Configuration Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Configuration Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Configuration Management over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 246 255 204
Rank change year-on-year +9 -51 -39
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 826 819 1,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.14% 1.39% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.46% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 439 426 779
10th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,294 £77,500 £68,125
90th Percentile £81,300 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +4.17%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,251 56,179 68,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.03% 95.60% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 41,534 28,920 41,183
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Configuration Management in the UK excluding London

Configuration Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +10 245 £52,550 -10.55% 91
South West +9 183 £55,000 -6.78% 37
North of England -16 109 £52,500 -16.00% 47
Midlands +2 97 £57,500 -11.54% 38
Scotland -29 92 £75,000 +3.45% 14
West Midlands +15 76 £57,500 -11.54% 23
North West -21 65 £57,500 -8.00% 29
East of England -23 61 £57,500 +7.98% 24
Yorkshire +54 32 £45,000 -30.77% 14
Wales +17 23 £50,000 -24.81% 7
East Midlands -1 21 £50,000 -4.76% 14
Northern Ireland +27 14 £64,400 -12.68% 6
North East -17 12 £45,000 +5.88% 4
Isle of Man - 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 35 (4.24%) Apache
2 33 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (3.51%) Apache Spark
4 26 (3.15%) SharePoint
5 20 (2.42%) Confluence
6 14 (1.69%) CMS
7 13 (1.57%) OpenStack
8 12 (1.45%) IIS
9 9 (1.09%) nginx
10 4 (0.48%) JBoss
11 3 (0.36%) CloudStack
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 23 (2.78%) Simulink
2 22 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.54%) Stateflow
4 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (0.85%) CANalyzer
6 6 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.36%) Windchill
8 2 (0.24%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.12%) Revit
9 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
1 4 (0.48%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 272 (32.93%) Azure
2 245 (29.66%) AWS
3 138 (16.71%) GCP
4 129 (15.62%) Microsoft 365
5 90 (10.90%) SaaS
6 49 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (5.93%) Serverless
7 39 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
7 39 (4.72%) OpenShift
8 35 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (2.66%) GitHub
11 19 (2.30%) Entra ID
12 16 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (1.94%) Power Platform
13 15 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (1.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 12 (1.45%) Datadog
16 10 (1.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 81 (9.81%) Firewall
2 38 (4.60%) VPN
3 33 (4.00%) AMQP
4 26 (3.15%) DNS
5 23 (2.78%) DHCP
6 21 (2.54%) WAN
7 16 (1.94%) 5G
7 16 (1.94%) VLAN
8 15 (1.82%) Network Security
8 15 (1.82%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.82%) Wireless
9 14 (1.69%) J1939
9 14 (1.69%) SD-WAN
10 13 (1.57%) MPLS
10 13 (1.57%) VoIP
11 12 (1.45%) IPv4
11 12 (1.45%) SNMP
12 10 (1.21%) Internet
13 9 (1.09%) OSPF
13 9 (1.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 34 (4.12%) Big Data
3 28 (3.39%) Cloudera CDH
3 28 (3.39%) Hadoop
4 18 (2.18%) Apache Cassandra
5 16 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (1.82%) Power BI
6 15 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (1.57%) Redis
7 13 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.97%) MySQL
10 7 (0.85%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.73%) MariaDB
11 6 (0.73%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.61%) InfluxDB
12 5 (0.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 74 (8.96%) JIRA
2 70 (8.47%) Git
3 62 (7.51%) Jenkins
4 32 (3.87%) Subversion
5 22 (2.66%) ClearCase
6 21 (2.54%) Plastic SCM
7 18 (2.18%) GitLab
8 16 (1.94%) CMake
9 15 (1.82%) ClearQuest
10 14 (1.69%) Robot Framework
11 12 (1.45%) Rational DOORS
11 12 (1.45%) Visual Studio
12 10 (1.21%) Trac
13 9 (1.09%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.85%) Moq
15 6 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
16 5 (0.61%) LabVIEW
16 5 (0.61%) Rational Rhapsody
16 5 (0.61%) TeamCity
17 4 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 143 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 115 (13.92%) Finance
3 101 (12.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 72 (8.72%) Legal
5 71 (8.60%) Law
6 70 (8.47%) Aerospace
6 70 (8.47%) Presentation Skills
7 47 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
8 46 (5.57%) Marketing
9 42 (5.08%) Electronics
10 36 (4.36%) Telecoms
11 33 (4.00%) Manufacturing
12 31 (3.75%) Military
13 30 (3.63%) Automotive
13 30 (3.63%) Retail
14 16 (1.94%) Banking
15 13 (1.57%) Public Sector
16 12 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.85%) Private Banking
18 6 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (19.98%) Software Engineer
2 88 (10.65%) Senior
3 81 (9.81%) Architect
4 73 (8.84%) Systems Engineer
5 70 (8.47%) Cloud Architect
6 63 (7.63%) Lead
7 59 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 49 (5.93%) Java Engineer
8 49 (5.93%) Java Software Engineer
9 43 (5.21%) Senior Software Engineer
10 40 (4.84%) Analyst
11 35 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 35 (4.24%) Network Engineer
12 30 (3.63%) Configuration Manager
13 28 (3.39%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 25 (3.03%) Windows Engineer
15 24 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
16 23 (2.78%) Developer
17 22 (2.66%) Administrator
17 22 (2.66%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (9.08%) HTML
2 68 (8.23%) React
3 66 (7.99%) AngularJS
4 65 (7.87%) Node.js
5 48 (5.81%) Spring
6 44 (5.33%) HTML5
7 36 (4.36%) Middleware
8 34 (4.12%) XML
9 33 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
10 31 (3.75%) Drools
10 31 (3.75%) jBPM
10 31 (3.75%) REST
10 31 (3.75%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 28 (3.39%) gRPC
11 28 (3.39%) Material-UI
11 28 (3.39%) OpenAPI
11 28 (3.39%) Spring Boot
11 28 (3.39%) Swagger
12 24 (2.91%) .NET
13 23 (2.78%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 114 (13.80%) Public Cloud
2 95 (11.50%) Algorithms
3 71 (8.60%) PKI
4 67 (8.11%) Management Information System
5 56 (6.78%) CMDB
6 51 (6.17%) Cloud Native
7 38 (4.60%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
9 23 (2.78%) Data Centre
10 20 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (2.30%) Driving Licence
12 17 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.94%) Product Ownership
14 15 (1.82%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
15 13 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
15 13 (1.57%) Replication
16 12 (1.45%) GNSS
17 9 (1.09%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 242 (29.30%) Linux
2 172 (20.82%) Windows
3 65 (7.87%) Windows Server
4 52 (6.30%) Debian
5 50 (6.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 48 (5.81%) Ubuntu
7 28 (3.39%) CentOS
8 21 (2.54%) Windows 10
9 20 (2.42%) Unix
10 9 (1.09%) Android
10 9 (1.09%) VMS
11 7 (0.85%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.73%) Mesosphere
12 6 (0.73%) Solaris
13 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
14 3 (0.36%) SUSE
14 3 (0.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 3 (0.36%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (29.78%) Agile
2 198 (23.97%) Software Engineering
3 185 (22.40%) DevOps
4 137 (16.59%) Project Management
5 135 (16.34%) CI/CD
6 134 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
7 130 (15.74%) Actionable Insight
8 122 (14.77%) ITIL
9 109 (13.20%) Computer Science
10 107 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 100 (12.11%) Change Management
12 97 (11.74%) Migration
13 96 (11.62%) Service Management
14 90 (10.90%) Containerisation
15 84 (10.17%) TOGAF
16 83 (10.05%) Infrastructure as Code
16 83 (10.05%) ITSM
17 78 (9.44%) Presales
18 74 (8.96%) SDLC
19 70 (8.47%) Application Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 203 (24.58%) Python
2 120 (14.53%) Java
3 93 (11.26%) Bash
4 87 (10.53%) SQL
5 69 (8.35%) JavaScript
6 68 (8.23%) PowerShell
7 52 (6.30%) C
8 40 (4.84%) C#
9 38 (4.60%) C++
10 34 (4.12%) Shell Script
11 33 (4.00%) Perl
12 27 (3.27%) Embedded C
13 25 (3.03%) Go
13 25 (3.03%) MATLAB
14 21 (2.54%) T-SQL
15 17 (2.06%) TypeScript
16 14 (1.69%) PHP
16 14 (1.69%) Ruby
17 9 (1.09%) Groovy
18 5 (0.61%) Ada
Qualifications
1 215 (26.03%) Security Cleared
2 170 (20.58%) Degree
3 151 (18.28%) SC Cleared
4 71 (8.60%) DV Cleared
5 51 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (2.54%) PMI Certification
9 19 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (2.30%) CCNA
10 18 (2.18%) PMP
11 17 (2.06%) A+ Certification
12 16 (1.94%) HND
13 13 (1.57%) Azure Certification
13 13 (1.57%) Master's Degree
14 12 (1.45%) APMG
15 10 (1.21%) MCSE
16 9 (1.09%) AWS Certification
17 8 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
18 7 (0.85%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.24%) QA
2 31 (3.75%) PMO
3 22 (2.66%) MISRA
4 16 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (1.82%) SLA
6 14 (1.69%) Automotive SPICE
6 14 (1.69%) AUTOSAR
6 14 (1.69%) ISO 26262
6 14 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (1.33%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.85%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.73%) DO-178B
10 5 (0.61%) Def Stans
10 5 (0.61%) JSP 440
10 5 (0.61%) NCSC
10 5 (0.61%) RMADS
11 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.36%) NIST
System Software
1 87 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 85 (10.29%) Docker
3 44 (5.33%) Hyper-V
4 31 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 20 (2.42%) Firmware
7 17 (2.06%) Embedded Firmware
8 16 (1.94%) pfSense
9 10 (1.21%) NFS
9 10 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.97%) vSphere
11 7 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.61%) KVM
13 3 (0.36%) Ceph
13 3 (0.36%) Gluster
13 3 (0.36%) oVirt
13 3 (0.36%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.24%) Shibboleth
14 2 (0.24%) Xen
15 1 (0.12%) iptables
Systems Management
1 148 (17.92%) Ansible
2 135 (16.34%) Kubernetes
3 94 (11.38%) Terraform
4 90 (10.90%) Puppet
5 58 (7.02%) Progress Chef
6 33 (4.00%) Grafana
7 26 (3.15%) ZABBIX
8 20 (2.42%) Prometheus
9 15 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 15 (1.82%) SCOM
10 11 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
11 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (1.21%) SCDPM
12 8 (0.97%) SCCM
13 7 (0.85%) Podman
14 5 (0.61%) Kibana
15 4 (0.48%) Rancher
15 4 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.48%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.48%) vRealize
Vendors
1 222 (26.88%) Microsoft
2 108 (13.08%) Google
3 67 (8.11%) VMware
4 63 (7.63%) ServiceNow
5 57 (6.90%) Red Hat
6 56 (6.78%) SaltStack
7 28 (3.39%) Juniper
8 27 (3.27%) Cisco
8 27 (3.27%) IBM
9 21 (2.54%) Lauterbach
10 16 (1.94%) Fortinet
11 15 (1.82%) EMC
11 15 (1.82%) Oracle
11 15 (1.82%) Snow
11 15 (1.82%) Veeam
12 14 (1.69%) Meraki
13 13 (1.57%) Dynatrace
13 13 (1.57%) New Relic
13 13 (1.57%) Salesforce
14 12 (1.45%) Aruba