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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 187 158
Rank change year-on-year -52 -29 +4
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 611 511 602
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.55% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.71% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 326 335
10th Percentile £350 £320 £300
25th Percentile £440 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £625
90th Percentile £731 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -0.68% +3.70% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 16 80
10th Percentile £25.84 £13.66 £26.68
25th Percentile £45.36 £22.39 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £41.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.28% -16.50% -7.60%
75th Percentile £88.00 £60.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.00 £66.25 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £41.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +59.28% -16.50% -4.08%

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 45,621 29,800 32,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.64% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,920 18,562 20,756
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,892 1,765 1,620
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.21 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.15 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.11 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +90.48% -47.37% +14.67%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -51 527 £525 - 620
UK excluding London -41 366 £515 -0.68% 427
London -65 186 £550 - 278
Work from Home -61 163 £520 -0.19% 279
North of England -49 91 £496 -0.75% 71
South East -38 89 £525 +4.90% 89
South West -24 68 £550 +4.76% 106
Midlands -52 55 £477 -8.00% 42
West Midlands -45 54 £477 -8.00% 23
North West -37 50 £477 +0.47% 41
East of England -10 32 £510 +50.00% 61
Scotland -20 32 £525 +5.00% 45
Yorkshire -55 28 £500 -2.44% 22
North East -25 13 £485 - 10
Wales -9 7 £750 +76.47% 9
East Midlands -14 1 £385 -40.77% 19
Northern Ireland - 1 £254 - 14

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 17 (2.78%) Confluence
1 17 (2.78%) SAS
2 15 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.64%) JBoss
4 9 (1.47%) Apache
5 5 (0.82%) CMS
6 4 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.49%) Appian
7 3 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.49%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.33%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.33%) IIS
8 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.33%) nginx
8 2 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) CATIA
5 1 (0.16%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.16%) Houdini
5 1 (0.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.16%) NUKE
5 1 (0.16%) Weka
5 1 (0.16%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (1.15%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.98%) Primavera
3 4 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.16%) ENOVIA
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.16%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 159 (26.02%) Azure
2 153 (25.04%) AWS
3 61 (9.98%) GCP
3 61 (9.98%) GitHub
4 55 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (7.86%) GitHub Actions
6 44 (7.20%) Amazon EKS
7 36 (5.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 32 (5.24%) OpenShift
9 31 (5.07%) Entra ID
10 30 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (3.93%) Azure AKS
12 21 (3.44%) Amazon S3
13 20 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (3.27%) PaaS
14 19 (3.11%) Serverless
15 18 (2.95%) Datadog
16 17 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (2.78%) IaaS
16 17 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (6.87%) DNS
2 31 (5.07%) Firewall
3 28 (4.58%) Network Security
4 20 (3.27%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.45%) SSL
5 15 (2.45%) VPN
6 14 (2.29%) DHCP
7 12 (1.96%) VLAN
8 11 (1.80%) HTTP
9 10 (1.64%) WAN
10 8 (1.31%) Kerberos
11 7 (1.15%) LAN
12 6 (0.98%) BGP
13 5 (0.82%) SAN
13 5 (0.82%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
14 4 (0.65%) Internet
14 4 (0.65%) OSPF
14 4 (0.65%) SSH
14 4 (0.65%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.44%) Oracle Database
2 17 (2.78%) Power BI
3 15 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.45%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 15 (2.45%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 13 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.64%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.47%) Metadata
6 9 (1.47%) MySQL
7 7 (1.15%) Big Data
8 6 (0.98%) Hadoop
8 6 (0.98%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.98%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.65%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.65%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.65%) Redis
9 4 (0.65%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 3 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 74 (12.11%) GitLab
2 72 (11.78%) Jenkins
3 71 (11.62%) Git
4 44 (7.20%) JIRA
5 29 (4.75%) Rational DOORS
6 11 (1.80%) Rational Rhapsody
7 10 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.98%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.98%) JUnit
8 6 (0.98%) Postman
8 6 (0.98%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.82%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.65%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.49%) Maven
11 3 (0.49%) Mockito
11 3 (0.49%) Selenium
11 3 (0.49%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.33%) LabVIEW
12 2 (0.33%) MSBuild
12 2 (0.33%) NUnit
General
1 157 (25.70%) Social Skills
2 102 (16.69%) Finance
3 64 (10.47%) Public Sector
4 60 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (5.40%) Aerospace
6 25 (4.09%) Banking
7 15 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.29%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.47%) Military
11 7 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.98%) Aviation
13 5 (0.82%) Publishing
13 5 (0.82%) Retail
14 4 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.49%) Automotive
15 3 (0.49%) Law
16 2 (0.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 84 (13.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 69 (11.29%) Senior
3 59 (9.66%) Architect
4 40 (6.55%) Lead
5 33 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
6 32 (5.24%) Linux Engineer
7 30 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (4.42%) Configuration Manager
8 27 (4.42%) Delivery Manager
9 26 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
10 25 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 23 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (3.27%) Analyst
12 20 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
12 20 (3.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 19 (3.11%) Product Manager
13 19 (3.11%) Systems Manager
14 18 (2.95%) Administrator
14 18 (2.95%) Release Manager
14 18 (2.95%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (28.48%) Terraform
2 29 (4.75%) REST
3 21 (3.44%) YAML
4 18 (2.95%) Kafka
5 15 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (2.13%) ARM Templates
7 11 (1.80%) JSON
7 11 (1.80%) XML
8 10 (1.64%) .NET
9 9 (1.47%) Middleware
10 8 (1.31%) React
10 8 (1.31%) RESTful
10 8 (1.31%) SOAP
11 7 (1.15%) Azure Blueprints
11 7 (1.15%) Django
11 7 (1.15%) Web Services
12 6 (0.98%) HTML
12 6 (0.98%) Node.js
12 6 (0.98%) OAuth
12 6 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 83 (13.58%) CMDB
2 51 (8.35%) Cloud Native
3 34 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 29 (4.75%) Onboarding
5 27 (4.42%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (3.93%) Security Posture
7 22 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (3.60%) Private Cloud
8 20 (3.27%) Data Centre
9 16 (2.62%) Data Structures
10 15 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (2.29%) Public Cloud
12 13 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.96%) Clustering
14 11 (1.80%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.47%) PKI
16 8 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
17 7 (1.15%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 162 (26.51%) Linux
2 87 (14.24%) Windows
3 67 (10.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (5.24%) Unix
5 31 (5.07%) Windows Server
6 28 (4.58%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.64%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.15%) Solaris
8 7 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.98%) CentOS
10 5 (0.82%) Android
11 4 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.65%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.65%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.49%) Debian
12 3 (0.49%) VMS
13 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.33%) Rocky
13 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (36.17%) DevOps
2 217 (35.52%) CI/CD
3 200 (32.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 142 (23.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 130 (21.28%) Agile
6 109 (17.84%) Containerisation
7 107 (17.51%) ITIL
8 89 (14.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 88 (14.40%) Observability
9 88 (14.40%) Platform Engineering
10 83 (13.58%) Service Management
11 80 (13.09%) Change Management
12 79 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 74 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 74 (12.11%) Validation
14 73 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
15 67 (10.97%) Test Automation
16 66 (10.80%) ITSM
17 61 (9.98%) Infrastructure Automation
18 60 (9.82%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 186 (30.44%) Python
2 103 (16.86%) Bash
3 82 (13.42%) PowerShell
4 35 (5.73%) SQL
5 33 (5.40%) Java
6 28 (4.58%) Shell Script
7 22 (3.60%) Perl
8 20 (3.27%) Bicep
9 18 (2.95%) C++
10 13 (2.13%) C
10 13 (2.13%) Go
10 13 (2.13%) JavaScript
11 8 (1.31%) Ada
11 8 (1.31%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.98%) Ruby
13 5 (0.82%) Groovy
14 4 (0.65%) C#
15 3 (0.49%) Korn
15 3 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 206 (33.72%) Security Cleared
2 140 (22.91%) SC Cleared
3 72 (11.78%) Degree
4 30 (4.91%) AWS Certification
5 28 (4.58%) DV Cleared
6 24 (3.93%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.45%) CISSP
7 15 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.31%) CCNA
11 8 (1.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 7 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.98%) CCNP
13 6 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.82%) GCIH
15 4 (0.65%) ISSAP
15 4 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.91%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.58%) QA
3 20 (3.27%) SLA
4 19 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (2.78%) NIST
6 12 (1.96%) GDPR
7 11 (1.80%) GRC
8 8 (1.31%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.98%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.82%) NCSC
10 5 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.49%) MISRA
11 3 (0.49%) MISRA C
11 3 (0.49%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.33%) DO-254
12 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 2 (0.33%) PMO
12 2 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 84 (13.75%) Docker
2 50 (8.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (6.55%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.80%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.64%) KVM
7 7 (1.15%) Firmware
7 7 (1.15%) NFS
8 6 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.82%) VMware Workstation
10 4 (0.65%) Postfix
11 3 (0.49%) Varnish
11 3 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.33%) Ceph
12 2 (0.33%) Corosync
12 2 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.33%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.33%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.16%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 184 (30.11%) Ansible
2 132 (21.60%) Kubernetes
3 58 (9.49%) Grafana
4 55 (9.00%) Puppet
5 51 (8.35%) Prometheus
6 47 (7.69%) Progress Chef
7 16 (2.62%) SCCM
8 15 (2.45%) Packer
9 10 (1.64%) Istio
10 9 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.31%) Failover Clustering
12 7 (1.15%) Argo
13 6 (0.98%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.82%) Salt
15 4 (0.65%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.65%) HAProxy
15 4 (0.65%) Podman
15 4 (0.65%) SELinux
15 4 (0.65%) systemd
Vendors
1 90 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 77 (12.60%) ServiceNow
3 58 (9.49%) VMware
4 44 (7.20%) Oracle
5 39 (6.38%) Red Hat
6 33 (5.40%) IBM
7 31 (5.07%) Google
8 30 (4.91%) Splunk
9 22 (3.60%) Cisco
10 18 (2.95%) Snow
11 16 (2.62%) SaltStack
12 12 (1.96%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.64%) Salesforce
14 8 (1.31%) BMC
14 8 (1.31%) F5
14 8 (1.31%) Okta
15 7 (1.15%) SAP
15 7 (1.15%) Siemens
16 6 (0.98%) Databricks
16 6 (0.98%) Qualys