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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 251 206
Rank change year-on-year +3 -45 -39
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 817 811 1,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.14% 1.37% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.43% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 434 428 785
10th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,300
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 £67,011 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,425 £85,375 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.36% +10.80% +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 59,818 56,534 68,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.50% 95.59% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 41,261 29,197 41,375
10th Percentile £27,250 £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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 20 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 20 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 +17 243 £52,550 -12.42% 68
South West +2 181 £55,000 -4.35% 51
North of England -16 107 £52,500 -12.50% 54
Midlands +6 96 £57,500 -4.17% 48
Scotland -36 91 £75,000 +5.26% 14
West Midlands +18 75 £57,500 -11.54% 29
East of England -25 62 £57,500 +7.98% 24
North West -27 62 £57,500 -6.12% 32
Yorkshire +59 34 £45,054 -30.69% 15
Wales +17 22 £47,500 -28.57% 9
East Midlands -11 21 £50,000 -4.76% 19
Northern Ireland +32 13 £70,000 -3.45% 4
North East -12 11 £45,000 +12.50% 7
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 33 (4.04%) Apache
1 33 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (3.43%) Apache Spark
3 27 (3.30%) SharePoint
4 19 (2.33%) Confluence
5 14 (1.71%) CMS
6 13 (1.59%) IIS
6 13 (1.59%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.98%) nginx
8 3 (0.37%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.37%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 23 (2.82%) Simulink
2 22 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.57%) Stateflow
4 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (0.86%) CANalyzer
6 6 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.37%) 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 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
1 4 (0.49%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 273 (33.41%) Azure
2 241 (29.50%) AWS
3 136 (16.65%) GCP
4 130 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
5 90 (11.02%) SaaS
6 52 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (6.00%) Serverless
8 38 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (4.53%) OpenShift
10 34 (4.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 33 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (2.57%) GitHub
13 19 (2.33%) Entra ID
14 17 (2.08%) Power Platform
15 16 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
16 15 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (1.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 11 (1.35%) Datadog
18 11 (1.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 82 (10.04%) Firewall
2 38 (4.65%) VPN
3 32 (3.92%) AMQP
4 26 (3.18%) DNS
5 24 (2.94%) DHCP
6 21 (2.57%) WAN
7 16 (1.96%) 5G
7 16 (1.96%) VLAN
8 15 (1.84%) Network Security
8 15 (1.84%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.84%) Wireless
9 14 (1.71%) J1939
9 14 (1.71%) SD-WAN
10 13 (1.59%) MPLS
10 13 (1.59%) SNMP
10 13 (1.59%) VoIP
11 12 (1.47%) IPv4
12 11 (1.35%) Internet
13 9 (1.10%) OSPF
14 8 (0.98%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.51%) SQL Server
2 33 (4.04%) Big Data
3 27 (3.30%) Cloudera CDH
3 27 (3.30%) Hadoop
4 18 (2.20%) Apache Cassandra
5 16 (1.96%) Power BI
6 15 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (1.84%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (1.59%) Redis
7 13 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.98%) MySQL
10 7 (0.86%) 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 (9.06%) JIRA
2 71 (8.69%) Git
3 61 (7.47%) Jenkins
4 32 (3.92%) Subversion
5 22 (2.69%) ClearCase
6 21 (2.57%) Plastic SCM
7 17 (2.08%) GitLab
8 16 (1.96%) CMake
9 15 (1.84%) ClearQuest
10 14 (1.71%) Robot Framework
11 12 (1.47%) Rational DOORS
11 12 (1.47%) Visual Studio
12 10 (1.22%) Trac
13 7 (0.86%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.86%) Moq
14 6 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
15 5 (0.61%) LabVIEW
15 5 (0.61%) Rational Rhapsody
16 4 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 141 (17.26%) Social Skills
2 117 (14.32%) Finance
3 95 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 72 (8.81%) Legal
5 71 (8.69%) Law
6 70 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
7 69 (8.45%) Aerospace
8 48 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
9 46 (5.63%) Marketing
10 42 (5.14%) Electronics
11 36 (4.41%) Telecoms
12 33 (4.04%) Manufacturing
13 30 (3.67%) Automotive
13 30 (3.67%) Military
13 30 (3.67%) Retail
14 18 (2.20%) Banking
15 12 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.47%) Public Sector
16 7 (0.86%) Private Banking
17 6 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 164 (20.07%) Software Engineer
2 88 (10.77%) Senior
3 79 (9.67%) Architect
4 74 (9.06%) Systems Engineer
5 70 (8.57%) Cloud Architect
6 60 (7.34%) DevOps Engineer
7 57 (6.98%) Lead
8 49 (6.00%) Java Engineer
8 49 (6.00%) Java Software Engineer
9 43 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
10 40 (4.90%) Analyst
11 35 (4.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 35 (4.28%) Network Engineer
12 29 (3.55%) Configuration Manager
13 27 (3.30%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 26 (3.18%) Windows Engineer
15 24 (2.94%) Developer
16 23 (2.82%) Administrator
16 23 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
16 23 (2.82%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (9.18%) HTML
2 68 (8.32%) React
3 66 (8.08%) Node.js
4 65 (7.96%) AngularJS
5 47 (5.75%) Spring
6 43 (5.26%) HTML5
7 36 (4.41%) Middleware
8 34 (4.16%) XML
9 32 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
10 31 (3.79%) Drools
10 31 (3.79%) jBPM
10 31 (3.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 30 (3.67%) REST
12 27 (3.30%) .NET
12 27 (3.30%) gRPC
12 27 (3.30%) Material-UI
12 27 (3.30%) OpenAPI
12 27 (3.30%) Spring Boot
12 27 (3.30%) Swagger
13 23 (2.82%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 114 (13.95%) Public Cloud
2 95 (11.63%) Algorithms
3 71 (8.69%) PKI
4 67 (8.20%) Management Information System
5 56 (6.85%) CMDB
6 50 (6.12%) Cloud Native
7 38 (4.65%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.43%) Linux Command Line
9 22 (2.69%) Data Centre
10 20 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (2.33%) Driving Licence
12 17 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.96%) Product Ownership
14 15 (1.84%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.84%) Embedded Systems
15 14 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
16 13 (1.59%) Replication
17 12 (1.47%) GNSS
18 10 (1.22%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 241 (29.50%) Linux
2 174 (21.30%) Windows
3 66 (8.08%) Windows Server
4 52 (6.36%) Debian
5 48 (5.88%) Ubuntu
6 47 (5.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (3.30%) CentOS
8 21 (2.57%) Unix
8 21 (2.57%) Windows 10
9 9 (1.10%) Android
9 9 (1.10%) VMS
10 7 (0.86%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.86%) Solaris
10 7 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.73%) Mesosphere
12 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
13 3 (0.37%) SUSE
13 3 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.37%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (30.35%) Agile
2 197 (24.11%) Software Engineering
3 185 (22.64%) DevOps
4 137 (16.77%) Project Management
5 135 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
6 133 (16.28%) CI/CD
7 130 (15.91%) Actionable Insight
8 117 (14.32%) ITIL
9 109 (13.34%) Computer Science
10 106 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 100 (12.24%) Change Management
12 96 (11.75%) Service Management
13 94 (11.51%) Migration
14 87 (10.65%) Containerisation
15 84 (10.28%) ITSM
15 84 (10.28%) TOGAF
16 82 (10.04%) Infrastructure as Code
17 78 (9.55%) Presales
18 74 (9.06%) SDLC
19 70 (8.57%) Application Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 200 (24.48%) Python
2 119 (14.57%) Java
3 95 (11.63%) Bash
4 89 (10.89%) SQL
5 69 (8.45%) PowerShell
6 68 (8.32%) JavaScript
7 52 (6.36%) C
8 41 (5.02%) C#
9 38 (4.65%) C++
10 35 (4.28%) Shell Script
11 33 (4.04%) Perl
12 27 (3.30%) Embedded C
13 25 (3.06%) MATLAB
14 24 (2.94%) Go
15 21 (2.57%) T-SQL
16 18 (2.20%) TypeScript
17 14 (1.71%) PHP
17 14 (1.71%) Ruby
18 9 (1.10%) Groovy
19 5 (0.61%) Ada
Qualifications
1 209 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 170 (20.81%) Degree
3 145 (17.75%) SC Cleared
4 71 (8.69%) DV Cleared
5 51 (6.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (2.57%) PMI Certification
9 19 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (2.33%) CCNA
10 18 (2.20%) PMP
11 17 (2.08%) A+ Certification
12 16 (1.96%) HND
13 13 (1.59%) Azure Certification
13 13 (1.59%) Master's Degree
14 12 (1.47%) APMG
15 10 (1.22%) MCSE
16 9 (1.10%) AWS Certification
16 9 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.28%) QA
2 31 (3.79%) PMO
3 22 (2.69%) MISRA
4 15 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (1.84%) SLA
5 14 (1.71%) Automotive SPICE
5 14 (1.71%) AUTOSAR
5 14 (1.71%) ISO 26262
5 14 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.86%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.73%) DO-178B
9 5 (0.61%) Def Stans
9 5 (0.61%) JSP 440
9 5 (0.61%) NCSC
9 5 (0.61%) RMADS
10 3 (0.37%) GDPR
10 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 87 (10.65%) Active Directory
2 82 (10.04%) Docker
3 44 (5.39%) Hyper-V
4 31 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 20 (2.45%) Firmware
7 17 (2.08%) Embedded Firmware
8 16 (1.96%) pfSense
9 10 (1.22%) NFS
10 9 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.98%) vSphere
12 7 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.61%) KVM
14 3 (0.37%) Ceph
14 3 (0.37%) Gluster
14 3 (0.37%) oVirt
14 3 (0.37%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.24%) Shibboleth
15 2 (0.24%) Xen
16 1 (0.12%) iptables
Systems Management
1 144 (17.63%) Ansible
2 132 (16.16%) Kubernetes
3 90 (11.02%) Terraform
4 87 (10.65%) Puppet
5 58 (7.10%) Progress Chef
6 33 (4.04%) Grafana
7 26 (3.18%) ZABBIX
8 20 (2.45%) Prometheus
9 16 (1.96%) SCOM
10 15 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
12 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 10 (1.22%) SCDPM
13 8 (0.98%) SCCM
14 7 (0.86%) Podman
15 5 (0.61%) Kibana
16 4 (0.49%) Rancher
16 4 (0.49%) vCenter Server
16 4 (0.49%) vRealize
17 3 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 224 (27.42%) Microsoft
2 107 (13.10%) Google
3 68 (8.32%) VMware
4 57 (6.98%) ServiceNow
5 55 (6.73%) Red Hat
5 55 (6.73%) SaltStack
6 28 (3.43%) Juniper
7 27 (3.30%) Cisco
7 27 (3.30%) IBM
8 21 (2.57%) Lauterbach
9 16 (1.96%) Fortinet
10 15 (1.84%) EMC
10 15 (1.84%) Oracle
10 15 (1.84%) Snow
10 15 (1.84%) Veeam
11 14 (1.71%) Dynatrace
11 14 (1.71%) Meraki
12 13 (1.59%) Salesforce
13 12 (1.47%) Aruba
13 12 (1.47%) New Relic