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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 183 157
Rank change year-on-year -55 -26 +7
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 615 500 602
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.52% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.68% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 319 326
10th Percentile £350 £313 £300
25th Percentile £443 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -7.08%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £625
90th Percentile £725 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £515 £505
% change year-on-year +1.46% +1.98% -8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 16 77
10th Percentile £23.85 £13.66 £29.42
25th Percentile £41.41 £22.39 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £41.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.48% -16.50% -14.89%
75th Percentile £74.00 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.00 £64.38 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £41.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +59.28% -16.50% -14.89%

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 46,112 29,840 32,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.46% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,098 18,520 20,299
10th Percentile £325 £300 £312
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,038 1,780 1,507
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.38 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +76.89% -47.37% +8.65%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -40 528 £525 +0.77% 381
UK excluding London -55 365 £523 +1.46% 290
London -55 188 £550 +2.33% 138
Work from Home -67 161 £525 +2.44% 154
North of England -51 90 £492 -1.60% 44
South East -43 79 £525 +4.90% 80
South West -21 70 £550 +4.76% 68
Midlands -65 53 £477 -8.00% 23
West Midlands -52 52 £477 -7.69% 11
North West -34 48 £463 -2.63% 21
East of England -8 39 £510 +50.00% 47
Scotland -39 35 £525 +2.09% 24
Yorkshire -56 29 £500 -2.44% 19
North East -34 13 £485 - 4
Wales -5 7 £750 +76.47% 6
East Midlands -17 1 £385 -40.77% 12
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 16 (2.60%) Confluence
2 14 (2.28%) SAS
3 13 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.46%) JBoss
5 8 (1.30%) Apache
6 5 (0.81%) CMS
7 4 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.49%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.49%) Appian
8 3 (0.49%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.33%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.33%) IIS
9 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.33%) nginx
9 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.16%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.16%) CATIA
6 1 (0.16%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.16%) Houdini
6 1 (0.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.16%) NUKE
6 1 (0.16%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.16%) Weka
6 1 (0.16%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.30%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.98%) Primavera
3 4 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.16%) ENOVIA
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.16%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 155 (25.20%) Azure
2 153 (24.88%) AWS
3 62 (10.08%) GitHub
4 61 (9.92%) GCP
5 54 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (8.13%) GitHub Actions
7 46 (7.48%) Amazon EKS
8 39 (6.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 32 (5.20%) Entra ID
9 32 (5.20%) OpenShift
10 31 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (3.74%) Azure AKS
12 22 (3.58%) Amazon S3
13 21 (3.41%) Serverless
14 20 (3.25%) Datadog
15 19 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (2.93%) IaaS
16 18 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (2.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (6.83%) DNS
2 30 (4.88%) Firewall
3 29 (4.72%) Network Security
4 20 (3.25%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.28%) DHCP
5 14 (2.28%) SSL
6 13 (2.11%) VPN
7 11 (1.79%) HTTP
7 11 (1.79%) VLAN
8 10 (1.63%) WAN
9 8 (1.30%) Kerberos
10 7 (1.14%) LAN
11 6 (0.98%) BGP
11 6 (0.98%) SAN
12 5 (0.81%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.65%) Broadband
13 4 (0.65%) Internet
13 4 (0.65%) NAS
13 4 (0.65%) OSPF
13 4 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.93%) Oracle Database
2 16 (2.60%) Power BI
3 14 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 13 (2.11%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 10 (1.63%) Metadata
5 10 (1.63%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.46%) MySQL
7 7 (1.14%) Big Data
8 6 (0.98%) Hadoop
8 6 (0.98%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.98%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.65%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.65%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.65%) Redis
9 4 (0.65%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 3 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 76 (12.36%) GitLab
2 71 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 67 (10.89%) Git
4 43 (6.99%) JIRA
5 18 (2.93%) Rational DOORS
6 11 (1.79%) Rational Rhapsody
7 10 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.14%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.98%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.98%) JUnit
9 6 (0.98%) Postman
10 5 (0.81%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.65%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.49%) Maven
12 3 (0.49%) Mockito
12 3 (0.49%) Selenium
12 3 (0.49%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.33%) LabVIEW
13 2 (0.33%) MSBuild
13 2 (0.33%) NUnit
General
1 163 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 105 (17.07%) Finance
3 62 (10.08%) Public Sector
4 60 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.39%) Aerospace
6 24 (3.90%) Banking
7 17 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.76%) Manufacturing
8 10 (1.63%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.46%) Military
10 6 (0.98%) Aviation
10 6 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.81%) Publishing
11 5 (0.81%) Retail
12 4 (0.65%) Automotive
12 4 (0.65%) Law
12 4 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 87 (14.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (11.71%) Senior
3 63 (10.24%) Architect
4 41 (6.67%) Lead
5 34 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
6 33 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (5.04%) Linux Engineer
8 27 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 27 (4.39%) Systems Engineer
9 24 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (3.58%) Configuration Manager
11 21 (3.41%) AWS DevOps
11 21 (3.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 20 (3.25%) Analyst
13 19 (3.09%) Security Engineer
14 18 (2.93%) Delivery Manager
14 18 (2.93%) Security Architect
15 17 (2.76%) Administrator
15 17 (2.76%) Software Engineer
16 16 (2.60%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (28.78%) Terraform
2 29 (4.72%) REST
3 21 (3.41%) Kafka
4 20 (3.25%) YAML
5 15 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (2.28%) ARM Templates
7 11 (1.79%) XML
8 10 (1.63%) .NET
8 10 (1.63%) JSON
8 10 (1.63%) Middleware
9 8 (1.30%) Azure Blueprints
9 8 (1.30%) React
9 8 (1.30%) RESTful
9 8 (1.30%) SOAP
10 7 (1.14%) Django
10 7 (1.14%) OAuth
10 7 (1.14%) Web Services
11 6 (0.98%) Flask
11 6 (0.98%) HTML
11 6 (0.98%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 82 (13.33%) CMDB
2 55 (8.94%) Cloud Native
3 35 (5.69%) Onboarding
4 32 (5.20%) Security Posture
5 29 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (4.72%) Management Information System
6 27 (4.39%) Private Cloud
7 26 (4.23%) Product Ownership
8 24 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (3.41%) Data Centre
10 16 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (2.44%) Public Cloud
12 13 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (2.11%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.95%) Clustering
14 8 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.30%) PKI
15 7 (1.14%) Operational Technology
16 6 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 165 (26.83%) Linux
2 99 (16.10%) Windows
3 66 (10.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (6.34%) Windows Server
5 32 (5.20%) Unix
6 25 (4.07%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.79%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.14%) Solaris
8 7 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.81%) Android
9 5 (0.81%) CentOS
10 4 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.65%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.65%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.49%) Debian
11 3 (0.49%) VMS
12 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.16%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (36.26%) DevOps
2 222 (36.10%) CI/CD
3 214 (34.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 144 (23.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 121 (19.67%) Agile
6 114 (18.54%) Containerisation
7 105 (17.07%) ITIL
8 94 (15.28%) Observability
8 94 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
9 90 (14.63%) Change Management
10 87 (14.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 81 (13.17%) Service Management
12 79 (12.85%) Stakeholder Management
13 77 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
13 77 (12.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 76 (12.36%) Validation
15 68 (11.06%) Test Automation
16 67 (10.89%) Root Cause Analysis
17 65 (10.57%) Infrastructure Automation
17 65 (10.57%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 189 (30.73%) Python
2 102 (16.59%) Bash
3 83 (13.50%) PowerShell
4 36 (5.85%) SQL
5 34 (5.53%) Java
6 30 (4.88%) Shell Script
7 23 (3.74%) Perl
8 20 (3.25%) Bicep
9 18 (2.93%) C++
10 14 (2.28%) Go
11 13 (2.11%) C
11 13 (2.11%) JavaScript
12 8 (1.30%) Ada
12 8 (1.30%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.98%) Ruby
14 5 (0.81%) Groovy
15 4 (0.65%) C#
16 3 (0.49%) Korn
16 3 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
16 3 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 208 (33.82%) Security Cleared
2 142 (23.09%) SC Cleared
3 64 (10.41%) Degree
4 38 (6.18%) DV Cleared
5 31 (5.04%) AWS Certification
6 25 (4.07%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.60%) CISSP
8 15 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (1.30%) CCNA
12 8 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 7 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.98%) CCNP
14 6 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.81%) GCIH
16 4 (0.65%) ISSAP
16 4 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.88%) QA
2 29 (4.72%) Data Quality
3 27 (4.39%) SLA
4 18 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (2.76%) NIST
6 11 (1.79%) GDPR
6 11 (1.79%) GRC
7 7 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.98%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.81%) NCSC
10 4 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.49%) MISRA
11 3 (0.49%) MISRA C
11 3 (0.49%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.33%) DO-254
12 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 2 (0.33%) PMO
12 2 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 87 (14.15%) Docker
2 55 (8.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (8.46%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.63%) KVM
6 9 (1.46%) Hyper-V
7 8 (1.30%) Firmware
7 8 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.98%) NFS
9 5 (0.81%) VMware Workstation
10 4 (0.65%) Postfix
10 4 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.49%) Varnish
12 2 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.33%) Ceph
12 2 (0.33%) Corosync
12 2 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.33%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 185 (30.08%) Ansible
2 138 (22.44%) Kubernetes
3 56 (9.11%) Grafana
4 52 (8.46%) Puppet
5 50 (8.13%) Prometheus
6 46 (7.48%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.93%) SCCM
8 15 (2.44%) Packer
9 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.46%) Istio
10 9 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.98%) Argo
12 6 (0.98%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.81%) Salt
14 4 (0.65%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.65%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.65%) Podman
15 3 (0.49%) CASB
Vendors
1 95 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 79 (12.85%) ServiceNow
3 64 (10.41%) VMware
4 40 (6.50%) Oracle
4 40 (6.50%) Red Hat
5 33 (5.37%) Google
6 31 (5.04%) Splunk
7 22 (3.58%) Cisco
7 22 (3.58%) IBM
8 18 (2.93%) Snow
9 17 (2.76%) SaltStack
10 12 (1.95%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.63%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.30%) BMC
12 8 (1.30%) F5
12 8 (1.30%) Okta
12 8 (1.30%) Siemens
13 7 (1.14%) SAP
14 6 (0.98%) Databricks
14 6 (0.98%) Qualys