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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 256 203
Rank change year-on-year +7 -53 -48
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 813 805 1,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.15% 1.34% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.41% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 437 426 793
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,733 £36,590
25th Percentile £42,625 £46,122 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +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 59,616 57,236 66,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.97% 95.60% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,251 29,494 41,057
10th Percentile £27,250 £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% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 11 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 11 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 +6 241 £52,550 -10.55% 55
South West -10 178 £55,000 -5.58% 47
North of England +4 115 £52,500 -9.48% 55
Midlands +3 92 £57,500 -4.17% 38
Scotland -33 91 £75,000 +5.26% 16
West Midlands +12 71 £57,500 -11.54% 20
North West -9 64 £55,000 -5.17% 37
East of England -12 60 £57,500 +9.52% 20
Yorkshire +66 40 £52,500 -19.23% 15
Wales +15 22 £47,500 -28.57% 7
East Midlands -9 21 £50,000 -4.76% 18
Northern Ireland +27 13 £70,000 -3.45% 3
North East -15 11 £45,000 +12.50% 3
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 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.81%) Apache
3 27 (3.32%) Apache Spark
3 27 (3.32%) SharePoint
4 19 (2.34%) Confluence
5 14 (1.72%) IIS
6 12 (1.48%) CMS
6 12 (1.48%) OpenStack
7 9 (1.11%) nginx
8 3 (0.37%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.25%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 26 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.83%) Simulink
3 21 (2.58%) Stateflow
4 10 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (0.86%) CANalyzer
6 6 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.25%) GNU Octave
7 2 (0.25%) Windchill
8 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.12%) Revit
8 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
1 4 (0.49%) SAP IS-U
2 2 (0.25%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 273 (33.58%) Azure
2 237 (29.15%) AWS
3 132 (16.24%) GCP
4 130 (15.99%) Microsoft 365
5 89 (10.95%) SaaS
6 55 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (6.03%) Serverless
8 37 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (4.31%) OpenShift
10 33 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 32 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (2.46%) GitHub
13 18 (2.21%) Entra ID
13 18 (2.21%) Power Platform
14 15 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
15 14 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (1.48%) Azure AKS
16 12 (1.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 12 (1.48%) Power Automate
17 11 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 82 (10.09%) Firewall
2 37 (4.55%) VPN
3 31 (3.81%) AMQP
4 25 (3.08%) DNS
5 23 (2.83%) DHCP
6 21 (2.58%) WAN
7 16 (1.97%) 5G
8 15 (1.85%) Network Security
8 15 (1.85%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.85%) VLAN
9 14 (1.72%) J1939
9 14 (1.72%) SD-WAN
9 14 (1.72%) SNMP
9 14 (1.72%) Wireless
10 13 (1.60%) MPLS
10 13 (1.60%) VoIP
11 12 (1.48%) IPv4
12 10 (1.23%) Internet
13 9 (1.11%) OSPF
14 8 (0.98%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.78%) SQL Server
2 32 (3.94%) Big Data
3 26 (3.20%) Cloudera CDH
3 26 (3.20%) Hadoop
4 18 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
5 17 (2.09%) Power BI
6 15 (1.85%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (1.60%) Redis
7 13 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.98%) MySQL
10 7 (0.86%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.74%) MariaDB
11 6 (0.74%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.62%) InfluxDB
12 5 (0.62%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 73 (8.98%) Git
2 72 (8.86%) JIRA
3 58 (7.13%) Jenkins
4 32 (3.94%) Subversion
5 22 (2.71%) ClearCase
6 21 (2.58%) Plastic SCM
7 19 (2.34%) GitLab
8 16 (1.97%) CMake
9 15 (1.85%) ClearQuest
10 12 (1.48%) Rational DOORS
10 12 (1.48%) Robot Framework
11 11 (1.35%) Visual Studio
12 10 (1.23%) Trac
13 7 (0.86%) Moq
14 6 (0.74%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
15 5 (0.62%) LabVIEW
15 5 (0.62%) Rational Rhapsody
16 4 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
17 3 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 138 (16.97%) Social Skills
2 119 (14.64%) Finance
3 94 (11.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 72 (8.86%) Legal
5 71 (8.73%) Law
6 70 (8.61%) Presentation Skills
7 67 (8.24%) Aerospace
8 51 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
9 45 (5.54%) Marketing
10 42 (5.17%) Electronics
11 36 (4.43%) Telecoms
12 32 (3.94%) Manufacturing
13 30 (3.69%) Retail
14 29 (3.57%) Automotive
15 28 (3.44%) Military
16 20 (2.46%) Banking
17 12 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
18 11 (1.35%) Public Sector
19 7 (0.86%) Private Banking
20 6 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 162 (19.93%) Software Engineer
2 84 (10.33%) Senior
3 79 (9.72%) Architect
4 74 (9.10%) Systems Engineer
5 70 (8.61%) Cloud Architect
6 63 (7.75%) DevOps Engineer
7 57 (7.01%) Lead
8 49 (6.03%) Java Engineer
8 49 (6.03%) Java Software Engineer
9 44 (5.41%) Analyst
10 42 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
11 34 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 34 (4.18%) Network Engineer
12 27 (3.32%) Windows Engineer
13 26 (3.20%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 25 (3.08%) Configuration Manager
14 25 (3.08%) Developer
15 24 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
15 24 (2.95%) Windows Systems Engineer
16 23 (2.83%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (8.73%) HTML
2 66 (8.12%) React
3 65 (8.00%) Node.js
4 64 (7.87%) AngularJS
5 44 (5.41%) Spring
6 40 (4.92%) HTML5
7 36 (4.43%) Middleware
8 32 (3.94%) XML
9 31 (3.81%) Drools
9 31 (3.81%) jBPM
9 31 (3.81%) RabbitMQ
9 31 (3.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 30 (3.69%) .NET
11 29 (3.57%) REST
12 26 (3.20%) gRPC
12 26 (3.20%) Material-UI
12 26 (3.20%) OpenAPI
12 26 (3.20%) Spring Boot
12 26 (3.20%) Swagger
13 21 (2.58%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 114 (14.02%) Public Cloud
2 95 (11.69%) Algorithms
3 71 (8.73%) PKI
4 64 (7.87%) Management Information System
5 55 (6.77%) CMDB
6 47 (5.78%) Cloud Native
7 39 (4.80%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.44%) Linux Command Line
9 21 (2.58%) Data Centre
10 20 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (2.34%) Driving Licence
11 19 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.85%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
13 15 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
13 15 (1.85%) Product Ownership
14 14 (1.72%) Replication
15 11 (1.35%) GNSS
15 11 (1.35%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 237 (29.15%) Linux
2 176 (21.65%) Windows
3 66 (8.12%) Windows Server
4 50 (6.15%) Debian
5 46 (5.66%) Ubuntu
6 44 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (3.32%) CentOS
8 21 (2.58%) Unix
8 21 (2.58%) Windows 10
9 9 (1.11%) Android
9 9 (1.11%) VMS
10 7 (0.86%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.86%) Solaris
11 6 (0.74%) Mesosphere
11 6 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
13 3 (0.37%) SUSE
13 3 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.37%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (30.63%) Agile
2 194 (23.86%) Software Engineering
3 187 (23.00%) DevOps
4 139 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
5 136 (16.73%) Project Management
6 130 (15.99%) Actionable Insight
6 130 (15.99%) CI/CD
7 118 (14.51%) ITIL
8 109 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 108 (13.28%) Computer Science
10 102 (12.55%) Change Management
11 96 (11.81%) Service Management
12 93 (11.44%) Migration
13 85 (10.46%) ITSM
14 83 (10.21%) TOGAF
15 81 (9.96%) Containerisation
15 81 (9.96%) Infrastructure as Code
16 78 (9.59%) Presales
17 73 (8.98%) SDLC
18 70 (8.61%) Application Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 197 (24.23%) Python
2 117 (14.39%) Java
3 95 (11.69%) Bash
4 91 (11.19%) SQL
5 71 (8.73%) PowerShell
6 65 (8.00%) JavaScript
7 53 (6.52%) C
8 42 (5.17%) C#
9 38 (4.67%) C++
10 34 (4.18%) Shell Script
11 33 (4.06%) Perl
12 27 (3.32%) Embedded C
13 25 (3.08%) MATLAB
14 23 (2.83%) Go
15 21 (2.58%) T-SQL
16 17 (2.09%) TypeScript
17 16 (1.97%) Ruby
18 14 (1.72%) PHP
19 9 (1.11%) Groovy
20 5 (0.62%) Ada
Qualifications
1 211 (25.95%) Security Cleared
2 169 (20.79%) Degree
3 147 (18.08%) SC Cleared
4 72 (8.86%) DV Cleared
5 51 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (2.58%) PMI Certification
8 19 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (2.34%) CCNA
9 18 (2.21%) PMP
10 17 (2.09%) A+ Certification
11 16 (1.97%) HND
12 13 (1.60%) Azure Certification
12 13 (1.60%) Master's Degree
13 12 (1.48%) APMG
14 10 (1.23%) MCSE
15 9 (1.11%) AWS Certification
16 8 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.86%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.31%) QA
2 30 (3.69%) PMO
3 22 (2.71%) MISRA
4 15 (1.85%) SLA
5 14 (1.72%) Automotive SPICE
5 14 (1.72%) AUTOSAR
5 14 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.72%) ISO 26262
5 14 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.86%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.86%) DO-178B
7 7 (0.86%) 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 (10.46%) Active Directory
2 81 (9.96%) Docker
3 43 (5.29%) Hyper-V
4 31 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (2.46%) Firmware
5 20 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (2.09%) Embedded Firmware
7 16 (1.97%) pfSense
8 10 (1.23%) NFS
9 8 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.86%) 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%) Shibboleth
13 2 (0.25%) Xen
14 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 143 (17.59%) Ansible
2 133 (16.36%) Kubernetes
3 91 (11.19%) Terraform
4 86 (10.58%) Puppet
5 57 (7.01%) Progress Chef
6 33 (4.06%) Grafana
7 25 (3.08%) ZABBIX
8 20 (2.46%) Prometheus
9 17 (2.09%) SCOM
10 15 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
12 10 (1.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 10 (1.23%) SCDPM
13 8 (0.98%) SCCM
14 7 (0.86%) Kibana
14 7 (0.86%) Podman
14 7 (0.86%) Rancher
15 5 (0.62%) Istio
16 4 (0.49%) vCenter Server
16 4 (0.49%) vRealize
Vendors
1 231 (28.41%) Microsoft
2 105 (12.92%) Google
3 68 (8.36%) VMware
4 55 (6.77%) ServiceNow
5 54 (6.64%) SaltStack
6 51 (6.27%) Red Hat
7 28 (3.44%) Juniper
8 27 (3.32%) Cisco
8 27 (3.32%) IBM
9 21 (2.58%) Lauterbach
10 16 (1.97%) Fortinet
10 16 (1.97%) Oracle
11 15 (1.85%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.85%) EMC
11 15 (1.85%) Snow
11 15 (1.85%) Veeam
12 14 (1.72%) Meraki
13 13 (1.60%) Salesforce
14 12 (1.48%) Aruba
15 11 (1.35%) New Relic