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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 178 141
Rank change year-on-year -65 -37 +18
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 570 523 665
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.58% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.75% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 337 365
10th Percentile £358 £313 £304
25th Percentile £428 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £625
90th Percentile £752 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 15 119
10th Percentile £27.85 £29.60 £40.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.00 £48.12
Median hourly rate £67.50 £52.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.81% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 £64.25
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £52.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +29.81% +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 45,351 29,931 33,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.42% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,028 18,763 21,568
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% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,760 1,659 1,891
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.30 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.10 £74.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.50 £41.25
% change year-on-year +87.06% -43.03% +3.13%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -68 491 £523 -0.48% 284
UK excluding London -61 340 £500 -2.44% 208
London -72 170 £525 -4.55% 104
Work from Home -95 141 £525 +5.00% 126
South East -48 99 £510 +2.00% 60
North of England -68 68 £500 +1.52% 41
South West -18 66 £525 -8.70% 52
Midlands -50 48 £477 -8.97% 16
West Midlands -55 47 £495 -5.58% 8
North West -52 39 £513 +5.67% 25
East of England -3 30 £718 +258.75% 17
Scotland -6 30 £535 +7.00% 15
Yorkshire -52 21 £500 - 10
North East -32 8 £413 - 6
Wales -7 7 £750 +76.47% 6
East Midlands -16 1 £385 -30.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 5

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 (3.51%) Confluence
2 18 (3.16%) SAS
3 14 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.93%) Apache
5 7 (1.23%) JBoss
6 6 (1.05%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.88%) Mattermost
7 5 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.70%) CMS
9 3 (0.53%) Appian
9 3 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.53%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.35%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.18%) IIS
11 1 (0.18%) nginx
11 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) CATIA
5 1 (0.18%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.18%) Houdini
5 1 (0.18%) NUKE
5 1 (0.18%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.18%) Weka
5 1 (0.18%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (1.23%) Teamcenter
2 6 (1.05%) Primavera
2 6 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.53%) LabWindows
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.35%) 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
1 142 (24.91%) Azure
2 130 (22.81%) AWS
3 65 (11.40%) GitHub
4 54 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (8.07%) GCP
6 44 (7.72%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (5.96%) Amazon EKS
8 33 (5.79%) OpenShift
9 32 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 27 (4.74%) Entra ID
11 21 (3.68%) PaaS
12 20 (3.51%) Azure AKS
13 19 (3.33%) Amazon S3
14 17 (2.98%) Datadog
14 17 (2.98%) Power Platform
15 16 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (2.63%) Serverless
17 13 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
18 12 (2.11%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.67%) DNS
2 22 (3.86%) Firewall
3 19 (3.33%) Network Security
4 17 (2.98%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.46%) VPN
6 13 (2.28%) DHCP
7 12 (2.11%) SSL
8 9 (1.58%) WAN
9 8 (1.40%) VLAN
10 6 (1.05%) HTTP
10 6 (1.05%) LAN
11 5 (0.88%) 5G
12 4 (0.70%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (0.70%) Internet
12 4 (0.70%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.70%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.70%) SNMP
13 3 (0.53%) BGP
13 3 (0.53%) OSPF
13 3 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.68%) Oracle Database
2 17 (2.98%) Power BI
3 14 (2.46%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 14 (2.46%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 13 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.93%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (1.58%) MySQL
7 8 (1.40%) Metadata
8 6 (1.05%) Big Data
8 6 (1.05%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.05%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 5 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.88%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.70%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.70%) Redis
11 3 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.53%) Base SAS
11 3 (0.53%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 70 (12.28%) Jenkins
2 66 (11.58%) Git
3 63 (11.05%) GitLab
4 46 (8.07%) JIRA
5 36 (6.32%) Rational DOORS
6 12 (2.11%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.40%) Rational Rhapsody
9 6 (1.05%) JUnit
9 6 (1.05%) Postman
9 6 (1.05%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.88%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.70%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.53%) Maven
12 3 (0.53%) Mockito
12 3 (0.53%) Selenium
12 3 (0.53%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.35%) LabVIEW
13 2 (0.35%) MSBuild
General
1 133 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 85 (14.91%) Finance
3 58 (10.18%) Public Sector
4 48 (8.42%) Aerospace
5 46 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.56%) Banking
7 10 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.75%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.58%) Military
9 8 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.05%) Retail
11 5 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.88%) Publishing
12 4 (0.70%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.70%) Marketing
13 3 (0.53%) Aviation
14 2 (0.35%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.35%) Law
14 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (12.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 65 (11.40%) Senior
3 45 (7.89%) Architect
4 40 (7.02%) Lead
5 29 (5.09%) Configuration Manager
6 28 (4.91%) Delivery Manager
7 27 (4.74%) Linux Engineer
7 27 (4.74%) Systems Manager
8 26 (4.56%) AWS Engineer
9 25 (4.39%) Product Manager
9 25 (4.39%) Systems Engineer
10 24 (4.21%) Analyst
11 22 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (3.86%) Product Delivery Manager
11 22 (3.86%) Software Engineer
12 21 (3.68%) Systems Delivery Manager
13 20 (3.51%) Cloud Engineer
14 18 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 16 (2.81%) AWS DevOps
15 16 (2.81%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.44%) REST
2 19 (3.33%) YAML
3 14 (2.46%) ARM Templates
3 14 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (2.28%) JSON
4 13 (2.28%) XML
5 12 (2.11%) Kafka
6 9 (1.58%) .NET
6 9 (1.58%) SOAP
7 8 (1.40%) Middleware
7 8 (1.40%) RESTful
7 8 (1.40%) Web Services
8 7 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.23%) React
9 6 (1.05%) Azure Blueprints
9 6 (1.05%) Django
9 6 (1.05%) Node.js
10 5 (0.88%) HTML
10 5 (0.88%) OAuth
10 5 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.70%) CMDB
2 51 (8.95%) Cloud Native
3 36 (6.32%) Product Ownership
4 34 (5.96%) Management Information System
5 24 (4.21%) Onboarding
6 23 (4.04%) Data Structures
7 20 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (3.16%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.63%) Data Centre
9 15 (2.63%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.58%) PKI
13 8 (1.40%) Clustering
13 8 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.40%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.40%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 140 (24.56%) Linux
2 80 (14.04%) Windows
3 53 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (5.09%) Ubuntu
5 28 (4.91%) Windows Server
6 21 (3.68%) Unix
7 11 (1.93%) Windows 10
8 6 (1.05%) Solaris
8 6 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.88%) Android
9 5 (0.88%) CentOS
10 4 (0.70%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.70%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.53%) Debian
12 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.35%) Rocky
12 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.18%) SUSE
13 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (34.56%) DevOps
2 180 (31.58%) CI/CD
3 158 (27.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 145 (25.44%) Agile
5 136 (23.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 94 (16.49%) Containerisation
7 90 (15.79%) ITIL
8 86 (15.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 85 (14.91%) Service Management
10 70 (12.28%) Platform Engineering
11 67 (11.75%) Observability
12 65 (11.40%) ITSM
13 62 (10.88%) Change Management
13 62 (10.88%) Test Automation
14 60 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
15 59 (10.35%) Roadmaps
16 58 (10.18%) Validation
17 55 (9.65%) Stakeholder Management
18 52 (9.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 52 (9.12%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 157 (27.54%) Python
2 95 (16.67%) Bash
3 66 (11.58%) PowerShell
4 33 (5.79%) SQL
5 31 (5.44%) Java
6 19 (3.33%) Bicep
6 19 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 13 (2.28%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.93%) C++
8 11 (1.93%) Go
9 10 (1.75%) C
9 10 (1.75%) Perl
9 10 (1.75%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.23%) Ruby
11 5 (0.88%) Ada
12 4 (0.70%) C#
13 3 (0.53%) Groovy
13 3 (0.53%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.53%) Scala
13 3 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 205 (35.96%) Security Cleared
2 128 (22.46%) SC Cleared
3 71 (12.46%) Degree
4 24 (4.21%) DV Cleared
5 21 (3.68%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.16%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (1.93%) CISSP
11 10 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (1.05%) CCNA
13 6 (1.05%) CCNP
13 6 (1.05%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.88%) RHCE
14 5 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 4 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.56%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.21%) QA
3 17 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.63%) SLA
5 14 (2.46%) NIST
6 11 (1.93%) GDPR
7 9 (1.58%) GRC
8 5 (0.88%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.70%) DO-254
9 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.70%) PMO
10 3 (0.53%) NCSC
10 3 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.35%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.18%) Def Stans
System Software
1 77 (13.51%) Docker
2 35 (6.14%) Active Directory
2 35 (6.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.58%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.40%) KVM
6 7 (1.23%) NFS
7 5 (0.88%) Firmware
7 5 (0.88%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.70%) Postfix
8 4 (0.70%) Varnish
9 3 (0.53%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.35%) Ceph
10 2 (0.35%) Corosync
10 2 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.18%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 167 (29.30%) Ansible
2 152 (26.67%) Terraform
3 116 (20.35%) Kubernetes
4 53 (9.30%) Grafana
5 51 (8.95%) Puppet
6 46 (8.07%) Prometheus
7 35 (6.14%) Progress Chef
8 14 (2.46%) Packer
9 9 (1.58%) Istio
10 8 (1.40%) Argo
10 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.40%) SCCM
11 7 (1.23%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.88%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
13 4 (0.70%) Podman
13 4 (0.70%) Salt
13 4 (0.70%) SELinux
13 4 (0.70%) systemd
Vendors
1 69 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 60 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 41 (7.19%) Oracle
4 38 (6.67%) VMware
5 36 (6.32%) IBM
6 32 (5.61%) Red Hat
7 25 (4.39%) Splunk
8 18 (3.16%) Google
9 15 (2.63%) Cisco
10 11 (1.93%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.75%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.75%) Snow
12 8 (1.40%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.40%) SaltStack
13 7 (1.23%) Commvault
13 7 (1.23%) Okta
13 7 (1.23%) SAP
13 7 (1.23%) Veritas
14 6 (1.05%) Qualys
14 6 (1.05%) Remedy