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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 179 138
Rank change year-on-year -62 -41 +19
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 546 526 702
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.61% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.78% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 339 390
10th Percentile £349 £315 £337
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £612 £624 £628
90th Percentile £764 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 15 126
10th Percentile £30.84 £29.60 £40.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.00 £44.87
Median hourly rate £61.00 £52.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.31% +4.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 £62.96
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £52.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% +10.13%

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 44,826 29,510 35,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.34% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,774 18,532 22,551
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
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 2,642 1,578 2,152
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.25
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -36.33% -7.06%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.94 £62.76
90th Percentile £83.00 £69.13 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.88% -39.15% -1.45%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -72 469 £506 -3.57% 227
UK excluding London -58 331 £500 -0.10% 187
London -93 156 £525 -4.55% 77
Work from Home -94 139 £525 +5.00% 103
South East -52 91 £469 -6.20% 55
South West -16 67 £525 -8.70% 40
North of England -72 67 £500 +3.09% 42
Midlands -56 44 £525 +0.19% 16
West Midlands -56 43 £525 +0.19% 10
North West -42 40 £513 +6.77% 26
East of England -10 34 £718 +258.75% 11
Scotland -3 29 £550 +10.00% 18
Yorkshire -60 19 £500 - 9
North East -31 8 £413 - 7
Wales -10 7 £750 +76.47% 5
East Midlands -18 1 £385 -30.00% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 2

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 (3.48%) Confluence
2 18 (3.30%) SAS
3 14 (2.56%) 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
7 3 (0.55%) Appian
7 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.37%) CloudStack
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 10 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.37%) CATIA
5 2 (0.37%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.18%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.18%) Weka
6 1 (0.18%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (1.83%) Teamcenter
2 6 (1.10%) Primavera
2 6 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
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
1 133 (24.36%) Azure
2 125 (22.89%) AWS
3 60 (10.99%) GitHub
4 48 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (7.69%) GCP
6 36 (6.59%) GitHub Actions
7 35 (6.41%) OpenShift
8 28 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (4.21%) Entra ID
10 22 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (3.85%) PaaS
12 19 (3.48%) Amazon S3
12 19 (3.48%) Power Platform
13 17 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (3.11%) Azure AKS
14 15 (2.75%) Serverless
15 13 (2.38%) Datadog
16 12 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (2.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (6.78%) DNS
2 20 (3.66%) Firewall
3 17 (3.11%) Network Security
4 16 (2.93%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.75%) VPN
6 12 (2.20%) DHCP
7 11 (2.01%) SSL
8 9 (1.65%) WAN
9 7 (1.28%) VLAN
10 5 (0.92%) 5G
10 5 (0.92%) HTTP
10 5 (0.92%) LAN
11 4 (0.73%) BGP
11 4 (0.73%) Internet
11 4 (0.73%) OSPF
11 4 (0.73%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
12 3 (0.55%) SNMP
12 3 (0.55%) VXLAN
12 3 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.85%) Oracle Database
2 19 (3.48%) Power BI
3 14 (2.56%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 14 (2.56%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 12 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.65%) MySQL
7 8 (1.47%) Metadata
8 6 (1.10%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.10%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 5 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.92%) Redis
10 4 (0.73%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.55%) Base SAS
11 3 (0.55%) Big Data
11 3 (0.55%) Data Mart
11 3 (0.55%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 63 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 61 (11.17%) GitLab
3 60 (10.99%) Git
4 44 (8.06%) JIRA
5 35 (6.41%) Rational DOORS
6 11 (2.01%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.47%) Postman
8 8 (1.47%) Rational Rhapsody
9 6 (1.10%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.92%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.92%) JUnit
10 5 (0.92%) Selenium
11 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.55%) JMeter
12 3 (0.55%) Maven
12 3 (0.55%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.37%) LabVIEW
13 2 (0.37%) Mockito
13 2 (0.37%) NUnit
General
1 122 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 79 (14.47%) Finance
3 59 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 49 (8.97%) Aerospace
5 38 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (4.58%) Banking
7 10 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.83%) Military
8 8 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.47%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.10%) Retail
10 5 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (0.92%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.92%) Publishing
11 4 (0.73%) Marketing
12 3 (0.55%) Aviation
13 2 (0.37%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.37%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 71 (13.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 62 (11.36%) Senior
3 37 (6.78%) Architect
4 34 (6.23%) Lead
5 33 (6.04%) Configuration Manager
6 27 (4.95%) Delivery Manager
6 27 (4.95%) Systems Manager
7 25 (4.58%) Analyst
7 25 (4.58%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (4.40%) Product Manager
8 24 (4.40%) Software Engineer
9 21 (3.85%) Product Delivery Manager
9 21 (3.85%) Systems Delivery Manager
10 20 (3.66%) Linux Engineer
10 20 (3.66%) Systems Engineer
11 19 (3.48%) Cloud Engineer
12 17 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (2.93%) AWS DevOps
13 16 (2.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 15 (2.75%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.13%) REST
2 19 (3.48%) YAML
3 14 (2.56%) ARM Templates
3 14 (2.56%) JSON
4 13 (2.38%) Kafka
5 12 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (2.20%) XML
6 10 (1.83%) RESTful
7 9 (1.65%) React
8 8 (1.47%) .NET
8 8 (1.47%) SOAP
8 8 (1.47%) Web Services
9 7 (1.28%) Middleware
9 7 (1.28%) Node.js
9 7 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (1.10%) Azure Blueprints
10 6 (1.10%) Django
11 5 (0.92%) Loki
11 5 (0.92%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.81%) CMDB
2 45 (8.24%) Cloud Native
3 36 (6.59%) Product Ownership
4 33 (6.04%) Management Information System
5 23 (4.21%) Data Structures
6 22 (4.03%) Onboarding
7 19 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (2.75%) Data Centre
8 15 (2.75%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.56%) Security Posture
10 13 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
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
1 131 (23.99%) Linux
2 80 (14.65%) Windows
3 47 (8.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (5.13%) Ubuntu
5 25 (4.58%) Windows Server
6 17 (3.11%) Unix
7 11 (2.01%) Windows 10
8 6 (1.10%) Solaris
8 6 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.92%) CentOS
10 4 (0.73%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.73%) Android
11 3 (0.55%) Debian
11 3 (0.55%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.37%) Rocky
12 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (34.62%) DevOps
2 169 (30.95%) CI/CD
3 142 (26.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 140 (25.64%) Agile
5 128 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 88 (16.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 86 (15.75%) Containerisation
8 85 (15.57%) Service Management
9 83 (15.20%) ITIL
10 65 (11.90%) ITSM
11 62 (11.36%) Observability
12 59 (10.81%) Change Management
12 59 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
13 58 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
13 58 (10.62%) Roadmaps
14 57 (10.44%) Test Automation
15 53 (9.71%) Validation
16 49 (8.97%) Migration
17 48 (8.79%) Stakeholder Management
18 47 (8.61%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 152 (27.84%) Python
2 94 (17.22%) Bash
3 63 (11.54%) PowerShell
4 31 (5.68%) Java
5 30 (5.49%) SQL
6 20 (3.66%) Shell Script
7 19 (3.48%) Bicep
8 15 (2.75%) JavaScript
9 13 (2.38%) Go
10 10 (1.83%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.47%) C++
12 7 (1.28%) C
12 7 (1.28%) Perl
12 7 (1.28%) Ruby
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
1 200 (36.63%) Security Cleared
2 121 (22.16%) SC Cleared
3 65 (11.90%) Degree
4 25 (4.58%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.30%) AWS Certification
5 18 (3.30%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.83%) CISSP
10 7 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (1.10%) CCNP
11 6 (1.10%) RHCE
12 5 (0.92%) CCNA
12 5 (0.92%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.73%) CCSP
13 4 (0.73%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.95%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.48%) QA
3 18 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.38%) NIST
5 12 (2.20%) SLA
6 10 (1.83%) GDPR
7 6 (1.10%) GRC
8 5 (0.92%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.55%) NCSC
10 3 (0.55%) PMO
11 2 (0.37%) COBIT
11 2 (0.37%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.37%) DO-254
11 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.37%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.37%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 70 (12.82%) Docker
2 32 (5.86%) Active Directory
2 32 (5.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.47%) KVM
5 7 (1.28%) NFS
6 5 (0.92%) Firmware
6 5 (0.92%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (0.73%) Postfix
7 4 (0.73%) Varnish
8 3 (0.55%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.37%) Ceph
9 2 (0.37%) Corosync
9 2 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.18%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 163 (29.85%) Ansible
2 141 (25.82%) Terraform
3 109 (19.96%) Kubernetes
4 53 (9.71%) Grafana
5 49 (8.97%) Prometheus
6 44 (8.06%) Puppet
7 32 (5.86%) Progress Chef
8 14 (2.56%) 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%) Podman
12 4 (0.73%) SELinux
12 4 (0.73%) systemd
Vendors
1 63 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 57 (10.44%) ServiceNow
3 40 (7.33%) Oracle
4 35 (6.41%) IBM
4 35 (6.41%) VMware
5 28 (5.13%) Red Hat
6 21 (3.85%) Splunk
7 15 (2.75%) Google
8 12 (2.20%) Cisco
9 9 (1.65%) SAP
9 9 (1.65%) Snow
10 8 (1.47%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.47%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.28%) Commvault
11 7 (1.28%) Okta
11 7 (1.28%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.28%) Veritas
12 6 (1.10%) Remedy
12 6 (1.10%) Siemens
12 6 (1.10%) Tenable