Configuration Management Job Trends in Cheltenham

Configuration Management
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 31 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +8
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 1 7 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 0.55% 4.67% 8.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 4.96% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £102,500 £70,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £83,000 £71,800
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% +15.60% +29.37%
75th Percentile £107,500 £93,125 £78,500
90th Percentile - £98,750 £78,550
Gloucestershire median annual salary £105,000 £70,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year +48.94% +16.53% +5.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

Configuration Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 130 141 347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 71.43% 94.00% 92.29%
Number of salaries quoted 98 71 202
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,875 £44,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £55,220
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +8.66% +0.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -1.87%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Configuration Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Configuration Management
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Configuration Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform