Configuration Management Jobs

Configuration Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 267 218
Rank change year-on-year +144 -49 -9
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 1,454 866 1,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.43% 1.12% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 1.27% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 475 585 1,111
10th Percentile £44,000 £34,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,700 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 55,992 68,309 104,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.42% 88.68% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 25,152 50,933 63,892
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,485 £34,324
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% +7.61%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management.

Salary trend for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 19 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 February 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
England +128 1,176 £60,000 -4.00% 220
UK excluding London +166 1,135 £55,000 - 151
South East +93 330 £60,000 +14.83% 42
Work from Home +45 321 £60,000 -9.43% 211
London +47 273 £80,000 +6.67% 78
North of England +136 214 £50,818 -11.62% 37
Scotland +132 180 £44,000 -45.00% 6
South West +87 175 £53,000 +2.48% 39
North West +105 148 £50,818 +0.63% 23
Midlands +48 111 £55,000 -8.33% 13
East Midlands +68 72 £52,000 -9.57% 3
East of England +31 71 £57,500 - 21
Yorkshire +55 65 £35,000 -44.00% 13
Wales +71 48 £60,000 +9.09%
West Midlands +3 39 £55,000 -12.67% 10
Northern Ireland +27 10 £59,430 -15.10%
North East +22 1 £59,430 +18.86% 1

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 69 (4.75%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.10%) IIS
3 13 (0.89%) Confluence
4 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.69%) nginx
6 4 (0.28%) Apache
6 4 (0.28%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.069%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.069%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.069%) CloudStack
7 1 (0.069%) CMS
7 1 (0.069%) JBoss
7 1 (0.069%) Jetty
7 1 (0.069%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (4.68%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (2.96%) Windchill
3 12 (0.83%) Simulink
4 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.14%) CATIA
7 1 (0.069%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.069%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 42 (2.89%) Teamcenter
2 12 (0.83%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 8 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.21%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 136 (9.35%) AWS
2 120 (8.25%) Azure
3 55 (3.78%) GCP
4 50 (3.44%) SaaS
5 31 (2.13%) PaaS
6 30 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (1.44%) IaaS
8 20 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (1.24%) GitHub
11 17 (1.17%) Power Platform
12 15 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.03%) Serverless
13 13 (0.89%) Amazon S3
13 13 (0.89%) OCI
14 12 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (0.83%) IBM Cloud
15 11 (0.76%) Entra ID
16 10 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
17 9 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 153 (10.52%) Broadband
2 32 (2.20%) Firewall
3 23 (1.58%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.31%) VPN
5 18 (1.24%) DNS
5 18 (1.24%) VoIP
6 17 (1.17%) VLAN
7 14 (0.96%) MPLS
7 14 (0.96%) Network Security
8 12 (0.83%) Cisco ISE
9 11 (0.76%) DHCP
9 11 (0.76%) Ethernet
10 10 (0.69%) OSPF
11 9 (0.62%) BGP
11 9 (0.62%) WAN
12 7 (0.48%) Wireless
13 6 (0.41%) SAN
13 6 (0.41%) SD-WAN
14 5 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
14 5 (0.34%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (6.53%) Relational Database
2 81 (5.57%) MySQL
3 72 (4.95%) MongoDB
4 37 (2.54%) SQL Server
5 17 (1.17%) NoSQL
6 13 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.55%) Power BI
9 7 (0.48%) RDBMS
9 7 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.41%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.41%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.28%) DB2
12 2 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.14%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.14%) Redis
13 1 (0.069%) Big Data
13 1 (0.069%) HBase
Development Applications
1 131 (9.01%) Git
2 97 (6.67%) GitLab
3 76 (5.23%) Rational DOORS
4 50 (3.44%) JIRA
5 34 (2.34%) Jenkins
6 22 (1.51%) Bitbucket
7 19 (1.31%) Subversion
8 16 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 15 (1.03%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.62%) CircleCI
11 8 (0.55%) Rational Rhapsody
12 6 (0.41%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.41%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.34%) CMake
14 4 (0.28%) JUnit
14 4 (0.28%) Maven
15 3 (0.21%) Snyk
15 3 (0.21%) Vagrant
16 2 (0.14%) Apache Archiva
General
1 314 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 293 (20.15%) Aerospace
3 273 (18.78%) Automotive
4 135 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (4.95%) Finance
6 60 (4.13%) Manufacturing
7 29 (1.99%) Public Sector
8 24 (1.65%) Electronics
9 21 (1.44%) Military
10 20 (1.38%) Banking
11 18 (1.24%) Retail
12 14 (0.96%) Marketing
13 12 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (0.69%) Retail Banking
15 10 (0.69%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.55%) Legal
16 8 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.41%) Advertising
18 4 (0.28%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 342 (23.52%) Principal Engineer
2 322 (22.15%) Configuration Management Engineer
2 322 (22.15%) SCM Engineer
3 274 (18.84%) Engineering Manager
4 214 (14.72%) Senior
5 155 (10.66%) Lead
6 102 (7.02%) Architect
7 90 (6.19%) Software Engineer
8 84 (5.78%) Team Leader
9 69 (4.75%) Product Manager
9 69 (4.75%) Technical Manager
9 69 (4.75%) Technical Product Manager
10 66 (4.54%) Senior Software Engineer
11 59 (4.06%) Systems Architect
12 56 (3.85%) Developer
13 49 (3.37%) Configuration Manager
14 48 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
15 47 (3.23%) Project Manager
16 38 (2.61%) Analyst
16 38 (2.61%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (7.02%) Elastic Stack
2 34 (2.34%) .NET
3 29 (1.99%) Web Services
4 24 (1.65%) Ajax
4 24 (1.65%) CSS
4 24 (1.65%) HTML
5 17 (1.17%) REST
6 15 (1.03%) LDAP
6 15 (1.03%) Middleware
7 14 (0.96%) AngularJS
7 14 (0.96%) XML
8 11 (0.76%) JSON
9 10 (0.69%) SOAP
10 8 (0.55%) AWS CDK
10 8 (0.55%) Bootstrap
10 8 (0.55%) jQuery
10 8 (0.55%) YAML
11 6 (0.41%) ARM Templates
11 6 (0.41%) FastAPI
11 6 (0.41%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 117 (8.05%) Management Information System
2 98 (6.74%) Private Cloud
3 88 (6.05%) CMDB
4 80 (5.50%) Product Ownership
5 78 (5.36%) Cloud Native
6 22 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (1.24%) Public Cloud
8 15 (1.03%) Client/Server
9 12 (0.83%) Blockchain
9 12 (0.83%) Onboarding
10 11 (0.76%) Algorithms
11 10 (0.69%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.41%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.34%) PKI
14 5 (0.34%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.28%) Acoustics
15 4 (0.28%) Clustering
15 4 (0.28%) GNSS
15 4 (0.28%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 169 (11.62%) Linux
2 77 (5.30%) Windows
3 24 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (0.96%) Unix
6 10 (0.69%) CentOS
7 8 (0.55%) Android
7 8 (0.55%) VxWorks
8 6 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.41%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.21%) Rocky
9 3 (0.21%) VMS
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.069%) Debian
11 1 (0.069%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.069%) SUSE
11 1 (0.069%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (44.02%) Coaching
2 626 (43.05%) Release Management
3 403 (27.72%) Waterfall
4 346 (23.80%) Stakeholder Management
5 333 (22.90%) Physics
6 329 (22.63%) Mathematics
7 289 (19.88%) DevOps
8 281 (19.33%) CI/CD
9 255 (17.54%) Mentoring
10 235 (16.16%) Agile
11 211 (14.51%) Continuous Integration
12 192 (13.20%) Computer Science
13 190 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
14 167 (11.49%) Software Engineering
15 145 (9.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 142 (9.77%) Containerisation
17 141 (9.70%) Validation
18 110 (7.57%) Deployment Automation
18 110 (7.57%) Task Automation
19 109 (7.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 199 (13.69%) Python
2 142 (9.77%) Bash
3 86 (5.91%) Shell Script
4 54 (3.71%) SQL
5 53 (3.65%) Ada
6 47 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 43 (2.96%) C#
8 41 (2.82%) JavaScript
9 39 (2.68%) Java
10 38 (2.61%) C
11 28 (1.93%) C++
12 24 (1.65%) Go
13 18 (1.24%) Ruby
14 16 (1.10%) VB
15 11 (0.76%) MATLAB
16 9 (0.62%) Bicep
17 6 (0.41%) Perl
18 3 (0.21%) Groovy
18 3 (0.21%) R
19 1 (0.069%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 972 (66.85%) Degree
2 667 (45.87%) Chartered Engineer
3 197 (13.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 108 (7.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 90 (6.19%) Master's Degree
6 86 (5.91%) Security Cleared
7 83 (5.71%) LPIC
7 83 (5.71%) RHCSA
8 77 (5.30%) SC Cleared
9 33 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
10 29 (1.99%) DV Cleared
11 19 (1.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 17 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.76%) Azure Certification
13 11 (0.76%) CCNP
14 8 (0.55%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.48%) CISSP
16 6 (0.41%) CCNA
17 5 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (8.94%) QA
2 85 (5.85%) NIST
3 84 (5.78%) SOC 2
4 75 (5.16%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 58 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 28 (1.93%) SLA
7 10 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.55%) GRC
9 6 (0.41%) GDPR
9 6 (0.41%) PMO
10 5 (0.34%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.28%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.28%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.14%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.14%) NCSC
13 1 (0.069%) DO-254
13 1 (0.069%) IFRS
13 1 (0.069%) IFRS 9
13 1 (0.069%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 225 (15.47%) Docker
2 33 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.55%) Firmware
6 4 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.069%) Ceph
8 1 (0.069%) Gluster
8 1 (0.069%) HDFS
8 1 (0.069%) KVM
8 1 (0.069%) NFS
8 1 (0.069%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 186 (12.79%) Ansible
2 138 (9.49%) Kubernetes
3 108 (7.43%) Prometheus
4 102 (7.02%) Grafana
5 91 (6.26%) Terraform
6 34 (2.34%) Puppet
7 33 (2.27%) Progress Chef
8 18 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.96%) Nagios
10 12 (0.83%) SCCM
11 9 (0.62%) Argo
12 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.28%) Consul
13 4 (0.28%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.21%) Istio
14 3 (0.21%) Kustomize
14 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.21%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.14%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 322 (22.15%) Micro Focus
2 123 (8.46%) Microsoft
3 77 (5.30%) ServiceNow
4 72 (4.95%) IBM
5 54 (3.71%) SAP
6 42 (2.89%) Red Hat
7 37 (2.54%) Oracle
8 31 (2.13%) VMware
9 25 (1.72%) Cisco
10 24 (1.65%) Google
11 16 (1.10%) Siemens
11 16 (1.10%) Splunk
12 14 (0.96%) Juniper
13 12 (0.83%) PeopleSoft
14 11 (0.76%) SevOne
15 8 (0.55%) Wind River
16 7 (0.48%) Remedy
16 7 (0.48%) Veeam
17 6 (0.41%) Fortinet
18 5 (0.34%) SolarWinds