Configuration Management Jobs

Configuration Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 256 210
Rank change year-on-year -13 -46 -42
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 1,089 1,471 3,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 1.46% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.53% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 629 884 1,482
10th Percentile £37,450 £41,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,199 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £99,625 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £61,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.20% +11.36% -8.33%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,921 96,445 150,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.59% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 59,902 56,808 82,456
10th Percentile £29,010 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management.

Salary trend for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Configuration Management in the UK

Configuration Management
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 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
England -17 915 £60,000 -11.11% 312
UK excluding London +7 813 £55,000 -10.20% 239
Work from Home +2 425 £64,108 -8.42% 152
South East +6 241 £52,550 -10.55% 55
London -95 214 £75,000 - 84
South West -10 178 £55,000 -5.58% 47
North of England +4 115 £52,500 -9.48% 56
Midlands +3 92 £57,500 -4.17% 40
Scotland -33 91 £75,000 +5.26% 17
West Midlands +12 71 £57,500 -11.54% 21
North West -9 64 £55,000 -5.17% 38
East of England -12 60 £57,500 +9.52% 20
Yorkshire +66 40 £52,500 -19.23% 15
Wales +15 22 £47,500 -28.57% 7
East Midlands -9 21 £50,000 -4.76% 19
Northern Ireland +27 13 £70,000 -3.45% 3
North East -15 11 £45,000 +12.50% 3
Isle of Man - 3 - -

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 46 (4.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (3.95%) Apache
3 42 (3.86%) SharePoint
4 27 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.48%) Confluence
5 19 (1.74%) nginx
6 14 (1.29%) CMS
6 14 (1.29%) IIS
7 12 (1.10%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.37%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.18%) Drupal
10 2 (0.18%) GlassFish
10 2 (0.18%) JCAPS
10 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.18%) WinCC
10 2 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.11%) Simulink
3 21 (1.93%) Stateflow
4 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (0.64%) CANalyzer
6 6 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.18%) GNU Octave
7 2 (0.18%) Windchill
8 1 (0.092%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.092%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.092%) Revit
8 1 (0.092%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.37%) SAP IS-U
3 2 (0.18%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.092%) Endur
4 1 (0.092%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 385 (35.35%) Azure
2 366 (33.61%) AWS
3 166 (15.24%) GCP
4 164 (15.06%) Microsoft 365
5 119 (10.93%) SaaS
6 86 (7.90%) Serverless
7 75 (6.89%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (5.14%) Amazon EKS
9 56 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 45 (4.13%) Power Platform
11 42 (3.86%) OpenShift
12 40 (3.67%) GitHub
13 37 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (3.12%) Amazon S3
15 28 (2.57%) PaaS
16 27 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (2.39%) Entra ID
18 25 (2.30%) IaaS
19 24 (2.20%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 114 (10.47%) Firewall
2 53 (4.87%) DNS
3 47 (4.32%) VPN
4 36 (3.31%) DHCP
5 31 (2.85%) AMQP
6 30 (2.75%) WAN
7 29 (2.66%) Network Security
8 26 (2.39%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.74%) Internet
9 19 (1.74%) Wireless
10 18 (1.65%) 5G
10 18 (1.65%) VoIP
11 16 (1.47%) SD-WAN
11 16 (1.47%) SSL
11 16 (1.47%) VLAN
12 15 (1.38%) SNMP
13 14 (1.29%) J1939
13 14 (1.29%) LAN
14 13 (1.19%) MPLS
15 12 (1.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (6.61%) SQL Server
2 38 (3.49%) Power BI
3 37 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (2.94%) Big Data
5 26 (2.39%) Cloudera CDH
5 26 (2.39%) Hadoop
6 22 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (1.74%) Redis
7 19 (1.74%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
8 18 (1.65%) NoSQL
9 16 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (1.38%) MySQL
11 14 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (1.10%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
14 9 (0.83%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 109 (10.01%) Jenkins
2 107 (9.83%) Git
3 85 (7.81%) JIRA
4 50 (4.59%) GitLab
5 45 (4.13%) Subversion
6 27 (2.48%) Bitbucket
7 22 (2.02%) ClearCase
8 21 (1.93%) Plastic SCM
9 16 (1.47%) CMake
10 15 (1.38%) ClearQuest
11 14 (1.29%) TeamCity
12 13 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
12 13 (1.19%) Visual Studio
13 12 (1.10%) Rational DOORS
13 12 (1.10%) Robot Framework
14 10 (0.92%) Trac
15 8 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 7 (0.64%) Moq
16 7 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 210 (19.28%) Finance
2 191 (17.54%) Social Skills
3 116 (10.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (8.08%) Law
5 84 (7.71%) Legal
6 83 (7.62%) Presentation Skills
7 74 (6.80%) Aerospace
8 73 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
9 55 (5.05%) Marketing
10 44 (4.04%) Retail
11 42 (3.86%) Electronics
12 41 (3.76%) Telecoms
13 38 (3.49%) Manufacturing
14 32 (2.94%) Banking
15 29 (2.66%) Automotive
16 28 (2.57%) Military
17 22 (2.02%) Public Sector
18 17 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
19 12 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
20 7 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 175 (16.07%) Software Engineer
2 128 (11.75%) Senior
3 118 (10.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 110 (10.10%) Architect
5 84 (7.71%) Cloud Architect
5 84 (7.71%) Systems Engineer
6 75 (6.89%) Lead
7 65 (5.97%) Analyst
8 55 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
9 53 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 49 (4.50%) Java Engineer
10 49 (4.50%) Java Software Engineer
11 46 (4.22%) Senior Software Engineer
12 44 (4.04%) AWS Engineer
12 44 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
12 44 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
13 41 (3.76%) Windows Engineer
14 39 (3.58%) Network Engineer
15 38 (3.49%) Linux Engineer
16 30 (2.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (7.16%) React
2 74 (6.80%) HTML
3 69 (6.34%) Node.js
4 64 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 52 (4.78%) Spring
6 43 (3.95%) Middleware
7 42 (3.86%) HTML5
8 37 (3.40%) REST
9 35 (3.21%) XML
10 34 (3.12%) .NET
11 33 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
12 31 (2.85%) Drools
12 31 (2.85%) jBPM
12 31 (2.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 27 (2.48%) OpenAPI
13 27 (2.48%) Spring Boot
13 27 (2.48%) Swagger
14 26 (2.39%) gRPC
14 26 (2.39%) Material-UI
15 24 (2.20%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 142 (13.04%) Public Cloud
2 99 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 95 (8.72%) Management Information System
4 82 (7.53%) PKI
5 69 (6.34%) CMDB
6 62 (5.69%) Cloud Native
7 51 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
8 44 (4.04%) Linux Command Line
9 39 (3.58%) Onboarding
10 30 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 29 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (2.48%) Data Centre
13 20 (1.84%) Product Ownership
14 19 (1.74%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.74%) Driving Licence
15 16 (1.47%) Replication
16 15 (1.38%) Embedded Systems
16 15 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
17 13 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
17 13 (1.19%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 320 (29.38%) Linux
2 240 (22.04%) Windows
3 85 (7.81%) Windows Server
4 68 (6.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 54 (4.96%) Ubuntu
6 52 (4.78%) Debian
7 42 (3.86%) Unix
8 33 (3.03%) CentOS
9 22 (2.02%) VMS
9 22 (2.02%) Windows 10
10 12 (1.10%) Android
11 10 (0.92%) Apple iOS
12 8 (0.73%) Solaris
12 8 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.55%) Mesosphere
14 5 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
15 3 (0.28%) SUSE
15 3 (0.28%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 3 (0.28%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (31.04%) Agile
2 298 (27.36%) DevOps
3 226 (20.75%) Software Engineering
4 222 (20.39%) CI/CD
5 207 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
6 174 (15.98%) Project Management
7 151 (13.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 149 (13.68%) ITIL
9 144 (13.22%) Actionable Insight
10 141 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 132 (12.12%) Computer Science
12 130 (11.94%) Migration
13 124 (11.39%) Change Management
14 107 (9.83%) Containerisation
15 105 (9.64%) Service Management
15 105 (9.64%) TOGAF
16 95 (8.72%) Presales
17 93 (8.54%) ITSM
17 93 (8.54%) SDLC
18 91 (8.36%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 288 (26.45%) Python
2 155 (14.23%) Java
3 137 (12.58%) Bash
4 130 (11.94%) SQL
5 115 (10.56%) PowerShell
6 80 (7.35%) JavaScript
7 62 (5.69%) C
8 57 (5.23%) Go
9 55 (5.05%) Perl
10 54 (4.96%) C#
11 48 (4.41%) Shell Script
12 47 (4.32%) C++
13 33 (3.03%) Ruby
14 27 (2.48%) Embedded C
15 25 (2.30%) MATLAB
15 25 (2.30%) TypeScript
16 21 (1.93%) T-SQL
17 17 (1.56%) PHP
18 13 (1.19%) Groovy
19 9 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 252 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 223 (20.48%) Degree
3 170 (15.61%) SC Cleared
4 83 (7.62%) DV Cleared
5 62 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (2.85%) AWS Certification
9 26 (2.39%) Azure Certification
10 22 (2.02%) Master's Degree
10 22 (2.02%) PMI Certification
11 20 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (1.84%) CCNA
12 19 (1.74%) PMP
13 18 (1.65%) CISSP
13 18 (1.65%) HND
14 17 (1.56%) A+ Certification
15 14 (1.29%) CCNP
16 12 (1.10%) APMG
17 11 (1.01%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.95%) QA
2 34 (3.12%) PMO
3 25 (2.30%) SLA
4 22 (2.02%) MISRA
5 16 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (1.29%) Automotive SPICE
6 14 (1.29%) AUTOSAR
6 14 (1.29%) ISO 26262
6 14 (1.29%) PCI DSS
6 14 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.01%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.92%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.83%) Data Quality
10 9 (0.83%) JSP 440
10 9 (0.83%) RMADS
11 7 (0.64%) DO-178B
11 7 (0.64%) NIST
12 6 (0.55%) COBIT
12 6 (0.55%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 151 (13.87%) Docker
2 105 (9.64%) Active Directory
3 50 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
4 49 (4.50%) Hyper-V
5 44 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 20 (1.84%) Firmware
7 17 (1.56%) Embedded Firmware
8 16 (1.47%) pfSense
9 13 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.92%) DFS Replication
10 10 (0.92%) NFS
11 9 (0.83%) vSphere
12 8 (0.73%) KVM
12 8 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (0.55%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.28%) Ceph
14 3 (0.28%) Gluster
14 3 (0.28%) oVirt
14 3 (0.28%) Xen
15 2 (0.18%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 238 (21.85%) Ansible
2 221 (20.29%) Kubernetes
3 197 (18.09%) Terraform
4 154 (14.14%) Puppet
5 114 (10.47%) Progress Chef
6 45 (4.13%) Grafana
7 39 (3.58%) Prometheus
8 30 (2.75%) ZABBIX
9 21 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
10 20 (1.84%) Salt
11 18 (1.65%) SCCM
11 18 (1.65%) SCOM
12 15 (1.38%) Packer
13 11 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 11 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
13 11 (1.01%) Kibana
14 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 10 (0.92%) SCDPM
14 10 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.83%) Nagios
Vendors
1 286 (26.26%) Microsoft
2 122 (11.20%) Google
3 99 (9.09%) VMware
4 74 (6.80%) Red Hat
5 73 (6.70%) ServiceNow
6 58 (5.33%) SaltStack
7 37 (3.40%) Cisco
8 31 (2.85%) Oracle
9 28 (2.57%) Juniper
10 27 (2.48%) IBM
11 21 (1.93%) Lauterbach
11 21 (1.93%) Veeam
12 18 (1.65%) Fortinet
12 18 (1.65%) New Relic
13 17 (1.56%) Dynatrace
13 17 (1.56%) Snow
14 16 (1.47%) Splunk
15 15 (1.38%) Atlassian
15 15 (1.38%) Citrix
15 15 (1.38%) EMC