The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 17 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 Cambridgeshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Management
Rank 40 58 49
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -9
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 10 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.821% 0.579% 0.382%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.226% 0.995% 0.588%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
Average daily rate £375 £418 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.17% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £37.00 - £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.75 £39.00 £36.98
% change year-on-year
-3.20% +5.47%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
310 402 340
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 56.47% 58.18% 64.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 202 172
Average daily rate £375 £395 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.06% +6.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 30 43
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +41.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £12.00 £12.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Configuration Management
East of England

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Configuration Management Daily Rate Trend

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Configuration Management across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire Configuration Management Daily Rate Histogram

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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Configuration Management Hourly Rate Trend

Configuration Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +11 7 £378 -9.58%
Peterborough - 3 £375 -
Configuration Management
East of England

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 5 (35.71%) VMware
1 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (28.57%) Subversion
2 4 (28.57%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) ITIL
2 4 (28.57%) UNIX
2 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) DHCP
2 4 (28.57%) DNS
2 4 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (28.57%) Project Management
3 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
3 3 (21.43%) SAN
3 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
3 3 (21.43%) JBoss
3 3 (21.43%) Web Services
3 3 (21.43%) Apache
3 3 (21.43%) Tomcat
3 3 (21.43%) Perl
3 3 (21.43%) IIS
3 3 (21.43%) Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Middleware
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) BIG-IP
3 3 (21.43%) Release Management
3 3 (21.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (21.43%) NAS
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Akamai

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 (21.43%) Web Services
1 3 (21.43%) Middleware
2 2 (14.29%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 2 (14.29%) STL
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) IIS
1 3 (21.43%) Apache
1 3 (21.43%) Tomcat
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DHCP
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) SAN
2 3 (21.43%) BIG-IP
2 3 (21.43%) NAS
2 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.143%) LAN
3 1 (7.143%) WAN
3 1 (7.143%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Subversion
2 3 (21.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (14.29%) GoogleTest
3 2 (14.29%) LabVIEW
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 1 (7.143%) Automotive
2 1 (7.143%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Administrator
1 6 (42.86%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (28.57%) Release Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Software Programmer
5 1 (7.143%) Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Programmer
5 1 (7.143%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Test Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Software Test Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Implementation Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) C++ Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (7.143%) Physics
2 1 (7.143%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
1 4 (28.57%) UNIX
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (7.143%) Windows 2000
3 1 (7.143%) Debian
3 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) ITIL
1 4 (28.57%) Project Management
1 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (21.43%) Release Management
2 3 (21.43%) Build Automation
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (21.43%) Migration
3 2 (14.29%) Automated Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Validation
3 2 (14.29%) UML
4 1 (7.143%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) Perl
2 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
3 2 (14.29%) C++
4 1 (7.143%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (7.143%) RHCT
2 1 (7.143%) Degree
2 1 (7.143%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.143%) MCSE
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.143%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) JTAG
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Puppet
2 2 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (7.143%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) VMware
2 3 (21.43%) Akamai
2 3 (21.43%) JBoss
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) IBM
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) EMC
3 2 (14.29%) NetApp
3 2 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (14.29%) Brocade
4 1 (7.143%) Red Hat