Configuration Management Jobs

Configuration Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 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 269 250 211
Rank change year-on-year -19 -39 -41
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 1,091 1,459 3,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.09% 1.47% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.54% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 625 865 1,453
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,143 £40,501
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.41% +9.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -4.35%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,075 94,861 153,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 95.59% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 55,938 82,447
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,714
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Top 18 Job Locations

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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -13 919 £60,000 -13.36% 312
UK excluding London +1 817 £55,000 -12.00% 235
Work from Home -7 417 £63,787 -8.88% 142
South East +14 244 £52,550 -12.42% 54
London -85 215 £75,000 - 86
South West +6 181 £55,000 -6.78% 48
North of England -3 107 £52,500 -12.50% 53
Midlands +5 96 £57,500 -8.00% 42
Scotland -28 91 £75,000 +5.26% 14
West Midlands +22 75 £57,500 -11.54% 22
North West -26 62 £57,500 -4.17% 37
East of England -17 61 £57,500 +9.52% 19
Yorkshire +50 34 £45,054 -30.69% 12
Wales +22 22 £47,500 -28.57% 7
East Midlands -3 21 £50,000 -4.76% 20
Northern Ireland +23 13 £70,000 -3.45% 4
North East -14 11 £45,000 +12.50% 4
Isle of Man - 3 - -

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 45 (4.12%) Apache
1 45 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (3.67%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.57%) Apache Spark
4 26 (2.38%) Confluence
5 19 (1.74%) nginx
6 16 (1.47%) CMS
7 13 (1.19%) IIS
8 12 (1.10%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.46%) JBoss
10 3 (0.27%) CloudStack
11 2 (0.18%) Drupal
11 2 (0.18%) GlassFish
11 2 (0.18%) JCAPS
11 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.18%) WinCC
11 2 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.11%) Simulink
3 21 (1.92%) Stateflow
4 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (0.64%) CANalyzer
6 6 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.27%) Windchill
8 2 (0.18%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.092%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.092%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.092%) Revit
9 1 (0.092%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.37%) SAP IS-U
3 2 (0.18%) Adaptiv
4 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.092%) Endur
4 1 (0.092%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.092%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 382 (35.01%) Azure
2 364 (33.36%) AWS
3 169 (15.49%) GCP
4 162 (14.85%) Microsoft 365
5 120 (11.00%) SaaS
6 86 (7.88%) Serverless
7 73 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (5.32%) Amazon EKS
10 56 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 44 (4.03%) OpenShift
12 43 (3.94%) Power Platform
13 40 (3.67%) GitHub
14 37 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (3.02%) Amazon S3
16 28 (2.57%) Amazon ECS
16 28 (2.57%) PaaS
17 26 (2.38%) Entra ID
18 24 (2.20%) IaaS
19 23 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 116 (10.63%) Firewall
2 52 (4.77%) DNS
3 47 (4.31%) VPN
4 35 (3.21%) DHCP
5 32 (2.93%) AMQP
6 29 (2.66%) Network Security
6 29 (2.66%) WAN
7 26 (2.38%) TCP/IP
8 20 (1.83%) Internet
8 20 (1.83%) Wireless
9 18 (1.65%) VoIP
10 17 (1.56%) 5G
10 17 (1.56%) SSL
11 16 (1.47%) VLAN
12 15 (1.37%) SD-WAN
13 14 (1.28%) J1939
13 14 (1.28%) LAN
13 14 (1.28%) SNMP
14 13 (1.19%) HTTP
14 13 (1.19%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (6.42%) SQL Server
2 38 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (3.30%) Power BI
4 33 (3.02%) Big Data
5 27 (2.47%) Cloudera CDH
5 27 (2.47%) Hadoop
6 22 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (1.74%) Redis
7 19 (1.74%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
8 18 (1.65%) NoSQL
9 16 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (1.37%) MySQL
11 14 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (1.10%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.82%) Crystal Reports
14 9 (0.82%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 113 (10.36%) Jenkins
2 105 (9.62%) Git
3 86 (7.88%) JIRA
4 50 (4.58%) GitLab
5 45 (4.12%) Subversion
6 28 (2.57%) Bitbucket
7 22 (2.02%) ClearCase
8 21 (1.92%) Plastic SCM
9 16 (1.47%) CMake
10 15 (1.37%) ClearQuest
10 15 (1.37%) TeamCity
11 14 (1.28%) Robot Framework
12 13 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
12 13 (1.19%) Visual Studio
13 12 (1.10%) Rational DOORS
14 10 (0.92%) Trac
15 8 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 7 (0.64%) Moq
16 7 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 207 (18.97%) Finance
2 197 (18.06%) Social Skills
3 117 (10.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 87 (7.97%) Law
5 83 (7.61%) Legal
5 83 (7.61%) Presentation Skills
6 75 (6.87%) Aerospace
7 73 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
8 55 (5.04%) Marketing
9 43 (3.94%) Retail
10 42 (3.85%) Electronics
11 41 (3.76%) Telecoms
12 39 (3.57%) Manufacturing
13 31 (2.84%) Banking
14 30 (2.75%) Automotive
14 30 (2.75%) Military
15 22 (2.02%) Public Sector
16 17 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (0.64%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 176 (16.13%) Software Engineer
2 131 (12.01%) Senior
3 113 (10.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 110 (10.08%) Architect
5 84 (7.70%) Cloud Architect
5 84 (7.70%) Systems Engineer
6 76 (6.97%) Lead
7 63 (5.77%) Analyst
8 53 (4.86%) Cloud Engineer
9 51 (4.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 49 (4.49%) Java Engineer
10 49 (4.49%) Java Software Engineer
11 46 (4.22%) Senior Software Engineer
12 42 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
13 41 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
14 40 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
14 40 (3.67%) Windows Engineer
15 39 (3.57%) Network Engineer
16 38 (3.48%) Linux Engineer
17 32 (2.93%) Configuration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (7.33%) React
2 78 (7.15%) HTML
3 70 (6.42%) Node.js
4 65 (5.96%) AngularJS
5 55 (5.04%) Spring
6 45 (4.12%) HTML5
7 43 (3.94%) Middleware
8 38 (3.48%) REST
9 37 (3.39%) XML
10 34 (3.12%) RabbitMQ
11 31 (2.84%) .NET
11 31 (2.84%) Drools
11 31 (2.84%) jBPM
11 31 (2.84%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 28 (2.57%) OpenAPI
12 28 (2.57%) Spring Boot
12 28 (2.57%) Swagger
13 27 (2.47%) gRPC
13 27 (2.47%) Material-UI
14 26 (2.38%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 143 (13.11%) Public Cloud
2 100 (9.17%) Management Information System
3 99 (9.07%) Algorithms
4 82 (7.52%) PKI
5 72 (6.60%) CMDB
6 65 (5.96%) Cloud Native
7 51 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
8 42 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
9 38 (3.48%) Onboarding
10 30 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 27 (2.47%) Data Centre
11 27 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.83%) Product Ownership
13 19 (1.74%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.74%) Driving Licence
14 15 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
14 15 (1.37%) Replication
15 14 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
16 13 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
16 13 (1.19%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 320 (29.33%) Linux
2 238 (21.81%) Windows
3 83 (7.61%) Windows Server
4 69 (6.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 55 (5.04%) Ubuntu
6 53 (4.86%) Debian
7 41 (3.76%) Unix
8 33 (3.02%) CentOS
9 22 (2.02%) VMS
9 22 (2.02%) Windows 10
10 12 (1.10%) Android
11 10 (0.92%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.73%) Solaris
14 6 (0.55%) Mesosphere
15 5 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.27%) SUSE
16 3 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 3 (0.27%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (30.61%) Agile
2 293 (26.86%) DevOps
3 227 (20.81%) Software Engineering
4 222 (20.35%) CI/CD
5 205 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
6 175 (16.04%) Project Management
7 148 (13.57%) ITIL
8 146 (13.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 144 (13.20%) Actionable Insight
10 135 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 134 (12.28%) Computer Science
12 130 (11.92%) Migration
13 122 (11.18%) Change Management
14 114 (10.45%) Containerisation
15 107 (9.81%) Service Management
16 106 (9.72%) TOGAF
17 95 (8.71%) Presales
18 94 (8.62%) ITSM
19 92 (8.43%) Information Security
19 92 (8.43%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 286 (26.21%) Python
2 156 (14.30%) Java
3 136 (12.47%) Bash
4 128 (11.73%) SQL
5 108 (9.90%) PowerShell
6 83 (7.61%) JavaScript
7 61 (5.59%) C
8 54 (4.95%) Go
9 53 (4.86%) C#
10 52 (4.77%) Perl
11 48 (4.40%) Shell Script
12 46 (4.22%) C++
13 32 (2.93%) Ruby
14 27 (2.47%) Embedded C
15 26 (2.38%) TypeScript
16 25 (2.29%) MATLAB
17 21 (1.92%) T-SQL
18 17 (1.56%) PHP
19 13 (1.19%) Groovy
20 9 (0.82%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 253 (23.19%) Security Cleared
2 224 (20.53%) Degree
3 171 (15.67%) SC Cleared
4 82 (7.52%) DV Cleared
5 63 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (2.93%) AWS Certification
9 27 (2.47%) Azure Certification
10 22 (2.02%) Master's Degree
10 22 (2.02%) PMI Certification
11 20 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (1.83%) CCNA
12 19 (1.74%) PMP
13 18 (1.65%) CISSP
13 18 (1.65%) HND
14 17 (1.56%) A+ Certification
15 14 (1.28%) CCNP
16 12 (1.10%) APMG
16 12 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.94%) QA
2 34 (3.12%) PMO
3 24 (2.20%) SLA
4 22 (2.02%) MISRA
5 16 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (1.28%) Automotive SPICE
6 14 (1.28%) AUTOSAR
6 14 (1.28%) ISO 26262
6 14 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 14 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.01%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.92%) Data Quality
9 10 (0.92%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.82%) JSP 440
10 9 (0.82%) RMADS
11 7 (0.64%) NIST
12 6 (0.55%) COBIT
12 6 (0.55%) DO-178B
12 6 (0.55%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 151 (13.84%) Docker
2 104 (9.53%) Active Directory
3 51 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
4 50 (4.58%) Hyper-V
5 45 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 20 (1.83%) Firmware
7 17 (1.56%) Embedded Firmware
8 16 (1.47%) pfSense
8 16 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.92%) NFS
9 10 (0.92%) vSphere
10 8 (0.73%) DFS Replication
10 8 (0.73%) KVM
10 8 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.55%) VirtualBox
12 3 (0.27%) Ceph
12 3 (0.27%) Gluster
12 3 (0.27%) oVirt
12 3 (0.27%) Xen
13 2 (0.18%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 237 (21.72%) Ansible
2 221 (20.26%) Kubernetes
3 196 (17.97%) Terraform
4 152 (13.93%) Puppet
5 116 (10.63%) Progress Chef
6 44 (4.03%) Grafana
7 39 (3.57%) Prometheus
8 30 (2.75%) ZABBIX
9 21 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
10 18 (1.65%) SCCM
11 17 (1.56%) SCOM
12 16 (1.47%) Salt
13 15 (1.37%) Packer
14 12 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
15 11 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 11 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
16 10 (0.92%) Kibana
16 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 10 (0.92%) Nagios
16 10 (0.92%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 276 (25.30%) Microsoft
2 125 (11.46%) Google
3 97 (8.89%) VMware
4 77 (7.06%) Red Hat
5 74 (6.78%) ServiceNow
6 59 (5.41%) SaltStack
7 37 (3.39%) Cisco
8 31 (2.84%) Oracle
9 28 (2.57%) Juniper
10 27 (2.47%) IBM
11 21 (1.92%) Lauterbach
12 20 (1.83%) Veeam
13 19 (1.74%) Fortinet
13 19 (1.74%) New Relic
14 17 (1.56%) Atlassian
14 17 (1.56%) Snow
15 16 (1.47%) Dynatrace
15 16 (1.47%) Splunk
16 15 (1.37%) EMC
17 14 (1.28%) Citrix