Configuration Management Job Trends in England

Configuration Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 297 208
Rank change year-on-year -31 -89 -6
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 300 467 706
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 0.94% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.04% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 172 272 505
10th Percentile £30,750 £40,125 £34,000
25th Percentile £47,263 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £77,813 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,700 £92,375 £90,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,728 44,744 41,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.15% 90.24% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 25,461 22,347 32,089
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in England

Configuration Management
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Configuration Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Configuration Management in England

Configuration Management
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +37 98 £70,000 +21.74% 59
London -57 80 £75,000 -6.25% 40
South West -31 35 £65,000 +22.64% 31
North of England -3 32 £60,000 +11.63% 16
East of England +31 28 £47,000 -18.26% 27
Midlands -3 27 £65,000 +9.37% 24
North West -1 21 £60,000 +9.09% 9
West Midlands -5 14 £72,500 +20.83% 18
East Midlands -8 13 £33,500 -35.58% 6
Yorkshire -6 9 £75,000 +114.29% 7
North East +10 2 £37,500 -36.90%
Configuration Management
UK

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.67%) Confluence
2 7 (2.33%) IIS
3 6 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.67%) Apache
4 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.67%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.33%) nginx
6 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.67%) JBoss
7 2 (0.67%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.67%) Windchill
3 7 (2.33%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (1.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 2 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.67%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.67%) Simulink
7 1 (0.33%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.33%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 71 (23.67%) AWS
2 60 (20.00%) Azure
3 34 (11.33%) Entra ID
4 26 (8.67%) GCP
5 24 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 22 (7.33%) Serverless
7 21 (7.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (5.67%) Amazon S3
9 17 (5.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (5.33%) SaaS
11 14 (4.67%) OpenShift
12 13 (4.33%) PaaS
13 12 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (4.00%) IaaS
13 12 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (3.67%) Amazon ELB
14 11 (3.67%) AWS KMS
14 11 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.33%) Firewall
2 18 (6.00%) DNS
3 11 (3.67%) FTP
3 11 (3.67%) HTTP
3 11 (3.67%) SMTP
3 11 (3.67%) SSH
4 10 (3.33%) Network Security
5 9 (3.00%) VPN
5 9 (3.00%) WAN
6 6 (2.00%) AMQP
7 5 (1.67%) LAN
8 4 (1.33%) IMAP
8 4 (1.33%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (1.00%) InfiniBand
10 2 (0.67%) SSL
10 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.33%) Broadband
11 1 (0.33%) DHCP
11 1 (0.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.00%) OLTP
3 11 (3.67%) Relational Database
4 10 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.00%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.33%) InfluxDB
7 3 (1.00%) Big Data
7 3 (1.00%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (1.00%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.00%) Power BI
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.33%) MySQL
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 74 (24.67%) Jenkins
2 56 (18.67%) JIRA
3 55 (18.33%) Git
4 24 (8.00%) GitLab
5 11 (3.67%) Vagrant
6 7 (2.33%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (2.00%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.33%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.33%) Maven
9 3 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.67%) Ant
10 2 (0.67%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.67%) Gradle
10 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.67%) Subversion
11 1 (0.33%) MSTest
11 1 (0.33%) NUnit
11 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 94 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 58 (19.33%) Finance
3 34 (11.33%) Organisational Skills
4 33 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (10.67%) Marketing
6 29 (9.67%) Law
7 22 (7.33%) Public Sector
8 13 (4.33%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.67%) Aerospace
9 11 (3.67%) Banking
9 11 (3.67%) Retail
10 9 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.67%) Electronics
11 8 (2.67%) Legal
11 8 (2.67%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.67%) Aviation
13 4 (1.33%) Aeronautics
13 4 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.33%) Military
14 3 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 39 (13.00%) Senior
2 36 (12.00%) Lead
3 34 (11.33%) Support Engineer
4 28 (9.33%) Developer
5 26 (8.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (7.33%) Architect
7 21 (7.00%) Senior Developer
8 20 (6.67%) Configuration Manager
8 20 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (6.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 19 (6.33%) 2nd Line Support
9 19 (6.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 19 (6.33%) Oracle Developer
9 19 (6.33%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 16 (5.33%) Software Architect
11 14 (4.67%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.00%) Administrator
12 12 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.67%) Middleware
2 15 (5.00%) JSON
3 14 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (4.67%) HTML
4 12 (4.00%) REST
5 9 (3.00%) Kafka
6 8 (2.67%) YAML
7 7 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (2.00%) FastAPI
8 6 (2.00%) Flask
9 5 (1.67%) OAuth
10 4 (1.33%) .NET
10 4 (1.33%) ADO
10 4 (1.33%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.33%) LDAP
10 4 (1.33%) Node.js
10 4 (1.33%) React
10 4 (1.33%) SAML
10 4 (1.33%) Spring
10 4 (1.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.67%) CMDB
2 18 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.67%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.00%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.00%) Replication
7 6 (2.00%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.33%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.00%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.00%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.00%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.00%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.00%) Virtual Reality
11 2 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 59 (19.67%) Linux
2 36 (12.00%) Windows
3 25 (8.33%) Android
3 25 (8.33%) Apple iOS
4 15 (5.00%) Ubuntu
4 15 (5.00%) VMS
5 13 (4.33%) Windows Server
6 12 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (3.67%) Unix
8 9 (3.00%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (2.67%) Debian
10 7 (2.33%) CentOS
11 5 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (29.67%) DevOps
2 86 (28.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 68 (22.67%) CI/CD
4 63 (21.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 62 (20.67%) Agile
6 60 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (17.00%) Service Management
8 50 (16.67%) Change Management
9 45 (15.00%) Containerisation
10 42 (14.00%) Process Improvement
11 38 (12.67%) Change Control
11 38 (12.67%) Computer Science
12 36 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
13 34 (11.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 33 (11.00%) Waterfall
15 31 (10.33%) Strategic Thinking
15 31 (10.33%) UML
16 29 (9.67%) ITIL
16 29 (9.67%) Programme Management
17 28 (9.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 77 (25.67%) Python
2 45 (15.00%) Bash
3 40 (13.33%) Java
4 36 (12.00%) SQL
5 29 (9.67%) PowerShell
6 25 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 19 (6.33%) PL/SQL
8 13 (4.33%) Groovy
9 11 (3.67%) Go
10 10 (3.33%) Ada
10 10 (3.33%) Ada 95
11 9 (3.00%) Perl
12 8 (2.67%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.00%) C++
13 6 (2.00%) TypeScript
14 5 (1.67%) C#
15 4 (1.33%) C
15 4 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (1.33%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 102 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 89 (29.67%) Degree
3 66 (22.00%) SC Cleared
4 47 (15.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (9.33%) Chartered Engineer
5 28 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (5.33%) DV Cleared
7 14 (4.67%) AWS Certification
8 10 (3.33%) CISSP
9 8 (2.67%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.00%) CCSK
10 6 (2.00%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.67%) CESG Certified Professional
12 2 (0.67%) OSCP
12 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.00%) QA
2 32 (10.67%) Def Stans
3 30 (10.00%) SLA
4 26 (8.67%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 10 (3.33%) GDPR
5 10 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 7 (2.33%) Data Quality
8 6 (2.00%) NIST
8 6 (2.00%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.33%) ISO 9001
10 3 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.67%) GRC
11 2 (0.67%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.67%) MISRA
11 2 (0.67%) NCSC
11 2 (0.67%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.33%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 57 (19.00%) Docker
2 23 (7.67%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (4.33%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.67%) DFS Replication
5 5 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.33%) Dovecot
6 4 (1.33%) Firmware
6 4 (1.33%) Postfix
6 4 (1.33%) Squid
7 3 (1.00%) KVM
7 3 (1.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.67%) GPFS
8 2 (0.67%) iptables
8 2 (0.67%) Lustre
8 2 (0.67%) Terminal Server
8 2 (0.67%) vCloud
9 1 (0.33%) QEMU
9 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (24.67%) Terraform
2 62 (20.67%) Ansible
3 59 (19.67%) Kubernetes
4 30 (10.00%) Grafana
4 30 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 25 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
6 11 (3.67%) Puppet
7 9 (3.00%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.67%) Nagios
9 4 (1.33%) Nessus
9 4 (1.33%) Proxmox
10 3 (1.00%) Argo
11 2 (0.67%) Podman
11 2 (0.67%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.67%) SELinux
12 1 (0.33%) Icinga
12 1 (0.33%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 33 (11.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.67%) ServiceNow
3 26 (8.67%) Oracle
4 25 (8.33%) Apple
5 20 (6.67%) Samsung
6 18 (6.00%) Google
7 17 (5.67%) VMware
8 14 (4.67%) Red Hat
9 12 (4.00%) SAP
10 11 (3.67%) Splunk
11 5 (1.67%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.67%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.33%) Foundry
12 4 (1.33%) Jaspersoft
12 4 (1.33%) Palantir
12 4 (1.33%) SaltStack
12 4 (1.33%) Zscaler
13 2 (0.67%) NVIDIA
13 2 (0.67%) OneLogin
13 2 (0.67%) SolarWinds