Configuration Management Job Trends in the East of England

Configuration Management
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 165 116
Rank change year-on-year +30 -49 +62
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 25 20 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.65% 0.51% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.61% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 23 15 14
10th Percentile - £28,537 -
25th Percentile £30,750 £38,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% +12.15% -17.69%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £75,720 £75,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,024 3,282 1,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 78.12% 83.53% 92.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,804 1,395 1,283
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,100 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £43,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,750 £69,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
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 of England

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in the East of England

Configuration Management
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Configuration Management in the East of England

Configuration Management
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 7 December 2025. 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
Hertfordshire +28 20 £47,000 -6.00% 30
Essex - 3 £75,900 - 21
Cambridgeshire +13 2 £67,500 +3.85% 12
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 14 (56.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (8.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) Azure
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.00%) GCP
3 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (4.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) GitLab
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
1 1 (4.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 14 (56.00%) Law
1 14 (56.00%) Marketing
2 2 (8.00%) Aviation
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.00%) Automotive
3 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Support Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 8 (32.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 6 (24.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Principal Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Design Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Product Owner
6 2 (8.00%) QA Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Quality Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Configuration Manager
7 1 (4.00%) DevOps Manager
7 1 (4.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) RF Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) .NET
1 1 (4.00%) Jest
1 1 (4.00%) Kafka
1 1 (4.00%) Material-UI
1 1 (4.00%) Playwright
1 1 (4.00%) React
1 1 (4.00%) Spring
1 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) FPGA
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Android
1 14 (56.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Service Management
2 14 (56.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 6 (24.00%) Zero Trust
4 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Agile
5 3 (12.00%) UML
5 3 (12.00%) Waterfall
6 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (8.00%) DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) FMEA
6 2 (8.00%) ITSM
6 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (8.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (4.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (4.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Ada
1 3 (12.00%) Ada 95
2 2 (8.00%) Java
3 1 (4.00%) C#
3 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) Degree
3 3 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (12.00%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (56.00%) SLA
2 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (8.00%) ISO 9001
3 2 (8.00%) QA
4 1 (4.00%) MISRA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (56.00%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) Apple
2 9 (36.00%) Samsung
3 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft