Configuration Management Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 276 230
Rank change year-on-year -1 -46 -16
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 255 330 455
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.91% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.03% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 142 192 304
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,075 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,438 £49,750 £41,158
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,675 £68,614 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £82,500 £79,625
UK median annual salary £63,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -14.29%

All Process & 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 33,001 32,118 30,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.62% 88.87% 88.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,958 14,487 22,822
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Configuration Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Configuration Management

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 11 January 2026.

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 11 January 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
South East +35 93 £70,000 +21.74% 102
South West -34 33 £68,500 +29.25% 56
North of England -7 31 £60,000 +11.63% 55
Scotland +5 29 £85,700 -4.78% 18
East of England +23 27 £47,000 -18.26% 58
Midlands -7 25 £57,500 -3.25% 41
North West -2 20 £60,000 +9.09% 28
Wales +11 15 £57,500 -3.25% 17
East Midlands -8 13 £33,500 -35.58% 29
West Midlands +7 12 £72,500 +20.83% 12
Yorkshire -16 9 £75,000 +130.77% 22
Northern Ireland -14 3 - - 5
North East +7 2 £37,500 -36.90% 5
Configuration Management
UK

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.14%) Confluence
2 8 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.57%) Apache
3 4 (1.57%) nginx
4 3 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.78%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) JBoss
6 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.14%) Windchill
2 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.96%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 2 (0.78%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.39%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.39%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.39%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Primavera
2 1 (0.39%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 37 (14.51%) Entra ID
2 36 (14.12%) AWS
3 31 (12.16%) Azure
4 17 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (5.49%) Amazon S3
7 13 (5.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (5.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (3.92%) Serverless
10 9 (3.53%) Amazon ELB
10 9 (3.53%) AWS KMS
11 8 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (3.14%) Mimecast
11 8 (3.14%) OpenShift
12 7 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.75%) Route 53
13 5 (1.96%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.53%) DNS
1 9 (3.53%) Firewall
1 9 (3.53%) FTP
1 9 (3.53%) HTTP
1 9 (3.53%) SMTP
1 9 (3.53%) SSH
2 6 (2.35%) AMQP
3 4 (1.57%) IMAP
3 4 (1.57%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (0.78%) Network Security
4 2 (0.78%) VPN
5 1 (0.39%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.39%) NAS
5 1 (0.39%) SAN
5 1 (0.39%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (4.31%) OLTP
3 5 (1.96%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.57%) InfluxDB
4 4 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.18%) Big Data
5 3 (1.18%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (1.18%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 57 (22.35%) Jenkins
2 45 (17.65%) Git
3 44 (17.25%) JIRA
4 10 (3.92%) GitLab
5 9 (3.53%) Vagrant
6 8 (3.14%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (1.18%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.78%) Subversion
9 1 (0.39%) Ant
9 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.39%) Maven
9 1 (0.39%) Moq
9 1 (0.39%) MSTest
9 1 (0.39%) NUnit
9 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 84 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.94%) Organisational Skills
3 30 (11.76%) Finance
4 26 (10.20%) Law
4 26 (10.20%) Marketing
5 23 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.31%) Aerospace
7 10 (3.92%) Retail
8 9 (3.53%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.75%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.35%) Legal
10 6 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.96%) Banking
12 4 (1.57%) Aeronautics
13 3 (1.18%) Aviation
14 2 (0.78%) Automotive
14 2 (0.78%) Electronics
14 2 (0.78%) Military
15 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (14.51%) Lead
2 31 (12.16%) Senior
3 28 (10.98%) Support Engineer
4 23 (9.02%) Developer
5 22 (8.63%) Architect
6 21 (8.24%) Software Architect
7 20 (7.84%) Software Engineer
8 19 (7.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 19 (7.45%) 2nd Line Support
8 19 (7.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 18 (7.06%) Oracle Developer
9 18 (7.06%) Senior Developer
9 18 (7.06%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 16 (6.27%) Configuration Manager
11 15 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (5.49%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (5.10%) Principal Software Engineer
14 11 (4.31%) Analyst
15 9 (3.53%) Administrator
16 8 (3.14%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.02%) Middleware
2 13 (5.10%) HTML
2 13 (5.10%) JSON
3 7 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (1.57%) .NET
4 4 (1.57%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.57%) LDAP
4 4 (1.57%) Material-UI
4 4 (1.57%) React
4 4 (1.57%) REST
4 4 (1.57%) Spring
4 4 (1.57%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.18%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.18%) gRPC
5 3 (1.18%) Node.js
5 3 (1.18%) OpenAPI
5 3 (1.18%) Swagger
6 2 (0.78%) Kafka
7 1 (0.39%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.41%) CMDB
2 13 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.14%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.35%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.96%) Replication
7 4 (1.57%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.18%) Augmented Reality
8 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.18%) SCADA
8 3 (1.18%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (0.78%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.78%) FPGA
9 2 (0.78%) NVMe
9 2 (0.78%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.98%) Linux
2 25 (9.80%) Android
2 25 (9.80%) Apple iOS
3 18 (7.06%) Windows
4 10 (3.92%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.53%) VMS
6 7 (2.75%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (2.35%) Debian
7 6 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.18%) CentOS
9 2 (0.78%) Unix
10 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (32.94%) Continuous Improvement
2 69 (27.06%) Agile
3 68 (26.67%) DevOps
4 46 (18.04%) CI/CD
5 43 (16.86%) Service Management
6 41 (16.08%) Change Management
7 40 (15.69%) Waterfall
8 39 (15.29%) Change Control
8 39 (15.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 38 (14.90%) Computer Science
9 38 (14.90%) UML
10 36 (14.12%) Mentoring
10 36 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (13.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 35 (13.73%) Technical Leadership
12 29 (11.37%) ITIL
12 29 (11.37%) Process Improvement
13 27 (10.59%) Strategic Thinking
14 26 (10.20%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 25 (9.80%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 44 (17.25%) Python
2 34 (13.33%) Java
3 29 (11.37%) SQL
4 24 (9.41%) PowerShell
5 21 (8.24%) Bash
6 19 (7.45%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.06%) PL/SQL
8 13 (5.10%) Ada
8 13 (5.10%) Ada 95
9 10 (3.92%) C#
9 10 (3.92%) Groovy
10 6 (2.35%) C++
10 6 (2.35%) Perl
10 6 (2.35%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.57%) Go
11 4 (1.57%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.18%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.18%) C
12 3 (1.18%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 88 (34.51%) Security Cleared
2 84 (32.94%) Degree
3 60 (23.53%) SC Cleared
4 56 (21.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (14.51%) Chartered Engineer
6 25 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.31%) AWS Certification
8 9 (3.53%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.96%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.96%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.39%) RHCE
12 1 (0.39%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 30 (11.76%) Def Stans
3 28 (10.98%) SLA
4 22 (8.63%) QA
5 6 (2.35%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.57%) COBIT
6 4 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.39%) IEC 61131
9 1 (0.39%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.39%) MISRA
9 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (8.63%) Docker
2 9 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.57%) DFS Replication
3 4 (1.57%) Dovecot
3 4 (1.57%) Firmware
3 4 (1.57%) Postfix
3 4 (1.57%) Squid
3 4 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.78%) KVM
4 2 (0.78%) vCloud
4 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.39%) iptables
5 1 (0.39%) QEMU
5 1 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 36 (14.12%) Terraform
2 25 (9.80%) Ansible
2 25 (9.80%) Jamf Pro
3 24 (9.41%) Kubernetes
4 16 (6.27%) Grafana
4 16 (6.27%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.75%) Puppet
6 5 (1.96%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (1.96%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.57%) Nessus
7 4 (1.57%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.18%) Nagios
9 2 (0.78%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.39%) Argo
10 1 (0.39%) Podman
10 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 26 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.80%) Apple
3 21 (8.24%) ServiceNow
4 20 (7.84%) Oracle
4 20 (7.84%) Samsung
5 7 (2.75%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.35%) Google
6 6 (2.35%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.57%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (1.57%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.57%) SAP
7 4 (1.57%) VMware
8 3 (1.18%) IBM
8 3 (1.18%) Splunk
9 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.39%) Cisco
9 1 (0.39%) EMC
9 1 (0.39%) PTC
9 1 (0.39%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.39%) Xilinx