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 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 134 146 162
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 -20
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 736 1,036 1,570
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.73% 1.81% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 2.02% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 716 1,054
10th Percentile £358 £356 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £540 £530
% change year-on-year +0.93% +1.89% +24.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 31 47
10th Percentile £37.91 £37.50 £17.70
25th Percentile £40.94 £41.81 £24.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £46.71
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +7.94% +12.55%
75th Percentile £60.75 £58.04 £65.15
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £49.00 £46.71
% change year-on-year +2.05% +4.90% +16.05%

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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 May 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 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Top 16 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +20 636 £550 +1.85% 341
UK excluding London +23 418 £545 +0.93% 268
London +2 243 £550 - 96
Work from Home +11 230 £550 +1.85% 147
South East +22 99 £550 -6.18% 69
South West +39 92 £600 +14.29% 51
East of England +57 86 £500 - 24
North of England -11 63 £497 -0.70% 54
North West -11 46 £490 -1.95% 32
Midlands -32 40 £363 -32.87% 49
Scotland +5 37 £525 -11.91% 14
West Midlands -19 28 £358 -33.70% 29
Yorkshire +14 16 £558 +1.36% 15
East Midlands +4 12 £550 -3.30% 20
Wales +5 3 £690 +17.45% 9
North East -4 1 - - 7

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 44 (5.98%) Confluence
2 16 (2.17%) nginx
3 10 (1.36%) Apache
4 9 (1.22%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.95%) CMS
6 6 (0.82%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.82%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.54%) IIS
8 4 (0.54%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.41%) CICS
9 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.41%) SAS
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.27%) Traefik
11 1 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.09%) CATIA
3 7 (0.95%) Windchill
4 6 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (1.77%) Remedy ITSM
1 13 (1.77%) Teamcenter
2 8 (1.09%) DELMIA
3 3 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.41%) ENOVIA
3 3 (0.41%) SAP PLM
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.27%) Remedy AR System
5 1 (0.14%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.14%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.14%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.14%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 151 (20.52%) AWS
2 104 (14.13%) Azure
3 39 (5.30%) GCP
4 33 (4.48%) Serverless
5 26 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (3.53%) GitHub
6 23 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 23 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (2.58%) Amazon S3
9 18 (2.45%) OpenShift
9 18 (2.45%) SaaS
10 17 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (2.31%) Slack
11 15 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (1.90%) Apigee
13 13 (1.77%) Entra ID
13 13 (1.77%) PaaS
14 12 (1.63%) IaaS
15 9 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.30%) Firewall
2 36 (4.89%) TCP/IP
3 31 (4.21%) DNS
4 25 (3.40%) Internet
4 25 (3.40%) Network Security
5 19 (2.58%) DHCP
6 18 (2.45%) VPN
7 16 (2.17%) SAN
8 11 (1.49%) IPsec
9 9 (1.22%) BGP
9 9 (1.22%) HTTP
10 8 (1.09%) HTTPS
10 8 (1.09%) MPLS
10 8 (1.09%) SSL
11 7 (0.95%) LAN
12 6 (0.82%) FTP
12 6 (0.82%) OSPF
12 6 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.68%) Broadband
13 5 (0.68%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 39 (5.30%) MySQL
3 32 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 25 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
4 25 (3.40%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
7 10 (1.36%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.22%) Couchbase
8 9 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (0.95%) Sybase ASE
10 5 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.68%) DB2
10 5 (0.68%) InfluxDB
10 5 (0.68%) Power BI
11 4 (0.54%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (0.54%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 148 (20.11%) Jenkins
2 80 (10.87%) Git
3 78 (10.60%) JIRA
4 61 (8.29%) GitLab
5 30 (4.08%) Bitbucket
6 26 (3.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 23 (3.13%) SonarQube
8 19 (2.58%) Selenium
8 19 (2.58%) Visual Studio
9 16 (2.17%) Cucumber
10 15 (2.04%) Artifactory
10 15 (2.04%) TeamCity
11 14 (1.90%) Subversion
12 12 (1.63%) REST Assured
13 8 (1.09%) PVCS
14 7 (0.95%) Maven
14 7 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (0.82%) AppScan
15 6 (0.82%) Burp Suite
16 5 (0.68%) MSI
General
1 187 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 89 (12.09%) Aerospace
3 68 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (8.56%) Finance
4 63 (8.56%) Public Sector
5 22 (2.99%) Banking
6 19 (2.58%) Electronics
6 19 (2.58%) Legal
7 16 (2.17%) Military
8 15 (2.04%) Law
9 13 (1.77%) Marketing
10 12 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (1.63%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.49%) Retail
12 10 (1.36%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.22%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.09%) Police
15 7 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 87 (11.82%) Developer
2 83 (11.28%) Configuration Manager
3 81 (11.01%) DevOps Engineer
4 68 (9.24%) Senior
5 52 (7.07%) Analyst
6 51 (6.93%) Architect
7 40 (5.43%) Lead
8 37 (5.03%) Software Engineer
9 27 (3.67%) Consultant
10 23 (3.13%) Embedded Engineer
10 23 (3.13%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 21 (2.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 19 (2.58%) Python Developer
12 19 (2.58%) Release Manager
13 18 (2.45%) Network Engineer
14 17 (2.31%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (2.17%) Project Manager
16 15 (2.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (2.04%) Senior DevOps
16 15 (2.04%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (8.15%) .NET
2 41 (5.57%) REST
3 28 (3.80%) .NET Core
3 28 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
4 24 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
5 22 (2.99%) JSON
6 18 (2.45%) SOAP
6 18 (2.45%) XML
7 16 (2.17%) Middleware
7 16 (2.17%) Node.js
8 14 (1.90%) ARM Templates
9 13 (1.77%) Java EE
9 13 (1.77%) WinForms
10 12 (1.63%) Kafka
11 10 (1.36%) OpenAPI
11 10 (1.36%) RESTful
11 10 (1.36%) Swagger
11 10 (1.36%) YAML
12 9 (1.22%) LDAP
12 9 (1.22%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 85 (11.55%) CMDB
2 69 (9.38%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.80%) Public Cloud
4 19 (2.58%) ARM Cortex
4 19 (2.58%) Data Centre
5 13 (1.77%) Cloud Native
6 12 (1.63%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.63%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.22%) Private Cloud
8 8 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (0.95%) Client/Server
9 7 (0.95%) IoT
9 7 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (0.95%) VHDL
10 6 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.82%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 159 (21.60%) Linux
2 59 (8.02%) Windows
3 32 (4.35%) Unix
4 25 (3.40%) Windows Server
5 23 (3.13%) Ubuntu
6 19 (2.58%) FreeRTOS
7 15 (2.04%) CentOS
8 14 (1.90%) Debian
9 12 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.95%) VMS
11 5 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.54%) Android
12 4 (0.54%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
12 4 (0.54%) VxWorks
12 4 (0.54%) Windows 10
12 4 (0.54%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (23.51%) DevOps
2 147 (19.97%) CI/CD
3 138 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 136 (18.48%) Agile
5 116 (15.76%) ITIL
6 112 (15.22%) Continuous Integration
7 94 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 91 (12.36%) Software Engineering
9 89 (12.09%) Service Management
10 79 (10.73%) Collaborative Working
11 77 (10.46%) Coaching
12 75 (10.19%) PLM
13 64 (8.70%) ITSM
14 59 (8.02%) Change Management
15 58 (7.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 57 (7.74%) Analytics
16 57 (7.74%) Containerisation
17 55 (7.47%) SDLC
18 50 (6.79%) Stakeholder Management
19 48 (6.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 165 (22.42%) Python
2 95 (12.91%) PowerShell
3 89 (12.09%) SQL
4 52 (7.07%) Java
5 49 (6.66%) C#
6 45 (6.11%) Bash
7 40 (5.43%) C
8 37 (5.03%) Go
9 36 (4.89%) JavaScript
10 24 (3.26%) Ruby
11 23 (3.13%) Embedded C
12 22 (2.99%) Perl
13 17 (2.31%) C++
13 17 (2.31%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.49%) PL/SQL
15 9 (1.22%) Groovy
16 7 (0.95%) Scala
17 5 (0.68%) SELCOPY
17 5 (0.68%) VB
17 5 (0.68%) VB6
Qualifications
1 267 (36.28%) Security Cleared
2 216 (29.35%) SC Cleared
3 81 (11.01%) Degree
4 62 (8.42%) DV Cleared
5 35 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
8 14 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.36%) CCNP
10 9 (1.22%) CCIE
10 9 (1.22%) PMP
11 7 (0.95%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.95%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.82%) CISSP
13 5 (0.68%) CCNA
14 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 3 (0.41%) CISA
15 3 (0.41%) CISM
15 3 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
16 2 (0.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.21%) QA
2 18 (2.45%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.63%) GDPR
4 11 (1.49%) SLA
5 10 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.36%) NIST
6 9 (1.22%) PMO
7 7 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.68%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.68%) NCSC
9 4 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.54%) MISRA
9 4 (0.54%) MISRA C
10 3 (0.41%) GPG13
10 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.14%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.14%) RMADS
System Software
1 92 (12.50%) Docker
2 35 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.49%) Firmware
4 11 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.09%) XenApp
6 6 (0.82%) XenDesktop
7 5 (0.68%) vSphere
8 4 (0.54%) Samba
8 4 (0.54%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.41%) vCloud
10 2 (0.27%) KVM
10 2 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.14%) Postfix
11 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 191 (25.95%) Ansible
2 133 (18.07%) Terraform
3 116 (15.76%) Kubernetes
4 62 (8.42%) Puppet
5 52 (7.07%) Grafana
6 47 (6.39%) Progress Chef
7 36 (4.89%) Prometheus
8 23 (3.13%) PowerCLI
9 20 (2.72%) Docker Swarm
10 15 (2.04%) Podman
11 13 (1.77%) SCCM
12 11 (1.49%) Nagios
13 9 (1.22%) BladeLogic
13 9 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
13 9 (1.22%) ZABBIX
14 8 (1.09%) Graylog
14 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (1.09%) Packer
15 6 (0.82%) HP Fortify
15 6 (0.82%) Salt
Vendors
1 89 (12.09%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.47%) ServiceNow
3 47 (6.39%) VMware
4 31 (4.21%) Atlassian
5 28 (3.80%) Oracle
6 26 (3.53%) SAP
7 25 (3.40%) HP
8 24 (3.26%) IBM
8 24 (3.26%) Splunk
9 23 (3.13%) Dell
9 23 (3.13%) Google
9 23 (3.13%) Red Hat
10 21 (2.85%) Citrix
11 19 (2.58%) Lauterbach
12 18 (2.45%) Denodo
12 18 (2.45%) Talend
13 14 (1.90%) Salesforce
14 13 (1.77%) Cisco
14 13 (1.77%) Remedy
15 10 (1.36%) BMC