Configuration Management Contracts in Manchester

Configuration Management
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Configuration Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Configuration Management over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 80 81
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -23
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 25 36 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.62% 1.90% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 2.07% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 44
10th Percentile £375 £378 £413
25th Percentile £395 £494 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £638
90th Percentile £659 £665 £650
North West median daily rate £490 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -3.87% -2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £26.25
25th Percentile - - £28.13
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £34.38
90th Percentile - - £34.75
North West median hourly rate £11.00 £61.13 £35.00
% change year-on-year -82.00% +74.64% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Configuration Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,341 1,737 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.13% 91.81% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1,272 1,807
10th Percentile £313 £315 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year - +1.73% +9.22%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £663 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 51
10th Percentile £12.42 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +140.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £24.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
% change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Manchester

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in Manchester

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Manchester

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in Manchester

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Wigan - 2 £450 -
Configuration Management
North West

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (8.00%) Confluence
1 2 (8.00%) nginx
1 2 (8.00%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SAP EWM
1 1 (4.00%) SAP GTS
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (16.00%) GCP
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (12.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (12.00%) Serverless
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.00%) Azure
5 2 (8.00%) GitHub
5 2 (8.00%) IaaS
5 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) DNS
2 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) GitLab
2 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (16.00%) JIRA
4 3 (12.00%) Git
5 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (8.00%) Hudson
General
1 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Configuration Manager
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) IT Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) IT Manager
4 2 (8.00%) IT Operations Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Product Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Service Manager
4 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Product Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) cloud-init
1 2 (8.00%) SAML
2 1 (4.00%) Material Design
2 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) CMDB
2 5 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.00%) Clustering
3 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.00%) PKI
3 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) CentOS
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) ITIL
1 9 (36.00%) ITSM
1 9 (36.00%) Service Management
2 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (28.00%) Asset Management
3 7 (28.00%) DevOps
4 6 (24.00%) Agile
5 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (16.00%) Change Management
6 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
6 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.00%) Architectural Design
7 3 (12.00%) Data Migration
7 3 (12.00%) Migration
7 3 (12.00%) Problem Management
7 3 (12.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (12.00%) Software Delivery
8 2 (8.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Python
2 5 (20.00%) Ruby
3 4 (16.00%) Go
3 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (16.00%) SQL
4 2 (8.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) ABAP
5 1 (4.00%) Java
5 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (12.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (12.00%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) CCNA
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.00%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (8.00%) NCSC
1 2 (8.00%) NIST
1 2 (8.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (28.00%) Terraform
2 4 (16.00%) Ansible
2 4 (16.00%) ZABBIX
3 2 (8.00%) Consul
3 2 (8.00%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (8.00%) Graphite
3 2 (8.00%) HAProxy
3 2 (8.00%) Istio
3 2 (8.00%) linkerd
3 2 (8.00%) Nagios
3 2 (8.00%) Packer
3 2 (8.00%) Podman
3 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (8.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (8.00%) PagerDuty
2 2 (8.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (8.00%) Splunk
2 2 (8.00%) VMware
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) SAP