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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 145 163
Rank change year-on-year +9 +18 -23
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 732 1,038 1,562
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.72% 1.82% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 2.02% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 716 1,045
10th Percentile £358 £360 £413
25th Percentile £455 £463 £469
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 £550 £540 £530
% change year-on-year +1.85% +1.89% +24.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 32 47
10th Percentile £38.42 £31.22 £17.70
25th Percentile £40.94 £41.24 £24.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £46.71
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +7.94% +16.78%
75th Percentile £60.75 £57.69 £66.66
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £49.00 £47.11
% change year-on-year +2.05% +4.01% +22.35%

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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +19 631 £550 +1.85% 311
UK excluding London +22 414 £550 +1.85% 238
London +4 239 £550 - 88
Work from Home +13 231 £550 +1.85% 149
South East +19 97 £550 -7.76% 51
South West +52 89 £553 +5.24% 46
East of England +61 88 £500 - 20
North of England -23 62 £500 -3.15% 54
North West -11 45 £493 -1.40% 37
Midlands -19 39 £366 -32.18% 42
Scotland +6 36 £563 -6.25% 17
West Midlands -21 27 £359 -33.52% 22
Yorkshire +13 16 £558 -3.04% 13
East Midlands +3 12 £550 -6.38% 20
Wales +5 3 £690 +28.37% 9
North East -7 1 - - 4

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 (6.01%) Confluence
2 16 (2.19%) nginx
3 10 (1.37%) Apache
4 9 (1.23%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.96%) CMS
6 6 (0.82%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.82%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.55%) IIS
8 4 (0.55%) 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 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.09%) CATIA
3 7 (0.96%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.96%) Windchill
4 6 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (1.78%) Remedy ITSM
1 13 (1.78%) 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
1 154 (21.04%) AWS
2 101 (13.80%) Azure
3 42 (5.74%) GCP
4 34 (4.64%) Serverless
5 27 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (3.69%) GitHub
6 24 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
9 18 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (2.46%) SaaS
10 17 (2.32%) Amazon S3
11 16 (2.19%) OpenShift
12 15 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (2.05%) Slack
13 14 (1.91%) Apigee
14 13 (1.78%) Entra ID
15 12 (1.64%) IaaS
16 11 (1.50%) PaaS
17 9 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.33%) Firewall
2 35 (4.78%) TCP/IP
3 30 (4.10%) DNS
4 25 (3.42%) Network Security
5 22 (3.01%) Internet
6 18 (2.46%) DHCP
6 18 (2.46%) VPN
7 16 (2.19%) SAN
8 11 (1.50%) IPsec
9 9 (1.23%) BGP
9 9 (1.23%) HTTP
10 8 (1.09%) HTTPS
10 8 (1.09%) MPLS
10 8 (1.09%) SSL
11 7 (0.96%) 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 (5.74%) SQL Server
2 38 (5.19%) MySQL
3 30 (4.10%) Relational Database
4 25 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
4 25 (3.42%) NoSQL
5 16 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
8 9 (1.23%) Couchbase
8 9 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (1.09%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.96%) Sybase ASE
11 5 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (0.68%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.68%) DB2
11 5 (0.68%) InfluxDB
11 5 (0.68%) Power BI
12 4 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.55%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.41%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 143 (19.54%) Jenkins
2 79 (10.79%) Git
3 78 (10.66%) JIRA
4 61 (8.33%) GitLab
5 30 (4.10%) Bitbucket
6 26 (3.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 23 (3.14%) SonarQube
8 19 (2.60%) Selenium
8 19 (2.60%) Visual Studio
9 16 (2.19%) Cucumber
10 15 (2.05%) Artifactory
10 15 (2.05%) TeamCity
11 14 (1.91%) Subversion
12 12 (1.64%) REST Assured
13 8 (1.09%) PVCS
13 8 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.96%) Maven
15 6 (0.82%) AppScan
15 6 (0.82%) Burp Suite
16 5 (0.68%) WiX
General
1 183 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 89 (12.16%) Aerospace
3 67 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (8.61%) Finance
5 62 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.01%) Banking
7 19 (2.60%) Electronics
7 19 (2.60%) Legal
8 16 (2.19%) Military
9 15 (2.05%) Law
10 14 (1.91%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.78%) Marketing
12 12 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.50%) Retail
14 10 (1.37%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (1.23%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.09%) Police
17 7 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 87 (11.89%) Developer
2 83 (11.34%) Configuration Manager
3 80 (10.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 65 (8.88%) Senior
5 52 (7.10%) Architect
6 48 (6.56%) Analyst
7 40 (5.46%) Lead
8 36 (4.92%) Software Engineer
9 31 (4.23%) Consultant
10 22 (3.01%) Embedded Engineer
10 22 (3.01%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 21 (2.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 19 (2.60%) Python Developer
12 19 (2.60%) Release Manager
13 18 (2.46%) Network Engineer
14 16 (2.19%) Project Manager
15 15 (2.05%) AWS Engineer
15 15 (2.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (2.05%) Site Engineer
16 13 (1.78%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (8.20%) .NET
2 41 (5.60%) REST
3 28 (3.83%) .NET Core
4 26 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
5 24 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
6 22 (3.01%) JSON
7 18 (2.46%) SOAP
7 18 (2.46%) XML
8 16 (2.19%) Middleware
8 16 (2.19%) Node.js
9 15 (2.05%) RESTful
10 13 (1.78%) ARM Templates
10 13 (1.78%) Java EE
10 13 (1.78%) WinForms
11 12 (1.64%) Kafka
12 10 (1.37%) OpenAPI
12 10 (1.37%) Swagger
12 10 (1.37%) YAML
13 9 (1.23%) LDAP
13 9 (1.23%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 84 (11.48%) CMDB
2 68 (9.29%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.83%) Public Cloud
4 19 (2.60%) Data Centre
5 18 (2.46%) ARM Cortex
6 13 (1.78%) Cloud Native
7 12 (1.64%) Onboarding
7 12 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.37%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.23%) Private Cloud
10 7 (0.96%) Client/Server
10 7 (0.96%) IoT
10 7 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.96%) VHDL
11 6 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.82%) IVR
11 6 (0.82%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.68%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 155 (21.17%) Linux
2 58 (7.92%) Windows
3 33 (4.51%) Unix
4 25 (3.42%) Windows Server
5 23 (3.14%) Ubuntu
6 18 (2.46%) FreeRTOS
7 15 (2.05%) CentOS
8 14 (1.91%) Debian
9 13 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.96%) VMS
11 5 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.55%) Android
12 4 (0.55%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
12 4 (0.55%) VxWorks
12 4 (0.55%) Windows 10
12 4 (0.55%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (23.50%) DevOps
2 150 (20.49%) CI/CD
3 135 (18.44%) Agile
4 131 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
5 114 (15.57%) ITIL
6 112 (15.30%) Continuous Integration
7 90 (12.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 90 (12.30%) Service Management
7 90 (12.30%) Software Engineering
8 79 (10.79%) Coaching
9 78 (10.66%) Collaborative Working
10 75 (10.25%) PLM
11 64 (8.74%) ITSM
12 58 (7.92%) Change Management
12 58 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 56 (7.65%) Analytics
14 55 (7.51%) Containerisation
15 53 (7.24%) SDLC
16 50 (6.83%) Stakeholder Management
17 48 (6.56%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 160 (21.86%) Python
2 91 (12.43%) PowerShell
3 85 (11.61%) SQL
4 53 (7.24%) Java
5 49 (6.69%) C#
6 43 (5.87%) Bash
7 39 (5.33%) C
8 37 (5.05%) Go
9 36 (4.92%) JavaScript
10 24 (3.28%) Ruby
11 22 (3.01%) Embedded C
11 22 (3.01%) Perl
12 17 (2.32%) C++
13 16 (2.19%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.50%) PL/SQL
15 9 (1.23%) Groovy
16 7 (0.96%) Scala
17 5 (0.68%) SELCOPY
17 5 (0.68%) VB
17 5 (0.68%) VB6
Qualifications
1 267 (36.48%) Security Cleared
2 217 (29.64%) SC Cleared
3 79 (10.79%) Degree
4 60 (8.20%) DV Cleared
5 35 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (2.19%) ITIL Certification
8 14 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.37%) CCNP
10 9 (1.23%) CCIE
10 9 (1.23%) PMP
11 7 (0.96%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.96%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.82%) CISSP
13 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.55%) CCNA
14 3 (0.41%) CISA
14 3 (0.41%) CISM
15 2 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
15 2 (0.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.37%) QA
2 18 (2.46%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.64%) GDPR
4 11 (1.50%) SLA
5 10 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.37%) NIST
6 9 (1.23%) PMO
7 7 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.68%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.68%) NCSC
9 4 (0.55%) MISRA
9 4 (0.55%) MISRA C
10 3 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
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 89 (12.16%) Docker
2 35 (4.78%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.50%) Firmware
4 11 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.09%) XenApp
6 6 (0.82%) XenDesktop
7 5 (0.68%) vSphere
8 4 (0.55%) Samba
8 4 (0.55%) 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
1 185 (25.27%) Ansible
2 129 (17.62%) Terraform
3 111 (15.16%) Kubernetes
4 63 (8.61%) Puppet
5 49 (6.69%) Grafana
6 47 (6.42%) Progress Chef
7 33 (4.51%) Prometheus
8 23 (3.14%) PowerCLI
9 20 (2.73%) Docker Swarm
10 15 (2.05%) Podman
11 13 (1.78%) SCCM
12 10 (1.37%) Nagios
13 9 (1.23%) BladeLogic
13 9 (1.23%) ITRS Geneos
14 8 (1.09%) Graylog
14 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (1.09%) Packer
14 8 (1.09%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.82%) Nessus
15 6 (0.82%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 89 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.38%) ServiceNow
3 47 (6.42%) VMware
4 31 (4.23%) Atlassian
5 27 (3.69%) Oracle
6 26 (3.55%) SAP
7 25 (3.42%) HP
8 23 (3.14%) Dell
8 23 (3.14%) Google
8 23 (3.14%) IBM
8 23 (3.14%) Red Hat
8 23 (3.14%) Splunk
9 21 (2.87%) Citrix
10 18 (2.46%) Denodo
10 18 (2.46%) Lauterbach
10 18 (2.46%) Talend
11 14 (1.91%) Salesforce
12 13 (1.78%) Cisco
12 13 (1.78%) Remedy
13 10 (1.37%) Genesys