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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 73 88
Rank change year-on-year -45 +15 +9
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 23 15 14
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.99% 1.55% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.68% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 8
10th Percentile £406 £369 £376
25th Percentile £432 £385 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £425 £456
Median % change year-on-year +15.88% -6.70% -24.08%
75th Percentile £501 £438 £638
90th Percentile £531 £580 £641
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.59% -3.98% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £11.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -0.83%

All Process & 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 2,036 894 1,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 87.83% 92.45% 86.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,328 558 849
10th Percentile £313 £263 £250
25th Percentile £405 £365 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £557 £552 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 34 62
10th Percentile £14.25 £11.60 £11.30
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.08 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £27.10 £21.66
90th Percentile £68.75 £80.10 £51.08
England median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.00
% change year-on-year +30.84% -6.59% -9.33%

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 15 April 2026.

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 15 April 2026. 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 -41 15 £493 +26.28% 2
West Yorkshire -29 8 £494 +16.18% 1
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 6 (26.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) OpenShift
2 8 (34.78%) GitHub
3 6 (26.09%) Azure
4 5 (21.74%) AWS
4 5 (21.74%) CloudBees
5 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
6 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (13.04%) GCP
7 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.35%) Anthos
8 1 (4.35%) Datadog
8 1 (4.35%) SaaS
8 1 (4.35%) Serverless
8 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
8 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
1 2 (8.70%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 6 (26.09%) JIRA
3 2 (8.70%) MSI
4 1 (4.35%) Git
4 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Administrator
1 4 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Consultant
3 2 (8.70%) DevOps Consultant
3 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Developer
4 1 (4.35%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (13.04%) REST
2 2 (8.70%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (8.70%) React
3 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.35%) JSON
3 1 (4.35%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) Web Services
3 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
1 5 (21.74%) Security Posture
2 3 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.70%) NHS
3 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) CMDB
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Windows
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.35%) Unix
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) CI/CD
2 16 (69.57%) DevOps
3 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (47.83%) Test Automation
4 7 (30.43%) Data Protection
4 7 (30.43%) Observability
5 6 (26.09%) Task Automation
6 5 (21.74%) Cloud Security
6 5 (21.74%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (17.39%) Agile
7 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
7 4 (17.39%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (17.39%) Zero Trust
8 3 (13.04%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (13.04%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) Python
2 11 (47.83%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) Go
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.70%) CCSP
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.70%) CISSP
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) RHCE
3 1 (4.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) GDPR
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.70%) NIST
1 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
1 2 (8.70%) PSD2
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
2 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.70%) KVM
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Ansible
2 12 (52.17%) Terraform
3 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
4 7 (30.43%) Grafana
5 6 (26.09%) Puppet
6 5 (21.74%) NetBackup
6 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
7 2 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (4.35%) Istio
8 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
8 1 (4.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Red Hat
2 5 (21.74%) Commvault
2 5 (21.74%) Veritas
3 4 (17.39%) Splunk
4 3 (13.04%) Cribl.io
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 3 (13.04%) VMware
5 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
6 1 (4.35%) Google
6 1 (4.35%) IBM
6 1 (4.35%) Infoblox
6 1 (4.35%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (4.35%) New Relic
6 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.35%) Temenos