Configuration Management Jobs in England

Configuration Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Configuration Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Configuration Management over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 261 249
Rank change year-on-year -33 -12 -44
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 519 915 1,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.06% 1.06% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.25% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 398 576 814
10th Percentile £49,311 £35,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,199 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £73,000 £76,563 £86,250
90th Percentile £85,250 £87,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +8.00%

All Process and 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 46,211 73,441 86,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.15% 85.47% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,829 53,979 51,188
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in England

Configuration Management
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in England.

Salary trend for Configuration Management in England

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

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 13 May 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
South East +70 233 £65,000 +23.69% 125
London +5 99 £80,000 +6.67% 189
North of England +21 85 £50,818 -3.20% 64
North West +19 74 £50,818 -7.60% 38
South West +14 51 £52,500 -4.55% 55
Midlands +14 35 £60,000 +4.35% 48
West Midlands +5 28 £60,000 +4.35% 29
East of England -8 12 £57,500 - 52
Yorkshire +43 11 £72,500 +38.10% 20
East Midlands +20 7 £60,000 +20.00% 14
Configuration Management
UK

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 33 (6.36%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.89%) IIS
3 14 (2.70%) Confluence
4 8 (1.54%) nginx
5 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.77%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.39%) Apache
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) JBoss
8 1 (0.19%) Jetty
8 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 36 (6.94%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.96%) Simulink
3 3 (0.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.19%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.39%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 110 (21.19%) AWS
2 90 (17.34%) Azure
3 38 (7.32%) GCP
4 28 (5.39%) SaaS
5 26 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (4.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (4.05%) Serverless
8 20 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 18 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (3.08%) PaaS
12 15 (2.89%) IaaS
12 15 (2.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (2.70%) GitHub
14 11 (2.12%) Power Platform
15 10 (1.93%) Entra ID
16 9 (1.73%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.43%) Firewall
2 19 (3.66%) DNS
3 17 (3.28%) VoIP
4 12 (2.31%) DHCP
4 12 (2.31%) MPLS
5 11 (2.12%) Cisco ISE
5 11 (2.12%) Ethernet
5 11 (2.12%) SAN
6 9 (1.73%) WAN
7 8 (1.54%) VLAN
8 7 (1.35%) Network Security
8 7 (1.35%) SD-WAN
8 7 (1.35%) VPN
9 6 (1.16%) NAS
9 6 (1.16%) VSAN
10 5 (0.96%) LAN
10 5 (0.96%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.77%) SSL
11 4 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.20%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.31%) MySQL
6 11 (2.12%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.73%) RDBMS
8 7 (1.35%) OLTP
8 7 (1.35%) Power BI
9 6 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.96%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.96%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.77%) DB2
12 3 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.58%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.39%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.39%) HDInsight
13 2 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 67 (12.91%) Rational DOORS
2 46 (8.86%) JIRA
3 35 (6.74%) Jenkins
4 32 (6.17%) Git
5 24 (4.62%) GitLab
6 18 (3.47%) Bitbucket
7 17 (3.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (1.93%) Vagrant
9 9 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (1.73%) Visual Studio
10 8 (1.54%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.96%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.96%) Subversion
12 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket Server
12 3 (0.58%) Selenium
12 3 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.58%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.39%) JUnit
13 2 (0.39%) Maven
14 1 (0.19%) Ant
General
1 154 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 63 (12.14%) Finance
3 35 (6.74%) Manufacturing
4 34 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.43%) Banking
5 23 (4.43%) Public Sector
6 16 (3.08%) Electronics
6 16 (3.08%) Marketing
7 15 (2.89%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.12%) Retail
10 8 (1.54%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.35%) Advertising
11 7 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.35%) Private Banking
12 6 (1.16%) Legal
12 6 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.96%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 146 (28.13%) Senior
2 109 (21.00%) Architect
3 76 (14.64%) Software Engineer
4 48 (9.25%) Senior Software Engineer
4 48 (9.25%) Systems Architect
5 43 (8.29%) Lead
5 43 (8.29%) Test Engineer
6 42 (8.09%) Senior Software Test Engineer
6 42 (8.09%) Senior Test Engineer
6 42 (8.09%) Software Test Engineer
7 32 (6.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 30 (5.78%) Software Architect
9 29 (5.59%) Analyst
10 27 (5.20%) Developer
11 24 (4.62%) Principal Engineer
12 22 (4.24%) Configuration Manager
12 22 (4.24%) Project Manager
13 21 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
13 21 (4.05%) Principal Software Engineer
14 20 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.94%) Middleware
2 21 (4.05%) .NET
3 13 (2.50%) REST
4 12 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (2.31%) HTML
4 12 (2.31%) JSON
5 9 (1.73%) ARM Templates
5 9 (1.73%) AWS CDK
6 8 (1.54%) FastAPI
6 8 (1.54%) Web Services
7 7 (1.35%) Flask
7 7 (1.35%) RESTful
8 5 (0.96%) Node.js
9 4 (0.77%) Ajax
9 4 (0.77%) CSS
9 4 (0.77%) Kafka
9 4 (0.77%) LDAP
9 4 (0.77%) SOAP
10 3 (0.58%) LEMP Stack
10 3 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (16.96%) Management Information System
2 35 (6.74%) CMDB
3 16 (3.08%) Public Cloud
4 14 (2.70%) Client/Server
4 14 (2.70%) Private Cloud
5 12 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (2.12%) Clustering
6 11 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.73%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.73%) Replication
8 7 (1.35%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.77%) GNSS
9 4 (0.77%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.77%) Self-Driving Car
9 4 (0.77%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.58%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.58%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.58%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.58%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 70 (13.49%) Linux
2 47 (9.06%) Windows
3 22 (4.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (3.28%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.50%) Unix
6 9 (1.73%) CentOS
6 9 (1.73%) VMS
7 5 (0.96%) Android
7 5 (0.96%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.58%) Debian
8 3 (0.58%) Rocky
8 3 (0.58%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (37.38%) Agile
2 143 (27.55%) Computer Science
3 141 (27.17%) DevOps
4 129 (24.86%) UML
5 123 (23.70%) Waterfall
6 104 (20.04%) Mentoring
7 93 (17.92%) Software Engineering
8 86 (16.57%) CI/CD
9 78 (15.03%) Test Automation
10 69 (13.29%) ITIL
11 68 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
11 68 (13.10%) Requirements Management
11 68 (13.10%) Systems Engineering
12 64 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 62 (11.95%) Customer Requirements
14 58 (11.18%) Service Management
15 57 (10.98%) Software Testing
16 56 (10.79%) Problem-Solving
16 56 (10.79%) Validation
17 51 (9.83%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 91 (17.53%) Python
2 76 (14.64%) Ada
3 52 (10.02%) Java
4 49 (9.44%) Bash
5 40 (7.71%) PowerShell
6 37 (7.13%) SQL
7 27 (5.20%) C#
8 26 (5.01%) C
9 22 (4.24%) JavaScript
10 18 (3.47%) Ada 95
11 16 (3.08%) VB
12 12 (2.31%) C++
13 11 (2.12%) Perl
14 10 (1.93%) Groovy
15 9 (1.73%) Go
15 9 (1.73%) Ruby
16 7 (1.35%) Bicep
16 7 (1.35%) PL/SQL
16 7 (1.35%) R
17 6 (1.16%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 256 (49.33%) Degree
2 203 (39.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 126 (24.28%) Chartered Engineer
4 46 (8.86%) Security Cleared
5 45 (8.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (6.36%) SC Cleared
7 22 (4.24%) DV Cleared
8 19 (3.66%) ITIL Certification
9 17 (3.28%) AWS Certification
10 13 (2.50%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 6 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.39%) CCSP
14 2 (0.39%) CISM
14 2 (0.39%) CISSP
14 2 (0.39%) MCSA
14 2 (0.39%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (23.12%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 48 (9.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 40 (7.71%) QA
4 35 (6.74%) SLA
5 8 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.77%) GDPR
6 4 (0.77%) PMO
7 3 (0.58%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.39%) GRC
8 2 (0.39%) NIST
9 1 (0.19%) Basel III
9 1 (0.19%) COBIT
9 1 (0.19%) DO-254
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
9 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 62 (11.95%) Docker
2 32 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (5.39%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.73%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.16%) vSphere
6 4 (0.77%) DFS Replication
6 4 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.39%) Firmware
8 2 (0.39%) Postfix
9 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.19%) HDFS
9 1 (0.19%) KVM
9 1 (0.19%) NFS
9 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 90 (17.34%) Ansible
2 83 (15.99%) Terraform
3 70 (13.49%) Kubernetes
4 41 (7.90%) Puppet
5 25 (4.82%) Grafana
5 25 (4.82%) Progress Chef
6 23 (4.43%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.50%) Nagios
8 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.35%) Argo
9 7 (1.35%) vRealize
10 6 (1.16%) PowerCLI
10 6 (1.16%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.16%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.16%) vMotion
11 5 (0.96%) Consul
11 5 (0.96%) SCCM
12 4 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.77%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.58%) Istio
Vendors
1 81 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 49 (9.44%) IBM
3 42 (8.09%) VMware
4 32 (6.17%) ServiceNow
5 30 (5.78%) SAP
6 27 (5.20%) Red Hat
7 26 (5.01%) Oracle
8 23 (4.43%) Cisco
9 18 (3.47%) Juniper
10 16 (3.08%) Siemens
11 15 (2.89%) Google
12 11 (2.12%) SevOne
13 9 (1.73%) HP
13 9 (1.73%) Splunk
13 9 (1.73%) Veeam
14 7 (1.35%) Avaloq
14 7 (1.35%) Citrix
15 5 (0.96%) Intel
15 5 (0.96%) Sybase
16 4 (0.77%) EMC