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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 641 716 736
Rank change year-on-year +75 +20 +402
Permanent jobs citing Service Asset and Configuration Management 7 31 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.045% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.054% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 2 19 3
10th Percentile - £39,700 £66,000
25th Percentile - £50,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% -10.71% +59.95%
75th Percentile - £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile - £75,400 £87,000
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 43,297 57,101 52,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.61% 82.22% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 24,595 30,556 40,535
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £54,000 £53,118
% change year-on-year -14.81% +1.66% +1.18%

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 7 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 19 October 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 +71 6 £35,000 -44.00% 4
UK excluding London +66 4 £35,000 -33.96% 5
London +60 3 - -
North of England +18 3 £35,000 +20.69% 4
Yorkshire - 2 £35,000 - 4
North West +11 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - - 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 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Law
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Configuration Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Asset and Configuration Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Manager
2 2 (28.57%) IT Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Operations Director
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) CMDB
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) ITIL
2 5 (71.43%) Service Management
2 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Capacity Management
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Time Management
4 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) NIST
2 2 (28.57%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) ServiceNow