Configuration Management Job Trends in the South West

Configuration Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 100 138
Rank change year-on-year -64 +38 0
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 35 52 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.49% 1.98% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 2.22% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 28 36 105
10th Percentile £30,875 £33,750 £41,800
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £46,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,750 £53,695 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +2.28% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,125 £62,200
90th Percentile £75,750 £95,000 £76,620
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,932 2,345 7,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.71% 89.40% 84.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,310 1,520 5,482
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,660 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% +7.18% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,568 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in the South West

Configuration Management
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the South West over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Configuration Management in the South West

Configuration Management
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 10 April 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
Bristol -19 10 £75,000 +30.43% 12
Devon -13 9 £52,500 - 2
Gloucestershire -28 8 £60,000 -35.14% 11
Dorset - 6 £37,500 - 3
Somerset -23 1 £85,700 +58.70% 4
Wiltshire -36 1 £75,000 +66.67% 1
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 1 (2.86%) Apache
1 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) AWS
2 7 (20.00%) Azure
3 6 (17.14%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (17.14%) Serverless
4 5 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon ECR
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (11.43%) CloudFront
5 4 (11.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.71%) GCP
6 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Network Security
2 1 (2.86%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.86%) Big Data
2 1 (2.86%) Cloudera CDH
2 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.86%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) JIRA
2 6 (17.14%) Bitbucket
2 6 (17.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.43%) Git
4 1 (2.86%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (2.86%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Aerospace
3 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Finance
5 1 (2.86%) Aviation
5 1 (2.86%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Configuration Engineer
1 7 (20.00%) Configuration Management Engineer
1 7 (20.00%) SCM Engineer
1 7 (20.00%) Software Configuration Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 5 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
3 5 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (11.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Coordinator
5 3 (8.57%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (5.71%) Middleware
2 2 (5.71%) REST
3 1 (2.86%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.86%) gRPC
3 1 (2.86%) Material-UI
3 1 (2.86%) Node.js
3 1 (2.86%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.86%) React
3 1 (2.86%) SOAP
3 1 (2.86%) Spring
3 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (17.14%) CMDB
3 2 (5.71%) e-Learning
3 2 (5.71%) Fat Client
3 2 (5.71%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) PKI
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (31.43%) Linux
2 8 (22.86%) Windows
3 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.86%) CentOS
4 1 (2.86%) Debian
4 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
2 10 (28.57%) DevOps
3 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (22.86%) Containerisation
5 7 (20.00%) ITIL
5 7 (20.00%) Service Management
6 6 (17.14%) Agile
6 6 (17.14%) Mentoring
7 5 (14.29%) Asset Management
7 5 (14.29%) Customer Service
7 5 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (14.29%) Incident Management
7 5 (14.29%) ITSM
7 5 (14.29%) Knowledge Management
7 5 (14.29%) Major Incident Management
7 5 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
7 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (14.29%) Service Delivery
8 4 (11.43%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) Python
2 7 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (14.29%) Bash
4 3 (8.57%) Java
5 1 (2.86%) Bicep
5 1 (2.86%) C#
5 1 (2.86%) C++
5 1 (2.86%) Go
5 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) AWS Certification
3 4 (11.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (11.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.71%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) PMO
2 1 (2.86%) ARP4761
2 1 (2.86%) DO-160
2 1 (2.86%) DO-254
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Docker
2 6 (17.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.43%) iptables
4 1 (2.86%) Firmware
4 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (31.43%) Ansible
2 10 (28.57%) Terraform
3 7 (20.00%) Puppet
3 7 (20.00%) SCCM
4 6 (17.14%) Grafana
4 6 (17.14%) Progress Chef
5 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
5 5 (14.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.71%) SCOM
6 2 (5.71%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Adobe
1 5 (14.29%) Citrix
1 5 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
1 5 (14.29%) McAfee
1 5 (14.29%) Tenable
1 5 (14.29%) Zscaler
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco
3 1 (2.86%) Dell
3 1 (2.86%) Google
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) SaltStack
3 1 (2.86%) VMware