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Configuration management software

Technology category · O*NET

Configuration management software is a technology category in the O*NET database. Across U.S. occupations, 44 report using software or tools in this category. The named products below are the specific examples O*NET records for those jobs. The occupations that use it sit, on average, at the 81st percentile of AI task-exposure ( high) — how much that work overlaps with what AI can do, not a sign the tool is being replaced. See where every tool category sits.

A Hot tag marks technologies O*NET sees frequently in employer job postings; In demand marks tools an occupation specifically requires.

Example software & tools

Ranked by how many occupations list each product. Each number is an occupation count — a job is counted once per product — so the product rows overlap and do not sum to the category total.

Software / tool Occupations Tags
Puppet 28 Hot
Perforce Helix software 28
Chef 21 Hot
IBM Terraform 10 Hot In demand
Automated installation software 8
IBM Rational ClearCase 8
Deployment software 5
Patch and update management software 5
Application management software 4
Red Hat Ansible Engine 4
Patch management software 3
Microsoft Windows Sysprep 2
Revision control software 2
Software distribution software 2
Visible Razor 2
EMC Ionix Network Configuration Manager 1
HyperSpace 1
IBM Rational Apex 1
IBM Rational Build Forge 1
IBM Software Configuration and Library Manager SCLM 1
InstallShield 1
Logical partition LPAR software 1
Perforce Software Configuration Management System 1
Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution 1
Systems and application deployment and migration software 1
Wise Solutions Wise for Windows Installer 1

Occupations that use Configuration management software

Showing 40 of 44 occupations.

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 40 occupations in occupations that use Configuration management software. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists Fish and Game Wardens Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators Electrical Engineers General and Operations Managers Computer and Information Research Scientists Architects, Except Landscape and Naval Computer Network Support Specialists Information Security Analysts AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that use Configuration management software, by AI task-overlap and median pay

How AI is used by roles that use Configuration management software

A software category is not itself "being automated" — but we can look at the roles that report using Configuration management software and ask how those people actually use AI. This rolls the Anthropic Economic Index per-role signal up across those roles, weighted by how much observed AI activity each one has. 43.2% of the 44 roles that use this category carry observed AI-usage data (19 roles).

Across those roles, 51.1% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 44.0% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.92 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
directive 39.3% AI does it; you give the instruction
task iteration 37.9% you and AI go back and forth
learning 9.7% you ask AI to explain or teach
feedback loop 4.7% AI does it, then adjusts from your feedback
validation 3.5% you do it; AI checks your work

Roles behind this signal

The roles using this category that have the most AEI data. "Works with AI" is the role's share of conversations that augment rather than automate.

Occupation Works with AI Autonomy
Technical Writers 54.2% 4.0/5
Multimedia Artists and Animators 52.1% 4.0/5
Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers 33.4% 4.0/5
Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School 47.5% 4.0/5
Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators 50.0% 4.0/5
Financial Analysts 46.8% 3.0/5
Human Resources Specialists 43.8% 3.8/5
Computer and Information Systems Managers 67.7% 4.0/5
Management Analysts 62.4% 4.0/5
Architectural and Engineering Managers 66.3% 4.0/5
Architects, Except Landscape and Naval 53.8% 4.0/5
Electrical Engineers 45.2% 4.0/5

Source: Anthropic Economic Index (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2) over a sample of Claude.ai Free and Pro conversations — not all AI tools and not the whole workforce. Roles list software categories in O*NET; this does not mean AI is used inside Configuration management software, only that people in those roles use AI. Some conversations are left unclassified, so shares need not sum to 100.

Industries that concentrate this

Where Configuration management software matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly use Configuration management software (O*NET importance ≥ 3 of 5, or report using the tool category). Concentration compares that reach to the national average industry, so a value above 1× means the requirement is more pervasive here than across the economy as a whole.

Nationally, about 8.3% of workers are in occupations that significantly use Configuration management software (measured across 67 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 3,382,110 31.4%
Manufacturing 1,240,260 9.7%
Finance and Insurance 1,079,290 17.3%
Information 976,760 33.6%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 774,350 8.6%
Management of Companies and Enterprises 750,450 26.7%
Wholesale Trade 619,880 10.3%
Retail Trade 562,480 3.6%
Health Care and Social Assistance 477,260 2.1%
Educational Services 444,310 3.3%
Construction 355,510 4.4%
Other Services (except Public Administration) 315,330 7.1%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Information Sector 4.05× 33.6%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Sector 3.78× 31.4%
Engineering Services National industry 3.6× 29.9%
Management of Companies and Enterprises Sector 3.22× 26.7%
Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers National industry 2.58× 21.4%
Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities National industry 2.13× 17.7%
Finance and Insurance Sector 2.08× 17.3%
Testing Laboratories and Services National industry 16.6%
Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation National industry 1.8× 14.9%
Utilities Sector 1.7× 14.1%
Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations National industry 1.41× 11.7%
Insurance Agencies and Brokerages National industry 1.25× 10.4%

Reach is a measure of how widespread a requirement is across an industry's workforce, not how intensively any individual uses it. Sector worker counts come from BLS OEWS employment; the significance threshold and tool use come from O*NET. Industries shown by concentration are filtered to a real worker base so a tiny specialty cannot top the list on rounding.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Plain

Singulariki. "Configuration management software." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/tools/configuration-management-software

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Singulariki. (2026). Configuration management software. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/tools/configuration-management-software

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  title  = {Configuration management software},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tools/configuration-management-software}
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