Birmingham Configuration Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Daventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Huddersfield Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Prestwick Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stevenage Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wokingham Wolverhampton Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	59
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	13	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	3.308 %	1.603 %
Daily rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£450
Average daily rate	£347	£475
% change on same period last year	-27.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£385	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£18.00
Average hourly rate	-	£20.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.62	£35.31
% change on same period last year	-1.94 %
Processes & Methodologies Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	393	499
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.519 %	0.497 %
Daily rates quoted	103	139
Average minimum daily rate	£302	£348
Average daily rate	£335	£370
% change on same period last year	-9.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.77	£16.38
Average hourly rate	£32.91	£17.89
% change on same period last year	+83.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.05	£19.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Configuration Management West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Configuration Management across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Configuration Management across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 14 (53.85 %) PRINCE2 1 14 (53.85 %) Government 2 7 (26.92 %) MS Project 2 7 (26.92 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 6 (23.08 %) Security Cleared 3 6 (23.08 %) Finance 4 5 (19.23 %) ITIL 5 4 (15.38 %) Intranet 5 4 (15.38 %) Internet 5 4 (15.38 %) EDRMS 5 4 (15.38 %) Service Management 6 3 (11.54 %) Construction 6 3 (11.54 %) WF 6 3 (11.54 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 3 (11.54 %) ITIL Certification

6 3 (11.54 %) Remedy 6 3 (11.54 %) Stakeholder Management 6 3 (11.54 %) SC Cleared 7 2 (7.692 %) Auditing 7 2 (7.692 %) ISO27001 7 2 (7.692 %) Project Planning 7 2 (7.692 %) Windows 7 2 (7.692 %) C# 7 2 (7.692 %) HTML 7 2 (7.692 %) Java 7 2 (7.692 %) .NET 7 2 (7.692 %) Problem Management 7 2 (7.692 %) Remedy ITSM 7 2 (7.692 %) Remedy AR System 7 2 (7.692 %) Release Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 3 (11.54 %) WF 2 2 (7.692 %) HTML 2 2 (7.692 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.846 %) IIS
Applications 1 7 (26.92 %) MS Project 2 1 (3.846 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (7.692 %) Remedy ITSM 1 2 (7.692 %) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking 1 4 (15.38 %) Intranet 1 4 (15.38 %) Internet 2 1 (3.846 %) Wireless 2 1 (3.846 %) 2G 2 1 (3.846 %) 3G 2 1 (3.846 %) UTRAN 2 1 (3.846 %) GGSN 2 1 (3.846 %) SGSN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (15.38 %) EDRMS 2 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server 2 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (3.846 %) MSI 1 1 (3.846 %) ClearQuest	General 1 14 (53.85 %) Government 2 6 (23.08 %) Finance 3 3 (11.54 %) Construction 4 2 (7.692 %) Auditing 4 2 (7.692 %) Criminal Justice 5 1 (3.846 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 7 (26.92 %) Analyst 2 4 (15.38 %) Coordinator 2 4 (15.38 %) Project Manager 2 4 (15.38 %) Project Coordinator 3 3 (11.54 %) Configuration Analyst 3 3 (11.54 %) Developer 3 3 (11.54 %) Project Support Manager 3 3 (11.54 %) Support Manager 4 2 (7.692 %) Support Analyst 4 2 (7.692 %) Service Analyst 5 1 (3.846 %) Project Support Officer 5 1 (3.846 %) Project Analyst 5 1 (3.846 %) RF Engineer 5 1 (3.846 %) Performance Engineer 5 1 (3.846 %) Deployment Engineer 5 1 (3.846 %) IT Business Analyst 5 1 (3.846 %) Project Officer 5 1 (3.846 %) Service Management Analyst 5 1 (3.846 %) Senior RF Engineer 5 1 (3.846 %) Business Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.846 %) Statistics 1 1 (3.846 %) CMDB
Operating Systems 1 2 (7.692 %) Windows 2 1 (3.846 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (53.85 %) PRINCE2 2 6 (23.08 %) Security Cleared 3 5 (19.23 %) ITIL 4 4 (15.38 %) Service Management 5 3 (11.54 %) Stakeholder Management 5 3 (11.54 %) SC Cleared 6 2 (7.692 %) Project Planning 6 2 (7.692 %) Problem Management 6 2 (7.692 %) Release Management 6 2 (7.692 %) Asset Management 6 2 (7.692 %) Workflow 6 2 (7.692 %) ITSM 7 1 (3.846 %) Change Management 7 1 (3.846 %) Network Planning 7 1 (3.846 %) Fault Management 7 1 (3.846 %) System Testing 7 1 (3.846 %) Time Management 7 1 (3.846 %) Performance Management 7 1 (3.846 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (7.692 %) C# 1 2 (7.692 %) Java 2 1 (3.846 %) SQL 2 1 (3.846 %) C	Qualifications 1 7 (26.92 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 3 (11.54 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 3 (11.54 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (7.692 %) ISO27001	Vendors 1 3 (11.54 %) Remedy 2 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 2 1 (3.846 %) BMC 2 1 (3.846 %) Nokia