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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 73 89
Rank change year-on-year -53 +16 +14
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 20 16 16
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.80% 1.55% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.68% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 12
10th Percentile £351 £322 £403
25th Percentile £417 £385 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year -10.05% -5.83% -3.04%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £605
90th Percentile £501 £565 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £11.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £56.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +12.00% -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 2,159 955 1,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.85% 92.27% 86.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,374 588 861
10th Percentile £318 £261 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £582
90th Percentile £669 £625 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 37 66
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.39 £11.30
25th Percentile £16.97 £17.25 £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 £22.14 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £34.27 £53.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 May 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 May 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 -45 15 £482 +23.59%
West Yorkshire -17 5 £463 -2.63% 6
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 5 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 5 (25.00%) CloudBees
2 5 (25.00%) GitHub
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
4 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) Anthos
5 1 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Datadog
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
1 2 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Administrator
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (15.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.00%) JSON
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
3 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) CMDB
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.00%) Unix
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (65.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Data Protection
3 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
4 6 (30.00%) Task Automation
5 5 (25.00%) Observability
5 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (15.00%) ITIL
7 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (15.00%) Proactive Maintenance
7 3 (15.00%) Service Management
7 3 (15.00%) Storage Management
8 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (10.00%) RBAC
8 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 11 (55.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) Go
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (5.00%) RHCE
1 1 (5.00%) RHCSA
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
1 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.00%) KVM
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (75.00%) Ansible
2 10 (50.00%) Terraform
3 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
4 6 (30.00%) Puppet
5 5 (25.00%) Grafana
5 5 (25.00%) NetBackup
5 5 (25.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (5.00%) Istio
6 1 (5.00%) Podman
6 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.00%) SELinux
6 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (25.00%) Commvault
2 5 (25.00%) Veritas
3 4 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.00%) Splunk
5 1 (5.00%) Cribl.io
5 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) IBM
5 1 (5.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (5.00%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (5.00%) New Relic
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (5.00%) Temenos