Configuration Engineer Contracts in England

Configuration Engineer
UK > England

The median Configuration Engineer daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 627 760
Rank change year-on-year +100 +133 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Configuration Engineer 14 18 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.038% 0.037% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.039% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile £418 - £324
25th Percentile £444 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £350
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +45.71% +29.63%
75th Percentile £569 £530 -
90th Percentile £603 £599 £425
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £350
% change year-on-year -15.00% +42.86% +29.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.91 £37.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £40.28 £40.90 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +83.57% -8.20%
75th Percentile £42.92 £42.50 £22.53
90th Percentile £44.13 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.28 £40.90 £22.28
% change year-on-year -1.53% +83.57% -8.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,898 46,550 67,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.63% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,460 33,060 48,164
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,372 1,874
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.51
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +2.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%

Configuration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Configuration Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Engineer in England

Configuration Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Engineer in England

Configuration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Engineer in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Engineer in England

Configuration Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Engineer in England

Configuration Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England +14 8 - - 6
South East - 3 - - 5
London +87 1 £600 +5.73% 1
Midlands +31 1 - - 2
North West +16 1 £400 - 4
North of England +14 1 £400 - 4
East Midlands - 1 - -
Configuration Engineer
UK

Configuration Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Configuration Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Configuration Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) Configuration Management
2 7 (50.00%) PLM
2 7 (50.00%) Windchill
2 7 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
3 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
3 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (21.43%) Juniper
3 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (7.14%) Def Stans
5 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
5 1 (7.14%) BMC
5 1 (7.14%) Apple
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Architecture
5 1 (7.14%) Junos
5 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (7.14%) Change Control
5 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
5 1 (7.14%) Ansible
5 1 (7.14%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Runbook
5 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (7.14%) Smartsheet
5 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
5 1 (7.14%) Onboarding

Configuration Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) CMS
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Windchill
2 1 (7.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) Junos
1 1 (7.14%) LAN
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
1 1 (7.14%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (7.14%) WAN
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) CMDB
1 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Configuration Management
2 7 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 7 (50.00%) PLM
3 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 1 (7.14%) Change Control
4 1 (7.14%) Change Management
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Architecture
4 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL
4 1 (7.14%) Migration
4 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.14%) Product Management
4 1 (7.14%) Runbook
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (7.14%) Time Management
4 1 (7.14%) Validation
4 1 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Python
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) HP ASE
3 1 (7.14%) JNCIE
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) Def Stans
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Juniper
2 1 (7.14%) Apple
2 1 (7.14%) BMC
2 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) VMware