Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Configuration Management
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 51 78
Rank change year-on-year -20 +27 -11
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 11 17 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.20% 2.40% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 2.76% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 1
10th Percentile £474 £433 -
25th Percentile £500 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.74% -7.32% -14.58%
75th Percentile £659 £638 £519
90th Percentile £738 £645 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £515 £538 £587
% change year-on-year -4.19% -8.50% -2.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 785 615 1,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.89% 86.74% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 385 685
10th Percentile £285 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £573 £565 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -4.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 13
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.27 £13.60
25th Percentile £15.97 £17.43 £16.92
Median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +71.05% -11.63%
75th Percentile £46.56 £40.81 £21.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £92.60 £29.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Configuration Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in West Yorkshire

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Leeds -10 11 £521 +9.74% 4
Configuration Management
Yorkshire

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
3 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) NuGet
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) MSI
3 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
3 1 (9.09%) JMeter
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
3 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Digital Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) React
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
2 1 (9.09%) J2EE
2 1 (9.09%) JPA
2 1 (9.09%) JWT
2 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Security Posture
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) NHS
2 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
1 4 (36.36%) Unix
2 2 (18.18%) Mac OS X
3 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
1 8 (72.73%) Test Automation
2 6 (54.55%) Continuous Deployment
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
4 4 (36.36%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (36.36%) Zero Trust
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (18.18%) Data Security
6 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
6 2 (18.18%) Information Security
6 2 (18.18%) Security Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) Security Testing
6 2 (18.18%) SIEM
6 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
6 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
3 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (18.18%) CCSP
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (18.18%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
1 2 (18.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (27.27%) Ansible
3 3 (27.27%) Grafana
4 2 (18.18%) Progress Chef
4 2 (18.18%) Puppet
4 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Cribl.io
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 1 (9.09%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle