Configuration Management Job Trends in the Midlands

Configuration Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 196 194 170
Rank change year-on-year -2 -24 +1
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 27 51 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.35% 0.77% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.86% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12 31 34
10th Percentile - £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £47,000 £47,508
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,430 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.37% +3.36% -11.54%
75th Percentile £73,750 £64,375 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,505 £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% -10.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,376 5,946 4,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.62% 89.75% 88.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,520 2,615 3,711
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
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 Midlands

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Configuration Management
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Configuration Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Configuration Management in the Midlands

Configuration Management
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
West Midlands +4 14 £72,500 +20.83% 16
East Midlands -17 13 £33,500 -35.58% 5
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (33.33%) Confluence
2 4 (14.81%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (3.70%) AutoCAD
2 1 (3.70%) EPLAN
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) AWS
2 11 (40.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 11 (40.74%) Amazon EC2
2 11 (40.74%) Amazon ELB
2 11 (40.74%) Amazon S3
2 11 (40.74%) AWS KMS
2 11 (40.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (25.93%) Amazon Glacier
3 7 (25.93%) Azure
4 5 (18.52%) Entra ID
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (14.81%) Route 53
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.70%) GCP
6 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (40.74%) DNS
1 11 (40.74%) FTP
1 11 (40.74%) HTTP
1 11 (40.74%) SMTP
1 11 (40.74%) SSH
2 10 (37.04%) Firewall
3 4 (14.81%) IMAP
3 4 (14.81%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (3.70%) NAS
4 1 (3.70%) SAN
4 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (14.81%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (40.74%) Jenkins
1 11 (40.74%) Vagrant
2 9 (33.33%) Git
2 9 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (7.41%) Subversion
4 1 (3.70%) Moq
4 1 (3.70%) MSTest
4 1 (3.70%) NSubstitute
4 1 (3.70%) NUnit
4 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Public Sector
3 7 (25.93%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (18.52%) Law
4 5 (18.52%) Marketing
5 2 (7.41%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Finance
5 2 (7.41%) Legal
5 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Retail
6 1 (3.70%) Electronics
6 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (18.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Architect
2 5 (18.52%) Support Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Configuration Manager
3 4 (14.81%) Software Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Asset and Configuration Manager
5 2 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) IT Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) LDAP
1 4 (14.81%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (3.70%) Entity Framework
2 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Replication
2 4 (14.81%) CMDB
3 2 (7.41%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Linux
1 11 (40.74%) VMS
2 9 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (25.93%) Windows
4 5 (18.52%) Android
4 5 (18.52%) Apple iOS
5 4 (14.81%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) DevOps
2 11 (40.74%) Change Management
2 11 (40.74%) Cloud Security
3 9 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 9 (33.33%) Service Management
4 7 (25.93%) Agile
4 7 (25.93%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
6 5 (18.52%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
7 4 (14.81%) ITIL
7 4 (14.81%) ITSM
7 4 (14.81%) Open Source
7 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (14.81%) SDLC
7 4 (14.81%) UML
7 4 (14.81%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Groovy
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 9 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 7 (25.93%) Java
3 7 (25.93%) Perl
4 5 (18.52%) SQL
5 3 (11.11%) C#
6 2 (7.41%) Ruby
7 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 18 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (37.04%) Degree
3 7 (25.93%) AWS Certification
4 6 (22.22%) Azure Certification
5 4 (14.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (14.81%) Chartered Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) SLA
2 4 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 1 (3.70%) IEC 61131
4 1 (3.70%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Docker
2 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 5 (18.52%) DFS Replication
3 4 (14.81%) Dovecot
3 4 (14.81%) Postfix
3 4 (14.81%) Squid
4 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Terraform
2 9 (33.33%) Grafana
2 9 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 5 (18.52%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (14.81%) Nessus
4 4 (14.81%) Proxmox
5 2 (7.41%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) ServiceNow
2 5 (18.52%) Apple
2 5 (18.52%) Samsung
3 4 (14.81%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle
5 1 (3.70%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.70%) Rockwell
5 1 (3.70%) VMware