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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 179 137
Rank change year-on-year -72 -42 +17
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 549 527 690
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.60% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.77% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 339 386
10th Percentile £352 £315 £323
25th Percentile £427 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -2.55% -2.05%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £627
90th Percentile £762 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £513 £540
% change year-on-year - -5.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 15 124
10th Percentile £28.57 £29.60 £40.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.00 £44.08
Median hourly rate £66.50 £52.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.88% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 £64.25
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £52.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.88% +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 44,856 29,798 34,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.42% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,798 18,719 22,071
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,670 1,616 2,026
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.56
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.33 £17.55
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.38 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.38 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.82 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.59% -40.46% -

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 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -73 472 £525 - 198
UK excluding London -59 329 £513 - 146
London -83 161 £525 -4.55% 74
Work from Home -76 140 £525 +5.00% 74
South East -49 96 £475 -5.00% 47
South West -19 66 £525 -8.70% 32
North of England -77 65 £500 +1.52% 34
Midlands -55 43 £525 +0.19% 12
West Midlands -50 42 £525 +0.19% 7
North West -47 38 £525 +8.25% 20
East of England -7 31 £718 +258.75% 9
Scotland -3 29 £550 +10.00% 8
Yorkshire -58 19 £500 - 8
North East -33 8 £413 - 6
Wales -7 7 £750 +76.47% 5
East Midlands -16 1 £385 -30.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 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 (3.64%) Confluence
2 18 (3.28%) SAS
3 14 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (2.00%) Apache
5 6 (1.09%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.09%) JBoss
6 5 (0.91%) Mattermost
6 5 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.73%) CMS
8 3 (0.55%) Appian
8 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.55%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.36%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.36%) CATIA
6 1 (0.18%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.18%) Houdini
6 1 (0.18%) NUKE
6 1 (0.18%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.18%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.18%) Weka
6 1 (0.18%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (1.64%) Teamcenter
2 6 (1.09%) Primavera
2 6 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.55%) LabWindows
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.36%) 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
1 132 (24.04%) Azure
2 125 (22.77%) AWS
3 59 (10.75%) GitHub
4 49 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (7.29%) GCP
6 37 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (6.56%) OpenShift
8 29 (5.28%) Amazon EKS
9 28 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (4.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (4.19%) Entra ID
11 21 (3.83%) PaaS
12 20 (3.64%) Amazon S3
13 19 (3.46%) Power Platform
14 18 (3.28%) Azure AKS
15 17 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (2.73%) Serverless
17 13 (2.37%) Datadog
18 12 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
19 11 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.92%) DNS
2 21 (3.83%) Firewall
3 18 (3.28%) Network Security
4 16 (2.91%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.55%) VPN
6 12 (2.19%) DHCP
6 12 (2.19%) SSL
7 9 (1.64%) WAN
8 7 (1.28%) VLAN
9 5 (0.91%) 5G
9 5 (0.91%) HTTP
9 5 (0.91%) LAN
10 4 (0.73%) Internet
10 4 (0.73%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.55%) 4G
11 3 (0.55%) BGP
11 3 (0.55%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.55%) OSPF
11 3 (0.55%) SNMP
11 3 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.83%) Oracle Database
2 19 (3.46%) Power BI
3 14 (2.55%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 14 (2.55%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 12 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.82%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.46%) Metadata
7 7 (1.28%) MySQL
8 6 (1.09%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 5 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.91%) Big Data
9 5 (0.91%) Redis
10 4 (0.73%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.73%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.55%) Base SAS
11 3 (0.55%) Data Mart
11 3 (0.55%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 64 (11.66%) Jenkins
2 59 (10.75%) GitLab
3 58 (10.56%) Git
4 45 (8.20%) JIRA
5 35 (6.38%) Rational DOORS
6 11 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.46%) Rational Rhapsody
9 6 (1.09%) Postman
9 6 (1.09%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.91%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.91%) JUnit
11 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.55%) Maven
12 3 (0.55%) Selenium
12 3 (0.55%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.36%) LabVIEW
13 2 (0.36%) Mockito
13 2 (0.36%) MSBuild
13 2 (0.36%) NUnit
General
1 126 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 78 (14.21%) Finance
3 59 (10.75%) Public Sector
4 48 (8.74%) Aerospace
5 41 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (4.55%) Banking
7 10 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.82%) Military
8 8 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.46%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.09%) Retail
10 5 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.91%) Publishing
11 4 (0.73%) Marketing
12 3 (0.55%) Aviation
13 2 (0.36%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.36%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (12.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 60 (10.93%) Senior
3 42 (7.65%) Architect
4 34 (6.19%) Lead
5 31 (5.65%) Configuration Manager
6 27 (4.92%) Delivery Manager
6 27 (4.92%) Systems Manager
7 25 (4.55%) Analyst
7 25 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (4.37%) Product Manager
9 22 (4.01%) Linux Engineer
9 22 (4.01%) Software Engineer
10 21 (3.83%) Product Delivery Manager
10 21 (3.83%) Systems Delivery Manager
11 20 (3.64%) Systems Engineer
12 19 (3.46%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
14 16 (2.91%) AWS DevOps
14 16 (2.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 16 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.28%) REST
2 19 (3.46%) YAML
3 14 (2.55%) ARM Templates
3 14 (2.55%) JSON
4 13 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (2.19%) XML
6 11 (2.00%) Kafka
7 8 (1.46%) .NET
7 8 (1.46%) Middleware
7 8 (1.46%) RESTful
7 8 (1.46%) SOAP
7 8 (1.46%) Web Services
8 7 (1.28%) Node.js
8 7 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.28%) React
9 6 (1.09%) Azure Blueprints
9 6 (1.09%) Django
10 5 (0.91%) Loki
10 5 (0.91%) OAuth
10 5 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.93%) CMDB
2 46 (8.38%) Cloud Native
3 36 (6.56%) Product Ownership
4 34 (6.19%) Management Information System
5 23 (4.19%) Data Structures
6 22 (4.01%) Onboarding
7 20 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (3.10%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.73%) Public Cloud
10 14 (2.55%) Data Centre
11 13 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (1.28%) Clustering
15 7 (1.28%) PKI
16 5 (0.91%) Replication
16 5 (0.91%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 134 (24.41%) Linux
2 79 (14.39%) Windows
3 49 (8.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (5.10%) Ubuntu
5 25 (4.55%) Windows Server
6 17 (3.10%) Unix
7 11 (2.00%) Windows 10
8 6 (1.09%) Solaris
8 6 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.91%) CentOS
10 4 (0.73%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.73%) Android
10 4 (0.73%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.55%) Debian
12 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.36%) Rocky
12 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (34.79%) DevOps
2 169 (30.78%) CI/CD
3 145 (26.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 138 (25.14%) Agile
5 129 (23.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 87 (15.85%) Containerisation
6 87 (15.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 85 (15.48%) ITIL
7 85 (15.48%) Service Management
8 66 (12.02%) ITSM
9 62 (11.29%) Observability
9 62 (11.29%) Platform Engineering
10 59 (10.75%) Change Management
10 59 (10.75%) Roadmaps
11 57 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (10.02%) Test Automation
13 53 (9.65%) Validation
14 52 (9.47%) Migration
15 51 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
16 49 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 152 (27.69%) Python
2 94 (17.12%) Bash
3 63 (11.48%) PowerShell
4 30 (5.46%) SQL
5 29 (5.28%) Java
6 20 (3.64%) Shell Script
7 19 (3.46%) Bicep
8 13 (2.37%) JavaScript
9 11 (2.00%) Go
10 10 (1.82%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.46%) C++
12 7 (1.28%) C
12 7 (1.28%) Perl
12 7 (1.28%) Ruby
13 5 (0.91%) Ada
14 4 (0.73%) C#
15 3 (0.55%) Groovy
15 3 (0.55%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.55%) Scala
15 3 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 204 (37.16%) Security Cleared
2 126 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 65 (11.84%) Degree
4 25 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.28%) AWS Certification
5 18 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.82%) CISSP
10 7 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (1.09%) CCNP
11 6 (1.09%) RHCE
12 5 (0.91%) CCNA
12 5 (0.91%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.73%) ISSAP
13 4 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.46%) QA
3 18 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.37%) NIST
4 13 (2.37%) SLA
5 10 (1.82%) GDPR
6 8 (1.46%) GRC
7 5 (0.91%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.55%) NCSC
8 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.55%) PMO
9 2 (0.36%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.36%) DO-254
9 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.36%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.36%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 71 (12.93%) Docker
2 34 (6.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (5.83%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.46%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.46%) KVM
6 7 (1.28%) NFS
7 5 (0.91%) Firmware
7 5 (0.91%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.73%) Postfix
8 4 (0.73%) Varnish
9 3 (0.55%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.36%) Ceph
10 2 (0.36%) Corosync
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.36%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.18%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 164 (29.87%) Ansible
2 144 (26.23%) Terraform
3 108 (19.67%) Kubernetes
4 52 (9.47%) Grafana
5 48 (8.74%) Prometheus
6 46 (8.38%) Puppet
7 31 (5.65%) Progress Chef
8 14 (2.55%) Packer
9 8 (1.46%) Argo
9 8 (1.46%) SCCM
10 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.28%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.91%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.91%) Istio
11 5 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.73%) Data Guard
12 4 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.73%) Podman
12 4 (0.73%) SELinux
12 4 (0.73%) systemd
Vendors
1 63 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 57 (10.38%) ServiceNow
3 40 (7.29%) Oracle
4 37 (6.74%) VMware
5 35 (6.38%) IBM
6 30 (5.46%) Red Hat
7 21 (3.83%) Splunk
8 15 (2.73%) Google
9 13 (2.37%) Cisco
10 9 (1.64%) Snow
11 8 (1.46%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.46%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.46%) SAP
12 7 (1.28%) Commvault
12 7 (1.28%) Okta
12 7 (1.28%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.28%) Veritas
13 6 (1.09%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.09%) Qualys
13 6 (1.09%) Remedy