Configuration Management Contracts in London

Configuration Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Configuration Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Configuration Management over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 164 191
Rank change year-on-year -21 +27 -12
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 231 407 594
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.31% 1.62% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.78% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 292 427
10th Percentile £375 £400 £425
25th Percentile £464 £450 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% -6.91% +6.98%
75th Percentile £650 £719 £667
90th Percentile £750 £745 £738
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 5
10th Percentile £33.92 £46.38 £17.60
25th Percentile £38.75 £49.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.42 £39.65
Median % change year-on-year -20.67% +27.16% +98.25%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.62 £51.48
90th Percentile £43.49 £56.58 £54.79
England median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £48.48
% change year-on-year -0.83% +4.00% +19.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Configuration Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in London

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +16 27 £598 +8.64% 12
South London +6 12 £620 +30.53% 2
West London +15 2 - - 1
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 14 (6.06%) Confluence
2 6 (2.60%) Anypoint
3 5 (2.16%) IIS
4 3 (1.30%) Apache
4 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.30%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.87%) CMS
5 2 (0.87%) nginx
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.43%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) Aareon QL
2 1 (0.43%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.43%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.43%) OPENHousing
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 82 (35.50%) AWS
2 58 (25.11%) Azure
3 18 (7.79%) GCP
4 15 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (6.06%) Serverless
6 13 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (5.63%) SaaS
6 13 (5.63%) Slack
7 11 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (3.46%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.46%) Apigee
8 8 (3.46%) GitHub
8 8 (3.46%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.03%) IaaS
10 5 (2.16%) PaaS
11 4 (1.73%) Route 53
11 4 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.39%) Firewall
2 12 (5.19%) DNS
2 12 (5.19%) Internet
3 11 (4.76%) Network Security
4 7 (3.03%) DHCP
5 6 (2.60%) BGP
5 6 (2.60%) LAN
5 6 (2.60%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.73%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (1.73%) HTTP
6 4 (1.73%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.73%) IOS XR
6 4 (1.73%) MPLS
6 4 (1.73%) SSL
6 4 (1.73%) VPN
7 3 (1.30%) FTP
7 3 (1.30%) WAN
8 2 (0.87%) IPv4
8 2 (0.87%) SMTP
8 2 (0.87%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.23%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.49%) Relational Database
3 10 (4.33%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.03%) MySQL
5 7 (3.03%) Sybase ASE
6 6 (2.60%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.87%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.87%) DB2
8 2 (0.87%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.87%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.87%) Redis
9 1 (0.43%) GIS
9 1 (0.43%) MarkLogic
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.43%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 77 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 28 (12.12%) GitLab
3 24 (10.39%) Git
4 20 (8.66%) JIRA
5 13 (5.63%) TeamCity
6 12 (5.19%) Artifactory
6 12 (5.19%) Subversion
7 5 (2.16%) MSI
7 5 (2.16%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.16%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.16%) WiX
8 4 (1.73%) Selenium
9 3 (1.30%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.30%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.87%) Maven
10 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.43%) Ant
11 1 (0.43%) AppScan
General
1 49 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 48 (20.78%) Finance
3 15 (6.49%) Banking
4 11 (4.76%) Marketing
5 10 (4.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.30%) Law
8 3 (1.30%) Legal
8 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Electronics
9 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Local Government
9 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.43%) Automotive
10 1 (0.43%) Military
10 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (17.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (10.39%) Developer
2 24 (10.39%) Senior
3 18 (7.79%) Analyst
4 16 (6.93%) Consultant
5 15 (6.49%) Release Manager
6 14 (6.06%) Network Engineer
7 12 (5.19%) Architect
7 12 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.33%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.90%) Lead
10 9 (3.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.46%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.03%) Database Engineer
12 7 (3.03%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.39%) .NET
2 17 (7.36%) RabbitMQ
3 14 (6.06%) JSON
3 14 (6.06%) REST
3 14 (6.06%) XML
4 13 (5.63%) Middleware
5 9 (3.90%) Node.js
6 8 (3.46%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (3.46%) SOAP
7 7 (3.03%) OpenAPI
7 7 (3.03%) Swagger
7 7 (3.03%) WCF
7 7 (3.03%) WinForms
8 6 (2.60%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (2.60%) Apache Camel
8 6 (2.60%) RAML
8 6 (2.60%) Spring
9 5 (2.16%) LDAP
9 5 (2.16%) NHibernate
9 5 (2.16%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.99%) CMDB
2 19 (8.23%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.90%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.03%) Client/Server
6 6 (2.60%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.16%) Social Media
7 5 (2.16%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.16%) Web 2.0
8 4 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.73%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.30%) Replication
10 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.87%) PKI
10 2 (0.87%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 47 (20.35%) Linux
2 34 (14.72%) Windows
3 20 (8.66%) Unix
4 16 (6.93%) Windows Server
5 10 (4.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.87%) VMS
7 1 (0.43%) CentOS
7 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (37.66%) DevOps
2 69 (29.87%) CI/CD
3 41 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (17.32%) ITIL
5 37 (16.02%) Agile
6 34 (14.72%) Cybersecurity
6 34 (14.72%) SDLC
7 31 (13.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (12.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (12.12%) Change Management
10 26 (11.26%) Platform Engineering
11 22 (9.52%) Analytics
12 21 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (9.09%) Migration
12 21 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (8.23%) Computer Science
13 19 (8.23%) Containerisation
13 19 (8.23%) Software Engineering
14 18 (7.79%) Disaster Recovery
15 17 (7.36%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 52 (22.51%) Python
2 50 (21.65%) PowerShell
3 44 (19.05%) SQL
4 37 (16.02%) C#
5 22 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.93%) Bash
7 13 (5.63%) Java
8 12 (5.19%) Perl
9 10 (4.33%) C++
9 10 (4.33%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.60%) Ruby
11 5 (2.16%) Go
11 5 (2.16%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.73%) AWK
13 3 (1.30%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.87%) COBOL
14 2 (0.87%) Groovy
14 2 (0.87%) REXX
14 2 (0.87%) SELCOPY
15 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 52 (22.51%) Security Cleared
2 46 (19.91%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.69%) Degree
4 19 (8.23%) DV Cleared
5 17 (7.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.33%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (2.16%) CCIE
8 5 (2.16%) CCNP
9 4 (1.73%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.73%) CISSP
10 3 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.30%) CISA
10 3 (1.30%) CISM
11 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.43%) CEH
12 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.03%) QA
2 5 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.16%) SLA
3 3 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.30%) GPG13
3 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (1.30%) NCSC
3 3 (1.30%) NIST
4 2 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (14.29%) Docker
2 24 (10.39%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.87%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.87%) XenApp
6 1 (0.43%) Samba
Systems Management
1 96 (41.56%) Ansible
2 56 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 56 (24.24%) Terraform
3 32 (13.85%) Puppet
4 18 (7.79%) Progress Chef
5 10 (4.33%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.90%) BladeLogic
6 9 (3.90%) ITRS Geneos
7 7 (3.03%) Grafana
8 6 (2.60%) Salt
9 5 (2.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.30%) Nagios
11 3 (1.30%) Netcool
12 2 (0.87%) Graylog
12 2 (0.87%) SCOrch
13 1 (0.43%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.43%) Nessus
13 1 (0.43%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 38 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.39%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.36%) Oracle
4 14 (6.06%) Citrix
5 12 (5.19%) Cisco
5 12 (5.19%) Google
6 10 (4.33%) SAP
7 9 (3.90%) Altiris
7 9 (3.90%) Dynatrace
7 9 (3.90%) Splunk
7 9 (3.90%) VMware
8 8 (3.46%) Salesforce
9 7 (3.03%) Sybase
10 6 (2.60%) MuleSoft
10 6 (2.60%) Qualys
10 6 (2.60%) WSO2
11 5 (2.16%) Arista
11 5 (2.16%) Juniper
11 5 (2.16%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.73%) Murex