Configuration Management Jobs in the South East

Configuration Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 188 200
Rank change year-on-year +74 +12 +48
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 208 238 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.46% 1.43% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 1.68% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 170 136 132
10th Percentile - £30,000 £35,800
25th Percentile £55,000 £34,000 £45,581
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,550 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.18% -8.61% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £91,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,700 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.21% -13.04% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,705 14,150 14,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.03% 84.80% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,103 9,942 8,229
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the South East

Configuration Management
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the South East.

Salary trend for Configuration Management in the South East

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Configuration Management in the South East

Configuration Management
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Isle of Wight - 141 £60,000 - 21
Thames Valley +15 21 £65,000 +91.18% 22
Hampshire +51 20 £57,500 -28.13% 16
Surrey +21 15 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Buckinghamshire +38 10 £50,000 +25.00% 8
Berkshire +7 10 £65,000 +91.18% 11
Kent +4 6 £60,000 +9.09% 5
East Sussex +35 4 £50,000 -31.03% 1
Oxfordshire +39 1 £110,000 +76.00% 6
Sussex - 1 £75,000 - 3
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (6.73%) IIS
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (6.73%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.44%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (2.88%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (12.50%) AWS
2 24 (11.54%) Azure
2 24 (11.54%) SaaS
3 17 (8.17%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.37%) PaaS
5 6 (2.88%) IBM Cloud
5 6 (2.88%) OCI
6 2 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.48%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (0.48%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.48%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (0.48%) GCP
7 1 (0.48%) GitHub
7 1 (0.48%) IaaS
7 1 (0.48%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.40%) Cisco ISE
1 5 (2.40%) DHCP
1 5 (2.40%) DNS
1 5 (2.40%) Ethernet
1 5 (2.40%) MPLS
1 5 (2.40%) NAS
1 5 (2.40%) SAN
1 5 (2.40%) VSAN
2 1 (0.48%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (0.48%) DWDM
2 1 (0.48%) Firewall
2 1 (0.48%) LAN
2 1 (0.48%) Network Security
2 1 (0.48%) WAN
2 1 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.73%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.88%) NoSQL
2 6 (2.88%) OLTP
3 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.48%) Big Data
3 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 48 (23.08%) Rational DOORS
2 8 (3.85%) Git
3 4 (1.92%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.44%) JIRA
4 3 (1.44%) Subversion
5 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.48%) GitLab
General
1 75 (36.06%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (3.37%) Legal
4 6 (2.88%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.40%) Finance
5 5 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.44%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.44%) Electronics
6 3 (1.44%) Military
6 3 (1.44%) Retail
7 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.48%) Advertising
8 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 78 (37.50%) Senior
2 67 (32.21%) Architect
3 48 (23.08%) Systems Architect
4 38 (18.27%) Software Engineer
5 36 (17.31%) Senior Software Test Engineer
5 36 (17.31%) Senior Test Engineer
5 36 (17.31%) Software Test Engineer
5 36 (17.31%) Test Engineer
6 35 (16.83%) Senior Software Engineer
7 21 (10.10%) Lead
8 13 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
9 12 (5.77%) Software Architect
9 12 (5.77%) Software Team Leader
9 12 (5.77%) Team Leader
9 12 (5.77%) Test Leader
9 12 (5.77%) Test Team Leader
10 10 (4.81%) Developer
11 9 (4.33%) Service Desk Manager
11 9 (4.33%) Service Manager
12 8 (3.85%) Configuration Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.65%) .NET
2 13 (6.25%) Middleware
3 8 (3.85%) JSON
4 6 (2.88%) HTML
5 2 (0.96%) Kafka
5 2 (0.96%) SOAP
5 2 (0.96%) Web Services
6 1 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.48%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.48%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.48%) REST
6 1 (0.48%) RESTful
6 1 (0.48%) Swagger
6 1 (0.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (29.81%) Management Information System
2 14 (6.73%) Client/Server
2 14 (6.73%) Private Cloud
3 6 (2.88%) Algorithms
3 6 (2.88%) Blockchain
3 6 (2.88%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.40%) Clustering
5 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.96%) CMDB
6 2 (0.96%) IoT
6 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.48%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.48%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.37%) Windows
2 6 (2.88%) Android
2 6 (2.88%) Apple iOS
2 6 (2.88%) Linux
2 6 (2.88%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.48%) VMS
4 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (45.19%) Agile
2 92 (44.23%) Computer Science
3 87 (41.83%) Waterfall
4 81 (38.94%) UML
5 66 (31.73%) Mentoring
6 60 (28.85%) Customer Requirements
7 50 (24.04%) Software Engineering
8 49 (23.56%) Test Automation
9 48 (23.08%) Business Case
9 48 (23.08%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
9 48 (23.08%) Requirements Management
9 48 (23.08%) Software Testing
9 48 (23.08%) Systems Engineering
9 48 (23.08%) Systems Thinking
10 39 (18.75%) Validation
10 39 (18.75%) Verification and Validation
11 30 (14.42%) Code Quality
12 20 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (9.62%) Information Security
13 18 (8.65%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 36 (17.31%) Ada
2 11 (5.29%) SQL
3 7 (3.37%) Java
3 7 (3.37%) JavaScript
3 7 (3.37%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.88%) PL/SQL
5 5 (2.40%) Python
6 4 (1.92%) C#
6 4 (1.92%) Go
6 4 (1.92%) Ruby
7 3 (1.44%) C
7 3 (1.44%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.48%) Bash
8 1 (0.48%) C++
8 1 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 152 (73.08%) Degree
2 110 (52.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 80 (38.46%) Chartered Engineer
4 24 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (7.21%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (4.33%) Security Cleared
7 8 (3.85%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (1.92%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 48 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 15 (7.21%) SLA
4 9 (4.33%) QA
5 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.96%) GDPR
5 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (3.37%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.37%) Docker
3 5 (2.40%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (2.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.88%) Ansible
3 5 (2.40%) PowerCLI
3 5 (2.40%) Puppet
3 5 (2.40%) vCenter Server
3 5 (2.40%) vMotion
3 5 (2.40%) vRealize
4 3 (1.44%) Terraform
5 2 (0.96%) Argo
5 2 (0.96%) Grafana
6 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (25.96%) IBM
2 27 (12.98%) Oracle
3 23 (11.06%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.77%) VMware
5 11 (5.29%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.85%) Micro Focus
7 7 (3.37%) Cisco
8 6 (2.88%) Citrix
8 6 (2.88%) PeopleSoft
8 6 (2.88%) Veeam
9 5 (2.40%) HP
9 5 (2.40%) Juniper
9 5 (2.40%) SevOne
10 3 (1.44%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.48%) Nokia