Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Configuration Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 63 79
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 -42
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 63 48 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.55% 2.53% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 3.11% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 30 38
10th Percentile £450 £338 £324
25th Percentile £463 £358 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £383 £540
Median % change year-on-year +35.10% -29.17% +0.65%
75th Percentile £545 £567 £600
90th Percentile £584 £585 £741
England median daily rate £523 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.79% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.53 £20.50 £14.14
Median hourly rate £23.05 £21.00 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% +47.16% -24.89%
75th Percentile £23.58 £21.50 £14.41
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.00 £50.00 £59.38
% change year-on-year -18.00% -15.79% +18.75%

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 1,565 1,541 1,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.07% 81.32% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 1,009 1,236
10th Percentile £250 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £663 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 43 47
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.83 £14.27
25th Percentile £15.56 £15.07 £20.24
Median hourly rate £24.34 £21.59 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.74% -21.49% +62.60%
75th Percentile £35.30 £36.25 £38.66
90th Percentile £50.00 £54.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Configuration Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Configuration Management

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 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the West Midlands

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Configuration Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Configuration Management

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 6 September 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
Birmingham +22 27 £475 -5.00% 6
Shropshire -13 17 £523 +45.95% 9
Warwickshire -12 8 £573 +0.44% 5
Worcestershire - 5 £575 - 7
Solihull - 4 £450 -
Herefordshire - 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 24 (38.10%) Confluence
2 12 (19.05%) nginx
3 11 (17.46%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (15.87%) SAS
5 4 (6.35%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (4.76%) Apache
6 3 (4.76%) Apache Spark
6 3 (4.76%) OpenStack
7 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (19.05%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 40 (63.49%) AWS
2 32 (50.79%) Azure
3 25 (39.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 25 (39.68%) Amazon EC2
3 25 (39.68%) Amazon S3
3 25 (39.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 24 (38.10%) Amazon ELB
4 24 (38.10%) AWS KMS
5 16 (25.40%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (20.63%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (19.05%) Amazon Glacier
7 12 (19.05%) Route 53
8 9 (14.29%) GitHub
9 7 (11.11%) Power Platform
9 7 (11.11%) PowerApps
10 5 (7.94%) PaaS
11 4 (6.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (6.35%) GCP
11 4 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (42.86%) Firewall
2 24 (38.10%) SMTP
3 23 (36.51%) DNS
4 22 (34.92%) FTP
4 22 (34.92%) HTTP
4 22 (34.92%) SSH
5 12 (19.05%) IMAP
5 12 (19.05%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (39.68%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (19.05%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (15.87%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 10 (15.87%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 6 (9.52%) Oracle Database
5 4 (6.35%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 3 (4.76%) Apache Hive
6 3 (4.76%) Hadoop
6 3 (4.76%) HBase
Development Applications
1 30 (47.62%) Jenkins
2 27 (42.86%) Git
3 24 (38.10%) JIRA
3 24 (38.10%) Vagrant
4 9 (14.29%) GitLab
5 3 (4.76%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.17%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.17%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.17%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.17%) Gradle
6 2 (3.17%) JUnit
6 2 (3.17%) Maven
6 2 (3.17%) Postman
6 2 (3.17%) Selenium
6 2 (3.17%) Snyk
6 2 (3.17%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.17%) webpack
7 1 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 29 (46.03%) Public Sector
2 28 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.87%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (6.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Finance
5 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (41.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (31.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 20 (31.75%) Platform Engineer
3 19 (30.16%) AWS Engineer
4 17 (26.98%) AWS DevOps
4 17 (26.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 12 (19.05%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 10 (15.87%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Architect
7 6 (9.52%) Release Manager
8 5 (7.94%) Lead
8 5 (7.94%) Technical Leader
9 4 (6.35%) Systems Architect
10 3 (4.76%) Developer
10 3 (4.76%) Hadoop Engineer
10 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Manager
10 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Test Manager
10 3 (4.76%) Test Manager
11 2 (3.17%) Configuration Engineer
11 2 (3.17%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.05%) LDAP
2 4 (6.35%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (4.76%) RFC 2544
3 3 (4.76%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (3.17%) JSON
4 2 (3.17%) REST
4 2 (3.17%) YAML
5 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.92%) Replication
2 7 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.17%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.59%) SCADA
5 1 (1.59%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (47.62%) Linux
2 27 (42.86%) Windows
3 24 (38.10%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (38.10%) VMS
4 10 (15.87%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (74.60%) DevOps
2 31 (49.21%) CI/CD
3 25 (39.68%) Platform Engineering
4 24 (38.10%) Change Management
4 24 (38.10%) Cloud Security
5 23 (36.51%) Patch Management
6 17 (26.98%) Test Strategy
7 15 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (20.63%) Analytics
9 12 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (15.87%) Data Integration
10 10 (15.87%) Migration
10 10 (15.87%) Visual Analytics
11 9 (14.29%) Agile
11 9 (14.29%) Containerisation
11 9 (14.29%) Defect Management
11 9 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (12.70%) Process Improvement
12 8 (12.70%) Test Automation
13 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 31 (49.21%) Python
2 25 (39.68%) PowerShell
3 24 (38.10%) Groovy
4 19 (30.16%) SQL
5 12 (19.05%) Java
5 12 (19.05%) Perl
6 4 (6.35%) Bash
7 3 (4.76%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 43 (68.25%) Security Cleared
2 37 (58.73%) SC Cleared
3 12 (19.05%) Degree
4 10 (15.87%) AWS Certification
4 10 (15.87%) Azure Certification
5 5 (7.94%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.59%) CCNP
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.17%) PMO
2 1 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 34 (53.97%) Docker
2 22 (34.92%) DFS Replication
3 17 (26.98%) Active Directory
4 12 (19.05%) Dovecot
4 12 (19.05%) Postfix
4 12 (19.05%) Squid
5 3 (4.76%) HDFS
5 3 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (53.97%) Terraform
2 28 (44.44%) Grafana
2 28 (44.44%) Prometheus
3 15 (23.81%) Ansible
4 12 (19.05%) Nessus
5 10 (15.87%) Kubernetes
5 10 (15.87%) Proxmox
6 7 (11.11%) Puppet
7 3 (4.76%) Hadoop YARN
7 3 (4.76%) Progress Chef
8 2 (3.17%) Podman
9 1 (1.59%) Consul
Vendors
1 24 (38.10%) ServiceNow
2 12 (19.05%) Jaspersoft
3 10 (15.87%) Oracle
4 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.52%) VMware
5 5 (7.94%) Broadcom
6 4 (6.35%) Cisco
6 4 (6.35%) Splunk
7 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.59%) F5
7 1 (1.59%) Juniper
7 1 (1.59%) NetScout
7 1 (1.59%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.59%) Palo Alto