Configuration Management Job Trends in Manchester

Configuration Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 130 121
Rank change year-on-year +3 -9 -5
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 11 27 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.40% 0.99% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 1.06% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 17
10th Percentile £57,500 £49,375 £34,500
25th Percentile £58,125 £50,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £64,341 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,625 £68,500 £75,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,245 2,538 2,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 80.70% 93.14% 92.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,315 1,185 1,679
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,221 £40,000 £43,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,964
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in Manchester

Configuration Management
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Configuration Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Configuration Management in Manchester

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (36.36%) Apache
2 3 (27.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (9.09%) JBoss
3 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (45.45%) Azure
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (36.36%) AWS CodeBuild
4 4 (36.36%) OpenShift
4 4 (36.36%) Route 53
4 4 (36.36%) Serverless
4 4 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (27.27%) GCP
6 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (9.09%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Big Data
1 3 (27.27%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (27.27%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 4 (36.36%) CircleCI
2 4 (36.36%) GitLab
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
4 1 (9.09%) Ant
4 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
4 1 (9.09%) Git
4 1 (9.09%) Maven
4 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (36.36%) Aerospace
2 1 (9.09%) Aeronautics
2 1 (9.09%) Automotive
2 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Law
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Configuration Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Scripter
4 1 (9.09%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Software Configuration Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Windows DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (36.36%) REST
3 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
3 3 (27.27%) gRPC
3 3 (27.27%) Material-UI
3 3 (27.27%) Node.js
3 3 (27.27%) OpenAPI
3 3 (27.27%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (27.27%) React
3 3 (27.27%) Spring
3 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 3 (27.27%) Swagger
4 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) Middleware
4 1 (9.09%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) Debian
2 7 (63.64%) Ubuntu
3 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (27.27%) CentOS
5 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (63.64%) Containerisation
3 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) Auto-Scaling
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) API Development
5 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (27.27%) Kanban
5 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 3 (27.27%) Open Source
5 3 (27.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (27.27%) Scrum
5 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 1 (9.09%) Storage Management
6 1 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Bash
3 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 3 (27.27%) Java
5 1 (9.09%) Groovy
5 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Ansible
2 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 8 (72.73%) Terraform
3 4 (36.36%) Grafana
3 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
3 4 (36.36%) Puppet
4 1 (9.09%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Splunk
2 3 (27.27%) Google
2 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
2 3 (27.27%) SaltStack
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce