Configuration Management Contracts in Hertfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 17 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 Hertfordshire 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Management
Rank 57 57 31
Rank change year-on-year
0 -26
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 6 11 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.933% 1.136% 4.147%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.302% 1.713% 6.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
Average daily rate £325 £200 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+62.50% -48.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 17
Average hourly rate £36.75 £15.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+137.09% -58.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.75 £15.50 £35.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.75 £15.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.75 £39.00 £36.98
% change year-on-year
-3.20% +5.47%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 461 642 540
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 71.70% 66.32% 62.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 297 229
Average daily rate £410 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 54 80
Average hourly rate £21.50 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.84% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £11.88 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -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 Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Configuration Management Hourly Rate Trend

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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Hemel Hempstead +7 2 - -
Stevenage - 2 - -
Configuration Management
East of England

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 (42.86%) Serena
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) Integration Testing
3 4 (28.57%) UML
3 4 (28.57%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) Degree
3 4 (28.57%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (28.57%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (21.43%) Puppet
4 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (21.43%) Retail
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (21.43%) Debian
4 3 (21.43%) CSS
4 3 (21.43%) XML
4 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
4 3 (21.43%) Linux
4 3 (21.43%) HTML
4 3 (21.43%) Java
4 3 (21.43%) Perl
4 3 (21.43%) .NET
4 3 (21.43%) Ada
5 2 (14.29%) SMTP
5 2 (14.29%) FTP
5 2 (14.29%) NFS
5 2 (14.29%) SNMP
5 2 (14.29%) MySQL
5 2 (14.29%) C
5 2 (14.29%) C++

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (21.43%) HTML
1 3 (21.43%) .NET
1 3 (21.43%) CSS
1 3 (21.43%) XML
2 2 (14.29%) Memcached
2 2 (14.29%) Gearman
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) LabWindows
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SMTP
1 2 (14.29%) FTP
1 2 (14.29%) SNMP
2 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Rational DOORS
1 4 (28.57%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (14.29%) LabVIEW
2 2 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 3 (21.43%) Retail
2 1 (7.143%) Finance
2 1 (7.143%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Release Manager
3 2 (14.29%) C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Implementation Manager
3 2 (14.29%) C Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Architect
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Debian
2 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (7.143%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Integration Testing
2 4 (28.57%) UML
2 4 (28.57%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (14.29%) Change Control
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
5 1 (7.143%) Quality Management
5 1 (7.143%) Change Management
5 1 (7.143%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.143%) Risk Management
5 1 (7.143%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.143%) Programme Management
5 1 (7.143%) SysML
5 1 (7.143%) Incident Management
5 1 (7.143%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (7.143%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (7.143%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (7.143%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
1 3 (21.43%) Perl
1 3 (21.43%) Ada
1 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
2 2 (14.29%) PHP
2 2 (14.29%) C
2 2 (14.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) Degree
3 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (7.143%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) NFS
1 2 (14.29%) Samba
1 2 (14.29%) Postfix
1 2 (14.29%) Varnish
2 1 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Puppet
2 2 (14.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Serena
2 1 (7.143%) Percona
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.143%) NetApp
2 1 (7.143%) VMware
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