Bracknell Configuration Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills within the Bracknell 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Andover Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Daventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Huddersfield Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stevenage Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	37
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	2	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	1.316 %	2.747 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£558	£388
Average daily rate	£558	£463
% change on same period last year	+20.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£558	£538
UK excluding London average daily rate	£392	£361
% change on same period last year	+8.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.07	£35.13
% change on same period last year	-0.16 %
Processes & Methodologies Bracknell
Matching contract IT job ads	152	182
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.216 %	0.184 %
Daily rates quoted	66	56
Average minimum daily rate	£392	£370
Average daily rate	£398	£399
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£427
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.40	£27.31
Average hourly rate	£19.60	£28.41
% change on same period last year	-31.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.80	£29.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.32	£30.04
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
Configuration Management Berkshire

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 Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

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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 Bracknell region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 3 (50.00 %) Java 2 2 (33.33 %) C 2 2 (33.33 %) SQL 2 2 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 2 (33.33 %) Ant 2 2 (33.33 %) JUnit 2 2 (33.33 %) ITIL 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows 2 2 (33.33 %) Linux 2 2 (33.33 %) Apache 2 2 (33.33 %) Change Management 2 2 (33.33 %) JMeter 2 2 (33.33 %) Validation 2 2 (33.33 %) Code Coverage 2 2 (33.33 %) Incident Management

2 2 (33.33 %) ServiceCenter 2 2 (33.33 %) Unit Testing 2 2 (33.33 %) Integration Testing 2 2 (33.33 %) Continuous Integration 3 1 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (16.67 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (16.67 %) Requirements Management 3 1 (16.67 %) Problem Management 3 1 (16.67 %) Telecoms 3 1 (16.67 %) Government 3 1 (16.67 %) Service Management 3 1 (16.67 %) N-Tier 3 1 (16.67 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (16.67 %) COBOL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 (16.67 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (33.33 %) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (16.67 %) Crystal Reports	Development Applications 1 2 (33.33 %) Ant 1 2 (33.33 %) JUnit 1 2 (33.33 %) JMeter
General 1 1 (16.67 %) Telecoms 1 1 (16.67 %) Government	Job Titles 1 2 (33.33 %) Developer 1 2 (33.33 %) Consultant 2 1 (16.67 %) Sales Consultant 2 1 (16.67 %) Technical Consultant 2 1 (16.67 %) Engineering Manager 2 1 (16.67 %) Systems Manager 2 1 (16.67 %) Systems Tester 2 1 (16.67 %) Presales Consultant 2 1 (16.67 %) Technical Presales Consultant 2 1 (16.67 %) Tester
Miscellaneous 1 1 (16.67 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows 1 2 (33.33 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) Change Management 1 2 (33.33 %) Validation 1 2 (33.33 %) Incident Management 1 2 (33.33 %) ITIL 1 2 (33.33 %) Code Coverage 1 2 (33.33 %) Unit Testing 1 2 (33.33 %) Integration Testing 1 2 (33.33 %) Continuous Integration 2 1 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (16.67 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (16.67 %) Service Management 2 1 (16.67 %) Requirements Management 2 1 (16.67 %) Problem Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (50.00 %) Java 2 2 (33.33 %) C 2 2 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (16.67 %) COBOL 3 1 (16.67 %) Perl
Systems Management 1 2 (33.33 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) Oracle