Configuration Management Contracts

Configuration Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Configuration Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Configuration Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 139 142
Rank change year-on-year -42 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 451 747 1,135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.54% 1.71% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.99% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 437 782
10th Percentile £350 £360 £358
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -6.82% +1.85% +1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 152 33
10th Percentile £38.18 £37.91 £18.91
25th Percentile £46.75 £40.94 £39.55
Median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -0.83% +7.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.75 £57.33
90th Percentile - £70.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £48.99
% change year-on-year +20.00% +2.06% +4.88%

All Process and 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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Top 15 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 -31 396 £525 -4.55% 312
UK excluding London -30 235 £513 -6.82% 209
London -11 170 £550 - 126
Work from Home -22 147 £525 -4.55% 269
South East +9 63 £500 -9.09% 45
North of England +19 52 £500 +0.70% 50
South West +5 47 £575 +4.07% 41
Midlands +21 32 £525 +33.46% 26
North West -2 32 £500 +1.99% 35
Scotland -1 24 £475 -20.83% 18
East of England -22 23 £270 -46.00% 23
West Midlands +17 22 £523 +45.95% 19
Yorkshire +18 19 £475 -14.80% 11
East Midlands +7 10 £555 +0.91% 6
North East +1 2 - - 5

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (3.10%) Confluence
2 7 (1.55%) IIS
3 5 (1.11%) Apache
4 4 (0.89%) CMS
5 3 (0.67%) JBoss
5 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.67%) nginx
5 3 (0.67%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.67%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.44%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 14 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.66%) Windchill
3 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) CATIA
6 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.11%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.44%) LabWindows
3 2 (0.44%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.22%) Maximo
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 144 (31.93%) AWS
2 143 (31.71%) Azure
3 48 (10.64%) GCP
4 36 (7.98%) GitHub
5 30 (6.65%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (4.21%) OpenShift
9 15 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (2.88%) Power Platform
11 13 (2.88%) PowerApps
12 12 (2.66%) Serverless
13 11 (2.44%) Amazon S3
14 10 (2.22%) Azure AKS
15 9 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (2.00%) SaaS
16 8 (1.77%) Entra ID
16 8 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (9.53%) Firewall
2 33 (7.32%) DNS
3 22 (4.88%) HTTP
4 18 (3.99%) TCP/IP
5 15 (3.33%) OSPF
6 12 (2.66%) Network Security
6 12 (2.66%) VPN
7 11 (2.44%) HSRP
8 10 (2.22%) BGP
9 8 (1.77%) Internet
9 8 (1.77%) SAN
10 7 (1.55%) DHCP
10 7 (1.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 7 (1.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 7 (1.55%) IPsec
11 6 (1.33%) MPLS
11 6 (1.33%) Multicast
11 6 (1.33%) SSH
11 6 (1.33%) VLAN
12 5 (1.11%) IGMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.22%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (1.55%) Big Data
6 5 (1.11%) MySQL
7 3 (0.67%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.44%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.44%) DB2
8 2 (0.44%) IDOL
8 2 (0.44%) IMS/DB
8 2 (0.44%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.22%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 100 (22.17%) Jenkins
2 72 (15.96%) GitLab
3 63 (13.97%) Git
4 46 (10.20%) JIRA
5 27 (5.99%) Bitbucket
6 20 (4.43%) SonarQube
7 17 (3.77%) Selenium
8 14 (3.10%) Cucumber
9 13 (2.88%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.11%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.89%) JMeter
12 3 (0.67%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.44%) HP UFT
13 2 (0.44%) LabVIEW
13 2 (0.44%) LoadRunner
13 2 (0.44%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.44%) TestNG
General
1 153 (33.92%) Social Skills
2 71 (15.74%) Finance
3 70 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.54%) Banking
6 15 (3.33%) Law
6 15 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.55%) Electronics
8 7 (1.55%) Police
8 7 (1.55%) Retail
9 5 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.89%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.89%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.89%) Military
11 3 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.67%) Legal
11 3 (0.67%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 73 (16.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 45 (9.98%) Senior
3 44 (9.76%) Architect
4 34 (7.54%) Lead
5 25 (5.54%) Developer
6 24 (5.32%) Automation Engineer
6 24 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
7 23 (5.10%) Network Engineer
8 21 (4.66%) Software Engineer
9 20 (4.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
10 19 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
11 18 (3.99%) Senior DevOps
11 18 (3.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 16 (3.55%) Consultant
13 15 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
13 15 (3.33%) Linux Engineer
13 15 (3.33%) Technical Leader
14 14 (3.10%) Analyst
15 13 (2.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.54%) REST
2 26 (5.76%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (4.21%) SOAP
4 13 (2.88%) Java EE
5 12 (2.66%) Web Services
6 11 (2.44%) XML
7 10 (2.22%) ARM Templates
7 10 (2.22%) Kafka
8 8 (1.77%) LDAP
9 7 (1.55%) Ajax
10 5 (1.11%) CSS
10 5 (1.11%) HTML
10 5 (1.11%) JSON
10 5 (1.11%) Middleware
10 5 (1.11%) React
11 4 (0.89%) Node.js
11 4 (0.89%) RESTful
12 3 (0.67%) .NET
12 3 (0.67%) DCOM
12 3 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 62 (13.75%) CMDB
2 22 (4.88%) Management Information System
3 20 (4.43%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.43%) Data Centre
4 13 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (2.66%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.22%) Hedge funds
6 10 (2.22%) Replication
7 9 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.00%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.33%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.33%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.89%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 125 (27.72%) Linux
2 89 (19.73%) Windows
3 40 (8.87%) Windows Server
4 28 (6.21%) Unix
5 22 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (3.77%) Ubuntu
7 12 (2.66%) AIX
8 10 (2.22%) CentOS
9 6 (1.33%) VMS
9 6 (1.33%) Windows 10
10 5 (1.11%) HPUX
10 5 (1.11%) Solaris
11 4 (0.89%) Rocky
11 4 (0.89%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.44%) Debian
12 2 (0.44%) SUSE
12 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.22%) Android
13 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (40.58%) DevOps
2 120 (26.61%) CI/CD
3 117 (25.94%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (23.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 95 (21.06%) Agile
6 87 (19.29%) Containerisation
7 81 (17.96%) ITIL
8 71 (15.74%) Service Management
9 60 (13.30%) Software Engineering
10 59 (13.08%) ITSM
11 56 (12.42%) Infrastructure Automation
12 54 (11.97%) Continuous Integration
13 44 (9.76%) Migration
13 44 (9.76%) Problem Management
13 44 (9.76%) Test Automation
14 41 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
15 39 (8.65%) High Availability
16 38 (8.43%) Change Management
17 37 (8.20%) Task Automation
18 34 (7.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 146 (32.37%) Python
2 85 (18.85%) PowerShell
3 77 (17.07%) Bash
4 39 (8.65%) SQL
5 36 (7.98%) Java
6 22 (4.88%) Go
7 13 (2.88%) JavaScript
8 12 (2.66%) Shell Script
9 10 (2.22%) Ruby
10 9 (2.00%) Perl
11 7 (1.55%) Bicep
11 7 (1.55%) C#
12 5 (1.11%) C
13 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.44%) REXX
14 1 (0.22%) Ada
14 1 (0.22%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.22%) C++
14 1 (0.22%) COBOL
14 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 173 (38.36%) Security Cleared
2 141 (31.26%) SC Cleared
3 35 (7.76%) DV Cleared
4 32 (7.10%) Degree
5 29 (6.43%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (5.54%) CCNP
7 18 (3.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 11 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.44%) OCA
8 11 (2.44%) Oracle Certification
8 11 (2.44%) RHCE
9 10 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (2.22%) RHCA
10 9 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.77%) AWS Certification
12 6 (1.33%) CCNA
13 4 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.89%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.89%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.33%) QA
2 13 (2.88%) NIST
3 9 (2.00%) SLA
4 8 (1.77%) Def Stans
5 7 (1.55%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.67%) GDPR
8 2 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.44%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.22%) NCSC
9 1 (0.22%) PMO
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 79 (17.52%) Docker
2 29 (6.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (5.32%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.00%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.67%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (0.67%) iptables
6 3 (0.67%) KVM
6 3 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.44%) Firmware
7 2 (0.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.22%) NFS
8 1 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 188 (41.69%) Ansible
2 143 (31.71%) Terraform
3 128 (28.38%) Kubernetes
4 84 (18.63%) Puppet
5 67 (14.86%) Progress Chef
6 36 (7.98%) Grafana
7 34 (7.54%) SCCM
8 31 (6.87%) Prometheus
9 21 (4.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (3.10%) Podman
11 11 (2.44%) vCenter Server
12 9 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (2.00%) Nagios
13 7 (1.55%) WSUS
14 6 (1.33%) ZABBIX
15 5 (1.11%) Consul
15 5 (1.11%) Kustomize
15 5 (1.11%) Red Hat Satellite
16 4 (0.89%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.89%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 60 (13.30%) VMware
2 47 (10.42%) ServiceNow
3 42 (9.31%) Microsoft
4 35 (7.76%) Cisco
5 28 (6.21%) Red Hat
6 27 (5.99%) Oracle
7 14 (3.10%) Atlassian
7 14 (3.10%) Splunk
8 13 (2.88%) SolarWinds
9 12 (2.66%) BMC
10 11 (2.44%) Fortinet
10 11 (2.44%) Juniper
11 9 (2.00%) Databricks
11 9 (2.00%) Remedy
11 9 (2.00%) SAP
12 8 (1.77%) F5
12 8 (1.77%) Google
13 6 (1.33%) Snow
14 5 (1.11%) Arista
14 5 (1.11%) Infoblox