Configuration Management Contracts

Configuration Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Configuration Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Configuration Management over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 135 154
Rank change year-on-year -35 +19 +1
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 499 744 962
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 1.72% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 2.01% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 419 668
10th Percentile £313 £350 £354
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -2.65%
75th Percentile £601 £630 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 143 35
10th Percentile £35.00 £38.75 £31.52
25th Percentile £41.00 £41.10 £39.55
Median hourly rate £52.00 £50.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.04% +3.16%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.75 £58.04
90th Percentile - £70.00 £65.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.00 £50.00 £45.40
% change year-on-year +4.00% +10.13% -4.42%

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 28,883 36,949 50,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.68% 85.32% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,181 23,576 35,000
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,432 2,509 1,726
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.28
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.12 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.18
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -1.77% +46.83%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Top 16 Contract 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 6 July 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 -31 433 £525 -4.64% 405
UK excluding London -45 259 £500 -4.76% 296
London +22 188 £550 - 153
Work from Home -8 164 £500 -6.19% 173
South East +6 70 £500 -12.28% 111
North of England -3 64 £475 -3.11% 39
South West -17 43 £575 -1.71% 45
Midlands -8 37 £521 +43.23% 29
North West -2 32 £475 -11.63% 20
Yorkshire +9 31 £475 +4.28% 17
West Midlands -14 30 £498 +36.91% 17
Scotland -4 29 £500 +8.11% 32
East of England -29 17 £200 -60.00% 25
East Midlands +1 7 £550 +23.94% 12
North East -1 1 - - 2
Channel Islands - 1 £640 -

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (5.01%) Confluence
2 8 (1.60%) Apache
3 4 (0.80%) JBoss
3 4 (0.80%) nginx
3 4 (0.80%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.60%) CICS
5 2 (0.40%) IIS
5 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (3.21%) Windchill
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.20%) CATIA
5 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
1 6 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.00%) SAP SD
2 5 (1.00%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.40%) LabWindows
3 2 (0.40%) Shopify
4 1 (0.20%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.20%) Maximo
4 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.20%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 166 (33.27%) AWS
2 163 (32.67%) Azure
3 57 (11.42%) GCP
4 47 (9.42%) GitHub
5 39 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (6.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 33 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
8 31 (6.21%) OpenShift
9 29 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
10 23 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (3.81%) Amazon S3
11 19 (3.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 17 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (3.01%) Azure AKS
14 14 (2.81%) Entra ID
14 14 (2.81%) SaaS
15 13 (2.61%) PaaS
15 13 (2.61%) Serverless
16 12 (2.40%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (13.83%) Firewall
2 39 (7.82%) TCP/IP
3 36 (7.21%) DNS
4 29 (5.81%) HTTP
5 17 (3.41%) Network Security
6 15 (3.01%) BGP
6 15 (3.01%) VPN
7 12 (2.40%) OSPF
7 12 (2.40%) SSH
8 10 (2.00%) Internet
8 10 (2.00%) MPLS
9 9 (1.80%) SSL
10 8 (1.60%) FTP
10 8 (1.60%) SAN
10 8 (1.60%) SMTP
11 7 (1.40%) Multicast
11 7 (1.40%) VXLAN
12 6 (1.20%) DHCP
12 6 (1.20%) Ethernet VPN
12 6 (1.20%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.61%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.80%) Big Data
5 8 (1.60%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.20%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.20%) MySQL
7 5 (1.00%) MariaDB
7 5 (1.00%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.00%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.80%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.40%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.40%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.40%) DB2
9 2 (0.40%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.40%) IMS/DB
9 2 (0.40%) MemSQL
9 2 (0.40%) Metadata
9 2 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 139 (27.86%) Jenkins
2 98 (19.64%) Git
3 68 (13.63%) GitLab
4 58 (11.62%) JIRA
5 26 (5.21%) Bitbucket
6 23 (4.61%) SonarQube
7 18 (3.61%) Selenium
8 13 (2.61%) Cucumber
8 13 (2.61%) Postman
8 13 (2.61%) REST Assured
9 12 (2.40%) Artifactory
9 12 (2.40%) Vagrant
10 6 (1.20%) Terragrunt
11 5 (1.00%) CircleCI
11 5 (1.00%) LSMW
11 5 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.80%) JMeter
13 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
14 2 (0.40%) Ant
General
1 163 (32.67%) Social Skills
2 86 (17.23%) Finance
3 73 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.81%) Banking
6 14 (2.81%) Telecoms
7 12 (2.40%) Law
8 11 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.00%) Retail
10 9 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.40%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.40%) Electronics
11 7 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.20%) Police
13 5 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.00%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.00%) Legal
14 4 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.60%) Multimedia
16 2 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 83 (16.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (11.02%) Senior
3 44 (8.82%) Architect
4 39 (7.82%) Platform Engineer
5 37 (7.41%) Lead
6 32 (6.41%) Developer
7 30 (6.01%) AWS Engineer
8 27 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
9 26 (5.21%) Network Engineer
10 22 (4.41%) Software Engineer
11 21 (4.21%) AWS DevOps
12 20 (4.01%) Analyst
13 19 (3.81%) Linux Engineer
14 18 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.61%) Consultant
15 17 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
16 16 (3.21%) Technical Leader
17 15 (3.01%) Senior DevOps
17 15 (3.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 14 (2.81%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.22%) REST
2 37 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
3 21 (4.21%) SOAP
4 17 (3.41%) Middleware
5 16 (3.21%) Kafka
5 16 (3.21%) Web Services
6 13 (2.61%) Java EE
6 13 (2.61%) React
7 12 (2.40%) ARM Templates
8 10 (2.00%) LDAP
8 10 (2.00%) XML
9 9 (1.80%) CSS
9 9 (1.80%) HTML
9 9 (1.80%) RFC 2544
10 6 (1.20%) RESTful
11 5 (1.00%) Ajax
11 5 (1.00%) BAPI
11 5 (1.00%) EDI
11 5 (1.00%) JSON
11 5 (1.00%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.42%) CMDB
2 33 (6.61%) Data Centre
3 24 (4.81%) Management Information System
4 22 (4.41%) Private Cloud
5 21 (4.21%) Cloud Native
6 17 (3.41%) Replication
7 16 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (3.01%) Public Cloud
9 13 (2.61%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (2.00%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.60%) Hedge funds
12 7 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.20%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.20%) Security Posture
14 5 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
15 4 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 135 (27.05%) Linux
2 89 (17.84%) Windows
3 34 (6.81%) Windows Server
4 22 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (4.41%) Unix
5 19 (3.81%) Ubuntu
6 14 (2.81%) VMS
7 9 (1.80%) CentOS
8 8 (1.60%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (1.40%) Debian
10 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.60%) AIX
11 3 (0.60%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.60%) Rocky
11 3 (0.60%) Solaris
11 3 (0.60%) SUSE
11 3 (0.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.60%) zOS
12 2 (0.40%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (45.29%) DevOps
2 147 (29.46%) CI/CD
3 141 (28.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 124 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
5 111 (22.24%) Agile
6 103 (20.64%) Containerisation
7 71 (14.23%) ITIL
8 70 (14.03%) Service Management
9 68 (13.63%) Migration
10 66 (13.23%) Software Engineering
11 58 (11.62%) Infrastructure Automation
12 55 (11.02%) Continuous Integration
13 51 (10.22%) ITSM
14 48 (9.62%) Platform Engineering
15 46 (9.22%) Test Automation
16 45 (9.02%) Deployment Automation
17 39 (7.82%) High Availability
18 38 (7.62%) Change Management
18 38 (7.62%) Problem Management
19 33 (6.61%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 203 (40.68%) Python
2 103 (20.64%) PowerShell
3 78 (15.63%) Bash
4 60 (12.02%) Java
5 53 (10.62%) SQL
6 31 (6.21%) JavaScript
7 28 (5.61%) Go
8 19 (3.81%) C#
9 15 (3.01%) Groovy
10 14 (2.81%) Perl
11 12 (2.40%) Ruby
11 12 (2.40%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.80%) Bicep
13 5 (1.00%) ABAP
13 5 (1.00%) C
13 5 (1.00%) REXX
14 4 (0.80%) Korn
15 3 (0.60%) C++
15 3 (0.60%) JCL
15 3 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 174 (34.87%) Security Cleared
2 143 (28.66%) SC Cleared
3 36 (7.21%) Degree
4 27 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (5.01%) CCNP
6 19 (3.81%) DV Cleared
7 18 (3.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 13 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (2.20%) AWS Certification
9 11 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (2.20%) OCA
9 11 (2.20%) Oracle Certification
9 11 (2.20%) RHCE
10 10 (2.00%) RHCA
11 9 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.00%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.80%) CCIE
14 4 (0.80%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.61%) QA
2 13 (2.61%) SLA
3 10 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.80%) NIST
5 8 (1.60%) GDPR
6 6 (1.20%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.40%) ARP4754
8 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 19770
8 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.20%) DO-254
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.20%) PMO
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 95 (19.04%) Docker
2 36 (7.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (5.01%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.40%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 6 (1.20%) DFS Replication
6 4 (0.80%) iptables
6 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.60%) FreeRADIUS
7 3 (0.60%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.40%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.40%) Postfix
8 2 (0.40%) Squid
8 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.40%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.20%) Firmware
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.20%) NFS
Systems Management
1 207 (41.48%) Ansible
2 172 (34.47%) Terraform
3 146 (29.26%) Kubernetes
4 98 (19.64%) Puppet
5 64 (12.83%) Progress Chef
6 51 (10.22%) Grafana
7 50 (10.02%) Prometheus
8 23 (4.61%) SCCM
9 16 (3.21%) Podman
10 14 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (2.20%) vCenter Server
12 10 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Clustering
13 8 (1.60%) Nagios
14 7 (1.40%) Kustomize
15 6 (1.20%) Argo
15 6 (1.20%) Consul
15 6 (1.20%) Istio
16 5 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
16 5 (1.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 59 (11.82%) VMware
2 58 (11.62%) ServiceNow
3 49 (9.82%) Microsoft
4 37 (7.41%) Cisco
5 36 (7.21%) Red Hat
6 26 (5.21%) Oracle
7 21 (4.21%) Splunk
8 15 (3.01%) MuleSoft
9 12 (2.40%) Google
9 12 (2.40%) SAP
10 11 (2.20%) Databricks
10 11 (2.20%) Fortinet
11 10 (2.00%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.80%) BMC
12 9 (1.80%) Juniper
13 7 (1.40%) SolarWinds
14 6 (1.20%) Arista
14 6 (1.20%) IBM
14 6 (1.20%) Remedy
14 6 (1.20%) Salesforce