East of England Configuration Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills within the East of England 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Daventry Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Huddersfield Ipswich Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Prestwick Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wokingham Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	72
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	74	88
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.099 %	0.089 %
As % of the category below	3.353 %	3.782 %
Daily rates quoted	27	35
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£358
Average daily rate	£384	£384
% change on same period last year	-0.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£415	£410
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£363
% change on same period last year	+2.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.50	£25.46
Average hourly rate	£31.79	£27.99
% change on same period last year	+13.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.07	£30.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.40	£33.31
% change on same period last year	+0.28 %
Processes & Methodologies East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	2207	2327
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.942 %	2.354 %
Daily rates quoted	810	817
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£362
Average daily rate	£399	£383
% change on same period last year	+4.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£422	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	209	236
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.47	£28.76
Average hourly rate	£30.60	£30.20
% change on same period last year	+1.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.74	£31.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
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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 East of England 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 East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hertfordshire	+35	45	£393	+12.21 %
Essex	-19	13	£453	+0.73 %
Cambridgeshire	-14	11	£285	-15.55 %
Bedfordshire	-	3	£240	-
East Anglia	-	1	-	-
Suffolk	-3	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 28 (22.40 %) Oracle 2 26 (20.80 %) Windows 3 23 (18.40 %) QA 4 22 (17.60 %) Change Management 5 21 (16.80 %) ITIL 6 20 (16.00 %) SQL 6 20 (16.00 %) J2EE 7 18 (14.40 %) C++ 8 17 (13.60 %) Service Delivery 9 16 (12.80 %) XML 9 16 (12.80 %) UNIX 9 16 (12.80 %) CMDB 10 15 (12.00 %) C 10 15 (12.00 %) Finance 11 14 (11.20 %) Retail

12 13 (10.40 %) Service Management 12 13 (10.40 %) .NET 12 13 (10.40 %) WebLogic 13 12 (9.600 %) Solaris 13 12 (9.600 %) TCP/IP 13 12 (9.600 %) TestDirector 13 12 (9.600 %) Internet 13 12 (9.600 %) Shell Script 13 12 (9.600 %) Project Management 13 12 (9.600 %) Telecoms 13 12 (9.600 %) Continuous Integration 13 12 (9.600 %) PowerShell 14 11 (8.800 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 11 (8.800 %) Performance Testing 14 11 (8.800 %) Middleware

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 20 (16.00 %) J2EE 2 16 (12.80 %) XML 3 13 (10.40 %) .NET 4 11 (8.800 %) Middleware 5 6 (4.800 %) HTML 5 6 (4.800 %) WebServices 6 4 (3.200 %) CSS 7 3 (2.400 %) Struts 7 3 (2.400 %) XSL 8 2 (1.600 %) XSD 8 2 (1.600 %) JSF 8 2 (1.600 %) WCF 8 2 (1.600 %) WF 9 1 (0.800 %) Tapestry 9 1 (0.800 %) Ruby on Rails 9 1 (0.800 %) Hibernate 9 1 (0.800 %) Spring 9 1 (0.800 %) XHTML 9 1 (0.800 %) WAP 9 1 (0.800 %) WSDL	Application Platforms 1 13 (10.40 %) WebLogic 2 4 (3.200 %) JBoss 2 4 (3.200 %) TeamSite 2 4 (3.200 %) IBM HTTP Server 3 3 (2.400 %) Oracle HTTP Server 3 3 (2.400 %) CMS 4 2 (1.600 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 2 (1.600 %) SharePoint 4 2 (1.600 %) Apache 5 1 (0.800 %) Tomcat 5 1 (0.800 %) Tuxedo 5 1 (0.800 %) MS Exchange 5 1 (0.800 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (0.800 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 10 (8.000 %) MS Office 2 9 (7.200 %) MS Excel 3 7 (5.600 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (0.800 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 12 (9.600 %) TCP/IP 1 12 (9.600 %) Internet 2 4 (3.200 %) 3G 2 4 (3.200 %) Intranet 2 4 (3.200 %) GSM 2 4 (3.200 %) HTTP 2 4 (3.200 %) SNMP 2 4 (3.200 %) 2G 3 3 (2.400 %) DVB 4 2 (1.600 %) GPRS 4 2 (1.600 %) VPN 4 2 (1.600 %) UMTS 4 2 (1.600 %) Packet Switching 4 2 (1.600 %) RNC 4 2 (1.600 %) SGSN 5 1 (0.800 %) SIGTRAN 5 1 (0.800 %) SMS 5 1 (0.800 %) LAN 5 1 (0.800 %) VoIP 5 1 (0.800 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (4.800 %) SQL Server 2 4 (3.200 %) Oracle 9i 2 4 (3.200 %) Oracle 10g 3 3 (2.400 %) SQL Server 2000 3 3 (2.400 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (2.400 %) MS Access 3 3 (2.400 %) Oracle Reports 3 3 (2.400 %) RDBMS 4 2 (1.600 %) MySQL 4 2 (1.600 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 1 (0.800 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (0.800 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 12 (9.600 %) TestDirector 2 10 (8.000 %) PVCS 3 9 (7.200 %) InstallShield 4 7 (5.600 %) Ant 5 6 (4.800 %) JUnit 5 6 (4.800 %) ClearCase 6 4 (3.200 %) ClearQuest 7 3 (2.400 %) Subversion 8 2 (1.600 %) JIRA 8 2 (1.600 %) Log4j 8 2 (1.600 %) MSI 8 2 (1.600 %) Eclipse 9 1 (0.800 %) OpenDeploy 9 1 (0.800 %) PowerDesigner 9 1 (0.800 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 1 (0.800 %) LabVIEW 9 1 (0.800 %) FitNesse	General 1 15 (12.00 %) Finance 2 14 (11.20 %) Retail 3 12 (9.600 %) Telecoms 4 10 (8.000 %) Automotive 5 5 (4.000 %) Financial Institution 5 5 (4.000 %) Banking 6 3 (2.400 %) Manufacturing 7 2 (1.600 %) Government 8 1 (0.800 %) Health 8 1 (0.800 %) Pharmaceutical 8 1 (0.800 %) Military 8 1 (0.800 %) Investment Banking 8 1 (0.800 %) Auditing 8 1 (0.800 %) Front Office 8 1 (0.800 %) Back Office 8 1 (0.800 %) Electronics 8 1 (0.800 %) Construction 8 1 (0.800 %) Education 8 1 (0.800 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 21 (16.80 %) Analyst 2 12 (9.600 %) Architect 2 12 (9.600 %) Project Manager 2 12 (9.600 %) Developer 3 6 (4.800 %) Support Analyst 3 6 (4.800 %) Solutions Architect 3 6 (4.800 %) Infrastructure Manager 4 5 (4.000 %) Change Analyst 4 5 (4.000 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 4 5 (4.000 %) Software Engineer 4 5 (4.000 %) Programmer 5 4 (3.200 %) Service Analyst 5 4 (3.200 %) Administrator 5 4 (3.200 %) Consultant 5 4 (3.200 %) Change Management Analyst 5 4 (3.200 %) Configuration Analyst 5 4 (3.200 %) Embedded Software Engineer 5 4 (3.200 %) Software Programmer 6 3 (2.400 %) Software Designer 6 3 (2.400 %) Java Developer	Miscellaneous 1 16 (12.80 %) CMDB 2 8 (6.400 %) Client/Server 3 5 (4.000 %) PMI 4 4 (3.200 %) N-Tier 5 2 (1.600 %) Blackberry 5 2 (1.600 %) AS400 5 2 (1.600 %) Device Driver 5 2 (1.600 %) Computer Science 6 1 (0.800 %) Mathematics 6 1 (0.800 %) Physics 6 1 (0.800 %) Mainframe 6 1 (0.800 %) iDTV
Operating Systems 1 26 (20.80 %) Windows 2 16 (12.80 %) UNIX 3 12 (9.600 %) Solaris 4 7 (5.600 %) Windows XP 5 6 (4.800 %) Linux 6 1 (0.800 %) Windows Mobile 6 1 (0.800 %) Embedded Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (17.60 %) Change Management 2 21 (16.80 %) ITIL 3 17 (13.60 %) Service Delivery 4 13 (10.40 %) Service Management 5 12 (9.600 %) Project Management 5 12 (9.600 %) Continuous Integration 6 11 (8.800 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 11 (8.800 %) Performance Testing 6 11 (8.800 %) PRINCE2 6 11 (8.800 %) UML 7 7 (5.600 %) OO 8 6 (4.800 %) Release Management 9 4 (3.200 %) Risk Analysis 9 4 (3.200 %) Time Management 10 3 (2.400 %) Security Cleared 10 3 (2.400 %) Agile Software Development 10 3 (2.400 %) Network Design 10 3 (2.400 %) Software Engineering 11 2 (1.600 %) Incident Management 11 2 (1.600 %) Requirements Management
Programming Languages 1 20 (16.00 %) SQL 2 18 (14.40 %) C++ 3 15 (12.00 %) C 4 12 (9.600 %) Shell Script 4 12 (9.600 %) PowerShell 5 11 (8.800 %) Java 6 10 (8.000 %) VB 7 6 (4.800 %) PL/SQL 7 6 (4.800 %) Embedded C++ 8 5 (4.000 %) Embedded C 9 2 (1.600 %) VB.NET 9 2 (1.600 %) C# 10 1 (0.800 %) Delphi 10 1 (0.800 %) JavaScript 10 1 (0.800 %) Perl 10 1 (0.800 %) PHP 10 1 (0.800 %) VBScript 10 1 (0.800 %) Ruby 10 1 (0.800 %) C++/CLI	Qualifications 1 6 (4.800 %) Degree 2 2 (1.600 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (0.800 %) CCVP 3 1 (0.800 %) MCP 3 1 (0.800 %) MCSE 3 1 (0.800 %) ISEB 3 1 (0.800 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 23 (18.40 %) QA 2 3 (2.400 %) SLA 3 1 (0.800 %) COBIT 3 1 (0.800 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 2 (1.600 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 3 (2.400 %) Unicenter	Vendors 1 28 (22.40 %) Oracle 2 10 (8.000 %) Microsoft 3 8 (6.400 %) HP 4 6 (4.800 %) MKS 5 4 (3.200 %) BMC 5 4 (3.200 %) Interwoven 5 4 (3.200 %) IBM 6 3 (2.400 %) Cisco 6 3 (2.400 %) Sybase 6 3 (2.400 %) CA 6 3 (2.400 %) Nortel 6 3 (2.400 %) Nokia 7 2 (1.600 %) Atlassian 7 2 (1.600 %) Alcatel 7 2 (1.600 %) Ericsson 7 2 (1.600 %) Serena 8 1 (0.800 %) Northgate 8 1 (0.800 %) Google 8 1 (0.800 %) Brocade 8 1 (0.800 %) SAP