Configuration Management Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 20 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 Cheshire 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Management
Rank 42 58 49
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -9
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 19 11 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.632% 1.353% 2.881%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.506% 2.218% 4.173%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 15
Average daily rate £239 £335 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.80% +3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £205 £231
10% offered a daily rate of more than £249 £365 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -13.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £39.00 £36.98
% change year-on-year
- +5.47%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 542 496 671
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 75.07% 61.01% 69.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 253 376
Average daily rate £375 £351 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.99% +7.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £272 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £471 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 25
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.49% +17.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.95 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.83 £31.10 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Configuration Management
North West

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Configuration Management Daily Rate Trend

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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Crewe +11 7 - -
Macclesfield - 7 - -
Chester -3 4 - -
Knutsford -6 1 £239 -
Configuration Management
North West

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 18 (64.29%) ITIL
2 17 (60.71%) CMDB
3 15 (53.57%) Change Management
4 9 (32.14%) Service Management
5 6 (21.43%) SQL
5 6 (21.43%) Banking
6 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
6 5 (17.86%) UNIX
6 5 (17.86%) MS Excel
6 5 (17.86%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (17.86%) Remedy
6 5 (17.86%) Project Management
7 4 (14.29%) Tru64
7 4 (14.29%) Shell Script
7 4 (14.29%) Windows
7 4 (14.29%) AIX
7 4 (14.29%) MS Office
7 4 (14.29%) Asset Management
8 3 (10.71%) Degree
8 3 (10.71%) Service Delivery
8 3 (10.71%) Finance
9 2 (7.143%) Validation
9 2 (7.143%) Management Information System
9 2 (7.143%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (7.143%) VMware
9 2 (7.143%) VMware ESX
9 2 (7.143%) Clustering
9 2 (7.143%) AppSense
9 2 (7.143%) Information Security
9 2 (7.143%) .NET

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 (7.143%) .NET
1 2 (7.143%) ASP.NET
1 2 (7.143%) Web Services
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) MS Excel
2 4 (14.29%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.143%) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.143%) DNS
1 2 (7.143%) Internet
2 1 (3.571%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Ant
1 1 (3.571%) PVCS
1 1 (3.571%) TestDirector
General
1 6 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
3 1 (3.571%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) Analyst
2 15 (53.57%) Configuration Analyst
3 9 (32.14%) Configuration Management Analyst
4 7 (25.00%) Change Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Configuration Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Tivoli Specialist
6 2 (7.143%) Change Management Analyst
6 2 (7.143%) UNIX Specialist
6 2 (7.143%) C# Developer
6 2 (7.143%) Coordinator
6 2 (7.143%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Developer
6 2 (7.143%) Configuration Manager
7 1 (3.571%) Administrator
7 1 (3.571%) Service Manager
7 1 (3.571%) Change Manager
7 1 (3.571%) .NET Developer
7 1 (3.571%) Web Developer
7 1 (3.571%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (3.571%) Storage Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 17 (60.71%) CMDB
2 2 (7.143%) W3C
2 2 (7.143%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.143%) Clustering
3 1 (3.571%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) UNIX
2 4 (14.29%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) AIX
2 4 (14.29%) Tru64
3 2 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.143%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) ITIL
2 15 (53.57%) Change Management
3 9 (32.14%) Service Management
4 5 (17.86%) Project Management
5 4 (14.29%) Asset Management
6 3 (10.71%) Service Delivery
7 2 (7.143%) Validation
7 2 (7.143%) UML
7 2 (7.143%) OO
7 2 (7.143%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (7.143%) Information Security
7 2 (7.143%) ITIL V3
7 2 (7.143%) Change Control
8 1 (3.571%) Problem Management
8 1 (3.571%) Network Management
8 1 (3.571%) PRINCE
8 1 (3.571%) PRINCE2
8 1 (3.571%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 2 (7.143%) C#
4 1 (3.571%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (10.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (3.571%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.143%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 2 (7.143%) VMware ESX
1 2 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (7.143%) PowerHA
2 1 (3.571%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (7.143%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Remedy
2 2 (7.143%) VMware
2 2 (7.143%) AppSense
2 2 (7.143%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.143%) SAP
2 2 (7.143%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.571%) IBM
3 1 (3.571%) HP
3 1 (3.571%) Citrix
3 1 (3.571%) NetApp
3 1 (3.571%) Brocade
Asset and Configuration Analyst
Cheshire
My Banking client requires an asset and configuration management consultant. * To capture complete and accurate configuration information for all infrastructure, applications, networks and services and load this accurately...
Spring Technology
Rate: £252.00 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
IT Asset & Configuration Management Analyst
Cheshire
Essential Skills & Experience: Technical knowledge *Understands the inter-relationship of software, hardware and Configuration Management *Can describe the major roles and responsibilities of the IT function *Can identify...
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 14 May 2013
IT Asset and Configuration Manager
Knutsford, Cheshire
Job Role To capture complete and accurate configuration information for all infrastructure, applications, networks and services and load this accurately into the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) To provide...
Experis IT
Rate: £225 - £252 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
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