Bristol Configuration Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills within the Bristol 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Corsham Coventry Crewe Croydon Daventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh 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 Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Preston 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 Wiltshire Wokingham Wolverhampton Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	50	63
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	10	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	2.092 %	1.803 %
Daily rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum daily rate	-	£281
Average daily rate	-	£307
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£385	£373
% change on same period last year	+3.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£43.33
Average hourly rate	£35.36	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-21.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.71	£46.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.93	£36.17
% change on same period last year	-3.42 %
Processes & Methodologies Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	478	610
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.637 %	0.609 %
Daily rates quoted	166	253
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£355
Average daily rate	£360	£374
% change on same period last year	-3.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	76	79
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.30	£29.45
Average hourly rate	£30.76	£31.91
% change on same period last year	-3.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.23	£34.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Configuration Management South West

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 Bristol 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 Bristol 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 Bristol region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Configuration Management across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 22 (81.48 %) UNIX 2 15 (55.56 %) GIS 2 15 (55.56 %) LuciadMap 2 15 (55.56 %) Serena 2 15 (55.56 %) C++ 2 15 (55.56 %) Java 2 15 (55.56 %) PVCS 2 15 (55.56 %) STL 2 15 (55.56 %) Solaris 2 15 (55.56 %) Linux 3 14 (51.85 %) UML 3 14 (51.85 %) CORBA 3 14 (51.85 %) Middleware 3 14 (51.85 %) XML 4 7 (25.93 %) Ada

5 2 (7.407 %) ITIL 5 2 (7.407 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (3.704 %) MS Project 6 1 (3.704 %) Windows 6 1 (3.704 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 1 (3.704 %) Project Management 6 1 (3.704 %) CMDB 6 1 (3.704 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (3.704 %) Time Management 6 1 (3.704 %) Asset Management 6 1 (3.704 %) Change Management 6 1 (3.704 %) Finance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 15 (55.56 %) STL 1 15 (55.56 %) LuciadMap 2 14 (51.85 %) XML 2 14 (51.85 %) CORBA 2 14 (51.85 %) Middleware	Applications 1 1 (3.704 %) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (55.56 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 15 (55.56 %) PVCS
General 1 1 (3.704 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 22 (81.48 %) Software Engineer 2 14 (51.85 %) Java Software Engineer 3 13 (48.15 %) C++ Software Engineer 4 1 (3.704 %) Resource Manager 4 1 (3.704 %) Technical Manager 4 1 (3.704 %) Implementation Manager 4 1 (3.704 %) Software Development Engineer 4 1 (3.704 %) Programme Coordinator 4 1 (3.704 %) Developer 4 1 (3.704 %) Administrator 4 1 (3.704 %) Coordinator 4 1 (3.704 %) Software Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.704 %) CMDB	Operating Systems 1 22 (81.48 %) UNIX 2 15 (55.56 %) Solaris 2 15 (55.56 %) Linux 3 1 (3.704 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (51.85 %) UML 2 2 (7.407 %) ITIL 2 2 (7.407 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (3.704 %) Project Management 3 1 (3.704 %) Change Management 3 1 (3.704 %) Asset Management 3 1 (3.704 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (3.704 %) Time Management	Programming Languages 1 15 (55.56 %) C++ 1 15 (55.56 %) Java 2 7 (25.93 %) Ada
Qualifications 1 1 (3.704 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Vendors 1 15 (55.56 %) Serena