Configuration Management Job Trends in Hampshire

Configuration Management
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 125 100
Rank change year-on-year +14 -25 +16
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 9 29 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 0.36% 1.10% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 1.34% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 26
10th Percentile £75,585 £54,600 £30,000
25th Percentile £82,088 £56,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,850 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.35% -3.13% +39.13%
75th Percentile £98,125 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,750 £83,050 -
South East median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £52,250
% change year-on-year +21.74% +10.05% -5.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,987 2,159 1,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 80.02% 81.94% 88.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,398 1,279 1,200
10th Percentile £27,250 £32,750 £29,450
25th Percentile £33,469 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +10.58% -5.45%
75th Percentile £63,250 £72,500 £65,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Configuration Management
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Configuration Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Hampshire over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Configuration Management in Hampshire

Configuration Management
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Farnborough +4 3 £72,500 - 5
Portsmouth -4 3 £85,700 +7.13% 4
Southampton +16 1 £90,000 - 5
Configuration Management
South East

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) InfiniBand
1 1 (11.11%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (22.22%) Military
2 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Software Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Development Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) FPGA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) FPGA
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) NVMe
1 1 (11.11%) PCIe
1 1 (11.11%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
3 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (44.44%) Design Patterns
3 4 (44.44%) Open Source
3 4 (44.44%) SDLC
3 4 (44.44%) UML
3 4 (44.44%) Waterfall
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 1 (11.11%) FPGA Design
5 1 (11.11%) Innovative Thinking
5 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Assembly Language
2 1 (11.11%) C
2 1 (11.11%) C++
2 1 (11.11%) MATLAB
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 4 (44.44%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (44.44%) Chartered Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 1 (11.11%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Firmware
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (11.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Nagios
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Altera
1 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
1 1 (11.11%) EMC
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) PTC
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk
1 1 (11.11%) Xilinx