Configuration Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Configuration Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Configuration Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Configuration Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 86 54
Rank change year-on-year +10 -32 -11
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 21 25 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.56% 1.28% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.53% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 80
10th Percentile £229 £354 £350
25th Percentile £445 £358 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £359 £540
Median % change year-on-year +45.54% -33.52% +4.45%
75th Percentile £538 £469 £552
90th Percentile - £475 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.64
Median hourly rate - - £16.29
75th Percentile - - £16.93
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £50.42
% change year-on-year +20.00% -0.83% +9.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the West Midlands

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the West Midlands

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the West Midlands

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Shropshire -6 12 £521 +45.53% 15
Birmingham +14 2 £525 +16.67% 16
Coventry +9 2 £210 -58.00% 8
Warwickshire +1 2 £550 +27.54%
Herefordshire - 1 - - 4
Solihull - 1 - -
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
1 12 (57.14%) Power Platform
1 12 (57.14%) PowerApps
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (4.76%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (4.76%) Serverless
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
1 2 (9.52%) NGFW
1 2 (9.52%) Wireless
2 1 (4.76%) BGP
2 1 (4.76%) EIGRP
2 1 (4.76%) IPv4
2 1 (4.76%) MPLS
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) OSPF
2 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (4.76%) IDMS
1 1 (4.76%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (4.76%) CA Gen
2 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 15 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Back Office
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Law
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Lead
2 8 (38.10%) Technical Leader
3 6 (28.57%) Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Business Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Configuration Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Configuration Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Data Manager
6 1 (4.76%) IP Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) QA Leader
6 1 (4.76%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
6 1 (4.76%) Security Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Splunk Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Telecoms Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Transmission Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) CMDB
2 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (66.67%) Problem Management
3 13 (61.90%) Agile
3 13 (61.90%) DevOps
3 13 (61.90%) Process Improvement
3 13 (61.90%) Test Strategy
4 12 (57.14%) Data Modelling
4 12 (57.14%) OO
5 3 (14.29%) Change Management
5 3 (14.29%) ITIL
6 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
6 2 (9.52%) Data Integration
6 2 (9.52%) ETL
6 2 (9.52%) Strategic Planning
7 1 (4.76%) Community of Practice
7 1 (4.76%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (4.76%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (4.76%) Security Analytics
7 1 (4.76%) SOAR
7 1 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (9.52%) CCNA
2 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) CCNP
3 1 (4.76%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) ISEB
3 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.76%) BMC
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco
2 1 (4.76%) FireEye
2 1 (4.76%) Huawei
2 1 (4.76%) Remedy
2 1 (4.76%) Splunk
2 1 (4.76%) Tanium