Cardiff Configuration Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills within the Cardiff 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 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Fleetwood Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Potters Bar Queensferry Reading Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stevenage Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	33
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	2.198 %	0.840 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£425	-
Average daily rate	£438	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£450	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£364	£356
% change on same period last year	+2.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£13.80
Average hourly rate	-	£13.80
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£13.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.26	£31.44
% change on same period last year	+5.79 %
Processes & Methodologies Cardiff
Matching contract IT job ads	91	119
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.147 %	0.130 %
Daily rates quoted	31	38
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£283
Average daily rate	£368	£343
% change on same period last year	+7.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£373
% change on same period last year	+2.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.28	£29.39
Average hourly rate	£33.53	£30.45
% change on same period last year	+10.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.78	£31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.30	£29.57
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Configuration Management South Wales

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 Cardiff 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 Cardiff 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 Cardiff region over the 3 months to 3 December 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 Cardiff region.

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 4 (66.67 %) CMMI 1 4 (66.67 %) ITIL 1 4 (66.67 %) Microsoft 1 4 (66.67 %) Scrum 1 4 (66.67 %) Visual Studio Team System 2 3 (50.00 %) C# 2 3 (50.00 %) Change Management 3 2 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development 3 2 (33.33 %) Insurance 4 1 (16.67 %) Document Management 4 1 (16.67 %) Finance 4 1 (16.67 %) Perforce

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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.

Development Applications 1 4 (66.67 %) Visual Studio Team System	General 1 2 (33.33 %) Insurance 2 1 (16.67 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 4 (66.67 %) Configuration Manager 2 2 (33.33 %) Project Manager 3 1 (16.67 %) Systems Manager 3 1 (16.67 %) Software Configuration Manager 3 1 (16.67 %) Records Manager 3 1 (16.67 %) Software Manager	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (66.67 %) ITIL 1 4 (66.67 %) CMMI 1 4 (66.67 %) Scrum 2 3 (50.00 %) Change Management 3 2 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development 4 1 (16.67 %) Document Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (50.00 %) C#	Vendors 1 4 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (16.67 %) Perforce