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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 82 65
Rank change year-on-year -46 -17 +33
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 32 41 36
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.10% 2.56% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 2.84% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 31 23
10th Percentile £289 £400 £288
25th Percentile £460 £463 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% -8.50%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £608
90th Percentile £663 £700 £635
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
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 £60.75 £41.00 £57.58
% change year-on-year +48.17% -28.79% +18.18%

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 2,416 1,446 1,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 83.40% 90.26% 84.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,437 938 737
10th Percentile £339 £250 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% -4.65% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £669 £650 £654
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 53 42
10th Percentile £13.45 £17.27 £12.32
25th Percentile £15.39 £18.51 £12.55
Median hourly rate £19.34 £22.58 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.35% +29.00% -14.63%
75th Percentile £26.50 £25.15 £32.50
90th Percentile £43.96 £75.50 £47.75
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 October 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 October 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 -29 27 £501 -2.34% 6
West Yorkshire -24 5 £248 -52.73% 10
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 1 (3.13%) Apache
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) GCP
2 5 (15.63%) Cloud Run
2 5 (15.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (9.38%) Azure
3 3 (9.38%) GitHub
3 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.25%) AWS
4 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) Network Security
2 3 (9.38%) VPN
3 2 (6.25%) SD-WAN
3 2 (6.25%) WAN
4 1 (3.13%) Broadband
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (3.13%) DMZ
4 1 (3.13%) DNS
4 1 (3.13%) Ethernet
4 1 (3.13%) Firewall
4 1 (3.13%) LAN
4 1 (3.13%) Modbus
4 1 (3.13%) SNMP
4 1 (3.13%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.13%) VLAN
4 1 (3.13%) VoIP
4 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) BigQuery
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.13%) Data Hub
3 1 (3.13%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) GitLab
2 2 (6.25%) MSBuild
2 2 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (6.25%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Senior
2 9 (28.13%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Architect
3 7 (21.88%) Cloud Architect
3 7 (21.88%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Senior Architect
3 7 (21.88%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 5 (15.63%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) GCP Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Principal Cloud Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Principal Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Chief Technology Officer
7 2 (6.25%) Configuration Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Network Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (43.75%) Terraform
2 12 (37.50%) Kafka
3 2 (6.25%) .NET
4 1 (3.13%) NETCONF
4 1 (3.13%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (37.50%) Onboarding
1 12 (37.50%) Private Cloud
1 12 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 11 (34.38%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 4 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
3 4 (12.50%) PKI
3 4 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (9.38%) NHS
5 2 (6.25%) CMDB
5 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.13%) Driving Licence
6 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
6 1 (3.13%) SCADA
6 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.13%) CentOS
3 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 24 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 21 (65.63%) Observability
3 20 (62.50%) GitOps
3 20 (62.50%) Platform Engineering
4 19 (59.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 17 (53.13%) Change Management
6 14 (43.75%) Microservices
7 13 (40.63%) Architectural Patterns
7 13 (40.63%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (40.63%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (40.63%) Secrets Management
7 13 (40.63%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
8 12 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
8 12 (37.50%) Runbook
9 11 (34.38%) Event-Driven
9 11 (34.38%) Roadmaps
10 10 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (31.25%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Python
2 6 (18.75%) Bash
3 4 (12.50%) Go
4 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.38%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) A+ Certification
1 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.13%) CCNA
1 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (3.13%) Degree
1 1 (3.13%) ECDL
1 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (3.13%) MCSE
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.13%) NIST
1 1 (3.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (46.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Firmware
2 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.13%) KVM
2 1 (3.13%) NDS
2 1 (3.13%) NetIQ eDirectory
2 1 (3.13%) NFS
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (65.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (18.75%) Ansible
3 4 (12.50%) Istio
4 1 (3.13%) Podman
4 1 (3.13%) Puppet
4 1 (3.13%) SELinux
4 1 (3.13%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) VMware
2 6 (18.75%) Google
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) BMC
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco
4 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.13%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.13%) Rockwell
5 1 (3.13%) Siemens
5 1 (3.13%) Wonderware