The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf 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 48 42 55
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +13
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 6 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 1.558% 1.081% 0.400%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.893% 1.389% 0.533%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
Average daily rate £611 £275 £487
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+122.18% -43.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £518 £191 £437
10% offered a daily rate of more than £851 £295 £536
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.75 £39.00 £36.98
% change year-on-year
-3.20% +5.47%
All Processes & Methodologies
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
317 288 375
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 82.34% 77.84% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 183 284
Average daily rate £572 £550 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £400 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £65.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +333.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Configuration Management
London

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Configuration Management Hourly Rate Trend

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) OO
3 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 3 (30.00%) BMC
3 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (30.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (20.00%) Puppet
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (20.00%) HP Operations Orchestration
4 2 (20.00%) BladeLogic
4 2 (20.00%) Confluence
4 2 (20.00%) JIRA
4 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (20.00%) Release Management
4 2 (20.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (20.00%) NetIQ
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 2 (20.00%) Web Services
1 2 (20.00%) WSH
2 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (10.00%) WinForms
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) JSF
2 1 (10.00%) Ajax
2 1 (10.00%) Java EE
2 1 (10.00%) WCF
2 1 (10.00%) WPF
2 1 (10.00%) EJB 3.0
2 1 (10.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) XSLT
2 1 (10.00%) XHTML
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) EJB
2 1 (10.00%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) IIS
1 2 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Rendezvous
2 1 (10.00%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Front Office
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Software Architect
3 1 (10.00%) DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Front Office Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Programme Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Project Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) CMDB
1 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (10.00%) Open Source
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Solaris
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) OO
1 4 (40.00%) Scrum
2 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (20.00%) Release Management
4 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Change Control
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (10.00%) Use Case
4 1 (10.00%) RAD
4 1 (10.00%) RUP
4 1 (10.00%) Quality Management
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) C++
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (10.00%) MCTS
1 1 (10.00%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) BladeLogic
1 2 (20.00%) HP Operations Orchestration
1 2 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) BMC
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (20.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) NetIQ
4 1 (10.00%) Sybase
4 1 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (10.00%) CA
4 1 (10.00%) TIBCO