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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 182 134
Rank change year-on-year -50 -48 +15
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 519 431 732
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.50% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.64% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 278 425
10th Percentile £358 £344 £358
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £621 £645
90th Percentile £720 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £516 £550
% change year-on-year -1.94% -6.14% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 15 147
10th Percentile £34.39 £35.00 £38.75
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £41.10
Median hourly rate £59.50 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +20.00% -0.83%
75th Percentile £85.50 £67.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £88.00 - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.25 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.92% +20.00% +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 40,852 26,213 36,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.38% 91.03% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,586 16,831 23,574
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,418 1,066 2,483
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.13 £27.59 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +52.71% -23.47% -0.22%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.73 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +73.72% -33.82% +8.57%

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 25 May 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 25 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Top 16 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 25 May 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 -50 460 £500 -4.76% 161
UK excluding London -16 348 £506 -1.94% 128
Work from Home -37 137 £493 -6.19% 71
London -119 121 £500 -9.09% 43
South East -31 88 £423 -15.50% 45
North of England -51 75 £525 +6.60% 20
South West -5 72 £488 -15.22% 36
Midlands -43 50 £525 - 10
North West -24 46 £588 +22.50% 12
West Midlands -38 46 £525 +0.19% 7
East of England -6 44 £350 +75.00% 14
Scotland +3 23 £550 +29.41% 7
Yorkshire -57 21 £482 -5.95% 7
North East -18 8 £413 - 1
East Midlands -30 4 £410 -26.13% 3
Wales - 3 £750 - 1

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 20 (3.85%) SAS
2 15 (2.89%) Confluence
3 9 (1.73%) Apache
3 9 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.16%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.16%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.96%) CMS
5 5 (0.96%) Mattermost
6 4 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.77%) JBoss
6 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.58%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (0.58%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.39%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.39%) nginx
8 2 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.96%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.19%) CATIA
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.19%) Weka
Business Applications
1 17 (3.28%) Teamcenter
2 9 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.16%) LabWindows
4 5 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
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 91 (17.53%) Azure
2 83 (15.99%) AWS
3 47 (9.06%) OpenShift
4 45 (8.67%) GitHub
5 25 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (3.85%) PaaS
10 17 (3.28%) Amazon S3
11 16 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (2.89%) Power Platform
13 14 (2.70%) Azure AKS
14 13 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (2.50%) GCP
14 13 (2.50%) IaaS
15 10 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (1.93%) Serverless
16 9 (1.73%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.59%) DNS
2 18 (3.47%) Firewall
3 17 (3.28%) VPN
4 14 (2.70%) DHCP
5 10 (1.93%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.73%) Network Security
7 7 (1.35%) WAN
8 6 (1.16%) VLAN
9 5 (0.96%) BGP
9 5 (0.96%) OSPF
9 5 (0.96%) VoIP
10 4 (0.77%) 5G
10 4 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.77%) EIGRP
10 4 (0.77%) HTTP
10 4 (0.77%) LAN
10 4 (0.77%) SSL
10 4 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.58%) 3GPP
11 3 (0.58%) PCoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.28%) Oracle Database
2 16 (3.08%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.89%) Power BI
3 15 (2.89%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 14 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.73%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 7 (1.35%) Metadata
7 6 (1.16%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.16%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 4 (0.77%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.77%) MySQL
9 3 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.58%) Big Data
9 3 (0.58%) Data Mart
9 3 (0.58%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.58%) InfluxDB
9 3 (0.58%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (10.98%) Jenkins
2 53 (10.21%) GitLab
3 43 (8.29%) Git
4 33 (6.36%) Rational DOORS
5 26 (5.01%) JIRA
6 10 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (1.73%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.54%) Postman
9 7 (1.35%) Rational Rhapsody
10 5 (0.96%) Selenium
11 4 (0.77%) JMeter
11 4 (0.77%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.58%) JUnit
12 3 (0.58%) LabVIEW
12 3 (0.58%) Maven
12 3 (0.58%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.39%) Gradle
13 2 (0.39%) NUnit
General
1 118 (22.74%) Social Skills
2 71 (13.68%) Finance
3 52 (10.02%) Aerospace
4 50 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (5.59%) Banking
7 13 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.50%) Retail
8 9 (1.73%) Military
9 8 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.58%) Aviation
12 3 (0.58%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.58%) Marketing
13 2 (0.39%) Games
13 2 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 44 (8.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (8.29%) Configuration Manager
3 38 (7.32%) Senior
4 37 (7.13%) Architect
5 27 (5.20%) Lead
5 27 (5.20%) Systems Manager
6 26 (5.01%) Software Engineer
7 24 (4.62%) Product Manager
8 22 (4.24%) Delivery Manager
8 22 (4.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 21 (4.05%) Analyst
9 21 (4.05%) Product Delivery Manager
9 21 (4.05%) Systems Delivery Manager
10 19 (3.66%) Change Manager
11 17 (3.28%) Administrator
12 16 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (3.08%) Consultant
12 16 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
13 15 (2.89%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (3.28%) YAML
3 15 (2.89%) REST
4 10 (1.93%) Kafka
5 9 (1.73%) RESTful
6 8 (1.54%) ARM Templates
6 8 (1.54%) Node.js
7 7 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.16%) JSON
8 6 (1.16%) Loki
9 5 (0.96%) .NET
9 5 (0.96%) Middleware
9 5 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.77%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.77%) PySpark
10 4 (0.77%) React
10 4 (0.77%) XML
11 3 (0.58%) cloud-init
11 3 (0.58%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (12.14%) CMDB
2 37 (7.13%) Product Ownership
3 27 (5.20%) Cloud Native
4 26 (5.01%) Management Information System
5 25 (4.82%) Data Structures
6 24 (4.62%) Onboarding
7 20 (3.85%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.54%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.16%) PKI
11 6 (1.16%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.96%) Smartphone
13 4 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.77%) Operational Technology
13 4 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 118 (22.74%) Linux
2 71 (13.68%) Windows
3 27 (5.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (4.62%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.28%) Unix
6 14 (2.70%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.73%) Windows 10
8 6 (1.16%) Debian
8 6 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.96%) Solaris
10 4 (0.77%) VMS
11 3 (0.58%) CentOS
11 3 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.39%) Android
12 2 (0.39%) Rocky
13 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (27.55%) CI/CD
2 136 (26.20%) DevOps
3 125 (24.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 108 (20.81%) Agile
5 98 (18.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 85 (16.38%) ITIL
6 85 (16.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 74 (14.26%) Containerisation
8 73 (14.07%) Service Management
9 55 (10.60%) Observability
10 54 (10.40%) Change Management
10 54 (10.40%) Software Engineering
11 52 (10.02%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (9.83%) Change Control
13 48 (9.25%) ITSM
13 48 (9.25%) Roadmaps
14 47 (9.06%) Computer Science
14 47 (9.06%) Migration
15 43 (8.29%) Test Automation
16 42 (8.09%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (21.39%) Python
2 79 (15.22%) Bash
3 49 (9.44%) PowerShell
4 41 (7.90%) SQL
5 20 (3.85%) Java
6 19 (3.66%) Shell Script
7 12 (2.31%) Bicep
7 12 (2.31%) PL/SQL
8 11 (2.12%) Go
9 9 (1.73%) JavaScript
10 8 (1.54%) TypeScript
11 7 (1.35%) C#
11 7 (1.35%) C++
11 7 (1.35%) Ruby
12 6 (1.16%) C
12 6 (1.16%) Perl
13 4 (0.77%) Ada
13 4 (0.77%) Groovy
14 3 (0.58%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 199 (38.34%) Security Cleared
2 131 (25.24%) SC Cleared
3 61 (11.75%) Degree
4 19 (3.66%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.89%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (1.35%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.16%) CCNP
10 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.16%) PMP
10 6 (1.16%) RHCE
11 5 (0.96%) APMP
11 5 (0.96%) CISSP
11 5 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.77%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.59%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.66%) QA
3 18 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.31%) SLA
5 11 (2.12%) GDPR
6 9 (1.73%) NIST
7 5 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.96%) Def Stans
7 5 (0.96%) PMO
8 4 (0.77%) COBIT
8 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.39%) DO-254
10 2 (0.39%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.19%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.19%) NCSC
11 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (10.98%) Docker
2 26 (5.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.82%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.50%) Hyper-V
4 13 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.54%) KVM
6 7 (1.35%) NFS
7 5 (0.96%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.77%) Postfix
8 4 (0.77%) Varnish
9 3 (0.58%) Ceph
9 3 (0.58%) QEMU
9 3 (0.58%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.39%) Corosync
10 2 (0.39%) Firmware
10 2 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.19%) Samba
11 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 135 (26.01%) Ansible
2 103 (19.85%) Terraform
3 93 (17.92%) Kubernetes
4 50 (9.63%) Grafana
5 46 (8.86%) Prometheus
6 39 (7.51%) Puppet
7 33 (6.36%) Progress Chef
8 11 (2.12%) SCCM
9 9 (1.73%) Packer
10 8 (1.54%) NetBackup
11 7 (1.35%) Argo
12 6 (1.16%) Podman
13 5 (0.96%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.77%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.77%) SELinux
15 3 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
15 3 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
15 3 (0.58%) Istio
Vendors
1 55 (10.60%) Microsoft
2 54 (10.40%) ServiceNow
3 38 (7.32%) Oracle
4 32 (6.17%) IBM
4 32 (6.17%) Red Hat
5 30 (5.78%) VMware
6 18 (3.47%) Splunk
7 14 (2.70%) SAP
8 10 (1.93%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.93%) Siemens
9 8 (1.54%) Cisco
9 8 (1.54%) Commvault
10 7 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.35%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.35%) Snow
10 7 (1.35%) Veritas
11 5 (0.96%) Remedy
12 4 (0.77%) Autodesk
12 4 (0.77%) HP
12 4 (0.77%) Intel