Configuration Management Job Trends in the North West

Configuration Management
England > North West

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 158 157
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -12
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 20 47 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.32% 0.92% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.02% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 14 25 31
10th Percentile £40,500 £43,850 £38,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,050 £81,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -3.23% -11.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,129 4,625 3,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.21% 90.69% 88.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,489 2,259 2,806
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,114 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.42% -4.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,389 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,548
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 North West

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in the North West

Configuration Management
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Configuration Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Configuration Management in the North West

Configuration Management
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Manchester +10 10 £62,500 +13.64% 11
Cheshire -8 7 £50,500 -3.81% 6
Cumbria -3 2 £60,000 -2.69% 2
Lancashire +12 1 £29,000 -42.06% 2
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (20.00%) Apache
2 3 (15.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.00%) JBoss
3 1 (5.00%) OpenStack
3 1 (5.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) PTC Creo
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Teamcenter
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (25.00%) Azure
4 4 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 4 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 4 (20.00%) Serverless
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (15.00%) GCP
5 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (15.00%) Route 53
5 3 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (5.00%) GitHub
7 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Big Data
1 3 (15.00%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (15.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) CircleCI
2 3 (15.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) Ant
4 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.00%) Maven
4 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Aeronautics
3 1 (5.00%) Automotive
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (15.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 3 (15.00%) Desktop Support
1 3 (15.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
1 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Data Manager
2 2 (10.00%) Lead
2 2 (10.00%) Technical Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Administrator
3 1 (5.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (5.00%) Configuration Management Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) IT Support
3 1 (5.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Software Configuration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (20.00%) REST
2 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (15.00%) gRPC
2 3 (15.00%) Material-UI
2 3 (15.00%) Node.js
2 3 (15.00%) OpenAPI
2 3 (15.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (15.00%) React
2 3 (15.00%) Spring
2 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (15.00%) Swagger
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.00%) DPDK
3 1 (5.00%) eBPF
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) NETCONF
3 1 (5.00%) RESTCONF
3 1 (5.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) CMDB
3 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
2 6 (30.00%) Debian
2 6 (30.00%) Ubuntu
3 4 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (20.00%) Windows
4 3 (15.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (35.00%) Containerisation
3 7 (35.00%) DevOps
4 6 (30.00%) Agile
5 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (20.00%) Kanban
6 4 (20.00%) Open Source
6 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) API Development
7 3 (15.00%) Auto-Scaling
7 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (15.00%) Critical Thinking
7 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (15.00%) Microservices
7 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Process Improvement
7 3 (15.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (15.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) Bash
2 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) Groovy
4 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) KVM
2 1 (5.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Ansible
2 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (45.00%) Terraform
3 4 (20.00%) Puppet
4 3 (15.00%) Grafana
4 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.00%) Argo
5 1 (5.00%) Nagios
5 1 (5.00%) Podman
5 1 (5.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (20.00%) SaltStack
2 3 (15.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (15.00%) Splunk
3 2 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow