Service Asset and Configuration Management Job Trends

Service Asset and Configuration Management (SACM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Service Asset and Configuration Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 647 706 721
Rank change year-on-year +59 +15 +405
Permanent jobs citing Service Asset and Configuration Management 17 33 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.034% 0.049% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.059% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 2 20 2
10th Percentile - £50,075 £72,000
25th Percentile - £50,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £63,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -45.10% -20.31% +82.80%
75th Percentile - £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - £82,500 £88,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £53,000 -
% change year-on-year -33.96% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Service Asset and 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 43,586 55,994 49,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 87.08% 82.59% 93.89%
Number of salaries quoted 26,170 29,448 38,129
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,532 £45,000 £43,992
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £54,063 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.53% +2.98% -

Service Asset and Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Service Asset and Configuration Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Service Asset and Configuration Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Service Asset and Configuration Management

Service Asset and Configuration Management
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Asset and Configuration Management within the UK over the 6 months to 5 November 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 +93 14 £35,000 -45.10% 2
London +39 11 - -
UK excluding London +77 8 £35,000 -33.96% 3
North of England +13 3 £35,000 - 2
Scotland - 3 - - 1
Midlands +51 2 - -
West Midlands +48 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £35,000 - 2
North West +28 1 - -

Service Asset and 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (11.76%) GCP
1 2 (11.76%) SaaS
General
1 12 (70.59%) Finance
2 10 (58.82%) Banking
2 10 (58.82%) Legal
2 10 (58.82%) Retail
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Law
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Asset and Configuration Manager
1 12 (70.59%) Configuration Manager
2 10 (58.82%) Service Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Configuration Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) IT Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Operations Director
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 15 (88.24%) CMDB
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 15 (88.24%) ITIL
2 15 (88.24%) Service Management
3 12 (70.59%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (70.59%) ITSM
3 12 (70.59%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (58.82%) Asset Management
4 10 (58.82%) Change Management
4 10 (58.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (58.82%) Software Asset Management
4 10 (58.82%) Software Licensing
4 10 (58.82%) Strategic Thinking
4 10 (58.82%) User Experience
5 5 (29.41%) DevOps
5 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (17.65%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (11.76%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
1 2 (11.76%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) ISO/IEC 19770
2 3 (17.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (11.76%) NIST
3 2 (11.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) ServiceNow