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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 164 157
Rank change year-on-year -30 -7 -29
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 527 564 756
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.46% 1.54% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.77% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 326 500
10th Percentile £357 £295 £385
25th Percentile £456 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -10.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £645
90th Percentile £775 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £483 £575
% change year-on-year +8.81% -16.09% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 31 79
10th Percentile - £20.50 £22.05
25th Percentile £13.50 £31.25 £39.11
Median hourly rate £46.07 £41.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.01% -14.82% +10.45%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.79 £41.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +12.73% -14.82% -1.44%

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 32,304 31,906 40,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.43% 86.97% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,227 19,221 26,955
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,107 1,156 1,551
10th Percentile £14.52 £15.22 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.52 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +25.71%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.23% -26.97% +41.14%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 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 -22 454 £529 +0.81% 204
UK excluding London -26 322 £525 +8.81% 192
Work from Home +17 186 £531 +7.71% 84
London -10 166 £619 +7.61% 37
Midlands -6 78 £537 +7.40% 17
West Midlands +7 77 £537 +7.40% 10
North of England -26 76 £513 +2.50% 25
South East -27 56 £550 +10.00% 60
South West -25 45 £525 -10.26% 53
Yorkshire -31 44 £520 +6.67% 8
Scotland -9 36 £500 +14.42% 15
North West -27 32 £410 -21.90% 15
East of England -17 30 £513 +20.59% 35
North East -8 1 £500 -23.08% 2
Wales -9 1 £425 +184.80% 3
East Midlands -28 1 - - 7
Channel Islands - 1 £640 -

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 59 (11.20%) Confluence
2 22 (4.17%) SAS
3 13 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.28%) nginx
5 10 (1.90%) Apache
6 9 (1.71%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.52%) OpenStack
8 6 (1.14%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.95%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.76%) CICS
10 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.19%) Drupal
11 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.19%) JBoss
11 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (2.28%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.95%) Windchill
4 4 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.38%) Weka
7 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.38%) Primavera
2 2 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.38%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.19%) assyst
3 1 (0.19%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 150 (28.46%) AWS
2 130 (24.67%) Azure
3 63 (11.95%) Amazon EC2
4 58 (11.01%) Amazon S3
5 53 (10.06%) GitHub
6 43 (8.16%) Amazon EKS
7 41 (7.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 40 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (7.21%) IaaS
9 38 (7.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 37 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 32 (6.07%) GitHub Actions
12 31 (5.88%) GCP
12 31 (5.88%) OpenShift
13 29 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
14 23 (4.36%) Amazon ELB
14 23 (4.36%) AWS KMS
14 23 (4.36%) Serverless
15 22 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 76 (14.42%) Firewall
2 37 (7.02%) TCP/IP
3 36 (6.83%) DNS
4 33 (6.26%) HTTP
5 24 (4.55%) SMTP
6 23 (4.36%) SSH
7 21 (3.98%) FTP
8 15 (2.85%) VPN
9 13 (2.47%) Network Security
10 12 (2.28%) IMAP
10 12 (2.28%) OpenLDAP
11 11 (2.09%) WAN
12 9 (1.71%) BGP
12 9 (1.71%) LAN
13 8 (1.52%) SSL
14 7 (1.33%) DHCP
14 7 (1.33%) MPLS
14 7 (1.33%) VXLAN
15 6 (1.14%) Internet
16 5 (0.95%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (10.63%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.61%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 17 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (2.85%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.09%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 10 (1.90%) Oracle Database
7 10 (1.90%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.71%) MySQL
9 8 (1.52%) Redis
10 7 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.14%) Big Data
12 5 (0.95%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.95%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.95%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.95%) HBase
12 5 (0.95%) Metadata
12 5 (0.95%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 141 (26.76%) Jenkins
2 98 (18.60%) JIRA
3 87 (16.51%) Git
4 51 (9.68%) GitLab
5 26 (4.93%) Vagrant
6 19 (3.61%) Postman
7 14 (2.66%) Artifactory
8 12 (2.28%) Bitbucket
9 11 (2.09%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.33%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.14%) Maven
12 5 (0.95%) Gradle
12 5 (0.95%) Selenium
13 4 (0.76%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.76%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.76%) JUnit
13 4 (0.76%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.76%) Snyk
13 4 (0.76%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 131 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 88 (16.70%) Public Sector
3 85 (16.13%) Finance
4 77 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (4.17%) Banking
6 17 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.04%) Aerospace
8 15 (2.85%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.09%) Electronics
11 10 (1.90%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.90%) Marketing
11 10 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.90%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.14%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.14%) Military
13 5 (0.95%) Law
14 3 (0.57%) Avionics
14 3 (0.57%) Games
14 3 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (10.25%) Architect
3 46 (8.73%) Platform Engineer
4 43 (8.16%) Senior
5 42 (7.97%) Analyst
6 41 (7.78%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (7.40%) Developer
8 32 (6.07%) AWS DevOps
9 29 (5.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 29 (5.50%) Lead
10 26 (4.93%) Automation Engineer
11 25 (4.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 19 (3.61%) Data Engineer
13 18 (3.42%) Network Engineer
14 17 (3.23%) Release Manager
14 17 (3.23%) Site Engineer
15 16 (3.04%) ServiceNow Developer
16 15 (2.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 15 (2.85%) Software Engineer
17 14 (2.66%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (11.39%) REST
2 35 (6.64%) JSON
3 26 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (3.61%) LDAP
5 17 (3.23%) Middleware
6 16 (3.04%) SOAP
7 13 (2.47%) Kafka
8 12 (2.28%) React
9 11 (2.09%) RESTful
10 9 (1.71%) OAuth
11 8 (1.52%) OAuth2
12 7 (1.33%) HTML
13 6 (1.14%) .NET
13 6 (1.14%) AngularJS
13 6 (1.14%) ARM Templates
13 6 (1.14%) FIX Protocol
13 6 (1.14%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (1.14%) Web Services
14 5 (0.95%) RFC 2544
14 5 (0.95%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 68 (12.90%) CMDB
2 35 (6.64%) Self-Motivation
3 32 (6.07%) Cloud Native
4 31 (5.88%) PKI
5 28 (5.31%) Private Cloud
5 28 (5.31%) Replication
6 22 (4.17%) Data Centre
7 18 (3.42%) Product Ownership
8 17 (3.23%) Onboarding
9 16 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (3.04%) Virtual Team
10 15 (2.85%) Management Information System
11 14 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (2.28%) Security Posture
13 8 (1.52%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (1.14%) CAN bus
15 6 (1.14%) Hedge funds
15 6 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 146 (27.70%) Linux
2 92 (17.46%) Windows
3 25 (4.74%) Unix
3 25 (4.74%) VMS
4 23 (4.36%) Amazon Linux
4 23 (4.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (4.17%) Ubuntu
6 18 (3.42%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.90%) CentOS
8 6 (1.14%) Debian
9 5 (0.95%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.76%) Solaris
10 4 (0.76%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.76%) zOS
11 3 (0.57%) AIX
11 3 (0.57%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (37.95%) DevOps
2 190 (36.05%) CI/CD
3 147 (27.89%) Agile
4 124 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 91 (17.27%) Containerisation
6 72 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (13.09%) ITIL
7 69 (13.09%) Migration
8 60 (11.39%) Scrum
9 59 (11.20%) Analytics
10 58 (11.01%) Platform Engineering
11 57 (10.82%) Change Management
12 56 (10.63%) Service Management
13 55 (10.44%) Test Automation
14 54 (10.25%) ITSM
14 54 (10.25%) Software Engineering
15 52 (9.87%) Cloud Security
16 44 (8.35%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (7.78%) Data Management
18 39 (7.40%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 187 (35.48%) Python
2 110 (20.87%) PowerShell
3 72 (13.66%) SQL
4 61 (11.57%) Bash
5 56 (10.63%) Java
6 38 (7.21%) JavaScript
7 28 (5.31%) Groovy
8 25 (4.74%) Perl
9 23 (4.36%) C#
10 22 (4.17%) Shell Script
11 17 (3.23%) C++
12 11 (2.09%) Go
13 8 (1.52%) Bicep
14 7 (1.33%) Embedded C++
14 7 (1.33%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.76%) CLIST
15 4 (0.76%) JCL
15 4 (0.76%) PHP
15 4 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.76%) REXX
Qualifications
1 225 (42.69%) Security Cleared
2 188 (35.67%) SC Cleared
3 46 (8.73%) Degree
4 24 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 23 (4.36%) AWS Certification
6 19 (3.61%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.04%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (2.66%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (1.52%) CCNP
11 8 (1.52%) CISSP
12 7 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (1.14%) RHCE
14 5 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.95%) CCSP
14 5 (0.95%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.76%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.04%) QA
2 15 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.66%) NIST
4 11 (2.09%) SLA
5 10 (1.90%) GDPR
6 8 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.95%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.95%) NCSC
7 5 (0.95%) PSD2
8 4 (0.76%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 3 (0.57%) PMO
10 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.38%) ECSS
10 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.19%) ARP4754
11 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.19%) DO-254
11 1 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 114 (21.63%) Docker
2 47 (8.92%) Active Directory
3 32 (6.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (3.98%) DFS Replication
5 12 (2.28%) Dovecot
5 12 (2.28%) Postfix
5 12 (2.28%) Squid
6 11 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.95%) HDFS
7 5 (0.95%) KVM
7 5 (0.95%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (0.76%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (0.57%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.38%) GPFS
10 2 (0.38%) Lustre
10 2 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.38%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.38%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.38%) vSphere
11 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 161 (30.55%) Ansible
2 148 (28.08%) Terraform
3 100 (18.98%) Kubernetes
4 76 (14.42%) Puppet
5 67 (12.71%) Grafana
6 61 (11.57%) Prometheus
7 43 (8.16%) Progress Chef
8 16 (3.04%) NetBackup
9 15 (2.85%) SCCM
10 13 (2.47%) Nessus
11 11 (2.09%) Proxmox
12 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Clustering
13 9 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (1.52%) Argo
14 8 (1.52%) Podman
14 8 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
15 6 (1.14%) ITRS Geneos
15 6 (1.14%) Nagios
16 5 (0.95%) Hadoop YARN
16 5 (0.95%) Salt
Vendors
1 79 (14.99%) Microsoft
2 77 (14.61%) ServiceNow
3 46 (8.73%) Red Hat
4 44 (8.35%) VMware
5 28 (5.31%) Oracle
6 17 (3.23%) Commvault
7 16 (3.04%) Cisco
7 16 (3.04%) SAP
7 16 (3.04%) Splunk
8 15 (2.85%) MuleSoft
9 13 (2.47%) F5
10 12 (2.28%) Atlassian
10 12 (2.28%) Jaspersoft
11 10 (1.90%) Databricks
11 10 (1.90%) Veritas
12 8 (1.52%) PagerDuty
12 8 (1.52%) Remedy
13 7 (1.33%) Palo Alto
14 6 (1.14%) IBM
15 5 (0.95%) Citrix