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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 232 207
Rank change year-on-year -16 -25 -37
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 846 819 1,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.07% 1.47% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.54% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 444 423 767
10th Percentile £34,300 £36,547 £35,231
25th Percentile £44,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,500 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £68,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -12.41% +9.60% +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 64,107 53,150 71,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.14% 95.49% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,360 28,415 41,497
10th Percentile £27,500 £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% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -2 260 £55,000 -4.35% 36
South West +14 185 £55,000 -18.52% 36
North of England -45 110 £52,500 -16.00% 41
Midlands -13 96 £57,500 -11.54% 25
Scotland -33 92 £75,000 - 3
West Midlands +7 76 £57,500 -11.54% 17
North West -31 65 £57,500 -8.00% 26
East of England -37 62 £57,500 +5.50% 17
Yorkshire +27 33 £45,107 -27.83% 12
Wales +21 25 £50,000 -24.81% 5
East Midlands -31 20 £50,000 -4.76% 8
Northern Ireland +18 14 £64,400 -12.68% 4
North East -26 12 £45,000 -7.69% 3
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 34 (4.02%) Apache
2 31 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (3.55%) Apache Spark
4 25 (2.96%) SharePoint
5 20 (2.36%) Confluence
6 15 (1.77%) CMS
7 13 (1.54%) OpenStack
8 10 (1.18%) IIS
9 9 (1.06%) nginx
10 4 (0.47%) JBoss
11 3 (0.35%) CloudStack
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 23 (2.72%) Simulink
2 21 (2.48%) Stateflow
3 20 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (0.83%) CANalyzer
6 6 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.59%) Windchill
8 2 (0.24%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.12%) Revit
9 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
1 4 (0.47%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 270 (31.91%) Azure
2 253 (29.91%) AWS
3 143 (16.90%) GCP
4 125 (14.78%) Microsoft 365
5 90 (10.64%) SaaS
6 49 (5.79%) Serverless
7 48 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (4.49%) OpenShift
10 36 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 34 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (2.72%) GitHub
13 18 (2.13%) Entra ID
14 16 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
15 15 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 12 (1.42%) Datadog
17 12 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
18 11 (1.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 82 (9.69%) Firewall
2 39 (4.61%) VPN
3 34 (4.02%) AMQP
4 25 (2.96%) WAN
5 23 (2.72%) DNS
6 21 (2.48%) DHCP
7 19 (2.25%) Network Security
7 19 (2.25%) Wireless
8 16 (1.89%) 5G
8 16 (1.89%) SD-WAN
8 16 (1.89%) VLAN
9 15 (1.77%) MPLS
10 14 (1.65%) J1939
10 14 (1.65%) TCP/IP
10 14 (1.65%) VoIP
11 11 (1.30%) HTTP
11 11 (1.30%) IPv4
11 11 (1.30%) LAN
12 10 (1.18%) SNMP
13 9 (1.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (4.85%) SQL Server
2 35 (4.14%) Big Data
3 29 (3.43%) Cloudera CDH
3 29 (3.43%) Hadoop
4 18 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
5 15 (1.77%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (1.42%) Redis
8 11 (1.30%) Power BI
9 7 (0.83%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.83%) MySQL
10 6 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.71%) MariaDB
10 6 (0.71%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.59%) InfluxDB
11 5 (0.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 74 (8.75%) JIRA
2 69 (8.16%) Git
3 61 (7.21%) Jenkins
4 31 (3.66%) Subversion
5 22 (2.60%) ClearCase
6 21 (2.48%) Plastic SCM
7 20 (2.36%) GitLab
8 15 (1.77%) ClearQuest
8 15 (1.77%) CMake
9 14 (1.65%) Robot Framework
10 12 (1.42%) Rational DOORS
10 12 (1.42%) Visual Studio
11 10 (1.18%) Trac
12 9 (1.06%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.71%) Moq
13 6 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (0.59%) LabVIEW
14 5 (0.59%) Rational Rhapsody
15 4 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 152 (17.97%) Social Skills
2 116 (13.71%) Finance
3 101 (11.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 72 (8.51%) Legal
5 71 (8.39%) Aerospace
6 70 (8.27%) Law
6 70 (8.27%) Presentation Skills
7 48 (5.67%) Marketing
8 47 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
9 42 (4.96%) Electronics
10 36 (4.26%) Telecoms
11 35 (4.14%) Manufacturing
12 34 (4.02%) Military
13 32 (3.78%) Automotive
14 30 (3.55%) Retail
15 16 (1.89%) Banking
16 13 (1.54%) Public Sector
17 12 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (0.71%) Private Banking
18 6 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 166 (19.62%) Software Engineer
2 91 (10.76%) Senior
3 87 (10.28%) Architect
4 71 (8.39%) Systems Engineer
5 70 (8.27%) Cloud Architect
6 63 (7.45%) Lead
7 62 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 49 (5.79%) Java Engineer
8 49 (5.79%) Java Software Engineer
9 43 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
10 42 (4.96%) Analyst
11 37 (4.37%) Network Engineer
12 36 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 33 (3.90%) Configuration Manager
14 29 (3.43%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 26 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
16 23 (2.72%) Windows Engineer
17 22 (2.60%) Administrator
18 21 (2.48%) IT Support
18 21 (2.48%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (8.51%) HTML
2 69 (8.16%) React
3 66 (7.80%) AngularJS
3 66 (7.80%) Node.js
4 49 (5.79%) Spring
5 43 (5.08%) HTML5
6 37 (4.37%) Middleware
7 34 (4.02%) RabbitMQ
8 33 (3.90%) XML
9 32 (3.78%) REST
10 31 (3.66%) Drools
10 31 (3.66%) jBPM
10 31 (3.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 29 (3.43%) gRPC
11 29 (3.43%) Material-UI
11 29 (3.43%) OpenAPI
11 29 (3.43%) Spring Boot
11 29 (3.43%) Swagger
12 21 (2.48%) .NET
13 20 (2.36%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 114 (13.48%) Public Cloud
2 94 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 72 (8.51%) PKI
4 70 (8.27%) Management Information System
5 62 (7.33%) CMDB
6 51 (6.03%) Cloud Native
7 38 (4.49%) Onboarding
8 29 (3.43%) Data Centre
9 28 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
10 24 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
11 20 (2.36%) Driving Licence
12 19 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (1.89%) Product Ownership
15 15 (1.77%) Data Structures
15 15 (1.77%) Embedded Systems
16 13 (1.54%) Replication
17 12 (1.42%) GNSS
18 11 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
19 10 (1.18%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 244 (28.84%) Linux
2 167 (19.74%) Windows
3 63 (7.45%) Windows Server
4 53 (6.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 51 (6.03%) Debian
6 47 (5.56%) Ubuntu
7 29 (3.43%) CentOS
8 19 (2.25%) Windows 10
9 16 (1.89%) Unix
10 10 (1.18%) VMS
11 8 (0.95%) Android
12 6 (0.71%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.71%) Mesosphere
12 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.47%) Solaris
14 3 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
14 3 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
14 3 (0.35%) SUSE
14 3 (0.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 3 (0.35%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (28.61%) Agile
2 199 (23.52%) Software Engineering
3 190 (22.46%) DevOps
4 141 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 137 (16.19%) CI/CD
5 137 (16.19%) Project Management
6 129 (15.25%) Actionable Insight
7 126 (14.89%) ITIL
8 110 (13.00%) Computer Science
9 108 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 101 (11.94%) Service Management
11 99 (11.70%) Change Management
11 99 (11.70%) Migration
12 93 (10.99%) Containerisation
13 85 (10.05%) TOGAF
14 84 (9.93%) ITSM
15 83 (9.81%) Infrastructure as Code
16 78 (9.22%) Presales
17 73 (8.63%) SDLC
18 70 (8.27%) Application Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 209 (24.70%) Python
2 124 (14.66%) Java
3 94 (11.11%) Bash
4 82 (9.69%) SQL
5 69 (8.16%) PowerShell
6 67 (7.92%) JavaScript
7 53 (6.26%) C
8 40 (4.73%) C++
9 37 (4.37%) C#
10 33 (3.90%) Perl
11 31 (3.66%) Shell Script
12 27 (3.19%) Embedded C
13 25 (2.96%) Go
13 25 (2.96%) MATLAB
14 20 (2.36%) T-SQL
15 15 (1.77%) TypeScript
16 14 (1.65%) PHP
16 14 (1.65%) Ruby
17 9 (1.06%) Groovy
18 5 (0.59%) Ada
Qualifications
1 219 (25.89%) Security Cleared
2 171 (20.21%) Degree
3 152 (17.97%) SC Cleared
4 69 (8.16%) DV Cleared
5 52 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (2.48%) PMI Certification
8 19 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (2.25%) CCNA
9 18 (2.13%) PMP
10 17 (2.01%) A+ Certification
11 16 (1.89%) HND
12 13 (1.54%) Azure Certification
12 13 (1.54%) Master's Degree
13 12 (1.42%) APMG
14 10 (1.18%) AWS Certification
14 10 (1.18%) MCSE
15 9 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.95%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.26%) QA
2 31 (3.66%) PMO
3 22 (2.60%) MISRA
4 16 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 16 (1.89%) SLA
5 14 (1.65%) Automotive SPICE
5 14 (1.65%) AUTOSAR
5 14 (1.65%) ISO 26262
5 14 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (1.30%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.83%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.71%) Def Stans
9 6 (0.71%) DO-178B
10 5 (0.59%) JSP 440
10 5 (0.59%) NCSC
10 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.59%) RMADS
11 3 (0.35%) GDPR
11 3 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 86 (10.17%) Active Directory
2 83 (9.81%) Docker
3 44 (5.20%) Hyper-V
4 31 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
6 20 (2.36%) Firmware
7 17 (2.01%) Embedded Firmware
8 16 (1.89%) pfSense
9 10 (1.18%) NFS
10 9 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.95%) vSphere
12 5 (0.59%) KVM
13 3 (0.35%) Ceph
13 3 (0.35%) Gluster
13 3 (0.35%) oVirt
13 3 (0.35%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.24%) Xen
15 1 (0.12%) iptables
Systems Management
1 153 (18.09%) Ansible
2 138 (16.31%) Kubernetes
3 96 (11.35%) Puppet
4 95 (11.23%) Terraform
5 57 (6.74%) Progress Chef
6 32 (3.78%) Grafana
7 26 (3.07%) ZABBIX
8 19 (2.25%) Prometheus
9 13 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (1.54%) SCOM
10 11 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
11 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (1.18%) SCDPM
12 9 (1.06%) SCCM
13 7 (0.83%) Podman
14 4 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.47%) Rancher
14 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.47%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.47%) vRealize
Vendors
1 223 (26.36%) Microsoft
2 109 (12.88%) Google
3 67 (7.92%) VMware
4 65 (7.68%) ServiceNow
5 60 (7.09%) Red Hat
6 57 (6.74%) SaltStack
7 29 (3.43%) Cisco
8 28 (3.31%) Juniper
9 27 (3.19%) IBM
10 21 (2.48%) Lauterbach
11 17 (2.01%) Fortinet
11 17 (2.01%) Meraki
12 15 (1.77%) EMC
12 15 (1.77%) Oracle
12 15 (1.77%) Snow
12 15 (1.77%) Veeam
13 13 (1.54%) Aruba
13 13 (1.54%) New Relic
14 12 (1.42%) Salesforce
15 11 (1.30%) Atlassian