Configuration Management Jobs in the North West

Configuration Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 232 217
Rank change year-on-year +10 -15 -82
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 76 63 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.95% 0.64% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.77% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 46 28 43
10th Percentile - £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,869 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,818 £56,250 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% -3.02% +5.45%
75th Percentile £55,935 £75,000 £78,000
90th Percentile £62,125 £77,250 £85,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -11.11% +3.85%

All Process and 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 7,665 8,164 7,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.84% 82.78% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,991 6,201 3,904
10th Percentile £25,856 £27,500 £31,077
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the North West

Configuration Management
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the North West.

Salary trend for Configuration Management in the North West

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the North West over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

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 15 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
Cumbria -35 41 £50,818 - 1
Lancashire -56 17 £50,055 +0.11% 13
Manchester +28 15 £58,750 +2.17% 37
Cheshire +2 3 £50,000 -13.04% 13
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 21 (27.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (28.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.32%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.53%) Azure
2 7 (9.21%) AWS
2 7 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.63%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (2.63%) GitHub
6 2 (2.63%) Route 53
7 1 (1.32%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.32%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.32%) IaaS
7 1 (1.32%) PaaS
7 1 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.05%) VoIP
2 1 (1.32%) Firewall
2 1 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.32%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (21.05%) JIRA
1 16 (21.05%) Rational DOORS
2 15 (19.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 15 (19.74%) Bitbucket
3 4 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.95%) GitLab
5 2 (2.63%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.63%) Git
6 1 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (27.63%) Manufacturing
2 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.63%) Finance
3 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (2.63%) Retail
3 2 (2.63%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.32%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 37 (48.68%) Senior
2 22 (28.95%) Project Manager
3 21 (27.63%) Configuration Manager
4 16 (21.05%) Instrumentation Engineer
4 16 (21.05%) Senior Electrical Engineer
4 16 (21.05%) Software Engineer
5 15 (19.74%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 15 (19.74%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (11.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (9.21%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Lead
9 5 (6.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Team Leader
11 2 (2.63%) Technical Leader
11 2 (2.63%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.89%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.32%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.32%) PKI
2 1 (1.32%) Replication
2 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.21%) Linux
2 6 (7.89%) Windows
3 2 (2.63%) Debian
3 2 (2.63%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.95%) Project Management
1 22 (28.95%) Risk Management
2 21 (27.63%) Bill of Materials
2 21 (27.63%) ERP
2 21 (27.63%) Performance Metrics
3 18 (23.68%) Requirements Management
3 18 (23.68%) Systems Engineering
4 17 (22.37%) Agile
4 17 (22.37%) Continuous Integration
4 17 (22.37%) Software Engineering
5 16 (21.05%) Coaching
6 15 (19.74%) Design Patterns
6 15 (19.74%) DevOps
7 14 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (9.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (7.89%) CI/CD
9 6 (7.89%) Containerisation
9 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (6.58%) Platform Engineering
11 3 (3.95%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.37%) C
2 16 (21.05%) Ada
2 16 (21.05%) C#
2 16 (21.05%) Java
2 16 (21.05%) VB
3 5 (6.58%) Python
4 4 (5.26%) Bash
5 3 (3.95%) C++
6 2 (2.63%) Go
7 1 (1.32%) Bicep
7 1 (1.32%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (68.42%) BPSS Clearance
2 34 (44.74%) Degree
3 18 (23.68%) Chartered Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.95%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.32%) HNC
7 1 (1.32%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.32%) NCSC
2 1 (1.32%) NIST
2 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) NFS
2 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (19.74%) Ansible
2 14 (18.42%) Terraform
3 12 (15.79%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.58%) Puppet
5 3 (3.95%) Grafana
5 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.63%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.32%) cPanel
Vendors
1 28 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 21 (27.63%) SAP
3 16 (21.05%) Siemens
4 2 (2.63%) Splunk