Configuration Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 130 127
Rank change year-on-year +32 -3 -21
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 420 465 621
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.07% 2.02% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 2.26% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 320 411
10th Percentile £330 £326 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £540 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +1.89% +24.71%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £550 £548 £550
% change year-on-year +0.46% -0.45% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 25 39
10th Percentile £38.12 £21.81 £17.70
25th Percentile £44.87 £39.55 £28.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £49.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +3.15% +23.38%
75th Percentile £60.75 £58.75 £66.66
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.20 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £47.50
% change year-on-year -0.83% +6.15% +18.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East +21 99 £550 -7.17% 53
South West +35 92 £600 +14.29% 49
East of England +56 87 £500 - 19
North of England -12 63 £497 -0.70% 50
North West -11 46 £490 -1.95% 36
Midlands -19 40 £363 -32.87% 42
Scotland +7 38 £525 -11.91% 14
West Midlands -14 28 £358 -33.70% 22
Yorkshire +8 16 £558 +1.36% 11
East Midlands +1 12 £550 -6.38% 20
Wales +5 3 £690 +17.45% 7
North East -2 1 - - 3
Configuration Management
UK

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 29 (6.90%) Confluence
2 9 (2.14%) nginx
3 7 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.19%) CMS
5 4 (0.95%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.71%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.48%) CICS
7 2 (0.48%) SAS
7 2 (0.48%) Traefik
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.24%) MQSeries
Applications
1 9 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.90%) CATIA
3 7 (1.67%) Windchill
4 6 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (3.10%) Teamcenter
2 8 (1.90%) DELMIA
3 7 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.71%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.71%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (13.33%) AWS
2 41 (9.76%) Azure
3 18 (4.29%) GCP
4 11 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (2.38%) Serverless
6 9 (2.14%) Amazon S3
6 9 (2.14%) GitHub
7 8 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (1.90%) OpenShift
8 7 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (1.67%) Power Platform
9 6 (1.43%) CloudBees
10 4 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.71%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (0.71%) Datadog
11 3 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.71%) Slack
11 3 (0.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.71%) TCP/IP
2 18 (4.29%) DNS
3 16 (3.81%) SAN
4 11 (2.62%) Internet
4 11 (2.62%) Network Security
5 10 (2.38%) DHCP
6 7 (1.67%) Firewall
6 7 (1.67%) VPN
7 5 (1.19%) AMQP
7 5 (1.19%) HTTPS
7 5 (1.19%) IPsec
8 3 (0.71%) IPv4
8 3 (0.71%) OSPF
8 3 (0.71%) SSL
8 3 (0.71%) VLAN
8 3 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.24%) LAN
9 1 (0.24%) SNMP
9 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.43%) MySQL
2 19 (4.52%) Amazon Redshift
2 19 (4.52%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.14%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (1.19%) InfluxDB
6 5 (1.19%) Power BI
7 4 (0.95%) Couchbase
7 4 (0.95%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.71%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.48%) DB2
9 2 (0.48%) IDMS
10 1 (0.24%) Flink
10 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 67 (15.95%) Jenkins
2 55 (13.10%) JIRA
3 32 (7.62%) Git
4 31 (7.38%) GitLab
5 26 (6.19%) Bitbucket
6 23 (5.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 17 (4.05%) SonarQube
8 15 (3.57%) Selenium
9 13 (3.10%) Cucumber
10 12 (2.86%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.19%) AppScan
11 5 (1.19%) Burp Suite
11 5 (1.19%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.95%) Maven
13 3 (0.71%) gulp
14 2 (0.48%) Appium
14 2 (0.48%) ClearCase
14 2 (0.48%) ClearQuest
14 2 (0.48%) HP UFT
14 2 (0.48%) LoadRunner
General
1 107 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 89 (21.19%) Aerospace
3 56 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.86%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.29%) Electronics
5 18 (4.29%) Finance
6 16 (3.81%) Legal
7 15 (3.57%) Military
8 12 (2.86%) Law
9 9 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.90%) Police
11 7 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.43%) Banking
13 5 (1.19%) Retail
14 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.71%) Advertising
15 3 (0.71%) Back Office
15 3 (0.71%) Italian Language
15 3 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (16.67%) Configuration Manager
2 56 (13.33%) Developer
3 36 (8.57%) Senior
4 31 (7.38%) Analyst
5 30 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 29 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 28 (6.67%) Architect
8 23 (5.48%) Embedded Engineer
8 23 (5.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 19 (4.52%) Lead
10 16 (3.81%) Python Developer
11 12 (2.86%) Project Manager
12 11 (2.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (2.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.38%) Configuration Specialist
13 10 (2.38%) Service Analyst
14 8 (1.90%) Engineering Manager
14 8 (1.90%) Project Controller
14 8 (1.90%) Support Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.10%) .NET
2 27 (6.43%) .NET Core
3 18 (4.29%) REST
4 13 (3.10%) ARM Templates
4 13 (3.10%) Java EE
5 10 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.19%) Kafka
7 5 (1.19%) RESTful
7 5 (1.19%) SAML
8 4 (0.95%) JSON
8 4 (0.95%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (0.95%) OAuth
8 4 (0.95%) Playwright
8 4 (0.95%) SOAP
8 4 (0.95%) WinForms
8 4 (0.95%) WPF
8 4 (0.95%) YAML
9 3 (0.71%) Apache Beam
9 3 (0.71%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 46 (10.95%) Management Information System
2 41 (9.76%) CMDB
3 19 (4.52%) ARM Cortex
4 12 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.14%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.67%) VHDL
8 6 (1.43%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.43%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.19%) IoT
9 5 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.19%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.95%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.95%) Device Driver
10 4 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.95%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.95%) PCIe
10 4 (0.95%) Verilog
11 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 103 (24.52%) Linux
2 22 (5.24%) Windows
3 19 (4.52%) FreeRTOS
4 17 (4.05%) Ubuntu
5 14 (3.33%) Debian
6 9 (2.14%) CentOS
7 6 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.19%) Unix
9 4 (0.95%) Android
9 4 (0.95%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.95%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.95%) VxWorks
9 4 (0.95%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.95%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.95%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.48%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (20.71%) Agile
2 80 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (18.81%) Continuous Integration
4 75 (17.86%) PLM
5 73 (17.38%) Coaching
6 71 (16.90%) CI/CD
6 71 (16.90%) DevOps
7 68 (16.19%) Software Engineering
8 64 (15.24%) Collaborative Working
9 59 (14.05%) ITIL
10 48 (11.43%) Service Management
11 47 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (8.33%) Containerisation
14 34 (8.10%) Task Automation
15 31 (7.38%) Project Management
16 28 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
16 28 (6.67%) ITSM
16 28 (6.67%) Test Automation
17 26 (6.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (20.24%) Python
2 46 (10.95%) PowerShell
3 31 (7.38%) C
3 31 (7.38%) Java
4 29 (6.90%) SQL
5 23 (5.48%) Embedded C
6 20 (4.76%) Bash
7 17 (4.05%) Go
8 12 (2.86%) Ruby
9 9 (2.14%) C#
9 9 (2.14%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.67%) Groovy
10 7 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.43%) C++
12 5 (1.19%) Perl
13 4 (0.95%) PHP
13 4 (0.95%) Scala
13 4 (0.95%) VB
13 4 (0.95%) VB6
14 3 (0.71%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 181 (43.10%) Security Cleared
2 135 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 46 (10.95%) DV Cleared
4 44 (10.48%) Degree
5 13 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.90%) PMP
9 7 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.19%) CCNA
10 5 (1.19%) CCNP
11 4 (0.95%) CCIE
12 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.48%) CISSP
13 2 (0.48%) NVQ Level 3
13 2 (0.48%) PhD
13 2 (0.48%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.05%) QA
2 11 (2.62%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.62%) GDPR
3 8 (1.90%) PMO
4 7 (1.67%) NIST
5 6 (1.43%) SLA
6 5 (1.19%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.19%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.95%) MISRA
7 4 (0.95%) MISRA C
8 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.48%) NCSC
10 1 (0.24%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.24%) GRC
10 1 (0.24%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.24%) RMADS
10 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (11.67%) Docker
2 17 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.62%) Firmware
4 9 (2.14%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.43%) XenApp
5 6 (1.43%) XenDesktop
6 3 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.48%) KVM
7 2 (0.48%) vSphere
8 1 (0.24%) NFS
8 1 (0.24%) Samba
8 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 85 (20.24%) Ansible
2 59 (14.05%) Terraform
3 54 (12.86%) Kubernetes
4 33 (7.86%) Grafana
5 23 (5.48%) PowerCLI
6 21 (5.00%) Puppet
7 19 (4.52%) Docker Swarm
7 19 (4.52%) Progress Chef
7 19 (4.52%) Prometheus
8 14 (3.33%) Podman
9 9 (2.14%) SCCM
10 6 (1.43%) Nagios
11 5 (1.19%) Graylog
11 5 (1.19%) HP Fortify
11 5 (1.19%) Nessus
11 5 (1.19%) Packer
11 5 (1.19%) WebInspect
12 4 (0.95%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.71%) Argo
13 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 45 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.33%) VMware
3 29 (6.90%) Atlassian
4 27 (6.43%) ServiceNow
5 24 (5.71%) HP
6 22 (5.24%) Dell
7 21 (5.00%) IBM
8 19 (4.52%) Lauterbach
9 17 (4.05%) Red Hat
10 16 (3.81%) Denodo
10 16 (3.81%) Talend
11 12 (2.86%) Splunk
12 11 (2.62%) Google
13 9 (2.14%) SAP
14 8 (1.90%) Oracle
14 8 (1.90%) Siemens
15 7 (1.67%) Remedy
16 6 (1.43%) Citrix
17 5 (1.19%) Checkmarx
17 5 (1.19%) Veracode