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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 185 143
Rank change year-on-year -53 -42 +14
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 580 514 665
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.56% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.73% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 329 362
10th Percentile £362 £313 £301
25th Percentile £432 £413 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £610 £626 £649
90th Percentile £750 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £524 £540
% change year-on-year -4.58% -2.96% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 15 117
10th Percentile £27.00 £29.60 £40.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £66.50 £52.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.88% +4.00% -0.83%
75th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 £64.25
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £52.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.88% +4.00% +2.06%

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 45,557 29,755 33,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.46% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,078 18,625 21,348
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £726 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,814 1,660 1,859
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.22 £17.32 £18.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.10 £41.25
% change year-on-year +90.30% -44.00% +7.56%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -53 503 £513 -2.38% 329
UK excluding London -44 350 £500 -4.58% 235
London -80 171 £525 -4.55% 120
Work from Home -82 150 £520 -0.57% 126
South East -35 98 £525 +4.95% 64
South West -20 72 £528 -8.26% 59
North of England -75 71 £500 +1.52% 52
Midlands -53 51 £477 -8.71% 18
West Midlands -53 50 £482 -7.22% 11
North West -41 39 £496 +3.33% 28
East of England -3 32 £610 +205.00% 22
Scotland -12 27 £550 +7.32% 16
Yorkshire -50 21 £500 - 17
North East -33 11 £481 - 7
Wales -7 7 £750 +76.47% 4
East Midlands -12 1 £385 -35.83% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 6

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 18 (3.10%) Confluence
1 18 (3.10%) SAS
2 14 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.90%) Apache
4 8 (1.38%) JBoss
5 6 (1.03%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.86%) CMS
6 5 (0.86%) Mattermost
6 5 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.52%) Appian
7 3 (0.52%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.52%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.34%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.34%) IIS
8 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) CATIA
5 1 (0.17%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.17%) Houdini
5 1 (0.17%) NUKE
5 1 (0.17%) Weka
5 1 (0.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (1.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.03%) Primavera
2 6 (1.03%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.52%) LabWindows
3 3 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.17%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 148 (25.52%) Azure
2 137 (23.62%) AWS
3 67 (11.55%) GitHub
4 53 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (8.28%) GCP
5 48 (8.28%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
7 32 (5.52%) OpenShift
8 31 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 28 (4.83%) Entra ID
11 22 (3.79%) Azure AKS
12 20 (3.45%) Amazon S3
12 20 (3.45%) PaaS
13 17 (2.93%) Datadog
14 16 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (2.76%) Power Platform
14 16 (2.76%) Serverless
15 14 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (2.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (7.07%) DNS
2 24 (4.14%) Firewall
3 20 (3.45%) Network Security
4 18 (3.10%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.41%) SSL
5 14 (2.41%) VPN
6 13 (2.24%) DHCP
7 10 (1.72%) VLAN
7 10 (1.72%) WAN
8 8 (1.38%) HTTP
9 6 (1.03%) LAN
10 5 (0.86%) 5G
10 5 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.86%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.86%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.69%) Broadband
11 4 (0.69%) Internet
11 4 (0.69%) SNMP
12 3 (0.52%) 3GPP
12 3 (0.52%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.62%) Oracle Database
2 16 (2.76%) Power BI
3 14 (2.41%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 14 (2.41%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 13 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.72%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.55%) MySQL
7 8 (1.38%) Metadata
8 7 (1.21%) Big Data
9 6 (1.03%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.03%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 6 (1.03%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.69%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.69%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.69%) Redis
12 3 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.52%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 73 (12.59%) Jenkins
2 69 (11.90%) Git
3 68 (11.72%) GitLab
4 44 (7.59%) JIRA
5 36 (6.21%) Rational DOORS
6 12 (2.07%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.38%) Rational Rhapsody
9 6 (1.03%) JUnit
9 6 (1.03%) Postman
9 6 (1.03%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.86%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.69%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.52%) Maven
12 3 (0.52%) Mockito
12 3 (0.52%) Selenium
12 3 (0.52%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.34%) LabVIEW
13 2 (0.34%) MSBuild
General
1 135 (23.28%) Social Skills
2 87 (15.00%) Finance
3 61 (10.52%) Public Sector
4 49 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (8.10%) Aerospace
6 26 (4.48%) Banking
7 10 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.72%) Military
7 10 (1.72%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.03%) Retail
11 5 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.86%) Publishing
12 4 (0.69%) Aviation
13 3 (0.52%) Marketing
14 2 (0.34%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.34%) Local Government
14 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (13.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 65 (11.21%) Senior
3 47 (8.10%) Architect
4 39 (6.72%) Lead
5 29 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
6 28 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
6 28 (4.83%) Delivery Manager
7 27 (4.66%) Systems Engineer
8 25 (4.31%) Configuration Manager
8 25 (4.31%) Product Manager
8 25 (4.31%) Systems Manager
9 23 (3.97%) Analyst
10 22 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (3.79%) Product Delivery Manager
11 21 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
11 21 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (3.62%) Software Engineer
11 21 (3.62%) Systems Delivery Manager
12 17 (2.93%) AWS DevOps
12 17 (2.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.34%) REST
2 18 (3.10%) YAML
3 14 (2.41%) ARM Templates
3 14 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (2.24%) JSON
4 13 (2.24%) XML
5 12 (2.07%) Kafka
6 9 (1.55%) .NET
6 9 (1.55%) SOAP
7 8 (1.38%) Middleware
7 8 (1.38%) React
7 8 (1.38%) RESTful
7 8 (1.38%) Web Services
8 7 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (1.03%) Azure Blueprints
9 6 (1.03%) Django
9 6 (1.03%) HTML
9 6 (1.03%) Node.js
9 6 (1.03%) OAuth
10 5 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 63 (10.86%) CMDB
2 51 (8.79%) Cloud Native
3 36 (6.21%) Product Ownership
4 31 (5.34%) Management Information System
5 26 (4.48%) Onboarding
6 23 (3.97%) Data Structures
7 22 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (3.10%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.59%) Public Cloud
10 14 (2.41%) Data Centre
11 12 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.90%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.55%) Clustering
14 9 (1.55%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (1.21%) PKI
17 6 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 143 (24.66%) Linux
2 83 (14.31%) Windows
3 57 (9.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (5.34%) Windows Server
5 29 (5.00%) Ubuntu
6 25 (4.31%) Unix
7 11 (1.90%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (1.03%) CentOS
9 6 (1.03%) Solaris
10 5 (0.86%) Android
11 4 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.69%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.52%) Debian
13 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.34%) Rocky
13 2 (0.34%) VMS
13 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.17%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (35.34%) DevOps
2 188 (32.41%) CI/CD
3 167 (28.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 144 (24.83%) Agile
5 138 (23.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 100 (17.24%) Containerisation
7 90 (15.52%) ITIL
8 84 (14.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 82 (14.14%) Service Management
10 74 (12.76%) Platform Engineering
11 70 (12.07%) Observability
12 65 (11.21%) ITSM
13 64 (11.03%) Change Management
13 64 (11.03%) Problem-Solving
13 64 (11.03%) Test Automation
14 61 (10.52%) Validation
15 58 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 57 (9.83%) Stakeholder Management
17 56 (9.66%) Roadmaps
18 53 (9.14%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 166 (28.62%) Python
2 98 (16.90%) Bash
3 72 (12.41%) PowerShell
4 34 (5.86%) SQL
5 30 (5.17%) Java
6 21 (3.62%) Shell Script
7 19 (3.28%) Bicep
8 14 (2.41%) JavaScript
9 13 (2.24%) C++
9 13 (2.24%) Perl
10 12 (2.07%) C
11 10 (1.72%) Go
12 9 (1.55%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.21%) Ruby
14 5 (0.86%) Ada
15 4 (0.69%) C#
15 4 (0.69%) Groovy
16 3 (0.52%) SAS Macro
16 3 (0.52%) Scala
16 3 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 212 (36.55%) Security Cleared
2 133 (22.93%) SC Cleared
3 71 (12.24%) Degree
4 24 (4.14%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.97%) AWS Certification
6 20 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.07%) CISSP
9 11 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.21%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (1.03%) CCNA
12 6 (1.03%) CCNP
12 6 (1.03%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.86%) RHCE
13 5 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.31%) QA
2 24 (4.14%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.59%) NIST
4 15 (2.59%) SLA
5 11 (1.90%) GDPR
6 10 (1.72%) GRC
7 6 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.69%) NCSC
8 4 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.52%) DO-254
9 3 (0.52%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.52%) PMO
10 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.34%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.34%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.17%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 79 (13.62%) Docker
2 38 (6.55%) Active Directory
3 37 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.72%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.55%) KVM
7 7 (1.21%) NFS
8 5 (0.86%) Firmware
8 5 (0.86%) VMware Workstation
9 4 (0.69%) Postfix
9 4 (0.69%) Varnish
10 3 (0.52%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.34%) Ceph
11 2 (0.34%) Corosync
11 2 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.17%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 171 (29.48%) Ansible
2 158 (27.24%) Terraform
3 117 (20.17%) Kubernetes
4 55 (9.48%) Puppet
5 53 (9.14%) Grafana
6 46 (7.93%) Prometheus
7 41 (7.07%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.59%) Packer
9 10 (1.72%) SCCM
10 9 (1.55%) Istio
10 9 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.38%) Argo
11 8 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.03%) NetBackup
13 5 (0.86%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (0.86%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.86%) Salt
14 4 (0.69%) Podman
14 4 (0.69%) SELinux
14 4 (0.69%) systemd
Vendors
1 73 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 64 (11.03%) ServiceNow
3 40 (6.90%) Oracle
3 40 (6.90%) VMware
4 36 (6.21%) IBM
5 33 (5.69%) Red Hat
6 27 (4.66%) Splunk
7 20 (3.45%) Google
8 17 (2.93%) Cisco
9 12 (2.07%) Snow
10 11 (1.90%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.72%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.72%) SaltStack
12 7 (1.21%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.21%) Okta
12 7 (1.21%) Remedy
13 6 (1.03%) F5
13 6 (1.03%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.03%) Qualys
13 6 (1.03%) Veritas