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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 149 152
Rank change year-on-year +18 +3 -7
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 747 993 1,577
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.73% 1.77% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 1.98% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 689 1,055
10th Percentile £358 £363 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.40%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £543 £534
% change year-on-year +1.38% +1.59% +22.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 31 45
10th Percentile £38.75 £37.50 £18.02
25th Percentile £41.10 £41.81 £31.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +6.15% +8.57%
75th Percentile £61.86 £58.04 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £49.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% +14.46%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Top 17 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 1 June 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 +19 643 £550 +1.85% 247
UK excluding London +34 435 £550 +1.38% 167
London -8 235 £550 +1.10% 81
Work from Home +7 230 £550 +1.85% 113
South East +21 106 £565 -5.24% 35
South West +52 105 £585 +11.43% 34
East of England +49 83 £500 - 15
North of England -10 65 £490 -1.95% 39
Midlands +1 51 £425 -22.02% 32
North West -7 46 £490 -1.95% 21
West Midlands 0 39 £370 -31.48% 25
Scotland +1 37 £500 -9.09% 5
Yorkshire +20 18 £513 -7.91% 14
East Midlands 0 12 £550 -3.30% 7
Wales +7 4 £409 -31.83% 7
Northern Ireland +1 2 £550 -15.38% 4
North East -2 1 - - 4

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 (6.02%) Confluence
2 12 (1.61%) nginx
3 10 (1.34%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.94%) Anypoint
4 7 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.94%) CMS
5 5 (0.67%) Apache
5 5 (0.67%) Apache Solr
5 5 (0.67%) IIS
6 3 (0.40%) CICS
6 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.40%) SAS
7 2 (0.27%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.27%) Traefik
8 1 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.07%) CATIA
3 6 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.54%) Windchill
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 15 (2.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.74%) Teamcenter
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%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 147 (19.68%) AWS
2 110 (14.73%) Azure
3 40 (5.35%) GCP
4 32 (4.28%) Serverless
5 27 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (3.35%) GitHub
7 22 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (2.68%) OpenShift
8 20 (2.68%) SaaS
9 19 (2.54%) Amazon S3
10 17 (2.28%) Slack
11 16 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (2.01%) Apigee
13 14 (1.87%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.61%) IaaS
15 9 (1.20%) Power Platform
16 8 (1.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (5.09%) Firewall
2 30 (4.02%) TCP/IP
3 29 (3.88%) DNS
4 25 (3.35%) Internet
5 23 (3.08%) Network Security
6 16 (2.14%) DHCP
7 15 (2.01%) SAN
8 14 (1.87%) VPN
9 8 (1.07%) LAN
9 8 (1.07%) SSL
10 7 (0.94%) BGP
10 7 (0.94%) HTTP
11 6 (0.80%) AMQP
11 6 (0.80%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.80%) IPsec
12 5 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.67%) IOS XR
12 5 (0.67%) IPv4
12 5 (0.67%) MPLS
12 5 (0.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.62%) SQL Server
2 39 (5.22%) MySQL
3 33 (4.42%) Relational Database
4 24 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
5 21 (2.81%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.34%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
8 9 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.94%) Sybase ASE
10 6 (0.80%) InfluxDB
11 5 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.67%) DB2
11 5 (0.67%) Power BI
12 4 (0.54%) Couchbase
12 4 (0.54%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.54%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.40%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 155 (20.75%) Jenkins
2 88 (11.78%) Git
3 83 (11.11%) JIRA
4 65 (8.70%) GitLab
5 30 (4.02%) Bitbucket
6 25 (3.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 23 (3.08%) SonarQube
8 19 (2.54%) Selenium
8 19 (2.54%) Visual Studio
9 16 (2.14%) Cucumber
9 16 (2.14%) TeamCity
10 15 (2.01%) Artifactory
11 14 (1.87%) Subversion
12 12 (1.61%) REST Assured
13 8 (1.07%) PVCS
14 7 (0.94%) Maven
15 6 (0.80%) AppScan
15 6 (0.80%) Burp Suite
16 5 (0.67%) MSI
16 5 (0.67%) WiX
General
1 180 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 89 (11.91%) Aerospace
3 69 (9.24%) Public Sector
4 68 (9.10%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (8.97%) Finance
6 21 (2.81%) Banking
7 19 (2.54%) Legal
8 18 (2.41%) Electronics
9 16 (2.14%) Military
10 15 (2.01%) Law
11 13 (1.74%) Marketing
12 11 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.47%) Retail
13 10 (1.34%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.07%) Police
16 7 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (0.94%) Investment Banking
16 7 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (11.24%) Developer
1 84 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 83 (11.11%) Configuration Manager
3 65 (8.70%) Senior
4 52 (6.96%) Analyst
5 48 (6.43%) Architect
6 42 (5.62%) Lead
7 41 (5.49%) Software Engineer
8 27 (3.61%) Embedded Engineer
8 27 (3.61%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 26 (3.48%) Consultant
10 19 (2.54%) Release Manager
11 18 (2.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 17 (2.28%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (2.28%) Network Engineer
12 17 (2.28%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (2.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (2.14%) Python Developer
14 15 (2.01%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (2.01%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (8.03%) .NET
2 41 (5.49%) REST
3 30 (4.02%) RabbitMQ
4 28 (3.75%) .NET Core
5 25 (3.35%) YAML
6 22 (2.95%) JSON
7 21 (2.81%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (2.54%) SOAP
9 18 (2.41%) XML
10 17 (2.28%) Node.js
11 15 (2.01%) Middleware
12 14 (1.87%) ARM Templates
13 13 (1.74%) Java EE
13 13 (1.74%) WinForms
14 10 (1.34%) Kafka
14 10 (1.34%) OpenAPI
14 10 (1.34%) Swagger
15 9 (1.20%) OAuth
15 9 (1.20%) RESTful
15 9 (1.20%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 87 (11.65%) CMDB
2 68 (9.10%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.08%) ARM Cortex
3 23 (3.08%) Public Cloud
4 20 (2.68%) Data Centre
5 13 (1.74%) Virtual Team
6 12 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 12 (1.61%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (0.94%) Client/Server
8 7 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (0.94%) Mobile App
8 7 (0.94%) Private Cloud
8 7 (0.94%) VHDL
9 6 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (0.80%) IoT
10 5 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 169 (22.62%) Linux
2 72 (9.64%) Windows
3 29 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 27 (3.61%) Unix
5 25 (3.35%) Windows Server
6 23 (3.08%) FreeRTOS
7 17 (2.28%) Ubuntu
8 13 (1.74%) Debian
9 10 (1.34%) CentOS
10 4 (0.54%) Android
10 4 (0.54%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.54%) VxWorks
11 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.40%) zOS
12 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.27%) VMS
12 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.27%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (24.63%) DevOps
2 150 (20.08%) CI/CD
3 139 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
4 137 (18.34%) Agile
5 120 (16.06%) ITIL
6 115 (15.39%) Continuous Integration
7 108 (14.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 96 (12.85%) Software Engineering
9 92 (12.32%) Service Management
10 80 (10.71%) Coaching
11 79 (10.58%) Collaborative Working
12 72 (9.64%) PLM
13 66 (8.84%) ITSM
14 64 (8.57%) Change Management
15 63 (8.43%) Containerisation
16 58 (7.76%) Analytics
17 57 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
18 54 (7.23%) Infrastructure Automation
19 53 (7.10%) SDLC
20 51 (6.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 153 (20.48%) Python
2 115 (15.39%) PowerShell
3 82 (10.98%) SQL
4 50 (6.69%) Java
5 48 (6.43%) C#
6 44 (5.89%) C
7 43 (5.76%) Bash
8 35 (4.69%) JavaScript
9 30 (4.02%) Go
10 27 (3.61%) Embedded C
11 23 (3.08%) Ruby
12 18 (2.41%) Perl
12 18 (2.41%) Shell Script
13 17 (2.28%) C++
14 11 (1.47%) PL/SQL
15 9 (1.20%) Groovy
16 6 (0.80%) Scala
17 5 (0.67%) SELCOPY
17 5 (0.67%) VB
17 5 (0.67%) VB6
Qualifications
1 287 (38.42%) Security Cleared
2 232 (31.06%) SC Cleared
3 83 (11.11%) Degree
4 62 (8.30%) DV Cleared
5 35 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (2.28%) ITIL Certification
8 12 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.47%) CCNP
10 9 (1.20%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.20%) CCIE
10 9 (1.20%) PMP
11 7 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.80%) CISSP
13 5 (0.67%) CCNA
14 3 (0.40%) CISA
14 3 (0.40%) CISM
14 3 (0.40%) Network+ Certification
15 2 (0.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.02%) QA
2 18 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.01%) SLA
4 12 (1.61%) GDPR
5 10 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.34%) NIST
6 9 (1.20%) PMO
7 7 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.67%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.67%) NCSC
9 4 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.54%) MISRA
9 4 (0.54%) MISRA C
10 3 (0.40%) GPG13
10 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.27%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 99 (13.25%) Docker
2 39 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (5.09%) Active Directory
4 22 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.47%) Firmware
6 6 (0.80%) XenApp
7 5 (0.67%) vSphere
8 4 (0.54%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.54%) XenDesktop
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%) Samba
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%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 203 (27.18%) Ansible
2 147 (19.68%) Terraform
3 124 (16.60%) Kubernetes
4 74 (9.91%) Puppet
5 60 (8.03%) Progress Chef
6 49 (6.56%) Grafana
7 33 (4.42%) Prometheus
8 23 (3.08%) PowerCLI
9 21 (2.81%) Docker Swarm
9 21 (2.81%) Salt
10 15 (2.01%) Podman
11 11 (1.47%) Nagios
11 11 (1.47%) SCCM
12 9 (1.20%) BladeLogic
12 9 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
13 8 (1.07%) Graylog
13 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.80%) HP Fortify
14 6 (0.80%) Packer
14 6 (0.80%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 95 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 59 (7.90%) VMware
3 58 (7.76%) ServiceNow
4 37 (4.95%) Red Hat
5 34 (4.55%) Atlassian
6 30 (4.02%) Oracle
7 28 (3.75%) IBM
8 27 (3.61%) SAP
9 26 (3.48%) Google
10 25 (3.35%) HP
11 24 (3.21%) Splunk
12 23 (3.08%) Dell
12 23 (3.08%) Lauterbach
13 19 (2.54%) Citrix
14 18 (2.41%) Denodo
14 18 (2.41%) SaltStack
14 18 (2.41%) Talend
15 15 (2.01%) Remedy
15 15 (2.01%) Salesforce
16 12 (1.61%) BMC