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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 682 721
Rank change year-on-year +44 +39 +273
Permanent jobs citing Service Asset and Configuration Management 12 25 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.046% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.051% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 2 14 1
10th Percentile - £50,500 -
25th Percentile £67,969 £51,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,313 £65,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -27.78% +98.90%
75th Percentile £72,656 £81,125 -
90th Percentile - £86,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £53,000 -

All Process & 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 48,249 48,920 48,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.52% 90.19% 90.95%
Number of salaries quoted 28,284 23,965 36,703
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 6 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 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
England +62 10 £70,313 +8.17% 2
London +50 10 £70,313 -8.69%
UK excluding London +45 4 - - 3
West Midlands +25 2 - - 1
Midlands +23 2 - - 1
Scotland - 2 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
General
1 12 (100.00%) Finance
2 10 (83.33%) Banking
2 10 (83.33%) Legal
2 10 (83.33%) Retail
3 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Asset and Configuration Manager
1 10 (83.33%) Configuration Manager
1 10 (83.33%) Service Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 12 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 12 (100.00%) ITIL
1 12 (100.00%) ITSM
1 12 (100.00%) Service Management
1 12 (100.00%) User Experience
2 10 (83.33%) Asset Management
2 10 (83.33%) Change Management
2 10 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (83.33%) Software Asset Management
2 10 (83.33%) Software Licensing
2 10 (83.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Commercial Awareness
3 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Runbook
3 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) ISO/IEC 19770
2 2 (16.67%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft