Configuration Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Configuration Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Configuration Management over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 252 202
Rank change year-on-year +11 -50 -43
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 806 814 1,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.14% 1.35% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.41% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 435 423 814
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,733 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,625 £45,775 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £58,700 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +8.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Configuration Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,266 57,626 66,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.13% 95.63% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41,003 29,573 41,244
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
South East +12 236 £52,550 -10.55% 48
South West -7 176 £55,000 -6.78% 53
North of England +6 114 £52,500 -9.48% 58
Midlands +11 93 £57,500 - 35
Scotland -36 91 £75,000 +7.14% 10
West Midlands +21 71 £57,500 -11.54% 17
North West +2 64 £55,000 -5.17% 39
East of England -15 60 £57,500 +9.52% 19
Yorkshire +64 39 £52,500 -19.23% 17
Wales +20 22 £47,500 -28.57% 5
East Midlands -9 22 £50,000 -4.76% 18
Northern Ireland +30 13 £70,000 -3.45% 6
North East -15 11 £45,000 +12.50% 2
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Configuration Management
UK

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 32 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.85%) Apache
3 27 (3.35%) Apache Spark
3 27 (3.35%) SharePoint
4 21 (2.61%) Confluence
5 14 (1.74%) IIS
6 12 (1.49%) CMS
6 12 (1.49%) OpenStack
7 10 (1.24%) nginx
8 3 (0.37%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.25%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.85%) Simulink
3 21 (2.61%) Stateflow
4 10 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (0.87%) CANalyzer
6 6 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.25%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.12%) Revit
8 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
1 4 (0.50%) SAP IS-U
2 2 (0.25%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 272 (33.75%) Azure
2 235 (29.16%) AWS
3 131 (16.25%) GCP
4 130 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
5 89 (11.04%) SaaS
6 54 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (6.08%) Serverless
8 37 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (4.34%) OpenShift
10 34 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 32 (3.97%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (2.48%) GitHub
13 18 (2.23%) Entra ID
13 18 (2.23%) Power Platform
14 15 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (1.49%) Azure AKS
16 12 (1.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 12 (1.49%) Power Automate
17 11 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 81 (10.05%) Firewall
2 37 (4.59%) VPN
3 31 (3.85%) AMQP
4 25 (3.10%) DNS
5 23 (2.85%) DHCP
6 21 (2.61%) WAN
7 16 (1.99%) 5G
8 15 (1.86%) Network Security
8 15 (1.86%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.86%) VLAN
9 14 (1.74%) J1939
9 14 (1.74%) SD-WAN
9 14 (1.74%) SNMP
10 13 (1.61%) MPLS
10 13 (1.61%) VoIP
10 13 (1.61%) Wireless
11 12 (1.49%) IPv4
12 9 (1.12%) Internet
12 9 (1.12%) OSPF
13 8 (0.99%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.83%) SQL Server
2 32 (3.97%) Big Data
3 26 (3.23%) Cloudera CDH
3 26 (3.23%) Hadoop
4 18 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
5 17 (2.11%) Power BI
6 15 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (1.86%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.61%) Redis
7 13 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.99%) MySQL
10 7 (0.87%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.74%) MariaDB
11 6 (0.74%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.62%) InfluxDB
12 5 (0.62%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 75 (9.31%) Git
2 73 (9.06%) JIRA
3 59 (7.32%) Jenkins
4 34 (4.22%) Subversion
5 24 (2.98%) ClearCase
6 21 (2.61%) Plastic SCM
7 19 (2.36%) GitLab
8 17 (2.11%) ClearQuest
9 16 (1.99%) CMake
10 12 (1.49%) Rational DOORS
11 11 (1.36%) Robot Framework
12 10 (1.24%) Trac
12 10 (1.24%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.99%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.87%) Moq
15 6 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
16 5 (0.62%) LabVIEW
16 5 (0.62%) Rational Rhapsody
17 3 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 134 (16.63%) Social Skills
2 119 (14.76%) Finance
3 94 (11.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 72 (8.93%) Legal
5 71 (8.81%) Law
6 70 (8.68%) Presentation Skills
7 65 (8.06%) Aerospace
8 51 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
9 44 (5.46%) Marketing
10 42 (5.21%) Electronics
11 36 (4.47%) Telecoms
12 30 (3.72%) Manufacturing
12 30 (3.72%) Retail
13 28 (3.47%) Military
14 27 (3.35%) Automotive
15 20 (2.48%) Banking
16 12 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (1.36%) Public Sector
18 7 (0.87%) Private Banking
19 6 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 161 (19.98%) Software Engineer
2 82 (10.17%) Senior
3 79 (9.80%) Architect
4 73 (9.06%) Systems Engineer
5 70 (8.68%) Cloud Architect
6 62 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 57 (7.07%) Lead
8 49 (6.08%) Java Engineer
8 49 (6.08%) Java Software Engineer
9 44 (5.46%) Analyst
10 41 (5.09%) Senior Software Engineer
11 34 (4.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 33 (4.09%) Network Engineer
13 27 (3.35%) Windows Engineer
14 26 (3.23%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 25 (3.10%) Cloud Engineer
15 25 (3.10%) Developer
16 24 (2.98%) Administrator
16 24 (2.98%) Configuration Manager
16 24 (2.98%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (8.68%) HTML
2 66 (8.19%) React
3 65 (8.06%) Node.js
4 64 (7.94%) AngularJS
5 44 (5.46%) Spring
6 40 (4.96%) HTML5
7 36 (4.47%) Middleware
8 31 (3.85%) Drools
8 31 (3.85%) jBPM
8 31 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
8 31 (3.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 31 (3.85%) XML
9 30 (3.72%) .NET
10 29 (3.60%) REST
11 26 (3.23%) gRPC
11 26 (3.23%) Material-UI
11 26 (3.23%) OpenAPI
11 26 (3.23%) Spring Boot
11 26 (3.23%) Swagger
12 21 (2.61%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 114 (14.14%) Public Cloud
2 95 (11.79%) Algorithms
3 71 (8.81%) PKI
4 64 (7.94%) Management Information System
5 55 (6.82%) CMDB
6 47 (5.83%) Cloud Native
7 39 (4.84%) Onboarding
8 27 (3.35%) Linux Command Line
9 20 (2.48%) Data Centre
9 20 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (2.36%) Driving Licence
11 18 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.86%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.86%) Enterprise Cloud
13 15 (1.86%) Product Ownership
14 14 (1.74%) Embedded Systems
14 14 (1.74%) Replication
15 11 (1.36%) Low-Code
16 10 (1.24%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 234 (29.03%) Linux
2 175 (21.71%) Windows
3 66 (8.19%) Windows Server
4 51 (6.33%) Debian
5 47 (5.83%) Ubuntu
6 43 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (3.35%) CentOS
8 21 (2.61%) Windows 10
9 20 (2.48%) Unix
10 9 (1.12%) Android
10 9 (1.12%) VMS
11 7 (0.87%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.87%) Solaris
12 6 (0.74%) Mesosphere
12 6 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
14 3 (0.37%) SUSE
14 3 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.25%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (30.77%) Agile
2 193 (23.95%) Software Engineering
3 187 (23.20%) DevOps
4 136 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
5 135 (16.75%) Project Management
6 130 (16.13%) Actionable Insight
7 129 (16.00%) CI/CD
8 118 (14.64%) ITIL
9 109 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 106 (13.15%) Computer Science
11 101 (12.53%) Change Management
12 96 (11.91%) Service Management
13 95 (11.79%) Migration
14 85 (10.55%) ITSM
15 83 (10.30%) TOGAF
16 82 (10.17%) Infrastructure as Code
17 81 (10.05%) Containerisation
18 78 (9.68%) Presales
19 71 (8.81%) SDLC
20 70 (8.68%) Application Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 194 (24.07%) Python
2 117 (14.52%) Java
3 92 (11.41%) Bash
3 92 (11.41%) SQL
4 71 (8.81%) PowerShell
5 65 (8.06%) JavaScript
6 52 (6.45%) C
7 41 (5.09%) C#
8 36 (4.47%) C++
9 34 (4.22%) Shell Script
10 32 (3.97%) Perl
11 27 (3.35%) Embedded C
12 25 (3.10%) MATLAB
13 23 (2.85%) Go
14 21 (2.61%) T-SQL
15 17 (2.11%) TypeScript
16 16 (1.99%) Ruby
17 14 (1.74%) PHP
18 9 (1.12%) Groovy
19 5 (0.62%) Ada
Qualifications
1 211 (26.18%) Security Cleared
2 167 (20.72%) Degree
3 147 (18.24%) SC Cleared
4 72 (8.93%) DV Cleared
5 50 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (2.61%) PMI Certification
8 19 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (2.36%) CCNA
9 18 (2.23%) PMP
10 17 (2.11%) A+ Certification
11 16 (1.99%) HND
12 13 (1.61%) Azure Certification
12 13 (1.61%) Master's Degree
13 12 (1.49%) APMG
14 10 (1.24%) MCSE
15 9 (1.12%) AWS Certification
16 8 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.87%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.34%) QA
2 29 (3.60%) PMO
3 22 (2.73%) MISRA
4 15 (1.86%) SLA
5 14 (1.74%) Automotive SPICE
5 14 (1.74%) AUTOSAR
5 14 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.74%) ISO 26262
5 14 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.87%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.87%) DO-178B
7 7 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.62%) Def Stans
8 5 (0.62%) JSP 440
8 5 (0.62%) NCSC
8 5 (0.62%) RMADS
9 3 (0.37%) GDPR
9 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 85 (10.55%) Active Directory
2 82 (10.17%) Docker
3 43 (5.33%) Hyper-V
4 31 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (2.48%) Firmware
5 20 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (2.11%) Embedded Firmware
7 16 (1.99%) pfSense
8 10 (1.24%) NFS
9 8 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.87%) vSphere
11 5 (0.62%) KVM
12 3 (0.37%) Ceph
12 3 (0.37%) Gluster
12 3 (0.37%) oVirt
12 3 (0.37%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.25%) iptables
13 2 (0.25%) Shibboleth
13 2 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 142 (17.62%) Ansible
2 131 (16.25%) Kubernetes
3 92 (11.41%) Terraform
4 84 (10.42%) Puppet
5 56 (6.95%) Progress Chef
6 34 (4.22%) Grafana
7 25 (3.10%) ZABBIX
8 21 (2.61%) Prometheus
9 17 (2.11%) SCOM
10 15 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (1.36%) Docker Swarm
12 10 (1.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 10 (1.24%) SCDPM
13 9 (1.12%) SCCM
14 7 (0.87%) Kibana
14 7 (0.87%) Podman
14 7 (0.87%) Rancher
15 5 (0.62%) Istio
16 4 (0.50%) vCenter Server
16 4 (0.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 231 (28.66%) Microsoft
2 105 (13.03%) Google
3 68 (8.44%) VMware
4 54 (6.70%) SaltStack
4 54 (6.70%) ServiceNow
5 50 (6.20%) Red Hat
6 28 (3.47%) IBM
6 28 (3.47%) Juniper
7 27 (3.35%) Cisco
8 21 (2.61%) Lauterbach
9 16 (1.99%) Fortinet
9 16 (1.99%) Oracle
10 15 (1.86%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.86%) EMC
10 15 (1.86%) Snow
10 15 (1.86%) Veeam
11 14 (1.74%) Meraki
12 13 (1.61%) Salesforce
13 12 (1.49%) Aruba
14 11 (1.36%) New Relic