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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 177 135
Rank change year-on-year -67 -42 +18
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 530 474 749
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.55% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.71% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 301 427
10th Percentile £340 £325 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £607 £600 £630
90th Percentile £775 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 15 143
10th Percentile £32.40 £35.00 £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% -
75th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 £60.75
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.25 £52.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +12.02% +4.00% +2.06%

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 43,435 27,782 37,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.94% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,037 17,554 23,597
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -4.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,605 1,350 2,559
10th Percentile £14.74 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.84% -34.42% +8.91%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -62 463 £513 -2.38% 142
UK excluding London -45 328 £500 - 105
London -91 147 £525 -4.55% 51
Work from Home -71 137 £513 +2.50% 60
South East -43 87 £452 -9.60% 29
South West -11 67 £500 -13.04% 27
North of England -70 60 £493 +3.68% 22
Midlands -41 50 £525 +0.48% 12
West Midlands -37 49 £525 +0.77% 7
East of England -1 41 £680 +240.00% 12
North West -36 35 £492 +3.58% 13
Scotland -9 25 £750 +62.16% 4
Yorkshire -61 18 £500 +5.26% 6
North East -30 7 £413 - 3
Wales - 6 £750 - 3
East Midlands -18 1 £550 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 -

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 (4.15%) SAS
2 17 (3.21%) Confluence
3 14 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.89%) Apache
5 6 (1.13%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.94%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.94%) Mattermost
7 4 (0.75%) CMS
7 4 (0.75%) JBoss
8 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.57%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 3 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.38%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.19%) IIS
10 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.94%) PTC Creo
3 2 (0.38%) CATIA
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.19%) Weka
4 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (3.21%) Teamcenter
2 9 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.13%) Primavera
3 6 (1.13%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.75%) LabWindows
5 3 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.57%) 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
1 116 (21.89%) Azure
2 101 (19.06%) AWS
3 49 (9.25%) GitHub
4 38 (7.17%) OpenShift
5 34 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (4.53%) GCP
8 23 (4.34%) PaaS
9 22 (4.15%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (3.58%) Amazon S3
11 19 (3.58%) Power Platform
12 18 (3.40%) Entra ID
13 16 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (3.02%) Azure AKS
14 15 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (2.08%) Serverless
16 10 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (1.51%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.42%) DNS
2 15 (2.83%) Firewall
3 14 (2.64%) VPN
4 11 (2.08%) DHCP
4 11 (2.08%) Network Security
4 11 (2.08%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.70%) SSL
6 8 (1.51%) WAN
7 7 (1.32%) VLAN
8 6 (1.13%) LAN
9 5 (0.94%) 5G
10 4 (0.75%) Internet
11 3 (0.57%) 3GPP
11 3 (0.57%) BGP
11 3 (0.57%) NAS
11 3 (0.57%) OSPF
11 3 (0.57%) PCoIP
11 3 (0.57%) SAN
11 3 (0.57%) SNMP
11 3 (0.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.34%) Oracle Database
2 19 (3.58%) Power BI
3 18 (3.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 14 (2.64%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 12 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.51%) Metadata
8 7 (1.32%) MySQL
9 6 (1.13%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 5 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.94%) Redis
10 5 (0.94%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.57%) Base SAS
11 3 (0.57%) Big Data
11 3 (0.57%) Data Mart
11 3 (0.57%) InfluxDB
11 3 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (10.57%) GitLab
1 56 (10.57%) Jenkins
2 46 (8.68%) Git
3 37 (6.98%) JIRA
4 35 (6.60%) Rational DOORS
5 9 (1.70%) Bitbucket
5 9 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.51%) Rational Rhapsody
7 7 (1.32%) Postman
8 5 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.75%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.75%) JMeter
9 4 (0.75%) Selenium
10 3 (0.57%) LabVIEW
10 3 (0.57%) Maven
10 3 (0.57%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.57%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.38%) JUnit
11 2 (0.38%) NUnit
General
1 115 (21.70%) Social Skills
2 73 (13.77%) Finance
3 56 (10.57%) Public Sector
4 54 (10.19%) Aerospace
5 31 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (5.66%) Banking
7 12 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.08%) Retail
9 10 (1.89%) Military
10 9 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.13%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.94%) Publishing
13 4 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.75%) Marketing
13 4 (0.75%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.57%) Aviation
14 3 (0.57%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (11.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (9.62%) Senior
3 38 (7.17%) Configuration Manager
4 36 (6.79%) Architect
5 33 (6.23%) Lead
6 27 (5.09%) Analyst
6 27 (5.09%) Delivery Manager
6 27 (5.09%) Systems Manager
7 24 (4.53%) Product Manager
7 24 (4.53%) Software Engineer
8 21 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
8 21 (3.96%) Product Delivery Manager
8 21 (3.96%) Systems Delivery Manager
9 19 (3.58%) Linux Engineer
10 18 (3.40%) Consultant
11 17 (3.21%) Release Manager
12 16 (3.02%) AWS DevOps
12 16 (3.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 16 (3.02%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (3.02%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.77%) REST
2 16 (3.02%) YAML
3 11 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (2.08%) JSON
4 9 (1.70%) XML
5 8 (1.51%) ARM Templates
5 8 (1.51%) Kafka
5 8 (1.51%) React
5 8 (1.51%) RESTful
6 7 (1.32%) .NET
6 7 (1.32%) Middleware
6 7 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (0.94%) Django
7 5 (0.94%) Loki
7 5 (0.94%) Node.js
7 5 (0.94%) OAuth
7 5 (0.94%) SOAP
7 5 (0.94%) Web Services
8 4 (0.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 59 (11.13%) CMDB
2 38 (7.17%) Cloud Native
3 36 (6.79%) Product Ownership
4 33 (6.23%) Management Information System
5 25 (4.72%) Data Structures
6 23 (4.34%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.02%) Data Centre
7 16 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (2.26%) Security Posture
9 10 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.89%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.13%) PKI
14 5 (0.94%) Operational Technology
14 5 (0.94%) Smartphone
15 4 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 128 (24.15%) Linux
2 79 (14.91%) Windows
3 42 (7.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (4.72%) Ubuntu
5 23 (4.34%) Windows Server
6 16 (3.02%) Unix
7 10 (1.89%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (1.13%) Solaris
10 4 (0.75%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.75%) Android
10 4 (0.75%) CentOS
10 4 (0.75%) Debian
11 3 (0.57%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.38%) Rocky
13 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (30.94%) DevOps
2 153 (28.87%) CI/CD
3 130 (24.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 123 (23.21%) Agile
5 114 (21.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 88 (16.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 83 (15.66%) Service Management
8 80 (15.09%) ITIL
9 72 (13.58%) Containerisation
10 61 (11.51%) ITSM
11 53 (10.00%) Change Management
11 53 (10.00%) Roadmaps
11 53 (10.00%) Validation
12 52 (9.81%) Observability
13 51 (9.62%) Migration
14 50 (9.43%) Change Control
15 49 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
16 48 (9.06%) Software Engineering
16 48 (9.06%) Test Automation
17 47 (8.87%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (23.02%) Python
2 77 (14.53%) Bash
3 48 (9.06%) PowerShell
4 33 (6.23%) SQL
5 25 (4.72%) Java
6 20 (3.77%) Shell Script
7 16 (3.02%) Bicep
8 13 (2.45%) JavaScript
9 12 (2.26%) PL/SQL
10 11 (2.08%) Go
11 8 (1.51%) C++
12 7 (1.32%) C
12 7 (1.32%) Ruby
13 6 (1.13%) Perl
14 5 (0.94%) Ada
14 5 (0.94%) C#
14 5 (0.94%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.57%) Groovy
15 3 (0.57%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 199 (37.55%) Security Cleared
2 126 (23.77%) SC Cleared
3 66 (12.45%) Degree
4 21 (3.96%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.64%) AWS Certification
5 14 (2.64%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.70%) CISSP
10 7 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.13%) RHCE
12 5 (0.94%) CCNA
12 5 (0.94%) CCNP
12 5 (0.94%) CISA
12 5 (0.94%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.94%) PMP
12 5 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.85%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (2.83%) QA
4 13 (2.45%) SLA
5 12 (2.26%) NIST
6 11 (2.08%) GDPR
7 5 (0.94%) Def Stans
8 4 (0.75%) COBIT
8 4 (0.75%) GRC
8 4 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.75%) PMO
8 4 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.57%) Accessibility
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 61 (11.51%) Docker
2 27 (5.09%) Active Directory
2 27 (5.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.51%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.51%) KVM
5 7 (1.32%) NFS
6 5 (0.94%) Firmware
6 5 (0.94%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (0.75%) Postfix
7 4 (0.75%) Varnish
8 3 (0.57%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.38%) Ceph
9 2 (0.38%) Corosync
9 2 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.38%) QEMU
9 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.19%) Lustre
10 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 152 (28.68%) Ansible
2 114 (21.51%) Terraform
3 95 (17.92%) Kubernetes
4 46 (8.68%) Grafana
5 45 (8.49%) Prometheus
6 37 (6.98%) Puppet
7 30 (5.66%) Progress Chef
8 11 (2.08%) Packer
9 9 (1.70%) SCCM
10 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.32%) NetBackup
11 6 (1.13%) Argo
12 5 (0.94%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.94%) Istio
12 5 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.75%) Data Guard
13 4 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.75%) Podman
13 4 (0.75%) SELinux
13 4 (0.75%) systemd
Vendors
1 63 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 54 (10.19%) ServiceNow
3 43 (8.11%) Oracle
4 35 (6.60%) IBM
5 30 (5.66%) VMware
6 27 (5.09%) Red Hat
7 20 (3.77%) Splunk
8 14 (2.64%) SAP
9 10 (1.89%) Siemens
10 9 (1.70%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.70%) Cisco
10 9 (1.70%) Snow
11 8 (1.51%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.32%) Commvault
12 7 (1.32%) Okta
12 7 (1.32%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.32%) Veritas
13 6 (1.13%) Google
13 6 (1.13%) Qualys
13 6 (1.13%) Remedy