Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Configuration Management
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 62 94
Rank change year-on-year -15 +32 -30
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 46 34 19
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.62% 2.45% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 2.89% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 19 13
10th Percentile £404 - £510
25th Percentile £486 £288 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £587
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -14.89% -2.09%
75th Percentile £537 £622 -
90th Percentile £685 £640 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,572 1,177 1,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.42% 84.86% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,038 673 1,097
10th Percentile £263 £263 £281
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -3.29% +3.40%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £609
90th Percentile £649 £652 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 37 30
10th Percentile £15.25 - £15.11
25th Percentile £18.69 £12.55 £18.31
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.64 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +34.16% -12.55% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.75 £26.02
90th Percentile £70.75 £38.75 £44.05
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.59 £44.50
% change year-on-year -36.47% -11.03% +27.14%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Yorkshire

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
South Yorkshire -26 32 £516 -9.83% 5
West Yorkshire -23 13 £521 +73.75% 4
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (28.26%) Confluence
2 4 (8.70%) Apache
2 4 (8.70%) Apache Spark
3 3 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.74%) AWS
1 10 (21.74%) GitHub
2 9 (19.57%) CloudBees
3 7 (15.22%) Azure
4 5 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (10.87%) Serverless
5 4 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (8.70%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.52%) Cohesity
6 3 (6.52%) GCP
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon Macie
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (4.35%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (41.30%) Firewall
2 17 (36.96%) TCP/IP
3 4 (8.70%) Network Security
4 2 (4.35%) DNS
4 2 (4.35%) SSL
4 2 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (6.52%) Apache Hive
1 3 (6.52%) DynamoDB
1 3 (6.52%) Hadoop
1 3 (6.52%) HBase
2 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.17%) MySQL
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 31 (67.39%) Jenkins
2 15 (32.61%) Postman
3 14 (30.43%) Git
3 14 (30.43%) GitLab
3 14 (30.43%) JIRA
4 2 (4.35%) MSI
5 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.17%) Gradle
5 1 (2.17%) JMeter
5 1 (2.17%) Maven
5 1 (2.17%) Selenium
5 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (28.26%) Finance
2 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Senior
2 14 (30.43%) Automation Engineer
3 11 (23.91%) Technical Engineer
4 10 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (21.74%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 9 (19.57%) Data Protection Engineer
6 8 (17.39%) Data Engineer
6 8 (17.39%) Windows Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Senior Windows Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Lead
9 3 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Hadoop Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Java Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) Architect
10 2 (4.35%) Security Architect
10 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
10 2 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (6.52%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (4.35%) React
2 2 (4.35%) REST
2 2 (4.35%) RESTful
3 1 (2.17%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.17%) J2EE
3 1 (2.17%) JPA
3 1 (2.17%) JWT
3 1 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.70%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) NHS
4 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (30.43%) Linux
2 10 (21.74%) Windows
3 7 (15.22%) Unix
4 5 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.52%) AIX
5 3 (6.52%) Solaris
5 3 (6.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (4.35%) Mac OS X
7 1 (2.17%) CentOS
7 1 (2.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.17%) SUSE
7 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (80.43%) DevOps
2 24 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 21 (45.65%) Test Automation
4 15 (32.61%) Agile
4 15 (32.61%) Scrum
5 13 (28.26%) Data Management
5 13 (28.26%) Data Protection
6 12 (26.09%) Backlog Refinement
6 12 (26.09%) Sprint Retrospective
6 12 (26.09%) User Stories
7 9 (19.57%) Translating Business Requirements
8 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (13.04%) Cloud Security
9 6 (13.04%) Continuous Deployment
9 6 (13.04%) Problem Management
9 6 (13.04%) Zero Trust
10 5 (10.87%) Data Security
10 5 (10.87%) DevSecOps
10 5 (10.87%) Observability
11 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (80.43%) Python
2 14 (30.43%) Bash
3 6 (13.04%) Shell Script
4 4 (8.70%) Java
5 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.17%) Groovy
7 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.35%) CCSP
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) GDPR
1 4 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (8.70%) NIST
2 2 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.35%) PSD2
2 2 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (32.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (17.39%) Docker
3 5 (10.87%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (6.52%) HDFS
5 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (82.61%) Ansible
2 26 (56.52%) Puppet
3 12 (26.09%) NetBackup
4 10 (21.74%) Microsoft Clustering
5 8 (17.39%) Terraform
6 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
6 7 (15.22%) SCCM
7 5 (10.87%) Grafana
8 4 (8.70%) Prometheus
9 3 (6.52%) Hadoop YARN
9 3 (6.52%) Progress Chef
10 2 (4.35%) Kustomize
10 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 17 (36.96%) Red Hat
3 15 (32.61%) MuleSoft
3 15 (32.61%) VMware
4 12 (26.09%) Commvault
5 9 (19.57%) Veritas
6 5 (10.87%) Splunk
7 2 (4.35%) Cribl.io
7 2 (4.35%) Databricks
7 2 (4.35%) Oracle
8 1 (2.17%) AppDynamics
8 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
8 1 (2.17%) LogicMonitor