Configuration Management Contracts

Configuration Management
UK

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 139 157
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 -24
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 750 1,129 1,627
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.73% 1.90% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 2.12% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 778 1,089
10th Percentile £358 £359 £413
25th Percentile £460 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £530
% change year-on-year +1.85% +1.89% +21.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 34 53
10th Percentile £37.91 £20.36 £17.70
25th Percentile £40.94 £39.55 £25.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £49.71 £46.71
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% +6.42% +9.91%
75th Percentile £60.75 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £48.99 £46.71
% change year-on-year +2.06% +4.88% +15.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,484 53,362 80,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.34% 89.87% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,149 37,016 56,462
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,744 1,921
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 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
England +14 650 £550 +1.85% 320
UK excluding London +15 421 £550 +1.85% 241
Work from Home +6 247 £550 +1.85% 149
London -2 244 £550 -1.79% 81
South East +23 101 £550 -8.33% 54
East of England +70 94 £500 +2.56% 18
South West +54 91 £553 +5.24% 56
North of England -33 60 £500 -4.76% 64
North West -26 43 £497 -2.65% 45
Midlands -33 38 £363 -32.87% 38
Scotland -9 32 £600 - 11
West Midlands -33 26 £358 -33.70% 20
Yorkshire +8 16 £558 -7.08% 19
East Midlands +4 12 £550 -3.30% 18
Wales +4 5 £615 +14.42% 3
North East -4 1 - - 1

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 44 (5.87%) Confluence
2 16 (2.13%) nginx
3 10 (1.33%) Apache
4 9 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.93%) CMS
6 6 (0.80%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.80%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.53%) IIS
8 4 (0.53%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.40%) CICS
9 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.40%) SAS
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.27%) Traefik
11 1 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.13%) JBoss
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.47%) Chatbot
2 10 (1.33%) Windchill
3 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.07%) CATIA
5 6 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (1.87%) Teamcenter
2 13 (1.73%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (1.07%) DELMIA
4 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.40%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.40%) SAP PLM
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.27%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.13%) Aareon QL
6 1 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.13%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.13%) Primavera
6 1 (0.13%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 158 (21.07%) AWS
2 100 (13.33%) Azure
3 46 (6.13%) GCP
4 35 (4.67%) Serverless
5 33 (4.40%) GitHub
6 28 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (2.27%) SaaS
12 16 (2.13%) Amazon S3
12 16 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (2.13%) OpenShift
13 15 (2.00%) Slack
14 14 (1.87%) Apigee
14 14 (1.87%) Entra ID
15 12 (1.60%) IaaS
16 11 (1.47%) PaaS
17 10 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.20%) TCP/IP
2 38 (5.07%) Firewall
3 31 (4.13%) DNS
4 25 (3.33%) Network Security
5 22 (2.93%) Internet
6 20 (2.67%) SAN
7 19 (2.53%) DHCP
8 18 (2.40%) VPN
9 12 (1.60%) BGP
10 11 (1.47%) IPsec
10 11 (1.47%) MPLS
11 9 (1.20%) HTTP
12 8 (1.07%) HTTPS
12 8 (1.07%) SSL
13 7 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
13 7 (0.93%) IOS XR
14 6 (0.80%) FTP
14 6 (0.80%) LAN
14 6 (0.80%) OSPF
14 6 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.60%) SQL Server
2 38 (5.07%) MySQL
3 25 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 24 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (3.20%) Relational Database
5 16 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
8 9 (1.20%) Couchbase
8 9 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.93%) Sybase ASE
10 5 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.67%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.67%) DB2
10 5 (0.67%) InfluxDB
10 5 (0.67%) Power BI
11 4 (0.53%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 141 (18.80%) Jenkins
2 78 (10.40%) Git
2 78 (10.40%) JIRA
3 60 (8.00%) GitLab
4 30 (4.00%) Bitbucket
5 25 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 23 (3.07%) SonarQube
7 18 (2.40%) Selenium
8 16 (2.13%) Cucumber
9 15 (2.00%) TeamCity
10 14 (1.87%) Artifactory
10 14 (1.87%) Subversion
10 14 (1.87%) Visual Studio
11 12 (1.60%) REST Assured
12 9 (1.20%) LoadRunner
13 8 (1.07%) PVCS
13 8 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.93%) Maven
15 6 (0.80%) AppScan
15 6 (0.80%) Burp Suite
General
1 185 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 89 (11.87%) Aerospace
3 68 (9.07%) Public Sector
4 66 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (8.40%) Finance
6 23 (3.07%) Banking
7 19 (2.53%) Electronics
7 19 (2.53%) Legal
8 17 (2.27%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.00%) Law
9 15 (2.00%) Military
10 13 (1.73%) Marketing
10 13 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (1.60%) Retail
12 10 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.33%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.33%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.07%) Police
14 7 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 92 (12.27%) Developer
2 87 (11.60%) Configuration Manager
3 79 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 67 (8.93%) Senior
5 47 (6.27%) Architect
6 45 (6.00%) Analyst
7 40 (5.33%) Lead
8 36 (4.80%) Software Engineer
9 35 (4.67%) Consultant
10 23 (3.07%) Python Developer
11 22 (2.93%) Embedded Engineer
11 22 (2.93%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 22 (2.93%) Network Engineer
12 21 (2.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 19 (2.53%) Release Manager
14 16 (2.13%) Project Manager
15 15 (2.00%) AWS Engineer
15 15 (2.00%) Site Engineer
16 14 (1.87%) Cloud Engineer
16 14 (1.87%) Configuration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.33%) .NET
2 35 (4.67%) REST
3 28 (3.73%) .NET Core
4 25 (3.33%) JSON
4 25 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
5 24 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
6 21 (2.80%) XML
7 20 (2.67%) RESTful
8 16 (2.13%) Middleware
8 16 (2.13%) Node.js
9 14 (1.87%) ARM Templates
10 13 (1.73%) Java EE
10 13 (1.73%) SOAP
11 11 (1.47%) Kafka
12 10 (1.33%) OpenAPI
12 10 (1.33%) Swagger
12 10 (1.33%) YAML
13 9 (1.20%) LDAP
13 9 (1.20%) OAuth
14 8 (1.07%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 82 (10.93%) CMDB
2 68 (9.07%) Management Information System
3 29 (3.87%) Public Cloud
4 20 (2.67%) Data Centre
5 18 (2.40%) ARM Cortex
6 13 (1.73%) Cloud Native
7 11 (1.47%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.33%) IVR
8 10 (1.33%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (0.93%) Client/Server
11 7 (0.93%) IoT
11 7 (0.93%) VHDL
12 6 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.80%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 157 (20.93%) Linux
2 57 (7.60%) Windows
3 39 (5.20%) Unix
4 27 (3.60%) Ubuntu
5 25 (3.33%) Windows Server
6 18 (2.40%) Debian
6 18 (2.40%) FreeRTOS
7 15 (2.00%) CentOS
8 11 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.93%) VMS
10 5 (0.67%) Android
10 5 (0.67%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.53%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.53%) VxWorks
11 4 (0.53%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (22.67%) DevOps
2 153 (20.40%) CI/CD
3 134 (17.87%) Agile
4 131 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
5 118 (15.73%) ITIL
6 105 (14.00%) Continuous Integration
7 93 (12.40%) Infrastructure as Code
8 90 (12.00%) Service Management
9 89 (11.87%) Software Engineering
10 83 (11.07%) Coaching
11 79 (10.53%) PLM
12 75 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
13 64 (8.53%) ITSM
14 59 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 57 (7.60%) Change Management
16 55 (7.33%) Analytics
17 53 (7.07%) Containerisation
18 52 (6.93%) Roadmaps
19 49 (6.53%) Stakeholder Management
20 48 (6.40%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 167 (22.27%) Python
2 98 (13.07%) PowerShell
3 80 (10.67%) SQL
4 54 (7.20%) Java
5 44 (5.87%) C#
6 43 (5.73%) Bash
7 39 (5.20%) C
8 38 (5.07%) Go
9 36 (4.80%) JavaScript
10 23 (3.07%) Ruby
11 22 (2.93%) Embedded C
11 22 (2.93%) Perl
12 17 (2.27%) C++
13 15 (2.00%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.47%) PL/SQL
15 9 (1.20%) Groovy
16 7 (0.93%) Scala
17 5 (0.67%) COBOL
17 5 (0.67%) SELCOPY
17 5 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 278 (37.07%) Security Cleared
2 225 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 82 (10.93%) Degree
4 62 (8.27%) DV Cleared
5 34 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
8 13 (1.73%) CCNP
9 9 (1.20%) CCIE
9 9 (1.20%) PMP
10 7 (0.93%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.80%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.67%) CISSP
12 5 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.53%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.40%) CCNA
14 3 (0.40%) MCSE
14 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.60%) QA
2 18 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.60%) GDPR
4 11 (1.47%) SLA
5 10 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.33%) NIST
6 7 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.93%) PMO
7 5 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.67%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.67%) NCSC
8 4 (0.53%) MISRA
8 4 (0.53%) MISRA C
9 3 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.40%) GPG13
9 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 87 (11.60%) Docker
2 34 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 27 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.47%) Firmware
4 11 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.07%) XenApp
6 6 (0.80%) XenDesktop
7 5 (0.67%) vSphere
8 4 (0.53%) Samba
8 4 (0.53%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.40%) vCloud
10 2 (0.27%) KVM
10 2 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.13%) Postfix
11 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 188 (25.07%) Ansible
2 130 (17.33%) Terraform
3 108 (14.40%) Kubernetes
4 64 (8.53%) Puppet
5 49 (6.53%) Grafana
6 47 (6.27%) Progress Chef
7 34 (4.53%) Prometheus
8 23 (3.07%) PowerCLI
9 20 (2.67%) Docker Swarm
10 18 (2.40%) SCCM
11 15 (2.00%) Podman
12 13 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (1.33%) Nagios
14 9 (1.20%) BladeLogic
14 9 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
14 9 (1.20%) Packer
15 8 (1.07%) Graylog
15 8 (1.07%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.93%) Consul
17 6 (0.80%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 99 (13.20%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.47%) ServiceNow
3 52 (6.93%) VMware
4 30 (4.00%) Atlassian
5 29 (3.87%) HP
5 29 (3.87%) Oracle
6 27 (3.60%) Red Hat
7 26 (3.47%) SAP
8 24 (3.20%) Google
9 23 (3.07%) Dell
9 23 (3.07%) IBM
10 22 (2.93%) Splunk
11 21 (2.80%) Citrix
12 18 (2.40%) Lauterbach
13 17 (2.27%) Cisco
13 17 (2.27%) Denodo
13 17 (2.27%) Talend
14 13 (1.73%) Genesys
14 13 (1.73%) Remedy
14 13 (1.73%) Salesforce