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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 194 163
Rank change year-on-year -28 -31 -2
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 676 480 585
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.24% 1.45% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.60% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 301 322
10th Percentile £357 £350 £289
25th Percentile £448 £450 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £610
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +0.10% +10.42% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 23 46
10th Percentile £25.59 £13.08 £22.13
25th Percentile £37.69 £13.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.50 £41.00 £55.33
Median % change year-on-year +57.32% -25.89% +13.56%
75th Percentile £72.63 £61.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.00 £63.75 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £41.00 £55.65
% change year-on-year +52.44% -26.33% +14.22%

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 46,170 29,963 32,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.61% 90.48% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,721 18,625 19,646
10th Percentile £325 £295 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,354 1,887 1,283
10th Percentile £13.53 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -9.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.65 £65.06 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -7.99%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -24 583 £525 - 728
UK excluding London -25 405 £525 +0.10% 498
London -39 209 £525 -11.58% 255
Work from Home -46 166 £501 -1.04% 292
North of England -51 94 £474 -7.55% 60
South East -34 86 £550 +6.90% 148
South West +5 78 £540 +2.86% 88
East of England +9 54 £550 -10.20% 79
North West -24 50 £463 -3.65% 37
Scotland -13 42 £500 - 63
Midlands -69 42 £470 -10.39% 49
West Midlands -74 39 £475 -9.44% 28
Yorkshire -39 34 £500 -3.85% 14
Wales -3 10 £600 +41.18% 13
North East -31 10 £470 -6.00% 9
East Midlands - 3 £418 - 21
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 20 (2.96%) Confluence
2 10 (1.48%) JBoss
3 9 (1.33%) Apache
4 7 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.04%) SAS
5 5 (0.74%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.59%) CMS
6 4 (0.59%) nginx
6 4 (0.59%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.44%) Appian
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.30%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.30%) FactoryTalk
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.15%) WinCC
Applications
1 13 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.15%) CATIA
6 1 (0.15%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.15%) Houdini
6 1 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) NUKE
6 1 (0.15%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.15%) Weka
6 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (1.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (1.33%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.89%) Primavera
4 3 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.15%) ENOVIA
5 1 (0.15%) Maximo
5 1 (0.15%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 164 (24.26%) AWS
2 160 (23.67%) Azure
3 79 (11.69%) GCP
4 75 (11.09%) GitHub
5 60 (8.88%) GitHub Actions
6 55 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (7.54%) Amazon EKS
8 43 (6.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 37 (5.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 34 (5.03%) Entra ID
11 32 (4.73%) OpenShift
12 26 (3.85%) Amazon S3
13 25 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (3.55%) Azure AKS
14 24 (3.55%) Datadog
15 23 (3.40%) Power Platform
16 21 (3.11%) Serverless
16 21 (3.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 20 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (2.96%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.66%) DNS
2 37 (5.47%) Firewall
3 33 (4.88%) Network Security
4 24 (3.55%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.81%) VPN
6 17 (2.51%) SSL
7 16 (2.37%) DHCP
8 12 (1.78%) WAN
9 11 (1.63%) HTTP
9 11 (1.63%) VLAN
10 9 (1.33%) BGP
11 8 (1.18%) Kerberos
12 7 (1.04%) Ethernet
12 7 (1.04%) Internet
12 7 (1.04%) LAN
12 7 (1.04%) SAN
12 7 (1.04%) Wireless
13 6 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.89%) MPLS
13 6 (0.89%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.11%) Power BI
2 19 (2.81%) Metadata
3 17 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (1.92%) BigQuery
4 13 (1.92%) Oracle Database
4 13 (1.92%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.48%) MySQL
7 9 (1.33%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.18%) Looker
9 7 (1.04%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 6 (0.89%) Big Data
10 6 (0.89%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.89%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.89%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 4 (0.59%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.59%) Redis
12 3 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 77 (11.39%) Git
2 76 (11.24%) GitLab
3 75 (11.09%) Jenkins
4 49 (7.25%) JIRA
5 16 (2.37%) Rational DOORS
6 13 (1.92%) Rational Rhapsody
7 12 (1.78%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (1.48%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.59%) JUnit
10 4 (0.59%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.44%) Maven
11 3 (0.44%) Mockito
12 2 (0.30%) Ant
12 2 (0.30%) MSBuild
13 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.15%) LabVIEW
13 1 (0.15%) Selenium
13 1 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 189 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 107 (15.83%) Finance
3 72 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 41 (6.07%) Aerospace
6 28 (4.14%) Banking
6 28 (4.14%) Manufacturing
7 14 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.07%) Military
7 14 (2.07%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.18%) Automotive
10 8 (1.18%) Electronics
11 7 (1.04%) Avionics
11 7 (1.04%) Law
12 6 (0.89%) Aviation
12 6 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 85 (12.57%) Senior
2 80 (11.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 73 (10.80%) Architect
4 40 (5.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 40 (5.92%) Lead
5 37 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (5.47%) Linux Engineer
6 35 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 28 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
8 26 (3.85%) Configuration Manager
8 26 (3.85%) Windows Engineer
9 25 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
10 24 (3.55%) Automation Engineer
10 24 (3.55%) Security Engineer
11 22 (3.25%) AWS DevOps
11 22 (3.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 21 (3.11%) Delivery Manager
12 21 (3.11%) Developer
13 20 (2.96%) Analyst
14 19 (2.81%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (28.70%) Terraform
2 36 (5.33%) REST
3 28 (4.14%) Kafka
4 22 (3.25%) Middleware
5 16 (2.37%) YAML
6 15 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (2.07%) JSON
8 13 (1.92%) XML
9 12 (1.78%) OAuth
10 11 (1.63%) ARM Templates
11 10 (1.48%) React
12 9 (1.33%) .NET
12 9 (1.33%) Django
12 9 (1.33%) SOAP
13 8 (1.18%) Azure Blueprints
13 8 (1.18%) OpenID
13 8 (1.18%) Web Services
14 6 (0.89%) Node.js
14 6 (0.89%) OAuth2
14 6 (0.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 86 (12.72%) CMDB
2 53 (7.84%) Cloud Native
3 44 (6.51%) Security Posture
4 43 (6.36%) Onboarding
5 42 (6.21%) Private Cloud
6 39 (5.77%) Management Information System
7 37 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
8 36 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (3.55%) Data Centre
10 22 (3.25%) Product Ownership
11 16 (2.37%) Public Cloud
12 15 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (2.07%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.48%) Clustering
14 10 (1.48%) PKI
15 8 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (1.04%) Robotics
16 7 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 192 (28.40%) Linux
2 131 (19.38%) Windows
3 71 (10.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 48 (7.10%) Windows Server
5 33 (4.88%) Unix
6 24 (3.55%) Ubuntu
7 14 (2.07%) Windows 10
8 9 (1.33%) Solaris
8 9 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.89%) CentOS
9 6 (0.89%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.59%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.44%) Android
11 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.44%) macOS
11 3 (0.44%) VMS
12 2 (0.30%) AIX
12 2 (0.30%) Debian
12 2 (0.30%) SUSE
12 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (36.39%) Infrastructure as Code
2 245 (36.24%) CI/CD
3 225 (33.28%) DevOps
4 170 (25.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 120 (17.75%) ITIL
6 115 (17.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 114 (16.86%) Agile
8 112 (16.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 109 (16.12%) Observability
9 109 (16.12%) Platform Engineering
10 108 (15.98%) Containerisation
11 104 (15.38%) Change Management
12 100 (14.79%) Service Management
13 99 (14.64%) Validation
14 92 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
15 83 (12.28%) Root Cause Analysis
16 78 (11.54%) Roadmaps
17 75 (11.09%) ITSM
18 73 (10.80%) Infrastructure Automation
18 73 (10.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 220 (32.54%) Python
2 118 (17.46%) Bash
3 103 (15.24%) PowerShell
4 49 (7.25%) SQL
5 38 (5.62%) Java
6 30 (4.44%) Shell Script
7 29 (4.29%) Perl
8 23 (3.40%) JavaScript
9 22 (3.25%) Bicep
10 21 (3.11%) C++
11 17 (2.51%) Go
12 15 (2.22%) C
13 9 (1.33%) Ada
14 6 (0.89%) C#
15 5 (0.74%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (0.74%) Groovy
16 4 (0.59%) Korn
16 4 (0.59%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.59%) Ruby
16 4 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 239 (35.36%) Security Cleared
2 154 (22.78%) SC Cleared
3 67 (9.91%) Degree
4 58 (8.58%) DV Cleared
5 32 (4.73%) AWS Certification
6 24 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (2.81%) Azure Certification
8 17 (2.51%) CISSP
9 16 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (1.33%) CCNA
14 8 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 6 (0.89%) CCNP
16 5 (0.74%) CISM
16 5 (0.74%) GCIH
16 5 (0.74%) GIAC
16 5 (0.74%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.62%) SLA
2 35 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 31 (4.59%) QA
4 21 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.81%) NIST
6 10 (1.48%) GDPR
6 10 (1.48%) GRC
7 9 (1.33%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.18%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.74%) MISRA
10 5 (0.74%) MISRA C
10 5 (0.74%) NCSC
11 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.44%) PMO
12 3 (0.44%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 84 (12.43%) Docker
2 66 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (9.32%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (2.22%) Firmware
6 13 (1.92%) Hyper-V
7 12 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.18%) KVM
10 5 (0.74%) NFS
10 5 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
11 4 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.44%) Postfix
13 2 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.30%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.30%) Ceph
13 2 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.30%) NDS
13 2 (0.30%) NetIQ eDirectory
13 2 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 202 (29.88%) Ansible
2 147 (21.75%) Kubernetes
3 58 (8.58%) Grafana
4 53 (7.84%) Puppet
5 51 (7.54%) Prometheus
6 47 (6.95%) Progress Chef
7 20 (2.96%) SCCM
8 15 (2.22%) Packer
9 12 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.33%) Istio
10 9 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.18%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.89%) Argo
12 6 (0.89%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (0.74%) Salt
13 5 (0.74%) systemd
14 4 (0.59%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.59%) logstash
14 4 (0.59%) Podman
15 3 (0.44%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 116 (17.16%) Microsoft
2 89 (13.17%) ServiceNow
3 79 (11.69%) VMware
4 44 (6.51%) Google
5 40 (5.92%) Red Hat
6 34 (5.03%) Splunk
7 29 (4.29%) Oracle
8 25 (3.70%) SaltStack
9 24 (3.55%) Cisco
10 22 (3.25%) IBM
11 17 (2.51%) Dynatrace
12 14 (2.07%) Remedy
12 14 (2.07%) Snow
13 12 (1.78%) Qualys
14 11 (1.63%) Tenable
15 10 (1.48%) Rapid7
15 10 (1.48%) Siemens
16 8 (1.18%) BMC
16 8 (1.18%) F5
16 8 (1.18%) Okta