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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 73 68
Rank change year-on-year -55 -5 +30
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 28 40 34
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.98% 2.59% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 2.84% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 22
10th Percentile £278 £358 £288
25th Percentile £460 £413 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £544
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.75% -1.14%
75th Percentile £604 £538 £615
90th Percentile £667 £660 £636
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £26.06 - -
25th Percentile £26.38 - -
Median hourly rate £26.92 - -
75th Percentile £27.46 - -
90th Percentile £27.78 - -
England median hourly rate £66.50 £41.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +62.20% -18.00% -7.60%

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 2,395 1,406 1,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 83.68% 91.06% 83.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,454 899 765
10th Percentile £336 £262 £315
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £580
90th Percentile £669 £625 £660
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 58 50
10th Percentile £13.75 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.10 £12.55
Median hourly rate £22.20 £22.14 £15.09
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% +46.77% -24.58%
75th Percentile £28.00 £25.15 £26.50
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £39.75
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -34 22 £500 +2.56% 12
West Yorkshire -24 6 £374 -28.75% 7
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 2 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) GCP
2 5 (17.86%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) GitHub
3 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Run
3 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (10.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (7.14%) AWS
4 2 (7.14%) CloudBees
4 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Network Security
2 3 (10.71%) VPN
3 2 (7.14%) SD-WAN
3 2 (7.14%) WAN
4 1 (3.57%) Broadband
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (3.57%) DMZ
4 1 (3.57%) DNS
4 1 (3.57%) Ethernet
4 1 (3.57%) Firewall
4 1 (3.57%) LAN
4 1 (3.57%) Modbus
4 1 (3.57%) SNMP
4 1 (3.57%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.57%) VLAN
4 1 (3.57%) VoIP
4 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) BigQuery
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.71%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) JIRA
3 2 (7.14%) GitLab
3 2 (7.14%) MSBuild
3 2 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Principal Cloud Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Principal Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Configuration Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) ITSM Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Network Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Service Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Identity Management Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Splunk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) Kafka
3 2 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.57%) NETCONF
4 1 (3.57%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
1 5 (17.86%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Onboarding
1 5 (17.86%) Private Cloud
1 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
2 4 (14.29%) PKI
2 4 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (10.71%) NHS
4 2 (7.14%) CMDB
4 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.57%) SCADA
5 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.57%) CentOS
3 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 18 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (50.00%) Observability
4 13 (46.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 12 (42.86%) GitOps
5 12 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
6 11 (39.29%) Deployment Automation
6 11 (39.29%) DevOps
7 10 (35.71%) Change Management
7 10 (35.71%) DevSecOps
7 10 (35.71%) Runbook
8 9 (32.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (28.57%) Secrets Management
10 7 (25.00%) Data Protection
10 7 (25.00%) Microservices
11 6 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (21.43%) High Availability
11 6 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
11 6 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) Bash
3 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.71%) Go
5 2 (7.14%) Bicep
5 2 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) A+ Certification
1 1 (3.57%) CCNA
1 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
1 1 (3.57%) ECDL
1 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (3.57%) MCSE
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) NIST
1 1 (3.57%) NIST 800
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.71%) Docker
3 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) Firmware
3 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.57%) KVM
3 1 (3.57%) NDS
3 1 (3.57%) NetIQ eDirectory
3 1 (3.57%) NFS
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (53.57%) Kubernetes
2 10 (35.71%) Ansible
3 4 (14.29%) Istio
4 3 (10.71%) Puppet
5 2 (7.14%) NetBackup
6 1 (3.57%) Podman
6 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.57%) SELinux
6 1 (3.57%) TrustSec
6 1 (3.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) VMware
2 4 (14.29%) Google
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.14%) BMC
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco
3 2 (7.14%) Commvault
3 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.14%) Veritas
4 1 (3.57%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (3.57%) IBM
4 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.57%) Rockwell
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) Siemens
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Temenos
4 1 (3.57%) Wonderware