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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 178 132
Rank change year-on-year -61 -46 +20
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 515 466 745
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.57% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.73% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 300 430
10th Percentile £352 £345 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £607 £615 £643
90th Percentile £750 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +1.20% -7.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 16 144
10th Percentile £32.40 £36.00 £38.75
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.19 £40.94
Median hourly rate £60.00 £56.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +12.00% -0.83%
75th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 £61.30
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.25 £56.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.02% +12.00% +2.05%

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 42,679 27,009 37,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 91.00% 85.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,607 17,137 23,609
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,567 1,242 2,598
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.03
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -70 452 £516 -1.67% 203
UK excluding London -38 323 £506 +1.20% 185
London -99 139 £525 -4.55% 47
Work from Home -64 135 £500 -4.03% 130
South East -35 87 £452 -9.60% 48
South West -2 66 £500 -13.04% 39
North of England -67 59 £500 +5.26% 35
Midlands -42 49 £525 +0.10% 19
West Midlands -30 48 £525 +0.48% 11
East of England -4 41 £550 +175.00% 26
North West -35 33 £525 +10.53% 18
Scotland -11 24 £750 +78.57% 12
Yorkshire -67 18 £500 - 13
North East -25 8 £413 - 4
Wales - 5 £750 - 5
East Midlands -29 1 £550 -0.90% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 7

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 22 (4.27%) SAS
2 15 (2.91%) Confluence
3 14 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.94%) Apache
5 6 (1.17%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.97%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.97%) Mattermost
7 4 (0.78%) CMS
7 4 (0.78%) JBoss
8 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.58%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 3 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.39%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.19%) IIS
10 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.97%) PTC Creo
3 4 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.39%) CATIA
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.19%) Weka
5 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (3.30%) Teamcenter
2 9 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.17%) Primavera
3 6 (1.17%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.97%) LabWindows
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.19%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 107 (20.78%) Azure
2 93 (18.06%) AWS
3 47 (9.13%) GitHub
4 39 (7.57%) OpenShift
5 32 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (4.47%) PaaS
7 22 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
8 20 (3.88%) GCP
9 19 (3.69%) Power Platform
10 18 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (2.91%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.91%) Azure AKS
12 15 (2.91%) Entra ID
13 11 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (2.14%) Serverless
14 10 (1.94%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.02%) DNS
2 14 (2.72%) Firewall
3 13 (2.52%) VPN
4 11 (2.14%) DHCP
5 9 (1.75%) Network Security
6 8 (1.55%) SSL
6 8 (1.55%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.17%) LAN
7 6 (1.17%) VLAN
7 6 (1.17%) WAN
8 4 (0.78%) 5G
8 4 (0.78%) Internet
9 3 (0.58%) 3GPP
9 3 (0.58%) 4G
9 3 (0.58%) BGP
9 3 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (0.58%) NAS
9 3 (0.58%) OSPF
9 3 (0.58%) PCoIP
9 3 (0.58%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.47%) Oracle Database
2 19 (3.69%) Power BI
3 18 (3.50%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 14 (2.72%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 11 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.55%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.36%) Metadata
9 6 (1.17%) MySQL
9 6 (1.17%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 5 (0.97%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.58%) Base SAS
12 3 (0.58%) Big Data
12 3 (0.58%) Data Mart
12 3 (0.58%) InfluxDB
12 3 (0.58%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.58%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (10.68%) GitLab
2 53 (10.29%) Jenkins
3 45 (8.74%) Git
4 34 (6.60%) Rational DOORS
5 30 (5.83%) JIRA
6 8 (1.55%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.55%) Rational Rhapsody
6 8 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.36%) Postman
8 5 (0.97%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.78%) JMeter
9 4 (0.78%) LabVIEW
9 4 (0.78%) Selenium
10 3 (0.58%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.58%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.39%) JUnit
11 2 (0.39%) Maven
11 2 (0.39%) NUnit
12 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 112 (21.75%) Social Skills
2 67 (13.01%) Finance
3 56 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 54 (10.49%) Aerospace
5 28 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (5.44%) Banking
6 13 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.14%) Retail
8 10 (1.94%) Military
8 10 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.17%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.97%) Publishing
12 4 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.58%) Aviation
13 3 (0.58%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (10.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 47 (9.13%) Senior
3 39 (7.57%) Architect
4 38 (7.38%) Configuration Manager
5 33 (6.41%) Lead
6 27 (5.24%) Analyst
6 27 (5.24%) Systems Manager
7 25 (4.85%) Delivery Manager
8 24 (4.66%) Product Manager
8 24 (4.66%) Software Engineer
9 21 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (4.08%) Product Delivery Manager
9 21 (4.08%) Systems Delivery Manager
10 17 (3.30%) Consultant
10 17 (3.30%) Linux Engineer
11 16 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (3.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (3.11%) Release Manager
11 16 (3.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 16 (3.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.11%) YAML
2 15 (2.91%) REST
3 11 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (1.75%) RESTful
5 8 (1.55%) ARM Templates
5 8 (1.55%) JSON
5 8 (1.55%) Kafka
6 7 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (1.17%) .NET
7 6 (1.17%) React
7 6 (1.17%) XML
8 5 (0.97%) Loki
8 5 (0.97%) Middleware
8 5 (0.97%) Node.js
8 5 (0.97%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (0.97%) Web Services
9 4 (0.78%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.78%) PySpark
9 4 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.87%) CMDB
2 37 (7.18%) Product Ownership
3 35 (6.80%) Cloud Native
4 30 (5.83%) Management Information System
5 24 (4.66%) Data Structures
6 21 (4.08%) Onboarding
7 17 (3.30%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.94%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.94%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.17%) PKI
13 5 (0.97%) Smartphone
14 4 (0.78%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 122 (23.69%) Linux
2 78 (15.15%) Windows
3 39 (7.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (4.47%) Windows Server
5 22 (4.27%) Ubuntu
6 16 (3.11%) Unix
7 10 (1.94%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (1.17%) Solaris
10 5 (0.97%) Debian
11 4 (0.78%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.78%) Android
11 4 (0.78%) CentOS
12 3 (0.58%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.39%) Rocky
13 2 (0.39%) VMS
14 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (30.49%) DevOps
2 147 (28.54%) CI/CD
3 125 (24.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 119 (23.11%) Agile
5 107 (20.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 87 (16.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 75 (14.56%) ITIL
7 75 (14.56%) Service Management
8 72 (13.98%) Containerisation
9 55 (10.68%) ITSM
10 52 (10.10%) Observability
11 51 (9.90%) Migration
12 50 (9.71%) Change Control
12 50 (9.71%) Roadmaps
13 49 (9.51%) Change Management
13 49 (9.51%) Validation
14 46 (8.93%) Software Engineering
15 45 (8.74%) Problem-Solving
15 45 (8.74%) Test Automation
16 44 (8.54%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 117 (22.72%) Python
2 80 (15.53%) Bash
3 51 (9.90%) PowerShell
4 32 (6.21%) SQL
5 22 (4.27%) Java
6 19 (3.69%) Shell Script
7 15 (2.91%) Bicep
8 12 (2.33%) PL/SQL
9 11 (2.14%) JavaScript
10 10 (1.94%) Go
11 7 (1.36%) C
11 7 (1.36%) C++
11 7 (1.36%) Ruby
12 6 (1.17%) Perl
12 6 (1.17%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.97%) C#
14 4 (0.78%) Ada
15 3 (0.58%) Groovy
15 3 (0.58%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 199 (38.64%) Security Cleared
2 127 (24.66%) SC Cleared
3 62 (12.04%) Degree
4 20 (3.88%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.72%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.33%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.75%) CISSP
10 7 (1.36%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (1.36%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.17%) PMP
11 6 (1.17%) RHCE
12 5 (0.97%) CCNA
12 5 (0.97%) CCNP
12 5 (0.97%) CISA
12 5 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.21%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.50%) QA
4 13 (2.52%) SLA
5 12 (2.33%) GDPR
5 12 (2.33%) NIST
6 5 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.97%) Def Stans
6 5 (0.97%) PMO
7 4 (0.78%) COBIT
7 4 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.58%) GRC
9 2 (0.39%) DO-254
9 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.39%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (11.07%) Docker
2 27 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (4.66%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.55%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.55%) KVM
6 7 (1.36%) NFS
7 5 (0.97%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.78%) Firmware
8 4 (0.78%) Postfix
8 4 (0.78%) Varnish
9 3 (0.58%) QEMU
9 3 (0.58%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.39%) Ceph
10 2 (0.39%) Corosync
10 2 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.19%) Lustre
11 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 147 (28.54%) Ansible
2 110 (21.36%) Terraform
3 92 (17.86%) Kubernetes
4 45 (8.74%) Grafana
5 44 (8.54%) Prometheus
6 36 (6.99%) Puppet
7 29 (5.63%) Progress Chef
8 11 (2.14%) Packer
9 9 (1.75%) SCCM
10 7 (1.36%) Argo
10 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.36%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.97%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.97%) Istio
11 5 (0.97%) Podman
12 4 (0.78%) Data Guard
12 4 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.78%) SELinux
12 4 (0.78%) systemd
13 3 (0.58%) yum
Vendors
1 56 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 45 (8.74%) ServiceNow
3 43 (8.35%) Oracle
4 32 (6.21%) IBM
5 29 (5.63%) VMware
6 27 (5.24%) Red Hat
7 19 (3.69%) Splunk
8 14 (2.72%) SAP
9 10 (1.94%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.94%) Siemens
10 8 (1.55%) Cisco
11 7 (1.36%) Commvault
11 7 (1.36%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.36%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.36%) Snow
11 7 (1.36%) Veritas
12 6 (1.17%) Qualys
12 6 (1.17%) Remedy
13 5 (0.97%) BMC
13 5 (0.97%) Google