Configuration Management Jobs in the West Midlands

Configuration Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 172 192
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 -70
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 31 75 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.71% 1.00% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.22% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 15 57 49
10th Percentile £50,850 £40,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £46,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £64,108 £76,250
90th Percentile - £70,000 £82,750
England median annual salary £64,627 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.71% -14.29% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,962 6,160 6,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.29% 82.46% 96.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,634 4,566 3,147
10th Percentile £28,875 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,713 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the West Midlands

Configuration Management
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Configuration Management in the West Midlands

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Configuration Management in the West Midlands

Configuration Management
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Birmingham +12 18 £65,000 +13.04% 9
Solihull +11 6 £75,000 +36.36%
Warwickshire -15 3 £51,500 -26.43%
Herefordshire - 2 - -
Staffordshire +12 1 - - 12
Shropshire +9 1 - - 2
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 11 (35.48%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) nginx
2 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.23%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) AWS
2 13 (41.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 13 (41.94%) Amazon EC2
2 13 (41.94%) Amazon ELB
2 13 (41.94%) Amazon S3
2 13 (41.94%) AWS KMS
2 13 (41.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 12 (38.71%) Amazon Glacier
4 8 (25.81%) Azure
5 4 (12.90%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (9.68%) Serverless
7 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (6.45%) SaaS
8 1 (3.23%) GitHub
8 1 (3.23%) IaaS
8 1 (3.23%) PaaS
8 1 (3.23%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (38.71%) Firewall
2 7 (22.58%) DNS
3 5 (16.13%) FTP
3 5 (16.13%) HTTP
3 5 (16.13%) SMTP
3 5 (16.13%) SSH
4 3 (9.68%) MPLS
4 3 (9.68%) SSL
5 2 (6.45%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (6.45%) DHCP
5 2 (6.45%) Ethernet
5 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.23%) BGP
6 1 (3.23%) LAN
6 1 (3.23%) OSPF
6 1 (3.23%) TACACS
6 1 (3.23%) VoIP
6 1 (3.23%) VPN
6 1 (3.23%) WAN
6 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (41.94%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (9.68%) DB2
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (45.16%) Vagrant
2 13 (41.94%) Jenkins
3 11 (35.48%) Git
3 11 (35.48%) JIRA
4 5 (16.13%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (9.68%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
3 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Advertising
4 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Law
5 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.23%) Electronics
6 1 (3.23%) Finance
6 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Environment And Release Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Network Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Release Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Cutover Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.23%) EDI
2 1 (3.23%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Replication
2 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) ASIC
3 1 (3.23%) CMDB
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.23%) FPGA
3 1 (3.23%) VHDL
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.23%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 17 (54.84%) Linux
2 13 (41.94%) VMS
2 13 (41.94%) Windows
3 6 (19.35%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (12.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (12.90%) Ubuntu
5 3 (9.68%) Unix
6 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) DevOps
2 13 (41.94%) Cloud Security
3 12 (38.71%) Agile
3 12 (38.71%) Change Management
4 10 (32.26%) Patch Management
5 9 (29.03%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (19.35%) ITSM
9 5 (16.13%) Capacity Management
9 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
9 5 (16.13%) ITIL
9 5 (16.13%) Problem Management
10 4 (12.90%) Business Continuity
10 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (12.90%) Performance Monitoring
10 4 (12.90%) Roadmaps
10 4 (12.90%) Scrum
10 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (12.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) Python
2 12 (38.71%) Groovy
3 11 (35.48%) Java
4 10 (32.26%) Perl
4 10 (32.26%) PowerShell
5 3 (9.68%) Ruby
5 3 (9.68%) Shell Script
5 3 (9.68%) SQL
6 2 (6.45%) Bash
7 1 (3.23%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 13 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 11 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.13%) Degree
4 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
5 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.23%) APMG
6 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.23%) CCNP
6 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.23%) CITP
6 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.23%) PMP
6 1 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) DO-254
2 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) Active Directory
2 10 (32.26%) Docker
3 7 (22.58%) DFS Replication
4 3 (9.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (3.23%) Dovecot
6 1 (3.23%) Firmware
6 1 (3.23%) Postfix
6 1 (3.23%) Squid
Systems Management
1 15 (48.39%) Terraform
2 11 (35.48%) Ansible
3 10 (32.26%) Grafana
3 10 (32.26%) Prometheus
4 4 (12.90%) Nessus
4 4 (12.90%) Progress Chef
4 4 (12.90%) Proxmox
5 3 (9.68%) Nagios
5 3 (9.68%) Puppet
6 2 (6.45%) SCOM
7 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) ServiceNow
2 9 (29.03%) Juniper
3 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
4 4 (12.90%) Red Hat
5 3 (9.68%) Cisco
5 3 (9.68%) Sybase
6 2 (6.45%) ArcSight
6 2 (6.45%) SevOne
6 2 (6.45%) Splunk
6 2 (6.45%) VMware
7 1 (3.23%) Aruba
7 1 (3.23%) BMC
7 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.23%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (3.23%) Meraki
7 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.23%) Remedy
7 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 1 (3.23%) Xilinx