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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 69 100
Rank change year-on-year -5 +31 -24
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 42 35 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.70% 2.33% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 2.77% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 22 20
10th Percentile £400 £288 £500
25th Percentile £463 £322 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £544 £574
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -5.31% -4.30%
75th Percentile £538 £615 £587
90th Percentile £700 £636 £624
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 1,408 1,263 1,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.43% 83.98% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 896 758 1,203
10th Percentile £240 £311 £305
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £553 £583 £624
90th Percentile £640 £663 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 44 35
10th Percentile £15.68 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.16 £12.55 £16.13
Median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £30.00 £25.27
90th Percentile £72.63 £45.75 £44.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management 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 20 September 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 20 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
South Yorkshire -9 27 £513 -14.19%
West Yorkshire -13 10 £525 +10.53% 4
North Yorkshire - 1 £188 - 2
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 7 (16.67%) Confluence
2 4 (9.52%) Apache
2 4 (9.52%) Apache Spark
3 3 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) AWS
2 7 (16.67%) CloudBees
3 5 (11.90%) Serverless
4 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (9.52%) Azure
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (7.14%) GCP
5 3 (7.14%) GitHub
5 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon Macie
6 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (4.76%) AWS KMS
6 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (40.48%) Firewall
1 17 (40.48%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.14%) VPN
3 2 (4.76%) DNS
3 2 (4.76%) HTTP
3 2 (4.76%) Kerberos
3 2 (4.76%) Network Security
3 2 (4.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (7.14%) Apache Hive
1 3 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 3 (7.14%) Hadoop
1 3 (7.14%) HBase
2 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 15 (35.71%) Postman
3 14 (33.33%) Git
4 12 (28.57%) GitLab
5 7 (16.67%) JIRA
6 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.38%) JMeter
6 1 (2.38%) Selenium
6 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (23.81%) Finance
2 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) Senior
2 11 (26.19%) Technical Engineer
3 10 (23.81%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 9 (21.43%) Automation Engineer
4 9 (21.43%) Windows Engineer
5 6 (14.29%) Data Protection Engineer
5 6 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) Data Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) Senior Windows Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) Consultant
7 4 (9.52%) Implementation Consultant
7 4 (9.52%) Lead
7 4 (9.52%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 3 (7.14%) Developer
8 3 (7.14%) Hadoop Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Java Developer
8 3 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Digital Developer
9 2 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (7.14%) JWT
1 3 (7.14%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (4.76%) LDAP
2 2 (4.76%) Middleware
2 2 (4.76%) SAML
3 1 (2.38%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.38%) J2EE
3 1 (2.38%) JPA
3 1 (2.38%) REST
3 1 (2.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.52%) CMDB
3 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (4.76%) Replication
5 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 15 (35.71%) Linux
2 11 (26.19%) Windows
3 9 (21.43%) Unix
4 5 (11.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.14%) AIX
5 3 (7.14%) Solaris
5 3 (7.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (4.76%) Mac OS X
7 1 (2.38%) CentOS
7 1 (2.38%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.38%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.38%) SUSE
7 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (66.67%) DevOps
2 17 (40.48%) CI/CD
3 13 (30.95%) Data Management
4 12 (28.57%) Agile
5 11 (26.19%) Test Automation
6 9 (21.43%) Scrum
7 7 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
7 7 (16.67%) Data Protection
7 7 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
7 7 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
7 7 (16.67%) User Stories
8 6 (14.29%) Problem Management
9 4 (9.52%) Analytics
9 4 (9.52%) Containerisation
9 4 (9.52%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (7.14%) Data Analytics
10 3 (7.14%) Data Engineering
10 3 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 29 (69.05%) Python
2 10 (23.81%) Bash
3 6 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 4 (9.52%) Java
5 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (4.76%) GDPR
1 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.76%) NIST
1 2 (4.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (11.90%) Docker
2 5 (11.90%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (7.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 31 (73.81%) Ansible
2 22 (52.38%) Puppet
3 10 (23.81%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (19.05%) SCCM
5 7 (16.67%) NetBackup
6 6 (14.29%) Kubernetes
6 6 (14.29%) Terraform
7 3 (7.14%) Grafana
7 3 (7.14%) Hadoop YARN
7 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
8 2 (4.76%) Kustomize
8 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
9 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (35.71%) MuleSoft
1 15 (35.71%) VMware
2 14 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 11 (26.19%) Red Hat
4 7 (16.67%) Commvault
4 7 (16.67%) Veritas
5 4 (9.52%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.76%) Databricks
6 2 (4.76%) ForgeRock
6 2 (4.76%) Oracle
6 2 (4.76%) Splunk
7 1 (2.38%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.38%) LogicMonitor