Configuration Management Job Trends

Configuration Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 303 268
Rank change year-on-year -79 -35 -45
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 326 453 877
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.99% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.06% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 185 280 589
10th Percentile £30,750 £42,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £95,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £54,380
% change year-on-year +2.73% +1.14% -5.43%

All Process & 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 56,435 42,676 68,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.59% 93.36% 87.81%
Number of salaries quoted 33,915 21,866 52,740
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £29,329
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,463 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Configuration Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

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 5 March 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
England -82 283 £62,500 +4.17% 186
UK excluding London -55 223 £56,500 +2.73% 158
London -18 91 £75,000 -6.25% 44
Work from Home -54 77 £62,500 +4.17% 86
South East -39 62 £70,000 +21.74% 60
East of England +29 37 £47,000 -18.26% 16
South West -43 35 £55,000 +5.26% 30
North of England -49 34 £45,000 -18.18% 29
North West -28 27 £45,000 -18.18% 17
Scotland -8 25 £85,700 -4.78% 7
Midlands -26 21 £53,522 +2.43% 18
East Midlands -24 13 £33,500 -35.58% 5
West Midlands -21 8 £80,000 +52.38% 13
Wales -7 6 £57,500 -3.25% 3
Yorkshire -42 6 £67,500 +58.82% 10
Northern Ireland -35 4 - -
North East -15 1 £40,000 -32.69% 2

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 12 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.15%) IIS
2 7 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.84%) Apache
4 5 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.53%) Confluence
4 5 (1.53%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.31%) JBoss
6 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.45%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.23%) Weka
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.31%) EPLAN
5 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.31%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (1.84%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 3 (0.92%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.92%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.31%) Primavera
3 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 85 (26.07%) Azure
2 70 (21.47%) AWS
3 41 (12.58%) Entra ID
4 31 (9.51%) GCP
4 31 (9.51%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (6.44%) Serverless
6 19 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 19 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (5.21%) GitHub
7 17 (5.21%) SaaS
8 16 (4.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.29%) PaaS
11 12 (3.68%) IaaS
11 12 (3.68%) OpenShift
12 10 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.67%) Firewall
2 17 (5.21%) VPN
3 13 (3.99%) WAN
4 11 (3.37%) Network Security
5 9 (2.76%) DNS
6 6 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.53%) AMQP
8 4 (1.23%) ADSL
8 4 (1.23%) HTTP
8 4 (1.23%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.23%) LAN
8 4 (1.23%) SNMP
9 3 (0.92%) SSL
9 3 (0.92%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.61%) DHCP
10 2 (0.61%) InfiniBand
10 2 (0.61%) NAS
10 2 (0.61%) SAN
11 1 (0.31%) Broadband
11 1 (0.31%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.07%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.84%) OLTP
3 5 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.53%) Big Data
3 5 (1.53%) Cloudera CDH
3 5 (1.53%) Hadoop
3 5 (1.53%) MySQL
4 4 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.23%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.92%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.31%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.31%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.31%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.31%) Power BI
6 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (8.28%) Jenkins
2 24 (7.36%) Git
3 22 (6.75%) JIRA
4 20 (6.13%) GitLab
5 15 (4.60%) Rational DOORS
6 12 (3.68%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.92%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.92%) Maven
9 2 (0.61%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.61%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.61%) Gradle
10 1 (0.31%) Ant
10 1 (0.31%) JMeter
10 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 74 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 73 (22.39%) Finance
3 33 (10.12%) Marketing
4 31 (9.51%) Law
5 29 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (7.98%) Retail
7 18 (5.52%) Banking
8 14 (4.29%) Aerospace
8 14 (4.29%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.99%) Manufacturing
10 12 (3.68%) Legal
11 7 (2.15%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.23%) Aeronautics
13 4 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.92%) Aviation
14 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.92%) Electronics
14 3 (0.92%) Military
15 2 (0.61%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 47 (14.42%) Support Engineer
2 42 (12.88%) Senior
3 33 (10.12%) Configuration Manager
4 30 (9.20%) Architect
5 26 (7.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (7.36%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 23 (7.06%) 2nd Line Support
7 23 (7.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 23 (7.06%) Platform Engineer
8 21 (6.44%) Developer
9 16 (4.91%) Software Architect
9 16 (4.91%) Software Engineer
10 15 (4.60%) Asset and Configuration Manager
10 15 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (4.60%) Oracle Developer
10 15 (4.60%) Senior Developer
10 15 (4.60%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 14 (4.29%) Automation Engineer
11 14 (4.29%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.06%) Middleware
2 12 (3.68%) REST
3 11 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (3.07%) JSON
5 9 (2.76%) HTML
5 9 (2.76%) Kafka
6 7 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (2.15%) YAML
7 6 (1.84%) Material-UI
7 6 (1.84%) Node.js
7 6 (1.84%) React
7 6 (1.84%) Spring
7 6 (1.84%) Spring Boot
8 5 (1.53%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.53%) gRPC
8 5 (1.53%) NETCONF
8 5 (1.53%) OAuth
8 5 (1.53%) OpenAPI
8 5 (1.53%) RESTCONF
8 5 (1.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 46 (14.11%) CMDB
2 28 (8.59%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.68%) Cloud Native
6 11 (3.37%) Hedge funds
6 11 (3.37%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.76%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.76%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.45%) FPGA
8 8 (2.45%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.15%) NVMe
10 6 (1.84%) PCIe
10 6 (1.84%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.84%) VHDL
11 5 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.53%) SCADA
12 4 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.23%) PKI
13 3 (0.92%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 68 (20.86%) Linux
2 35 (10.74%) Windows
3 26 (7.98%) Android
3 26 (7.98%) Apple iOS
4 22 (6.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (6.13%) Unix
6 16 (4.91%) Ubuntu
6 16 (4.91%) Windows Server
7 15 (4.60%) CentOS
8 8 (2.45%) Debian
9 5 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (1.23%) VMS
11 3 (0.92%) AIX
11 3 (0.92%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.31%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (31.60%) DevOps
2 89 (27.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 77 (23.62%) CI/CD
4 76 (23.31%) Service Management
5 75 (23.01%) Agile
6 67 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 63 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (16.56%) ITIL
9 43 (13.19%) Computer Science
10 42 (12.88%) Containerisation
10 42 (12.88%) ITSM
11 34 (10.43%) Infrastructure Automation
11 34 (10.43%) Mentoring
12 33 (10.12%) AI
12 33 (10.12%) Asset Management
13 31 (9.51%) Mobile Device Management
14 30 (9.20%) SDLC
15 29 (8.90%) Roadmaps
16 26 (7.98%) Observability
17 25 (7.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 84 (25.77%) Python
2 69 (21.17%) Bash
3 30 (9.20%) PowerShell
4 29 (8.90%) Java
4 29 (8.90%) SQL
5 19 (5.83%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.52%) PL/SQL
7 16 (4.91%) Go
8 11 (3.37%) C++
9 9 (2.76%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.45%) C
11 6 (1.84%) Ada
11 6 (1.84%) Ada 95
11 6 (1.84%) Assembly Language
11 6 (1.84%) C#
12 4 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.92%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.92%) Korn
13 3 (0.92%) Perl
14 2 (0.61%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 69 (21.17%) Security Cleared
2 62 (19.02%) Degree
3 46 (14.11%) SC Cleared
4 43 (13.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (10.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (6.75%) Chartered Engineer
7 18 (5.52%) DV Cleared
8 13 (3.99%) CISSP
9 11 (3.37%) CCSK
10 10 (3.07%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.23%) CCIE
11 4 (1.23%) CCNP
11 4 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.92%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.61%) CESG Certified Professional
13 2 (0.61%) OSCP
14 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.66%) SLA
2 22 (6.75%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 12 (3.68%) QA
4 10 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 10 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.45%) GDPR
6 7 (2.15%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.84%) PMO
8 5 (1.53%) NIST
9 4 (1.23%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.23%) COBIT
9 4 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.23%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.92%) GRC
11 2 (0.61%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.61%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.61%) MISRA
11 2 (0.61%) NCSC
11 2 (0.61%) NIST 800
System Software
1 46 (14.11%) Docker
2 30 (9.20%) Active Directory
3 19 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.91%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.07%) Firmware
6 6 (1.84%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (1.23%) iptables
7 4 (1.23%) KVM
7 4 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.23%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.61%) GPFS
9 2 (0.61%) Lustre
9 2 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.61%) vSphere
10 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.31%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 89 (27.30%) Terraform
2 84 (25.77%) Ansible
3 70 (21.47%) Kubernetes
4 35 (10.74%) Grafana
5 29 (8.90%) Prometheus
6 26 (7.98%) Jamf Pro
7 21 (6.44%) Puppet
8 15 (4.60%) Progress Chef
9 13 (3.99%) Nagios
10 10 (3.07%) SCCM
11 6 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.84%) Proxmox
12 5 (1.53%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.92%) Argo
13 3 (0.92%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.92%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (0.61%) PowerCLI
14 2 (0.61%) SELinux
15 1 (0.31%) Icinga
15 1 (0.31%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 55 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.90%) VMware
3 26 (7.98%) Apple
3 26 (7.98%) ServiceNow
4 25 (7.67%) Oracle
5 21 (6.44%) Google
5 21 (6.44%) Red Hat
5 21 (6.44%) Samsung
6 15 (4.60%) Splunk
7 11 (3.37%) SAP
8 9 (2.76%) Zscaler
9 6 (1.84%) Altera
9 6 (1.84%) SaltStack
9 6 (1.84%) Xilinx
10 5 (1.53%) Adobe
10 5 (1.53%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.53%) Cisco
10 5 (1.53%) IBM
10 5 (1.53%) McAfee
10 5 (1.53%) Salesforce