Configuration Management Job Trends in the East Midlands

Configuration Management
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 114 102
Rank change year-on-year -8 -12 +27
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 13 14 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.52% 0.63% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.72% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 11
10th Percentile - £47,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £48,313 £47,533
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £52,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.58% -9.57% -11.54%
75th Percentile £60,975 £60,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,700 £62,500 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £62,450
% change year-on-year +16.67% -3.92% -10.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,007 1,954 1,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.77% 88.42% 85.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,259 822 1,277
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,525 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,900 £75,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Configuration Management
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Configuration Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Configuration Management in the East Midlands

Configuration Management
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire +21 5 £33,500 - 5
Northamptonshire - 3 £85,700 - 3
Leicestershire -5 2 - - 6
Derbyshire -16 2 - - 8
Lincolnshire - 1 £85,700 - 4
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) AutoCAD
1 1 (7.69%) EPLAN
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) NAS
1 1 (7.69%) SAN
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
General
1 5 (38.46%) Law
1 5 (38.46%) Marketing
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) 2nd Line Support
1 5 (38.46%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
1 5 (38.46%) Support Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Software Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Configuration Manager
3 2 (15.38%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Control Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) CMDB
1 2 (15.38%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Android
1 5 (38.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Service Management
2 6 (46.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Mobile Device Management
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
4 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
4 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
4 4 (30.77%) Open Source
4 4 (30.77%) SDLC
4 4 (30.77%) UML
4 4 (30.77%) Waterfall
5 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
5 2 (15.38%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) ITSM
5 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.69%) Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) High Availability
6 1 (7.69%) Migration
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) Degree
3 4 (30.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (30.77%) Chartered Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) SLA
2 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
4 1 (7.69%) IEC 61131
4 1 (7.69%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Apple
1 5 (38.46%) Samsung
2 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Allen-Bradley
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Rockwell
3 1 (7.69%) VMware