Configuration Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 243 252
Rank change year-on-year +19 +9 -43
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 528 833 815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.33% 1.11% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.35% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 372 440 419
10th Percentile £50,818 £34,000 £36,733
25th Percentile £55,000 £44,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £68,000 £67,313 £77,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £81,275 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -12.41% +9.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
South East +84 287 £65,000 +18.54% 51
North of England +17 89 £50,818 -3.20% 39
North West +14 78 £50,818 -11.62% 22
South West 0 44 £53,750 -2.27% 22
Wales +56 41 £65,000 +30.00% 3
Midlands +8 40 £72,500 +26.09% 20
West Midlands +14 35 £72,500 +26.09% 14
Scotland +45 15 £65,823 -12.24% 7
Yorkshire +33 9 £72,500 +61.11% 15
East of England -3 8 £57,500 - 18
East Midlands +28 5 £57,000 +14.00% 6
Northern Ireland +32 4 - -
North East +40 2 - - 2
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 29 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 18 (3.41%) Confluence
3 10 (1.89%) IIS
4 6 (1.14%) nginx
5 1 (0.19%) CMS
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 31 (5.87%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.14%) Windchill
3 4 (0.76%) Simulink
4 1 (0.19%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.14%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 73 (13.83%) AWS
2 53 (10.04%) Azure
3 31 (5.87%) Amazon EC2
4 28 (5.30%) Amazon S3
5 27 (5.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 26 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 20 (3.79%) Amazon ELB
7 20 (3.79%) AWS KMS
8 17 (3.22%) Amazon Glacier
8 17 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (3.03%) IaaS
10 15 (2.84%) PaaS
10 15 (2.84%) SaaS
11 14 (2.65%) Serverless
12 11 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (2.08%) GCP
13 9 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (1.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.73%) Firewall
2 18 (3.41%) DNS
3 17 (3.22%) VoIP
4 12 (2.27%) MPLS
5 11 (2.08%) Cisco ISE
5 11 (2.08%) DHCP
5 11 (2.08%) Ethernet
6 9 (1.70%) HTTP
7 8 (1.52%) FTP
7 8 (1.52%) SMTP
7 8 (1.52%) SSH
8 7 (1.33%) SAN
8 7 (1.33%) WAN
9 6 (1.14%) NAS
9 6 (1.14%) SD-WAN
9 6 (1.14%) VSAN
10 5 (0.95%) Network Security
10 5 (0.95%) VPN
10 5 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (2.46%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.70%) OLTP
4 5 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.57%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.57%) DB2
5 3 (0.57%) MariaDB
5 3 (0.57%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.57%) Power BI
5 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.19%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.19%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.19%) MySQL
6 1 (0.19%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 95 (17.99%) Rational DOORS
2 59 (11.17%) JIRA
3 34 (6.44%) Jenkins
4 27 (5.11%) Git
5 21 (3.98%) Vagrant
6 16 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 15 (2.84%) Bitbucket
8 12 (2.27%) GitLab
9 6 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.14%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.76%) Subversion
11 3 (0.57%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (0.57%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.19%) FitNesse
13 1 (0.19%) LabVIEW
13 1 (0.19%) Newman
13 1 (0.19%) Selenium
13 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 125 (23.67%) Social Skills
2 29 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (4.73%) Manufacturing
4 21 (3.98%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.27%) Finance
5 12 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (1.89%) Banking
7 9 (1.70%) Electronics
7 9 (1.70%) Retail
8 8 (1.52%) Marketing
9 7 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.33%) Private Banking
10 6 (1.14%) Legal
10 6 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.95%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.95%) Military
12 3 (0.57%) Advertising
12 3 (0.57%) Law
13 2 (0.38%) Automotive
13 2 (0.38%) Billing
Job Titles
1 153 (28.98%) Senior
2 138 (26.14%) Architect
3 105 (19.89%) Software Engineer
4 67 (12.69%) Software Architect
5 56 (10.61%) Systems Architect
6 54 (10.23%) Senior Software Engineer
7 51 (9.66%) Test Engineer
8 50 (9.47%) Senior Software Test Engineer
8 50 (9.47%) Senior Test Engineer
8 50 (9.47%) Software Test Engineer
9 45 (8.52%) Principal Engineer
9 45 (8.52%) Principal Software Engineer
10 33 (6.25%) Lead
11 22 (4.17%) Configuration Manager
11 22 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
11 22 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (4.17%) Project Manager
12 21 (3.98%) System Design Authority
13 19 (3.60%) Support Engineer
14 16 (3.03%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (14.39%) Middleware
2 11 (2.08%) JSON
3 10 (1.89%) .NET
3 10 (1.89%) HTML
4 7 (1.33%) ARM Templates
5 5 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (0.95%) LDAP
6 4 (0.76%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.57%) REST
8 1 (0.19%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.19%) CSS
8 1 (0.19%) Node.js
8 1 (0.19%) OAuth
8 1 (0.19%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.19%) OpenID
8 1 (0.19%) React
8 1 (0.19%) RESTful
8 1 (0.19%) SOAP
8 1 (0.19%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (15.53%) Management Information System
2 15 (2.84%) Replication
3 13 (2.46%) CMDB
3 13 (2.46%) Public Cloud
4 11 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (1.89%) Client/Server
5 10 (1.89%) Private Cloud
6 8 (1.52%) Clustering
7 4 (0.76%) GNSS
7 4 (0.76%) Self-Driving Car
8 3 (0.57%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.57%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.57%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.57%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.38%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.19%) EMC VMAX
10 1 (0.19%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.19%) IoT
10 1 (0.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 55 (10.42%) Linux
2 44 (8.33%) Windows
3 21 (3.98%) VMS
4 14 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.46%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.89%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.70%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.95%) Android
9 4 (0.76%) Unix
10 3 (0.57%) Debian
11 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.19%) SafeRTOS
12 1 (0.19%) VxWorks
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (49.62%) Agile
2 217 (41.10%) Waterfall
3 215 (40.72%) Computer Science
4 202 (38.26%) UML
5 145 (27.46%) DevOps
6 140 (26.52%) Mentoring
7 121 (22.92%) Software Engineering
8 104 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 97 (18.37%) Systems Engineering
10 85 (16.10%) Design Patterns
11 76 (14.39%) Requirements Management
12 75 (14.20%) SDLC
13 74 (14.02%) Test Automation
14 71 (13.45%) Customer Requirements
15 67 (12.69%) Open Source
16 65 (12.31%) Software Testing
16 65 (12.31%) Validation
17 57 (10.80%) Business Case
18 56 (10.61%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
18 56 (10.61%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 106 (20.08%) Ada
2 52 (9.85%) Python
3 45 (8.52%) Java
4 42 (7.95%) Ada 95
5 38 (7.20%) PowerShell
6 26 (4.92%) C
7 24 (4.55%) SQL
8 20 (3.79%) Groovy
9 18 (3.41%) Bash
9 18 (3.41%) C#
10 16 (3.03%) VB
11 12 (2.27%) JavaScript
11 12 (2.27%) Perl
12 10 (1.89%) C++
13 9 (1.70%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.14%) MATLAB
15 5 (0.95%) Ruby
16 4 (0.76%) R
16 4 (0.76%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 344 (65.15%) Degree
2 305 (57.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 218 (41.29%) Chartered Engineer
4 82 (15.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (9.09%) Security Cleared
6 35 (6.63%) SC Cleared
7 23 (4.36%) DV Cleared
8 17 (3.22%) Azure Certification
9 14 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (2.46%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.14%) HNC
11 6 (1.14%) HND
11 6 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.38%) CCNA
15 1 (0.19%) CCNP
15 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (36.74%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 56 (10.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 24 (4.55%) SLA
4 21 (3.98%) QA
5 4 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.76%) PMO
6 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.19%) DO-254
7 1 (0.19%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.19%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (6.82%) Docker
2 29 (5.49%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.46%) DFS Replication
5 7 (1.33%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.14%) vSphere
7 4 (0.76%) Firmware
7 4 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.57%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.57%) Postfix
8 3 (0.57%) Squid
8 3 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.19%) NDS
10 1 (0.19%) NFS
Systems Management
1 53 (10.04%) Ansible
2 47 (8.90%) Terraform
3 31 (5.87%) Kubernetes
4 23 (4.36%) Grafana
4 23 (4.36%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.98%) Puppet
6 12 (2.27%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.33%) vRealize
8 6 (1.14%) Nessus
8 6 (1.14%) PowerCLI
8 6 (1.14%) Proxmox
8 6 (1.14%) vCenter Server
8 6 (1.14%) vMotion
9 4 (0.76%) Nagios
10 3 (0.57%) SCOM
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.38%) SCCM
12 1 (0.19%) CA Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.19%) cPanel
12 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 77 (14.58%) IBM
2 59 (11.17%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.87%) ServiceNow
4 26 (4.92%) Juniper
5 24 (4.55%) VMware
6 23 (4.36%) SAP
7 19 (3.60%) Cisco
7 19 (3.60%) Oracle
8 16 (3.03%) Siemens
9 13 (2.46%) Red Hat
10 11 (2.08%) SevOne
11 8 (1.52%) HP
12 7 (1.33%) Avaloq
12 7 (1.33%) Citrix
12 7 (1.33%) Veeam
13 5 (0.95%) Splunk
14 4 (0.76%) Intel
15 3 (0.57%) Jaspersoft
15 3 (0.57%) Sybase
16 2 (0.38%) ForgeRock