The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex 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 Essex 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 26 49 38
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -11
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 22 1 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 5.340% 0.244% 2.813%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.639% 0.408% 4.622%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 6
Average daily rate £325 - £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £323 - £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £355 - £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
Average hourly rate £43.00 £45.00 £24.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.44% +83.67%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £39.00 £36.98
% change year-on-year
- +5.47%
All Processes & Methodologies
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
288 245 238
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 69.90% 59.90% 60.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 119 108
Average daily rate £325 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £125 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 35 44
Average hourly rate £33.00 £27.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.21 £17.00 £23.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £39.69 £39.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Configuration Management
East of England

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Essex 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 Essex 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
Basildon - 5 - -
Brentwood - 3 £325 -
Colchester - 1 £350 -
Southend-on-Sea - 1 - -
Configuration Management
East of England

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 19 (55.88%) PRINCE2
2 18 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 18 (52.94%) Project Management
3 14 (41.18%) ITIL
4 13 (38.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 13 (38.24%) MS Project
4 13 (38.24%) Finance
4 13 (38.24%) Time Management
4 13 (38.24%) Change Control
5 7 (20.59%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (20.59%) .NET
5 7 (20.59%) HTTP
5 7 (20.59%) TCP/IP
6 6 (17.65%) J2EE
6 6 (17.65%) C
6 6 (17.65%) SQL
6 6 (17.65%) XML
7 5 (14.71%) Linux
7 5 (14.71%) Integration Testing
7 5 (14.71%) AccuRev
7 5 (14.71%) Waterfall
7 5 (14.71%) Firewall
7 5 (14.71%) Scrum
7 5 (14.71%) Migration
7 5 (14.71%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (14.71%) Release Management
8 4 (11.76%) JIRA
8 4 (11.76%) UPnP
8 4 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (11.76%) Wireless

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 7 (20.59%) .NET
2 6 (17.65%) J2EE
2 6 (17.65%) XML
3 4 (11.76%) CGI
3 4 (11.76%) HTML
4 3 (8.824%) WCF
4 3 (8.824%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.941%) EJB
5 1 (2.941%) JSP
5 1 (2.941%) Servlets
5 1 (2.941%) XSD
5 1 (2.941%) XSLT
5 1 (2.941%) JMS
5 1 (2.941%) XML Schema
5 1 (2.941%) JPA
5 1 (2.941%) EJB 3.0
5 1 (2.941%) JAXB
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) IIS
2 3 (8.824%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.941%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (2.941%) Tuxedo
3 1 (2.941%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (38.24%) MS Project
2 1 (2.941%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) HTTP
1 7 (20.59%) TCP/IP
2 5 (14.71%) Firewall
3 4 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (11.76%) Wireless
3 4 (11.76%) UPnP
3 4 (11.76%) 4G
3 4 (11.76%) DLNA
3 4 (11.76%) DNS
3 4 (11.76%) 802.11
3 4 (11.76%) DSL
3 4 (11.76%) TELNET
3 4 (11.76%) Broadband
3 4 (11.76%) WAN
3 4 (11.76%) DHCP
3 4 (11.76%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) ClearCase
1 4 (11.76%) JIRA
1 4 (11.76%) Trac
2 1 (2.941%) PVCS
General
1 13 (38.24%) Finance
2 3 (8.824%) Electronics
3 1 (2.941%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.941%) Automotive
3 1 (2.941%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Project Manager
2 7 (20.59%) Developer
3 6 (17.65%) Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Software Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Implementation Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Environment Analyst
6 3 (8.824%) Web Support Engineer
6 3 (8.824%) Web Engineer
6 3 (8.824%) Technical Leader
6 3 (8.824%) Server Support
6 3 (8.824%) Support Engineer
6 3 (8.824%) Applications Support
7 2 (5.882%) Lead Developer
7 2 (5.882%) Project Leader
7 2 (5.882%) Applications Support Analyst
7 2 (5.882%) Team Leader
7 2 (5.882%) Server Support Analyst
7 2 (5.882%) Technical Team Leader
7 2 (5.882%) Web Analyst
7 2 (5.882%) Technical Project Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.824%) Streaming Media
2 2 (5.882%) NHS
3 1 (2.941%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.941%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
1 5 (14.71%) Embedded Linux
2 3 (8.824%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (8.824%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (8.824%) Windows
3 1 (2.941%) Solaris
3 1 (2.941%) UNIX
3 1 (2.941%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) PRINCE2
2 18 (52.94%) Project Management
3 14 (41.18%) ITIL
4 13 (38.24%) Time Management
4 13 (38.24%) Change Control
5 7 (20.59%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (14.71%) Release Management
6 5 (14.71%) Integration Testing
6 5 (14.71%) Waterfall
6 5 (14.71%) Migration
6 5 (14.71%) Scrum
7 3 (8.824%) Network Load Balancing
7 3 (8.824%) Service Delivery
7 3 (8.824%) Capacity Management
8 2 (5.882%) Load Testing
8 2 (5.882%) Change Management
9 1 (2.941%) Service Management
9 1 (2.941%) UML
9 1 (2.941%) OO
9 1 (2.941%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) C
1 6 (17.65%) SQL
2 4 (11.76%) Embedded C
2 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.941%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.941%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (2.941%) BC Cleared
2 1 (2.941%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 18 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) AccuRev
3 1 (2.941%) Oracle
3 1 (2.941%) BEA
3 1 (2.941%) Fujitsu
Southend-On-Sea, South East
Good communication and inter-personal skills *Possess an understanding of the systems development lifecycle and of internal standards *Appreciate Quality Assurance and Configuration Management *Must be able to...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 16 May 2013
Southend-On-Sea, South East
J2EE experience must include experience of Servlets, JSPs and Session Beans delivering transactional web-based applications.*BEA WebLogic at version 9, or later... *development on UNIX environments, preferably...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 30 April 2013
Southend-On-Sea, South East
Good communication and inter-personal skills* Possess an understanding of the systems development lifecycle and of internal standards.* Appreciate Quality Assurance and Configuration Management* Must be able to...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 16 May 2013