Configuration Management Contracts in London

Configuration Management
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 168 181
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 -3
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 235 405 610
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.34% 1.58% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.74% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 291 438
10th Percentile £375 £400 £446
25th Percentile £470 £461 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -6.43% +6.98%
75th Percentile £650 £719 £663
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 6
10th Percentile £33.92 £46.38 £18.00
25th Percentile £38.75 £49.69 £24.60
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.42 £44.82
Median % change year-on-year -20.67% +12.50% +124.09%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.62 £55.62
90th Percentile £43.49 £56.58 £67.88
England median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £48.53
% change year-on-year -0.83% +3.89% +19.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,473 23,264 35,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 90.93% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,093 16,856 26,215
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 265 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +9.86% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +12 26 £550 - 7
South London +6 12 £620 +30.53%
West London +18 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 (5.96%) Confluence
2 6 (2.55%) Anypoint
3 5 (2.13%) IIS
4 4 (1.70%) Apache
5 3 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.85%) CMS
6 2 (0.85%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.85%) nginx
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.43%) JBoss
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.85%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.43%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.43%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.43%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.43%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 79 (33.62%) AWS
2 53 (22.55%) Azure
3 16 (6.81%) GCP
3 16 (6.81%) Serverless
4 15 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (5.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (5.96%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (5.53%) SaaS
6 13 (5.53%) Slack
7 11 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (4.26%) Entra ID
9 8 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.40%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.40%) GitHub
10 7 (2.98%) Apigee
10 7 (2.98%) IaaS
10 7 (2.98%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.13%) PaaS
13 4 (1.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.64%) Firewall
2 13 (5.53%) DNS
2 13 (5.53%) Internet
3 12 (5.11%) Network Security
4 8 (3.40%) DHCP
5 7 (2.98%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.55%) BGP
6 6 (2.55%) LAN
7 5 (2.13%) HTTP
7 5 (2.13%) VPN
8 4 (1.70%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (1.70%) FTP
8 4 (1.70%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (1.70%) IOS XR
8 4 (1.70%) MPLS
8 4 (1.70%) SSL
9 3 (1.28%) WAN
10 2 (0.85%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.85%) SMTP
10 2 (0.85%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.94%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.38%) Relational Database
3 10 (4.26%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (3.40%) MySQL
6 7 (2.98%) Sybase ASE
7 6 (2.55%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.28%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (1.28%) Redis
10 2 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.85%) DB2
10 2 (0.85%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.85%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.85%) Tableau
11 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 73 (31.06%) Jenkins
2 26 (11.06%) GitLab
3 23 (9.79%) Git
4 21 (8.94%) JIRA
5 13 (5.53%) TeamCity
6 12 (5.11%) Subversion
7 11 (4.68%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.13%) MSI
8 5 (2.13%) Visual Studio
8 5 (2.13%) WiX
9 4 (1.70%) Selenium
9 4 (1.70%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.28%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.28%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.43%) Ant
12 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.43%) Maven
12 1 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
General
1 55 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 45 (19.15%) Finance
3 15 (6.38%) Banking
4 10 (4.26%) Marketing
5 9 (3.83%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.98%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.28%) Law
9 3 (1.28%) Legal
10 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Local Government
10 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.43%) Electronics
11 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.43%) Military
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (11.06%) Developer
2 26 (11.06%) Senior
3 19 (8.09%) Analyst
4 18 (7.66%) Consultant
5 14 (5.96%) Network Engineer
5 14 (5.96%) Release Manager
6 12 (5.11%) Architect
6 12 (5.11%) Lead
7 11 (4.68%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (3.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (2.98%) Database Engineer
11 7 (2.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (2.98%) Python Engineer
11 7 (2.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.98%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.21%) .NET
2 17 (7.23%) RabbitMQ
3 15 (6.38%) REST
4 14 (5.96%) JSON
4 14 (5.96%) XML
5 13 (5.53%) Middleware
6 9 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (3.83%) Node.js
7 8 (3.40%) OpenAPI
7 8 (3.40%) SOAP
7 8 (3.40%) Swagger
8 7 (2.98%) LDAP
8 7 (2.98%) WCF
8 7 (2.98%) WinForms
9 6 (2.55%) ActiveMQ
9 6 (2.55%) Apache Camel
9 6 (2.55%) RAML
9 6 (2.55%) Spring
10 5 (2.13%) NHibernate
10 5 (2.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.74%) CMDB
2 20 (8.51%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.26%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.83%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.98%) Client/Server
5 7 (2.98%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.13%) Social Media
6 5 (2.13%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.13%) Web 2.0
7 4 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.28%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.28%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.28%) Replication
8 3 (1.28%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 47 (20.00%) Linux
2 34 (14.47%) Windows
3 22 (9.36%) Unix
4 18 (7.66%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.85%) VMS
6 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.43%) CentOS
7 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (35.32%) DevOps
2 63 (26.81%) CI/CD
3 48 (20.43%) ITIL
4 41 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (16.17%) Agile
6 34 (14.47%) SDLC
7 33 (14.04%) Cybersecurity
8 30 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (12.34%) Change Management
10 27 (11.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 25 (10.64%) ITSM
12 24 (10.21%) Platform Engineering
13 23 (9.79%) Analytics
14 21 (8.94%) Computer Science
14 21 (8.94%) Migration
15 20 (8.51%) Continuous Integration
15 20 (8.51%) Release Management
16 19 (8.09%) Disaster Recovery
16 19 (8.09%) High Availability
17 18 (7.66%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (22.55%) Python
2 47 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 46 (19.57%) SQL
4 37 (15.74%) C#
5 23 (9.79%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.38%) Bash
6 15 (6.38%) Java
7 12 (5.11%) Perl
8 10 (4.26%) C++
8 10 (4.26%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.98%) Go
10 6 (2.55%) Ruby
11 5 (2.13%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.70%) AWK
13 3 (1.28%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.85%) COBOL
14 2 (0.85%) Groovy
14 2 (0.85%) REXX
14 2 (0.85%) SELCOPY
15 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (22.55%) Security Cleared
2 48 (20.43%) SC Cleared
3 31 (13.19%) Degree
4 19 (8.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (7.23%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.83%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (2.13%) CCIE
8 5 (2.13%) CCNP
9 4 (1.70%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.70%) CISSP
10 3 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.28%) CISA
10 3 (1.28%) CISM
11 2 (0.85%) 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%) PMP
12 1 (0.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.98%) QA
2 5 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.13%) SLA
3 4 (1.70%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.28%) GPG13
4 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.28%) NCSC
4 3 (1.28%) NIST
5 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) GDPR
6 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (13.62%) Docker
2 24 (10.21%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.85%) Samba
5 2 (0.85%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.85%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 90 (38.30%) Ansible
2 52 (22.13%) Kubernetes
2 52 (22.13%) Terraform
3 32 (13.62%) Puppet
4 19 (8.09%) Progress Chef
5 10 (4.26%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.83%) BladeLogic
6 9 (3.83%) ITRS Geneos
7 8 (3.40%) Grafana
8 6 (2.55%) Salt
9 5 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.28%) Nagios
11 3 (1.28%) Netcool
12 2 (0.85%) Graylog
12 2 (0.85%) SCCM
12 2 (0.85%) SCOrch
13 1 (0.43%) Cisco Prime
13 1 (0.43%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 39 (16.60%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.49%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.23%) Oracle
4 14 (5.96%) Citrix
5 11 (4.68%) Cisco
5 11 (4.68%) Google
6 10 (4.26%) SAP
6 10 (4.26%) VMware
7 9 (3.83%) Altiris
7 9 (3.83%) Dynatrace
7 9 (3.83%) Salesforce
7 9 (3.83%) Splunk
8 7 (2.98%) Sybase
9 6 (2.55%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.55%) Qualys
9 6 (2.55%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.55%) WSO2
10 5 (2.13%) Arista
10 5 (2.13%) Juniper
11 4 (1.70%) Nokia