The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Basingstoke region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Management
Rank 36 24 30
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +6
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 6 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 3.015% 2.174% 1.186%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.317% 3.478% 1.840%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £425 £550 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.72% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £36.95
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +8.25%
All Processes & Methodologies
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
139 115 163
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 69.85% 62.50% 64.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 37 59
Average daily rate £350 £380 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% -3.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £275 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £508
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 17
Average hourly rate £39.00 £16.75 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+132.83% +4.68%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Configuration Management
Hampshire

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Configuration Management across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Basingstoke Configuration Management Jobs Demand Trend

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Configuration Management across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Configuration Management Daily Rate Trend

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Configuration Management across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Configuration Management Hourly Rate Trend

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Configuration Management also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Configuration Management.

1 7 (77.78%) Change Management
1 7 (77.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) VMware Server
2 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 5 (55.56%) MS Excel
4 4 (44.44%) Linux
4 4 (44.44%) Oracle
4 4 (44.44%) Windows
4 4 (44.44%) SUSE
4 4 (44.44%) Citrix
4 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
4 4 (44.44%) Unified Communications
5 3 (33.33%) UNIX
6 2 (22.22%) ATM
6 2 (22.22%) Solaris
6 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (11.11%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
7 1 (11.11%) Release Management
7 1 (11.11%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
7 1 (11.11%) Data Conversion
7 1 (11.11%) Data Guard
7 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (11.11%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Configuration Management also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Configuration Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Unified Communications
2 2 (22.22%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle OLAP
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) DB2
1 1 (11.11%) OLAP
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Database Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Design Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Build Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Conversion
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) SUSE
2 3 (33.33%) UNIX
3 2 (22.22%) Solaris
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Change Management
1 7 (77.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
2 1 (11.11%) Release Management
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
2 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management
2 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
2 1 (11.11%) Scrum
2 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (11.11%) Service Management
2 1 (11.11%) CRM
2 1 (11.11%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) VMware Server
1 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 4 (44.44%) Citrix
2 4 (44.44%) Red Hat