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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 60 85
Rank change year-on-year -36 +25 -12
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 34 24 20
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.76% 2.34% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.70% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 12 13
10th Percentile £426 £413 £552
25th Percentile £482 £478 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £555 £587
Median % change year-on-year -6.53% -5.53% -2.09%
75th Percentile £532 £628 -
90th Percentile £586 £649 £628
England median daily rate £530 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -1.40% -6.52% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £11.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £43.25 £48.72
% change year-on-year +15.61% -11.23% -2.56%

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 1,718 888 1,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.15% 86.63% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,144 532 980
10th Percentile £278 £235 £281
25th Percentile £385 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.00% -3.19%
75th Percentile £550 £574 £600
90th Percentile £650 £680 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 24 37
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.96 £10.96
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.62 £13.17
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.32 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +30.19% +9.51% +1.99%
75th Percentile £51.81 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £57.33 £80.10 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

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 January 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 January 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 -47 23 £513 -10.48% 3
West Yorkshire -27 11 £525 - 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 13 (38.24%) Confluence
2 3 (8.82%) Apache
2 3 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.82%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) CloudBees
2 7 (20.59%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) GitHub
3 6 (17.65%) Azure
4 4 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 4 (11.76%) OpenShift
5 3 (8.82%) Cohesity
5 3 (8.82%) GCP
6 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.88%) Serverless
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) Network Security
2 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Apache Hive
1 3 (8.82%) Hadoop
1 3 (8.82%) HBase
2 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.94%) MySQL
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (44.12%) Jenkins
2 14 (41.18%) JIRA
3 11 (32.35%) GitLab
4 4 (11.76%) Git
5 2 (5.88%) MSI
5 2 (5.88%) Postman
6 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.94%) Gradle
6 1 (2.94%) Maven
6 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (11.76%) Finance
1 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Automation Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Data Protection Engineer
3 8 (23.53%) Data Engineer
4 7 (20.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Senior
6 3 (8.82%) Administrator
6 3 (8.82%) Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Hadoop Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Architect
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Digital Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Lead
7 2 (5.88%) Security Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (8.82%) Spark Streaming
3 2 (5.88%) React
3 2 (5.88%) REST
3 2 (5.88%) RESTful
4 1 (2.94%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.94%) J2EE
4 1 (2.94%) JPA
4 1 (2.94%) JWT
4 1 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.76%) Security Posture
3 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) NHS
4 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) CMDB
5 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Unix
3 2 (5.88%) Mac OS X
3 2 (5.88%) Windows
4 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (73.53%) CI/CD
2 24 (70.59%) DevOps
3 21 (61.76%) Test Automation
4 14 (41.18%) Scrum
5 13 (38.24%) Data Protection
6 12 (35.29%) Backlog Refinement
6 12 (35.29%) Sprint Retrospective
6 12 (35.29%) User Stories
7 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (17.65%) Agile
8 6 (17.65%) Continuous Deployment
8 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (14.71%) Data Security
10 4 (11.76%) Cloud Security
10 4 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (11.76%) Observability
10 4 (11.76%) Task Automation
10 4 (11.76%) Zero Trust
11 3 (8.82%) DevSecOps
11 3 (8.82%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 25 (73.53%) Python
2 16 (47.06%) Bash
3 4 (11.76%) Java
3 4 (11.76%) Shell Script
4 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.94%) Groovy
6 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.88%) CCSP
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.88%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) GDPR
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.88%) NIST
1 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.88%) PSD2
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
2 3 (8.82%) HDFS
3 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (73.53%) Ansible
2 12 (35.29%) NetBackup
3 11 (32.35%) Puppet
4 9 (26.47%) Kubernetes
5 8 (23.53%) Terraform
6 6 (17.65%) Grafana
7 5 (14.71%) Prometheus
8 3 (8.82%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
9 2 (5.88%) SCCM
9 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (38.24%) Red Hat
2 12 (35.29%) Commvault
3 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
4 9 (26.47%) Veritas
5 3 (8.82%) Splunk
6 2 (5.88%) Cribl.io
6 2 (5.88%) MuleSoft
6 2 (5.88%) VMware
7 1 (2.94%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.94%) Databricks
7 1 (2.94%) Oracle
7 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow