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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 70 78
Rank change year-on-year -64 +8 +20
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 19 31 28
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.68% 2.42% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 2.61% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 21
10th Percentile £331 £358 £288
25th Percentile £444 £400 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £501 £538 £584
90th Percentile £552 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £11.00
England median hourly rate £58.50 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +37.65% -15.00% -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 2,401 1,189 1,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.37% 92.75% 83.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,464 731 874
10th Percentile £325 £263 £283
25th Percentile £413 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £577
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 52 66
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.13 £11.53
25th Percentile £16.91 £18.29 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.03
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +69.92% -0.99%
75th Percentile £35.00 £25.15 £21.31
90th Percentile £68.75 £33.76 £53.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -50 13 £500 +25.00% 1
West Yorkshire -30 6 £481 -3.75% 3
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 (26.32%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) GitHub
2 6 (31.58%) OpenShift
3 5 (26.32%) Azure
3 5 (26.32%) CloudBees
4 3 (15.79%) AWS
4 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (5.26%) Anthos
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.26%) Datadog
6 1 (5.26%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Serverless
6 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) VPN
2 2 (10.53%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) Network Security
3 1 (5.26%) Broadband
3 1 (5.26%) Firewall
3 1 (5.26%) LAN
3 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.26%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (5.26%) VoIP
3 1 (5.26%) WAN
3 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) Jenkins
2 6 (31.58%) JIRA
3 3 (15.79%) Git
4 2 (10.53%) GitLab
4 2 (10.53%) MSBuild
4 2 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Identity Management Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Network Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Splunk Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Splunk Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) REST
2 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) Web Services
3 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) NHS
3 1 (5.26%) PKI
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (15.79%) Windows
4 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.26%) CentOS
5 1 (5.26%) Unix
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) CI/CD
2 12 (63.16%) DevOps
3 9 (47.37%) Test Automation
4 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (36.84%) Data Protection
6 5 (26.32%) Observability
7 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
7 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (21.05%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (21.05%) Microservices
7 4 (21.05%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (15.79%) Change Management
8 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
8 3 (15.79%) ITIL
8 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.79%) Runbook
8 3 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 2 (10.53%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) Bash
3 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) Bicep
4 2 (10.53%) Go
4 2 (10.53%) SQL
5 1 (5.26%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (5.26%) RHCE
1 1 (5.26%) RHCSA
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.53%) KVM
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.26%) Firmware
3 1 (5.26%) NFS
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) Ansible
2 9 (47.37%) Terraform
3 6 (31.58%) Puppet
4 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
4 5 (26.32%) NetBackup
5 2 (10.53%) Grafana
5 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
6 1 (5.26%) Istio
6 1 (5.26%) Podman
6 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.26%) SELinux
6 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Red Hat
2 5 (26.32%) Commvault
2 5 (26.32%) Veritas
3 4 (21.05%) VMware
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.53%) Splunk
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco
5 1 (5.26%) Cribl.io
5 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 1 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (5.26%) Google
5 1 (5.26%) IBM
5 1 (5.26%) Infoblox
5 1 (5.26%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (5.26%) New Relic
5 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
5 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.26%) Temenos