The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Exeter region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 22 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 Exeter 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Management
Rank 19 14 -
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 4 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 3.810% 7.018% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.762% 9.302% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
Average daily rate £350 £463 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.32% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.75 £40.00 £36.95
% change year-on-year
-5.62% +8.25%
All Processes & Methodologies
Exeter
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
84 43 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 80.00% 75.44% 53.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 23 17
Average daily rate £338 £419 £326
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.45% +28.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £200 £117
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £513 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 8
Average hourly rate £19.39 £11.75 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+65.02% -60.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Configuration Management
Devon

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Exeter 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 Exeter region.

Exeter 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 Exeter region.

Exeter Configuration Management Hourly Rate Trend

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 6 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (83.33%) Web Services
2 5 (83.33%) XML
2 5 (83.33%) SOA
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
3 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (66.67%) Degree
3 4 (66.67%) Git (software)
3 4 (66.67%) Waterfall
4 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
4 3 (50.00%) XPath
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (50.00%) VB.NET
4 3 (50.00%) .NET
4 3 (50.00%) XQuery
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (50.00%) XSLT
4 3 (50.00%) MCAD
4 3 (50.00%) MCSD
4 3 (50.00%) OO
4 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (50.00%) CSS
4 3 (50.00%) C#
4 3 (50.00%) HTML
4 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (33.33%) SOAP
5 2 (33.33%) MQSeries
5 2 (33.33%) Middleware
5 2 (33.33%) B2B
5 2 (33.33%) B2C

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 5 (83.33%) Web Services
1 5 (83.33%) XML
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) XSLT
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) CSS
2 3 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) SOAP
3 2 (33.33%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) MQSeries
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
2 1 (16.67%) TOAD
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Service Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) SOA
2 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 3 (50.00%) OO
4 2 (33.33%) B2B
4 2 (33.33%) B2C
5 1 (16.67%) Release Management
5 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) XPath
1 3 (50.00%) VB.NET
1 3 (50.00%) XQuery
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) C
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (50.00%) MCAD
2 3 (50.00%) MCSD
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle