Configuration Management Contracts in London

Configuration Management
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Configuration Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Configuration Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 176 179
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 241 397 613
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.38% 1.53% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.69% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 278 436
10th Percentile £375 £400 £438
25th Percentile £475 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £670
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 6
10th Percentile £33.92 £47.75 £18.00
25th Percentile £38.75 - £24.60
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.42 £44.82
Median % change year-on-year -20.67% +12.50% +124.09%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.11 £55.62
90th Percentile £43.49 £57.78 £67.88
England median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £47.99
% change year-on-year -0.83% +5.06% +24.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Configuration Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,475 23,527 35,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 90.92% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,094 16,975 26,024
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 269 415
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.40 £17.55
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.34 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% -0.43% +14.77%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.61
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.30 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in London.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in London.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +22 29 £645 +14.67% 12
South London +8 12 £620 +30.53%
West London +17 2 - - 2
East London - 2 - - 3
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 14 (5.81%) Confluence
2 9 (3.73%) Apache
3 6 (2.49%) nginx
4 5 (2.07%) Anypoint
4 5 (2.07%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.66%) IIS
6 3 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.24%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.83%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.83%) CMS
7 2 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.41%) JBoss
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.83%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.41%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.41%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.41%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.41%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.41%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 85 (35.27%) AWS
2 47 (19.50%) Azure
3 18 (7.47%) Serverless
4 17 (7.05%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (6.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (5.39%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (5.39%) Slack
7 12 (4.98%) GCP
8 11 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (4.56%) SaaS
9 10 (4.15%) PaaS
10 9 (3.73%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.73%) Entra ID
10 9 (3.73%) GitHub
11 8 (3.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.90%) IaaS
13 6 (2.49%) Apigee
13 6 (2.49%) OpenShift
13 6 (2.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.37%) Firewall
2 14 (5.81%) Network Security
3 13 (5.39%) DNS
3 13 (5.39%) Internet
4 10 (4.15%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.73%) DHCP
6 8 (3.32%) BGP
6 8 (3.32%) VPN
7 7 (2.90%) MPLS
8 6 (2.49%) HTTP
8 6 (2.49%) IPsec
9 5 (2.07%) Broadband
9 5 (2.07%) FTP
9 5 (2.07%) LAN
10 4 (1.66%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (1.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (1.66%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (1.66%) IOS XR
10 4 (1.66%) L2TP
10 4 (1.66%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.71%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.22%) Relational Database
3 14 (5.81%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.90%) MySQL
5 7 (2.90%) Sybase ASE
6 6 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.07%) Couchbase
7 5 (2.07%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.66%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.66%) Redis
9 3 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.83%) Big Data
10 2 (0.83%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.83%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.83%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 68 (28.22%) Jenkins
2 30 (12.45%) Git
3 23 (9.54%) GitLab
4 19 (7.88%) JIRA
5 12 (4.98%) Subversion
5 12 (4.98%) TeamCity
6 11 (4.56%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.07%) MSI
7 5 (2.07%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.07%) WiX
8 4 (1.66%) Selenium
8 4 (1.66%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.24%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.24%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.41%) Ant
11 1 (0.41%) AppScan
11 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
General
1 60 (24.90%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.84%) Finance
3 16 (6.64%) Banking
4 10 (4.15%) Marketing
5 9 (3.73%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.32%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.32%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.49%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.24%) Law
10 3 (1.24%) Legal
11 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.83%) Local Government
12 1 (0.41%) Electronics
12 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.41%) Military
12 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (17.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (10.79%) Developer
2 26 (10.79%) Senior
3 20 (8.30%) Analyst
4 17 (7.05%) Consultant
5 16 (6.64%) Network Engineer
6 15 (6.22%) Architect
7 14 (5.81%) Release Manager
8 13 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (4.56%) Lead
10 10 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.73%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (3.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (2.90%) Python Engineer
13 7 (2.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.90%) Site Engineer
13 7 (2.90%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.96%) .NET
2 16 (6.64%) RabbitMQ
3 15 (6.22%) REST
4 14 (5.81%) JSON
4 14 (5.81%) XML
5 13 (5.39%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (5.39%) Middleware
6 8 (3.32%) LDAP
6 8 (3.32%) Node.js
6 8 (3.32%) OpenAPI
6 8 (3.32%) Swagger
7 7 (2.90%) Kafka
7 7 (2.90%) SOAP
7 7 (2.90%) WCF
7 7 (2.90%) WinForms
8 5 (2.07%) Apache Camel
8 5 (2.07%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (2.07%) Entity Framework
8 5 (2.07%) LAPP Stack
8 5 (2.07%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.35%) CMDB
2 20 (8.30%) Management Information System
3 15 (6.22%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.73%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.32%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.90%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.07%) Social Media
7 5 (2.07%) Web 2.0
8 4 (1.66%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.24%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.24%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.24%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.24%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.24%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.83%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.83%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 54 (22.41%) Linux
2 33 (13.69%) Windows
3 26 (10.79%) Unix
4 18 (7.47%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.90%) VMS
6 6 (2.49%) CentOS
6 6 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.49%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (33.20%) DevOps
2 64 (26.56%) CI/CD
3 47 (19.50%) ITIL
4 40 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (16.18%) Agile
6 35 (14.52%) SDLC
7 33 (13.69%) Cybersecurity
8 30 (12.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 28 (11.62%) Change Management
10 25 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 24 (9.96%) ITSM
11 24 (9.96%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (9.54%) Disaster Recovery
13 22 (9.13%) Analytics
13 22 (9.13%) Computer Science
14 21 (8.71%) Release Management
15 20 (8.30%) Migration
16 19 (7.88%) High Availability
17 18 (7.47%) Continuous Integration
17 18 (7.47%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (27.39%) Python
2 53 (21.99%) SQL
3 42 (17.43%) PowerShell
4 38 (15.77%) C#
5 24 (9.96%) JavaScript
6 20 (8.30%) Bash
7 18 (7.47%) Java
8 16 (6.64%) Go
9 15 (6.22%) Perl
10 10 (4.15%) C++
10 10 (4.15%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.90%) Ruby
12 5 (2.07%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.66%) AWK
14 3 (1.24%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.83%) COBOL
15 2 (0.83%) Groovy
15 2 (0.83%) REXX
15 2 (0.83%) Scala
15 2 (0.83%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 50 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 46 (19.09%) SC Cleared
3 31 (12.86%) Degree
4 20 (8.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (6.64%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.15%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.32%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (2.07%) CCIE
8 5 (2.07%) CCNP
9 4 (1.66%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.66%) CISSP
10 3 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.24%) CISA
10 3 (1.24%) CISM
11 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.41%) CEH
12 1 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.41%) PMP
12 1 (0.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.32%) QA
2 5 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.66%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.66%) SLA
4 3 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.24%) GPG13
4 3 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.24%) NCSC
4 3 (1.24%) NIST
5 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (11.62%) Docker
2 21 (8.71%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.24%) Samba
6 2 (0.83%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.83%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 92 (38.17%) Ansible
2 55 (22.82%) Terraform
3 46 (19.09%) Kubernetes
4 33 (13.69%) Puppet
5 20 (8.30%) Progress Chef
6 14 (5.81%) Prometheus
7 13 (5.39%) Grafana
8 9 (3.73%) BladeLogic
8 9 (3.73%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (2.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (2.07%) ZABBIX
10 4 (1.66%) Salt
10 4 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.24%) Nagios
11 3 (1.24%) Netcool
12 2 (0.83%) Consul
12 2 (0.83%) Graylog
12 2 (0.83%) SCCM
12 2 (0.83%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 35 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.79%) ServiceNow
3 14 (5.81%) Citrix
3 14 (5.81%) Oracle
4 13 (5.39%) Cisco
5 10 (4.15%) SAP
6 9 (3.73%) Altiris
6 9 (3.73%) Dynatrace
6 9 (3.73%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.73%) Splunk
6 9 (3.73%) VMware
7 8 (3.32%) Google
8 7 (2.90%) Nokia
8 7 (2.90%) Sybase
9 6 (2.49%) Qualys
9 6 (2.49%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.07%) Arista
10 5 (2.07%) Juniper
10 5 (2.07%) MuleSoft
10 5 (2.07%) WSO2