Configuration Management Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Configuration Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 250 249
Rank change year-on-year -101 -1 -27
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 108 423 570
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 1.25% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.37% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 76 254 410
10th Percentile £43,125 £40,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,627 £64,108 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% -8.42% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,875 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,886 30,803 39,731
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 94.21% 91.37% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,670 23,360 27,643
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Configuration Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Configuration Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Configuration Management
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Configuration Management.

Configuration Management salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Configuration Management salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (11.11%) IIS
2 8 (7.41%) nginx
3 4 (3.70%) Confluence
4 2 (1.85%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.93%) Apache
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (12.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (40.74%) AWS
2 33 (30.56%) Azure
3 17 (15.74%) SaaS
4 14 (12.96%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (11.11%) GCP
6 11 (10.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (8.33%) GitHub
7 9 (8.33%) Serverless
8 8 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.56%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (4.63%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.70%) AWS Control Tower
11 4 (3.70%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.78%) Amazon ECR
12 3 (2.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (2.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.41%) 5G
1 8 (7.41%) SD-WAN
1 8 (7.41%) WAN
2 6 (5.56%) Firewall
3 5 (4.63%) DNS
4 4 (3.70%) IPv4
4 4 (3.70%) SAN
4 4 (3.70%) VLAN
4 4 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.78%) DHCP
5 3 (2.78%) HTTP
5 3 (2.78%) Internet
5 3 (2.78%) Network Security
5 3 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.78%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.85%) ADSL
6 2 (1.85%) Multicast
6 2 (1.85%) OSPF
6 2 (1.85%) VPN
7 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.04%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.48%) MySQL
4 5 (4.63%) MariaDB
4 5 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.78%) Power BI
6 3 (2.78%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.85%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.93%) Big Data
8 1 (0.93%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.93%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.93%) Redis
8 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (16.67%) Git
2 14 (12.96%) JIRA
3 12 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 11 (10.19%) Visual Studio
5 6 (5.56%) GitLab
6 3 (2.78%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.78%) JUnit
7 2 (1.85%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.85%) Subversion
8 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.93%) Gradle
8 1 (0.93%) Maven
8 1 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.93%) Selenium
8 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.93%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.93%) TestNG
8 1 (0.93%) TestRail
General
1 35 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 25 (23.15%) Finance
3 10 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.26%) Marketing
4 8 (7.41%) Banking
5 5 (4.63%) Aerospace
5 5 (4.63%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.63%) Retail
5 5 (4.63%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.70%) Advertising
6 4 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.78%) Legal
7 3 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Electronics
8 2 (1.85%) Law
8 2 (1.85%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.85%) Military
8 2 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (14.81%) Lead
1 16 (14.81%) Senior
2 15 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (12.96%) Service Manager
4 12 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (9.26%) Service Desk Manager
5 10 (9.26%) Software Engineer
6 9 (8.33%) Administrator
6 9 (8.33%) Developer
7 8 (7.41%) Architect
7 8 (7.41%) C Software Engineer
7 8 (7.41%) C/C++ Software Engineer
7 8 (7.41%) C++ Software Engineer
7 8 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (6.48%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.48%) Systems Administrator
9 6 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
9 6 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.89%) .NET
2 7 (6.48%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.63%) ARM Templates
4 4 (3.70%) HTML
4 4 (3.70%) REST
4 4 (3.70%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (2.78%) Ajax
5 3 (2.78%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.78%) AWS SAM
5 3 (2.78%) CSS
5 3 (2.78%) Node.js
5 3 (2.78%) RESTful
6 2 (1.85%) CSS3
6 2 (1.85%) HTML5
6 2 (1.85%) Kafka
6 2 (1.85%) LEMP Stack
6 2 (1.85%) Play Framework
6 2 (1.85%) PySpark
6 2 (1.85%) SOAP
6 2 (1.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.74%) Management Information System
2 12 (11.11%) Client/Server
2 12 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 10 (9.26%) CMDB
3 10 (9.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (7.41%) GNSS
4 8 (7.41%) Self-Driving Car
5 4 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.70%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.78%) Clustering
6 3 (2.78%) Replication
7 2 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.85%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.85%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.93%) IoT
8 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 37 (34.26%) Linux
2 14 (12.96%) Windows
3 8 (7.41%) Unix
4 5 (4.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.70%) CentOS
5 4 (3.70%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.85%) Android
6 2 (1.85%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.85%) Debian
6 2 (1.85%) Rocky
7 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (40.74%) DevOps
2 29 (26.85%) ITIL
3 28 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (25.93%) Service Management
4 27 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 25 (23.15%) ITSM
6 23 (21.30%) Agile
7 21 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (17.59%) Asset Management
9 17 (15.74%) Customer-Centricity
9 17 (15.74%) Problem Management
9 17 (15.74%) Test Automation
10 16 (14.81%) Change Management
11 15 (13.89%) Mentoring
12 14 (12.96%) Containerisation
12 14 (12.96%) Information Security
12 14 (12.96%) SDLC
13 13 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (12.04%) Process Improvement
14 12 (11.11%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (31.48%) Python
2 25 (23.15%) Bash
3 12 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 10 (9.26%) PowerShell
4 10 (9.26%) SQL
5 9 (8.33%) C++
6 8 (7.41%) C
6 8 (7.41%) Java
7 7 (6.48%) Go
8 6 (5.56%) Perl
8 6 (5.56%) R
9 5 (4.63%) C#
9 5 (4.63%) Ruby
10 4 (3.70%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.85%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.93%) Bicep
12 1 (0.93%) Fortran
12 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (16.67%) Degree
2 16 (14.81%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (13.89%) Security Cleared
4 10 (9.26%) SC Cleared
5 9 (8.33%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.63%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.85%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (1.85%) MCSA
8 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.93%) CCNA
9 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.89%) SLA
2 11 (10.19%) QA
3 8 (7.41%) PMO
4 4 (3.70%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.93%) Basel III
6 1 (0.93%) DO-254
6 1 (0.93%) GDPR
6 1 (0.93%) GRC
6 1 (0.93%) IFRS
6 1 (0.93%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.93%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 17 (15.74%) Docker
2 8 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.93%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (31.48%) Ansible
2 26 (24.07%) Terraform
3 21 (19.44%) Kubernetes
4 14 (12.96%) Puppet
5 7 (6.48%) Grafana
5 7 (6.48%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.70%) Nagios
6 4 (3.70%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.85%) Argo
8 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.85%) SCOM
9 1 (0.93%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.93%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.93%) Kibana
9 1 (0.93%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.93%) logstash
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.93%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.93%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (21.30%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.04%) Oracle
3 11 (10.19%) ServiceNow
4 10 (9.26%) Red Hat
5 8 (7.41%) VMware
6 5 (4.63%) Cisco
6 5 (4.63%) Google
7 4 (3.70%) Intel
7 4 (3.70%) SaltStack
7 4 (3.70%) Splunk
8 3 (2.78%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.78%) EMC
8 3 (2.78%) Remedy
8 3 (2.78%) Symantec
9 2 (1.85%) Apple
9 2 (1.85%) ArcSight
9 2 (1.85%) Databricks
9 2 (1.85%) Mercator
9 2 (1.85%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.85%) SolarWinds