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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 178 136
Rank change year-on-year -59 -42 +22
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 521 467 752
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.56% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.72% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 302 434
10th Percentile £347 £341 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £602 £602 £643
90th Percentile £750 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 17 144
10th Percentile £32.40 £37.00 £38.75
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.00 £40.94
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -0.83%
75th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 £61.30
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.25 £52.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +12.02% +4.00% +2.05%

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 42,996 27,186 37,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.90% 91.05% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,808 17,251 23,716
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -4.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,575 1,262 2,618
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.73
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.82 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.39% -32.00% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.19 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +17.29%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -64 455 £500 -4.76% 147
UK excluding London -44 326 £500 - 122
Work from Home -58 140 £500 - 68
London -103 140 £513 -6.82% 38
South East -40 86 £435 -13.00% 33
South West -5 67 £500 -13.04% 39
North of England -78 59 £493 +3.68% 29
Midlands -41 51 £525 +0.19% 7
West Midlands -35 50 £525 +0.48% 5
East of England -10 41 £550 +175.00% 15
North West -42 33 £492 +3.58% 18
Scotland -10 24 £750 +62.16% 2
Yorkshire -71 18 £500 - 9
North East -28 8 £413 - 2
Wales - 6 £750 - 1
East Midlands -24 1 £550 - 2
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 22 (4.22%) SAS
2 16 (3.07%) Confluence
3 14 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.92%) Apache
5 6 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.96%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.96%) Mattermost
7 4 (0.77%) CMS
7 4 (0.77%) JBoss
8 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.58%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 3 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.38%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.19%) IIS
10 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.96%) PTC Creo
3 4 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.38%) CATIA
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.19%) Weka
5 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (3.26%) Teamcenter
2 9 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.15%) Primavera
3 6 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.96%) LabWindows
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.19%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 107 (20.54%) Azure
2 97 (18.62%) AWS
3 47 (9.02%) GitHub
4 39 (7.49%) OpenShift
5 32 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (4.41%) PaaS
7 21 (4.03%) GCP
8 19 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (3.65%) Power Platform
9 18 (3.45%) Amazon S3
10 17 (3.26%) Entra ID
11 15 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (2.69%) Azure AKS
13 11 (2.11%) Serverless
14 9 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.14%) DNS
2 14 (2.69%) Firewall
3 13 (2.50%) VPN
4 11 (2.11%) DHCP
5 9 (1.73%) Network Security
5 9 (1.73%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.54%) SSL
7 6 (1.15%) LAN
7 6 (1.15%) VLAN
7 6 (1.15%) WAN
8 4 (0.77%) 5G
8 4 (0.77%) Internet
9 3 (0.58%) 3GPP
9 3 (0.58%) BGP
9 3 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (0.58%) NAS
9 3 (0.58%) OSPF
9 3 (0.58%) PCoIP
9 3 (0.58%) SAN
9 3 (0.58%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.41%) Oracle Database
2 19 (3.65%) Power BI
3 18 (3.45%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 14 (2.69%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 10 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.92%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.54%) Metadata
8 6 (1.15%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 5 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.96%) MySQL
10 4 (0.77%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.58%) Base SAS
11 3 (0.58%) Big Data
11 3 (0.58%) Data Mart
11 3 (0.58%) InfluxDB
11 3 (0.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.58%) Redis
12 2 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (10.94%) GitLab
2 54 (10.36%) Jenkins
3 45 (8.64%) Git
4 35 (6.72%) Rational DOORS
5 32 (6.14%) JIRA
6 9 (1.73%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.54%) Rational Rhapsody
7 8 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.34%) Postman
9 5 (0.96%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.77%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.77%) JMeter
10 4 (0.77%) LabVIEW
10 4 (0.77%) Selenium
11 3 (0.58%) Maven
11 3 (0.58%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.38%) JUnit
12 2 (0.38%) NUnit
12 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 113 (21.69%) Social Skills
2 69 (13.24%) Finance
3 55 (10.56%) Aerospace
3 55 (10.56%) Public Sector
4 29 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.18%) Banking
6 13 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.92%) Military
7 10 (1.92%) Retail
8 9 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.96%) Publishing
12 4 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.58%) Aviation
13 3 (0.58%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.58%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 57 (10.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 49 (9.40%) Senior
3 38 (7.29%) Architect
3 38 (7.29%) Configuration Manager
4 33 (6.33%) Lead
5 27 (5.18%) Analyst
5 27 (5.18%) Systems Manager
6 25 (4.80%) Delivery Manager
6 25 (4.80%) Software Engineer
7 24 (4.61%) Product Manager
8 22 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (4.03%) Product Delivery Manager
9 21 (4.03%) Systems Delivery Manager
10 18 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
11 17 (3.26%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (3.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (3.26%) Consultant
11 17 (3.26%) Release Manager
12 16 (3.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 16 (3.07%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.07%) YAML
2 15 (2.88%) REST
3 11 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (1.92%) JSON
5 8 (1.54%) ARM Templates
5 8 (1.54%) RESTful
5 8 (1.54%) XML
6 7 (1.34%) Kafka
6 7 (1.34%) Middleware
6 7 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.15%) .NET
7 6 (1.15%) Loki
7 6 (1.15%) React
8 5 (0.96%) Node.js
8 5 (0.96%) Web Services
9 4 (0.77%) Flask
9 4 (0.77%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.77%) PySpark
9 4 (0.77%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 58 (11.13%) CMDB
2 36 (6.91%) Product Ownership
3 35 (6.72%) Cloud Native
4 31 (5.95%) Management Information System
5 24 (4.61%) Data Structures
6 22 (4.22%) Onboarding
7 17 (3.26%) Data Centre
8 14 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.92%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.73%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.15%) PKI
15 5 (0.96%) Smartphone
16 4 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
16 4 (0.77%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 126 (24.18%) Linux
2 79 (15.16%) Windows
3 39 (7.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (4.41%) Ubuntu
4 23 (4.41%) Windows Server
5 16 (3.07%) Unix
6 10 (1.92%) Windows 10
7 7 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (1.15%) Solaris
9 5 (0.96%) Debian
10 4 (0.77%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.77%) Android
10 4 (0.77%) CentOS
11 3 (0.58%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.38%) Rocky
12 2 (0.38%) VMS
13 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (30.52%) DevOps
2 148 (28.41%) CI/CD
3 127 (24.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 121 (23.22%) Agile
5 107 (20.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 86 (16.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 78 (14.97%) Service Management
8 77 (14.78%) ITIL
9 72 (13.82%) Containerisation
10 56 (10.75%) ITSM
11 52 (9.98%) Change Management
12 51 (9.79%) Migration
12 51 (9.79%) Observability
13 50 (9.60%) Roadmaps
14 49 (9.40%) Change Control
14 49 (9.40%) Validation
15 47 (9.02%) Software Engineering
16 45 (8.64%) Computer Science
16 45 (8.64%) Platform Engineering
17 44 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 118 (22.65%) Python
2 79 (15.16%) Bash
3 50 (9.60%) PowerShell
4 31 (5.95%) SQL
5 25 (4.80%) Java
6 20 (3.84%) Shell Script
7 15 (2.88%) Bicep
8 12 (2.30%) PL/SQL
9 11 (2.11%) Go
9 11 (2.11%) JavaScript
10 8 (1.54%) C++
11 7 (1.34%) C
11 7 (1.34%) Ruby
12 6 (1.15%) Perl
13 5 (0.96%) Ada
13 5 (0.96%) C#
13 5 (0.96%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.58%) Groovy
14 3 (0.58%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 199 (38.20%) Security Cleared
2 127 (24.38%) SC Cleared
3 63 (12.09%) Degree
4 20 (3.84%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.69%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.50%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.73%) CISSP
10 7 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.15%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.15%) RHCE
12 5 (0.96%) CCNA
12 5 (0.96%) CCNP
12 5 (0.96%) CISA
12 5 (0.96%) PMP
12 5 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.14%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.45%) QA
4 13 (2.50%) SLA
5 12 (2.30%) NIST
6 11 (2.11%) GDPR
7 5 (0.96%) Def Stans
8 4 (0.77%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.77%) COBIT
8 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.77%) PMO
8 4 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.58%) GRC
10 2 (0.38%) DO-254
10 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.38%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.19%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 57 (10.94%) Docker
2 27 (5.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (4.99%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.54%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.54%) KVM
6 7 (1.34%) NFS
7 5 (0.96%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.77%) Firmware
8 4 (0.77%) Postfix
8 4 (0.77%) Varnish
9 3 (0.58%) QEMU
9 3 (0.58%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.38%) Ceph
10 2 (0.38%) Corosync
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.19%) Lustre
11 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 148 (28.41%) Ansible
2 110 (21.11%) Terraform
3 92 (17.66%) Kubernetes
4 45 (8.64%) Grafana
5 44 (8.45%) Prometheus
6 37 (7.10%) Puppet
7 29 (5.57%) Progress Chef
8 11 (2.11%) Packer
9 9 (1.73%) SCCM
10 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.34%) NetBackup
11 6 (1.15%) Argo
12 5 (0.96%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.96%) Istio
12 5 (0.96%) Podman
13 4 (0.77%) Data Guard
13 4 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.77%) SELinux
13 4 (0.77%) systemd
14 3 (0.58%) Salt
Vendors
1 59 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 47 (9.02%) ServiceNow
3 43 (8.25%) Oracle
4 35 (6.72%) IBM
5 30 (5.76%) VMware
6 27 (5.18%) Red Hat
7 19 (3.65%) Splunk
8 14 (2.69%) SAP
9 10 (1.92%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.92%) Siemens
10 9 (1.73%) Snow
11 8 (1.54%) Cisco
12 7 (1.34%) Commvault
12 7 (1.34%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.34%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.34%) Veritas
13 6 (1.15%) Google
13 6 (1.15%) Qualys
13 6 (1.15%) Remedy
14 5 (0.96%) BMC