
4 63 (10.23%) GCP
5 56 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 56 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 48 (7.79%) Amazon EKS
7 41 (6.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 36 (5.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (5.36%) OpenShift
10 30 (4.87%) Entra ID
11 25 (4.06%) Azure AKS
12 24 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (3.57%) Amazon S3
13 22 (3.57%) Datadog
14 21 (3.41%) Serverless
15 19 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
17 17 (2.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (6.66%) DNS
2 29 (4.71%) Firewall
2 29 (4.71%) Network Security
3 20 (3.25%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.27%) SSL
5 13 (2.11%) DHCP
6 12 (1.95%) VPN
7 11 (1.79%) HTTP
7 11 (1.79%) VLAN
8 10 (1.62%) WAN
9 8 (1.30%) Kerberos
10 7 (1.14%) BGP
11 6 (0.97%) LAN
11 6 (0.97%) SAN
12 5 (0.81%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.81%) Internet
12 5 (0.81%) OSPF
12 5 (0.81%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.65%) NAS
13 4 (0.65%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.08%) Oracle Database
2 14 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (2.27%) Power BI
3 13 (2.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 13 (2.11%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 11 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.62%) Metadata
6 9 (1.46%) MySQL
7 7 (1.14%) Big Data
8 6 (0.97%) Hadoop
8 6 (0.97%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.81%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.65%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.65%) Redis
10 4 (0.65%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 3 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.49%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 79 (12.82%) GitLab
2 76 (12.34%) Jenkins
3 71 (11.53%) Git
4 44 (7.14%) JIRA
5 14 (2.27%) Rational DOORS
6 11 (1.79%) Rational Rhapsody
7 10 (1.62%) SonarQube
7 10 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.46%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.97%) JUnit
9 6 (0.97%) Postman
10 5 (0.81%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.65%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.49%) Maven
12 3 (0.49%) Mockito
12 3 (0.49%) Selenium
13 2 (0.32%) LabVIEW
13 2 (0.32%) MSBuild
13 2 (0.32%) NUnit
13 2 (0.32%) Terragrunt
General
1 162 (26.30%) Social Skills
2 107 (17.37%) Finance
3 62 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (10.06%) Public Sector
4 27 (4.38%) Banking
5 24 (3.90%) Aerospace
6 17 (2.76%) Manufacturing
7 16 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.62%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.30%) Military
11 7 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.97%) Aviation
12 6 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.81%) Publishing
13 5 (0.81%) Retail
14 4 (0.65%) Automotive
14 4 (0.65%) Law
14 4 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.32%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 84 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 75 (12.18%) Senior
3 69 (11.20%) Architect
4 40 (6.49%) Lead
5 34 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
6 33 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (5.36%) Linux Engineer
7 27 (4.38%) Systems Engineer
8 26 (4.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 25 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (3.73%) Configuration Manager
11 21 (3.41%) AWS DevOps
11 21 (3.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 19 (3.08%) Analyst
12 19 (3.08%) Security Engineer
13 18 (2.92%) Automation Engineer
13 18 (2.92%) Security Architect
14 17 (2.76%) Administrator
14 17 (2.76%) Software Engineer
14 17 (2.76%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (29.22%) Terraform
2 30 (4.87%) REST
3 23 (3.73%) Kafka
4 19 (3.08%) YAML
5 15 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (2.27%) ARM Templates
6 14 (2.27%) Middleware
7 10 (1.62%) .NET
7 10 (1.62%) JSON
7 10 (1.62%) XML
8 9 (1.46%) React
9 8 (1.30%) Azure Blueprints
9 8 (1.30%) Django
9 8 (1.30%) RESTful
9 8 (1.30%) SOAP
10 7 (1.14%) Flask
10 7 (1.14%) OAuth
10 7 (1.14%) Web Services
11 6 (0.97%) HTML
11 6 (0.97%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 80 (12.99%) CMDB
2 54 (8.77%) Cloud Native
3 34 (5.52%) Onboarding
4 32 (5.19%) Private Cloud
4 32 (5.19%) Security Posture
5 30 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
5 30 (4.87%) Management Information System
6 27 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (3.73%) Product Ownership
8 22 (3.57%) Data Centre
9 17 (2.76%) Public Cloud
10 15 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (2.11%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.95%) Clustering
12 12 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.30%) PKI
14 6 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 171 (27.76%) Linux
2 101 (16.40%) Windows
3 69 (11.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 36 (5.84%) Windows Server
5 33 (5.36%) Unix
6 25 (4.06%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.95%) Windows 10
8 9 (1.46%) Solaris
9 7 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.81%) Android
10 5 (0.81%) CentOS
11 4 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.65%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.65%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.49%) Debian
12 3 (0.49%) VMS
13 2 (0.32%) AIX
13 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (36.85%) CI/CD
1 227 (36.85%) DevOps
2 223 (36.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 141 (22.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 116 (18.83%) Containerisation
5 113 (18.34%) Agile
6 103 (16.72%) ITIL
7 101 (16.40%) Observability
8 100 (16.23%) Platform Engineering
9 94 (15.26%) Change Management
10 87 (14.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 84 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 80 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
13 78 (12.66%) Service Management
14 76 (12.34%) Validation
15 73 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 71 (11.53%) Root Cause Analysis
17 70 (11.36%) Test Automation
18 67 (10.88%) Infrastructure Automation
19 65 (10.55%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 195 (31.66%) Python
2 107 (17.37%) Bash
3 87 (14.12%) PowerShell
4 35 (5.68%) Java
4 35 (5.68%) SQL
5 31 (5.03%) Shell Script
6 23 (3.73%) Perl
7 22 (3.57%) Bicep
8 18 (2.92%) C++
9 14 (2.27%) C
9 14 (2.27%) Go
10 13 (2.11%) JavaScript
11 8 (1.30%) Ada
12 7 (1.14%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.97%) Ruby
14 5 (0.81%) Groovy
15 4 (0.65%) C#
15 4 (0.65%) TypeScript
16 3 (0.49%) Korn
16 3 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 208 (33.77%) Security Cleared
2 145 (23.54%) SC Cleared
3 58 (9.42%) Degree
4 40 (6.49%) DV Cleared
5 31 (5.03%) AWS Certification
6 25 (4.06%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.60%) CISSP
8 15 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (1.30%) CCNA
12 8 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 7 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.97%) CCNP
14 6 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.81%) GCIH
16 4 (0.65%) ISSAP
16 4 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.87%) QA
2 28 (4.55%) SLA
3 27 (4.38%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (2.60%) NIST
6 12 (1.95%) GDPR
7 10 (1.62%) GRC
8 7 (1.14%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.97%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.81%) NCSC
11 4 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.49%) MISRA
12 3 (0.49%) MISRA C
13 2 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.32%) DO-254
13 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 2 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 89 (14.45%) Docker
2 53 (8.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (8.28%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.46%) KVM
6 8 (1.30%) Firmware
6 8 (1.30%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.97%) NFS
8 5 (0.81%) VMware Workstation
9 4 (0.65%) Postfix
9 4 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.49%) Varnish
11 2 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.32%) Corosync
11 2 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.32%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.32%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 189 (30.68%) Ansible
2 146 (23.70%) Kubernetes
3 58 (9.42%) Grafana
4 54 (8.77%) Puppet
5 52 (8.44%) Prometheus
6 47 (7.63%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.92%) SCCM
8 15 (2.44%) Packer
9 9 (1.46%) Istio
9 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
11 7 (1.14%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.97%) Argo
13 5 (0.81%) Salt
14 4 (0.65%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.65%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.65%) Podman
14 4 (0.65%) systemd
Vendors
1 95 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 78 (12.66%) ServiceNow
3 64 (10.39%) VMware
4 41 (6.66%) Oracle
4 41 (6.66%) Red Hat
5 33 (5.36%) Google
5 33 (5.36%) Splunk
6 23 (3.73%) Cisco
7 19 (3.08%) IBM
7 19 (3.08%) SaltStack
8 18 (2.92%) Snow
9 14 (2.27%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.62%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.30%) BMC
11 8 (1.30%) F5
11 8 (1.30%) Okta
11 8 (1.30%) Siemens
12 7 (1.14%) Qualys
12 7 (1.14%) SAP
13 6 (0.97%) Databricks