Configuration Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Configuration Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 145 177
Rank change year-on-year +1 +32 -32
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 230 404 702
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.56% 1.69% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 1.89% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 303 500
10th Percentile £359 £400 £415
25th Percentile £459 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +12.24%
75th Percentile £600 £676 £638
90th Percentile £691 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 11
10th Percentile - £38.53 £31.25
25th Percentile £11.00 £39.55 £41.00
Median hourly rate £53.28 £40.90 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.26% -37.08% +33.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £65.15
90th Percentile - £61.89 £65.30
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £47.50
% change year-on-year -0.83% +6.15% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Configuration Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Configuration Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Configuration Management.

Configuration Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Configuration Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Configuration Management.

Configuration Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Configuration Management hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (3.91%) Confluence
2 6 (2.61%) nginx
3 4 (1.74%) Apache Solr
3 4 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.87%) Apache
4 2 (0.87%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) CICS
5 1 (0.43%) IIS
5 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (3.91%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 55 (23.91%) AWS
2 36 (15.65%) Azure
3 17 (7.39%) GCP
4 8 (3.48%) Apigee
4 8 (3.48%) GitHub
4 8 (3.48%) IaaS
4 8 (3.48%) Serverless
4 8 (3.48%) Slack
5 7 (3.04%) OpenShift
6 6 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.17%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.74%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.74%) Datadog
8 4 (1.74%) Route 53
8 4 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.52%) Firewall
2 14 (6.09%) TCP/IP
3 9 (3.91%) DNS
3 9 (3.91%) SAN
4 6 (2.61%) Internet
5 4 (1.74%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.74%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.74%) IPsec
6 3 (1.30%) BGP
6 3 (1.30%) Network Security
6 3 (1.30%) SSL
6 3 (1.30%) VPN
6 3 (1.30%) WAN
6 3 (1.30%) Wireless
7 2 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.87%) DHCP
7 2 (0.87%) HTTP
7 2 (0.87%) NGFW
8 1 (0.43%) IPv4
8 1 (0.43%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.83%) MySQL
2 15 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (5.22%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.61%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.17%) Power BI
7 4 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.74%) Couchbase
7 4 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.30%) DB2
8 3 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.87%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.43%) IDMS
10 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 47 (20.43%) Jenkins
2 28 (12.17%) Git
3 24 (10.43%) JIRA
4 19 (8.26%) GitLab
5 15 (6.52%) Visual Studio
6 12 (5.22%) SonarQube
7 9 (3.91%) Artifactory
7 9 (3.91%) Selenium
8 8 (3.48%) Cucumber
8 8 (3.48%) PVCS
8 8 (3.48%) REST Assured
9 7 (3.04%) Bitbucket
10 6 (2.61%) Maven
11 5 (2.17%) MSI
11 5 (2.17%) WiX
12 4 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.74%) Subversion
12 4 (1.74%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.87%) gulp
General
1 65 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.65%) Public Sector
3 25 (10.87%) Finance
4 19 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.35%) Law
6 8 (3.48%) Electronics
7 7 (3.04%) Aerospace
7 7 (3.04%) Banking
7 7 (3.04%) Police
8 6 (2.61%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.17%) Legal
9 5 (2.17%) Marketing
9 5 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.17%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.87%) Advertising
11 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Italian Language
11 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 33 (14.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (12.61%) Senior
3 26 (11.30%) Developer
4 17 (7.39%) Lead
5 12 (5.22%) Analyst
6 11 (4.78%) Configuration Manager
6 11 (4.78%) Project Manager
6 11 (4.78%) Software Engineer
7 9 (3.91%) Python Developer
8 8 (3.48%) C Programmer
8 8 (3.48%) Programmer
8 8 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
8 8 (3.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.48%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (3.04%) Asset and Configuration Manager
9 7 (3.04%) Consultant
9 7 (3.04%) Network Engineer
10 6 (2.61%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (2.61%) Senior Developer
10 6 (2.61%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.43%) REST
2 17 (7.39%) .NET
3 14 (6.09%) JSON
4 12 (5.22%) YAML
5 10 (4.35%) XML
6 8 (3.48%) ARM Templates
6 8 (3.48%) Java EE
6 8 (3.48%) Node.js
6 8 (3.48%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (3.48%) SOAP
7 6 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (2.61%) Middleware
7 6 (2.61%) RESTful
8 5 (2.17%) ASP.NET
8 5 (2.17%) LEMP Stack
8 5 (2.17%) LINQ
8 5 (2.17%) NHibernate
8 5 (2.17%) OAuth
8 5 (2.17%) WinForms
8 5 (2.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.61%) CMDB
1 29 (12.61%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.91%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.48%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.04%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.04%) Private Cloud
5 6 (2.61%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.17%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.17%) Web 2.0
7 4 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.30%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.87%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (17.39%) Linux
2 29 (12.61%) Windows
3 15 (6.52%) Unix
4 10 (4.35%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.91%) Debian
6 7 (3.04%) Windows Server
7 5 (2.17%) CentOS
7 5 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.87%) Android
8 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.87%) VMS
8 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.43%) Solaris
9 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (26.96%) DevOps
2 60 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (22.17%) Agile
4 48 (20.87%) ITIL
5 43 (18.70%) Service Management
6 40 (17.39%) Software Engineering
7 39 (16.96%) Continuous Integration
8 38 (16.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 36 (15.65%) CI/CD
10 35 (15.22%) Analytics
11 29 (12.61%) ITSM
12 24 (10.43%) SDLC
12 24 (10.43%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
13 23 (10.00%) Data Analytics
14 21 (9.13%) Scrum
15 20 (8.70%) Change Management
15 20 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (8.70%) Test Automation
16 19 (8.26%) Asset Management
16 19 (8.26%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (21.30%) Python
2 26 (11.30%) PowerShell
3 24 (10.43%) SQL
4 21 (9.13%) Java
5 16 (6.96%) Bash
6 15 (6.52%) C#
7 11 (4.78%) C
8 10 (4.35%) Ruby
9 9 (3.91%) JavaScript
10 8 (3.48%) Perl
10 8 (3.48%) PL/SQL
11 7 (3.04%) C++
11 7 (3.04%) Go
12 5 (2.17%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.74%) PHP
14 3 (1.30%) COBOL
14 3 (1.30%) REXX
14 3 (1.30%) SELCOPY
14 3 (1.30%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.87%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 100 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 86 (37.39%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.30%) Degree
4 16 (6.96%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.48%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.30%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.87%) CISSP
8 2 (0.87%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.43%) CCNA
9 1 (0.43%) CCNP
9 1 (0.43%) CEH
9 1 (0.43%) CISA
9 1 (0.43%) CISM
9 1 (0.43%) ISEB
9 1 (0.43%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.65%) QA
2 8 (3.48%) GDPR
2 8 (3.48%) NIST
3 7 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.61%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.17%) SLA
6 4 (1.74%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.30%) GPG13
7 3 (1.30%) NCSC
7 3 (1.30%) PMO
8 2 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.43%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.43%) RMADS
System Software
1 31 (13.48%) Docker
2 12 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.30%) vCloud
5 3 (1.30%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.30%) vSphere
6 2 (0.87%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.87%) XenApp
6 2 (0.87%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.43%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 67 (29.13%) Ansible
2 50 (21.74%) Terraform
3 42 (18.26%) Kubernetes
4 29 (12.61%) Puppet
5 24 (10.43%) Progress Chef
6 19 (8.26%) Grafana
7 9 (3.91%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (3.91%) Prometheus
8 8 (3.48%) Podman
9 6 (2.61%) Salt
10 4 (1.74%) BladeLogic
10 4 (1.74%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (1.74%) Nagios
10 4 (1.74%) SCCM
11 3 (1.30%) Argo
11 3 (1.30%) Autotask
11 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.87%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.43%) Graylog
13 1 (0.43%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 30 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.13%) VMware
3 15 (6.52%) Red Hat
4 14 (6.09%) Oracle
5 12 (5.22%) Google
5 12 (5.22%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.78%) Denodo
6 11 (4.78%) Talend
7 9 (3.91%) Remedy
7 9 (3.91%) SAP
8 7 (3.04%) Citrix
9 6 (2.61%) Qualys
9 6 (2.61%) SaltStack
10 5 (2.17%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.74%) Altiris
11 4 (1.74%) BMC
11 4 (1.74%) Cisco
11 4 (1.74%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.74%) Genesys
11 4 (1.74%) Splunk