The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 18 June 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 England 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Management
Rank 132 144 127
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -17
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 687 697 882
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 1.569% 1.315% 1.543%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.193% 1.912% 2.277%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 378 388
Average daily rate £350 £395 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.39% +5.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £525 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £318
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +10.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 39 61
Average hourly rate £36.50 £40.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.75% +6.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.34 £28.60 £16.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.45 £51.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
31333 36462 38743
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.57% 68.77% 67.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 19221 21322 22496
Average daily rate £420 £405 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 935 1194 1381
Average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.13 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.42 £47.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Configuration Management
UK

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England 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 England region.

England Configuration Management Hourly Rate Trend

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Configuration Management across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England Configuration Management Hourly Rate Histogram

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 England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London -3 305 £425 -5.55% 60
South East +16 151 £313 -12.83% 37
Yorkshire +34 70 £275 -8.33% 8
East of England +11 42 £335 +4.68% 21
South West +22 41 £365 -7.53% 11
West Midlands +1 37 £275 -16.66% 10
North West +11 26 £320 -8.57% 8
East Midlands +5 16 £413 -13.15% 6
North East +12 5 - - 4
Midlands - - - -
South Coast - - - -
Configuration Management
UK

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 272 (22.91%) Linux
2 262 (22.07%) ITIL
3 230 (19.38%) Oracle
4 221 (18.62%) Windows
5 218 (18.37%) Microsoft
5 218 (18.37%) Finance
6 202 (17.02%) Java
7 190 (16.01%) Change Management
8 188 (15.84%) Project Management
9 185 (15.59%) Security Cleared
10 182 (15.33%) SQL
11 179 (15.08%) UNIX
12 161 (13.56%) Release Management
13 129 (10.87%) SC Cleared
14 128 (10.78%) PRINCE2
15 124 (10.45%) VMware
16 123 (10.36%) QA
17 120 (10.11%) Service Management
18 114 (9.604%) Banking
19 112 (9.436%) MS Excel
20 108 (9.099%) SQL Server
21 107 (9.014%) Web Services
22 106 (8.930%) Continuous Integration
23 102 (8.593%) Puppet
24 100 (8.425%) Agile Software Development
24 100 (8.425%) .NET
24 100 (8.425%) Perl
25 97 (8.172%) C++
26 96 (8.088%) Python
27 94 (7.919%) Change Control

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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
1 107 (9.014%) Web Services
2 100 (8.425%) .NET
3 60 (5.055%) XML
4 40 (3.370%) Node.js
5 39 (3.286%) J2EE
6 38 (3.201%) CSS
6 38 (3.201%) jQuery
7 36 (3.033%) WebSphere
8 35 (2.949%) Middleware
8 35 (2.949%) HTML
9 34 (2.864%) ASP.NET
10 25 (2.106%) Ajax
11 23 (1.938%) REST
12 19 (1.601%) .NET Framework
13 18 (1.516%) JMS
13 18 (1.516%) POSIX
14 16 (1.348%) LAMP
15 15 (1.264%) Spring
15 15 (1.264%) EJB
15 15 (1.264%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 92 (7.751%) Apache
2 63 (5.307%) SharePoint
3 60 (5.055%) Amazon AWS
4 43 (3.623%) Amazon EC2
4 43 (3.623%) IIS
5 42 (3.538%) WebLogic
6 36 (3.033%) nginx
7 35 (2.949%) Amazon S3
8 34 (2.864%) Route 53
9 33 (2.780%) Tomcat
10 28 (2.359%) MS Exchange
11 25 (2.106%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 18 (1.516%) Exchange Server 2010
13 16 (1.348%) Windows Azure
13 16 (1.348%) SAS
14 15 (1.264%) SharePoint 2010
15 13 (1.095%) Confluence
16 12 (1.011%) IBM Notes
17 11 (0.927%) Exchange Server 2007
17 11 (0.927%) Lync
Applications
1 112 (9.436%) MS Excel
2 75 (6.318%) MS Office
3 70 (5.897%) MS Project
4 35 (2.949%) MS Visio
5 21 (1.769%) MS PowerPoint
6 2 (0.168%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.084%) Office 365
7 1 (0.084%) Open Workbench
7 1 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.084%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.084%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.084%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.084%) InDesign
7 1 (0.084%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 17 (1.432%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (1.095%) Remedy ITSM
3 10 (0.842%) Oracle EBS R12
4 9 (0.758%) Summit
5 8 (0.674%) SAP R/3
6 7 (0.590%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.505%) Oracle Applications
7 6 (0.505%) BusinessWorks
8 5 (0.421%) Taleo
8 5 (0.421%) Google Analytics
9 3 (0.253%) WebTrends
9 3 (0.253%) Global One
9 3 (0.253%) Oracle Financials
10 2 (0.168%) Oracle HRMS
10 2 (0.168%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.168%) Oracle BRM
10 2 (0.168%) Aligne
10 2 (0.168%) Oracle BPM
11 1 (0.084%) Oracle iProcurement
11 1 (0.084%) SAP GRC
Communications & Networking
1 91 (7.666%) SAN
2 88 (7.414%) DNS
3 64 (5.392%) Internet
4 63 (5.307%) TCP/IP
5 54 (4.549%) Firewall
6 52 (4.381%) DHCP
7 49 (4.128%) HTTP
8 48 (4.044%) LAN
9 38 (3.201%) WAN
10 31 (2.612%) SSL
11 28 (2.359%) NAS
12 26 (2.190%) LDAP
13 24 (2.022%) Wireless
14 22 (1.853%) VoIP
15 17 (1.432%) FTP
16 16 (1.348%) VPN
17 14 (1.179%) GPRS
17 14 (1.179%) Intrusion Detection
17 14 (1.179%) BIG-IP
17 14 (1.179%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (9.099%) SQL Server
2 73 (6.150%) MySQL
3 52 (4.381%) MongoDB
4 47 (3.960%) RDBMS
5 37 (3.117%) SQL Server 2008
6 34 (2.864%) Redis
6 34 (2.864%) Amazon RDS
7 33 (2.780%) NoSQL
7 33 (2.780%) SQL Server 2005
7 33 (2.780%) Oracle 11g
8 26 (2.190%) Oracle 10g
8 26 (2.190%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (1.601%) DB2
10 18 (1.516%) Couchbase
10 18 (1.516%) SimpleDB
11 17 (1.432%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 17 (1.432%) PostgreSQL
12 15 (1.264%) Oracle Reports
12 15 (1.264%) Oracle BI EE
13 14 (1.179%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 88 (7.414%) Subversion
2 59 (4.971%) ClearCase
3 49 (4.128%) JIRA
4 43 (3.623%) Git (software)
5 40 (3.370%) Maven
6 34 (2.864%) Ant
6 34 (2.864%) Team Foundation Server
7 31 (2.612%) CruiseControl
8 26 (2.190%) Visual Studio
9 25 (2.106%) Jenkins
10 22 (1.853%) QuickTest Pro
11 19 (1.601%) NUnit
12 15 (1.264%) Hudson
13 14 (1.179%) CppUnit
14 13 (1.095%) GoogleTest
15 12 (1.011%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 11 (0.927%) VSS/SourceSafe
16 11 (0.927%) MSBuild
17 10 (0.842%) ClearQuest
17 10 (0.842%) Rational Rose
General
1 218 (18.37%) Finance
2 114 (9.604%) Banking
3 82 (6.908%) Telecoms
4 31 (2.612%) Investment Banking
5 29 (2.443%) Retail
6 17 (1.432%) Front Office
7 16 (1.348%) Back Office
8 13 (1.095%) Law
9 12 (1.011%) Aerospace
9 12 (1.011%) Electronics
10 11 (0.927%) Billing
11 10 (0.842%) Marketing
12 9 (0.758%) Manufacturing
12 9 (0.758%) Publishing
13 7 (0.590%) Legal
14 6 (0.505%) Automotive
15 5 (0.421%) Military
16 3 (0.253%) Games
16 3 (0.253%) Advertising
17 2 (0.168%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 156 (13.14%) Developer
2 154 (12.97%) Analyst
3 84 (7.077%) Configuration Manager
4 72 (6.066%) Project Manager
5 63 (5.307%) Software Engineer
6 51 (4.297%) Administrator
7 48 (4.044%) Consultant
7 48 (4.044%) Release Manager
8 37 (3.117%) Architect
9 35 (2.949%) Java Developer
10 34 (2.864%) Configuration Analyst
11 30 (2.527%) Systems Administrator
12 27 (2.275%) Change Analyst
13 25 (2.106%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (1.938%) Configuration Engineer
15 21 (1.769%) Senior Developer
16 20 (1.685%) DBA
16 20 (1.685%) Oracle Developer
16 20 (1.685%) .NET Developer
17 19 (1.601%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 81 (6.824%) CMDB
2 58 (4.886%) Open Source
3 51 (4.297%) Management Information System
4 43 (3.623%) Blackberry
5 28 (2.359%) Fixed Income
6 27 (2.275%) Client/Server
7 23 (1.938%) Derivative
8 22 (1.853%) Clustering
8 22 (1.853%) PMI
9 20 (1.685%) Computer Science
10 19 (1.601%) Equities
11 17 (1.432%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.011%) Mathematics
12 12 (1.011%) EPoS
12 12 (1.011%) Firmware
13 10 (0.842%) Equity Derivative
13 10 (0.842%) RIA
14 9 (0.758%) IaaS
14 9 (0.758%) SaaS
14 9 (0.758%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 272 (22.91%) Linux
2 221 (18.62%) Windows
3 179 (15.08%) UNIX
4 77 (6.487%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 61 (5.139%) Windows Server 2008
6 54 (4.549%) Solaris
6 54 (4.549%) Windows Server 2003
7 30 (2.527%) CentOS
8 25 (2.106%) Windows XP
9 24 (2.022%) AIX
10 20 (1.685%) Windows 7
11 17 (1.432%) Oracle Linux
11 17 (1.432%) Windows Server 2012
12 12 (1.011%) Ubuntu
13 11 (0.927%) Tru64
14 10 (0.842%) Debian
15 7 (0.590%) Windows 2000
16 6 (0.505%) Apple iOS
16 6 (0.505%) Embedded Linux
17 5 (0.421%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (22.07%) ITIL
2 190 (16.01%) Change Management
3 188 (15.84%) Project Management
4 161 (13.56%) Release Management
5 128 (10.78%) PRINCE2
6 120 (10.11%) Service Management
7 106 (8.930%) Continuous Integration
8 100 (8.425%) Agile Software Development
9 94 (7.919%) Change Control
10 86 (7.245%) OO
11 80 (6.740%) Scrum
12 67 (5.644%) Migration
12 67 (5.644%) UML
13 62 (5.223%) Incident Management
14 60 (5.055%) Stakeholder Management
15 55 (4.634%) Risk Management
15 55 (4.634%) Service Delivery
15 55 (4.634%) User Acceptance Testing
16 54 (4.549%) TDD
17 53 (4.465%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 202 (17.02%) Java
2 182 (15.33%) SQL
3 100 (8.425%) Perl
4 97 (8.172%) C++
5 96 (8.088%) Python
6 89 (7.498%) C#
7 87 (7.329%) C
8 70 (5.897%) PHP
9 58 (4.886%) JavaScript
10 57 (4.802%) Ruby
10 57 (4.802%) Bash shell
11 43 (3.623%) PL/SQL
12 39 (3.286%) PowerShell
12 39 (3.286%) Shell Script
13 18 (1.516%) VB
14 10 (0.842%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.842%) VBA
14 10 (0.842%) XPath
15 9 (0.758%) VB.NET
16 8 (0.674%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 185 (15.59%) Security Cleared
2 129 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 75 (6.318%) Degree
4 36 (3.033%) DV Cleared
5 24 (2.022%) PMI Certification
5 24 (2.022%) ITIL Certification
6 23 (1.938%) ISEB
7 21 (1.769%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (1.769%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 19 (1.601%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 16 (1.348%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 13 (1.095%) MCSE
11 12 (1.011%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.927%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (0.842%) MCITP
14 6 (0.505%) MCTS
14 6 (0.505%) CCNP
15 5 (0.421%) MCP
15 5 (0.421%) BC Cleared
16 4 (0.337%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (10.36%) QA
2 33 (2.780%) SLA
3 17 (1.432%) COBIT
4 13 (1.095%) ISO 9001
5 10 (0.842%) ISO 9000
6 8 (0.674%) TickIT
7 5 (0.421%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.421%) DO-178B
8 3 (0.253%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.253%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.168%) HL7
9 2 (0.168%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.168%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.084%) JTAG
10 1 (0.084%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 87 (7.329%) VMware Infrastructure
2 76 (6.403%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.769%) Xen
4 20 (1.685%) VMware ESX
5 15 (1.264%) XenApp
6 14 (1.179%) vSphere
7 13 (1.095%) Oracle RAC
7 13 (1.095%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.927%) Varnish
9 9 (0.758%) NFS
9 9 (0.758%) XenServer
9 9 (0.758%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 8 (0.674%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 7 (0.590%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (0.505%) VMware Server
12 6 (0.505%) vCloud
13 5 (0.421%) UAG
13 5 (0.421%) VMware ESXi
14 4 (0.337%) Postfix
14 4 (0.337%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 102 (8.593%) Puppet
2 35 (2.949%) SCOM
3 32 (2.696%) SCCM
4 24 (2.022%) HP Quality Center
5 17 (1.432%) Tivoli
6 15 (1.264%) Nagios
7 10 (0.842%) WSUS
7 10 (0.842%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 8 (0.674%) HP SIM
8 8 (0.674%) Ionix
8 8 (0.674%) Backup Exec
8 8 (0.674%) BladeLogic
8 8 (0.674%) MIMEsweeper
9 7 (0.590%) Foglight
9 7 (0.590%) OpenView Configuration Management
9 7 (0.590%) Data Guard
10 6 (0.505%) HP Operations Orchestration
11 5 (0.421%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.337%) Control-M
12 4 (0.337%) Opalis
Vendors
1 230 (19.38%) Oracle
2 218 (18.37%) Microsoft
3 124 (10.45%) VMware
4 92 (7.751%) Red Hat
5 82 (6.908%) HP
6 57 (4.802%) Cisco
7 52 (4.381%) IBM
8 44 (3.707%) Citrix
9 37 (3.117%) JBoss
10 30 (2.527%) BMC
10 30 (2.527%) Remedy
11 23 (1.938%) CA
11 23 (1.938%) SAP
11 23 (1.938%) Sun
12 21 (1.769%) Perforce
13 18 (1.516%) NetApp
14 17 (1.432%) Juniper
14 17 (1.432%) Niku
15 15 (1.264%) Serena
15 15 (1.264%) CheckPoint
Barnsley, Yorkshire
My large financial client is looking to recruit a Technical Analyst - (Redhat Linux, Windows and Solaris) based within the Enterprise and Systems Architecture department The role of the...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £200.00 - £250.00 per day
Posted: 4 June 2013
Loughborough, Leicestershire
spec below) Key Responsibilities * Manage the dependencies within the release and with other projects and/or releases * Manage the overall release content and managing changes throughout the lifetime...
Vivid Resourcing Ltd
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Candidates need to have experience of: Straight configuration and service asset based configuration with configuration management systems and databases in an ITIL environment.Service Transition/Configuration Analyst Role:*...
Sand Resources
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
Hampshire
The DevOps Engineer shall be a vital cog in transitioning the organisation from a Windows centric organisation to a cross platform estate that embraces Open Source technology. The...
ISL
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
InterQuest Financial Markets key client a leading financial regulator seeks an IT Change and Configuration Management Analyst.Responsible for the effective operation of the Change Management process and...
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 28 May 2013
Hampshire, South East
DP Connect Ltd
Rate: £210 - £235 per day
Posted: 4 June 2013
Hampshire, South East
DP Connect Ltd
Rate: £210 - £235 per day
Posted: 11 June 2013
Andover, South East
LA International Computer Consultants Ltd.
Posted: 22 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £400 - £475 per annum + Market Rate
Posted: 7 June 2013
Andover, South East
LA International Computer Consultants Ltd.
Posted: 12 June 2013
Brentwood, Essex
Advanced Resource Managers
Rate: £35 - £40 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Oliver Bernard
Rate: From £500 to £600 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
South West London
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £450 to £500 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Hook, Hampshire
LA International
Rate: £410 - £420 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
People Source Consulting
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
LA International Computer Consultants Ltd.
Posted: 30 May 2013
City, London
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £400 to £550 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Hook, Hampshire
PS Computer Services LTD
Rate: From £378 to £425 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £325 - £375 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013
Bristol, South West
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 28 May 2013
City, London
Fusion People
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Fusion People
Rate: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Hampshire, South East
Sand Resources
Rate: £200 - £250 per annum
Posted: 3 June 2013
Brentwood, Essex
Advanced Resource Managers
Rate: £38 - £41 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
Chester, North West
Computer Futures
Rate: £30 - £35 per hour
Posted: 31 May 2013