Middlesex Configuration Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills within the Middlesex region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Kent Leatherhead Leeds Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Prestwick Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Skipton Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	36
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	10	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	2.674 %	3.438 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£280	-
Average daily rate	£303	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£325	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£368	£365
% change on same period last year	+0.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.33	£49.30
Average hourly rate	£36.00	£49.30
% change on same period last year	-26.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.67	£49.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.30	£31.93
% change on same period last year	+4.30 %
Processes & Methodologies Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	374	349
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.493 %	0.365 %
Daily rates quoted	102	82
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£325
Average daily rate	£369	£349
% change on same period last year	+5.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.39	£37.45
Average hourly rate	£35.37	£38.32
% change on same period last year	-7.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.34	£39.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.33
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
Configuration Management South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Configuration Management across the Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Configuration Management across the Middlesex region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Configuration Management across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Configuration Management across the Middlesex region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Configuration Management across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 8 (47.06 %) Unix 1 8 (47.06 %) ClearCase 2 5 (29.41 %) Security Cleared 3 4 (23.53 %) ClearQuest 3 4 (23.53 %) Solaris 3 4 (23.53 %) C++ 3 4 (23.53 %) Java 3 4 (23.53 %) Perl 3 4 (23.53 %) Oracle 4 3 (17.65 %) NetBackup 4 3 (17.65 %) Windows Mobile 4 3 (17.65 %) Oracle RAC 4 3 (17.65 %) Degree 4 3 (17.65 %) Computer Science 4 3 (17.65 %) Release Management

4 3 (17.65 %) J2EE 4 3 (17.65 %) MFC 4 3 (17.65 %) Linux 4 3 (17.65 %) Oracle Forms 4 3 (17.65 %) Oracle Reports 4 3 (17.65 %) Windows 4 3 (17.65 %) EJB 4 3 (17.65 %) C 4 3 (17.65 %) VERITAS 4 3 (17.65 %) CDMA 4 3 (17.65 %) GPRS 4 3 (17.65 %) GSM 4 3 (17.65 %) WLAN 4 3 (17.65 %) RDBMS 4 3 (17.65 %) Oracle 10g

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 (17.65 %) J2EE 1 3 (17.65 %) MFC 1 3 (17.65 %) EJB 2 1 (5.882 %) Oracle Streams	Application Platforms 1 1 (5.882 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 1 (5.882 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (17.65 %) CDMA 1 3 (17.65 %) GPRS 1 3 (17.65 %) GSM 1 3 (17.65 %) WLAN 2 1 (5.882 %) SAN 2 1 (5.882 %) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (17.65 %) Oracle Reports 1 3 (17.65 %) RDBMS 1 3 (17.65 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (5.882 %) SQLPlus 2 1 (5.882 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 8 (47.06 %) ClearCase 2 4 (23.53 %) ClearQuest 3 3 (17.65 %) Oracle Forms 4 1 (5.882 %) LoadRunner 4 1 (5.882 %) Ant
General 1 2 (11.76 %) Electronics 2 1 (5.882 %) Government 2 1 (5.882 %) Advertising 2 1 (5.882 %) Retail 2 1 (5.882 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 4 (23.53 %) DBA 2 3 (17.65 %) Team Leader 2 3 (17.65 %) Oracle DBA 2 3 (17.65 %) Software Engineer 3 2 (11.76 %) IT Services Manager 3 2 (11.76 %) IT Manager 3 2 (11.76 %) IT Services Delivery Manager 3 2 (11.76 %) Delivery Manager 3 2 (11.76 %) Service Manager 3 2 (11.76 %) Services Delivery Manager 4 1 (5.882 %) Technical Support 4 1 (5.882 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (5.882 %) Configuration Manager 4 1 (5.882 %) Release Analyst 4 1 (5.882 %) Technical Engineer 4 1 (5.882 %) Change Analyst 4 1 (5.882 %) Configuration Analyst 4 1 (5.882 %) Senior DBA 4 1 (5.882 %) Technical Support Engineer 4 1 (5.882 %) Development DBA
Miscellaneous 1 3 (17.65 %) Computer Science 2 1 (5.882 %) CMDB	Operating Systems 1 8 (47.06 %) Unix 2 4 (23.53 %) Solaris 3 3 (17.65 %) Windows Mobile 3 3 (17.65 %) Linux 3 3 (17.65 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (29.41 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (17.65 %) Release Management 2 3 (17.65 %) BC Cleared 3 2 (11.76 %) Service Delivery 3 2 (11.76 %) Change Management 4 1 (5.882 %) Migration 4 1 (5.882 %) Data Migration 4 1 (5.882 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (5.882 %) ITIL 4 1 (5.882 %) CTC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 4 (23.53 %) C++ 1 4 (23.53 %) Java 1 4 (23.53 %) Perl 2 3 (17.65 %) C 3 2 (11.76 %) Shell Script 4 1 (5.882 %) AWK 4 1 (5.882 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (5.882 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (17.65 %) Degree	System Software 1 3 (17.65 %) NetBackup 1 3 (17.65 %) Oracle RAC 2 2 (11.76 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 1 (5.882 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 4 (23.53 %) Oracle 2 3 (17.65 %) VERITAS 3 2 (11.76 %) HP 4 1 (5.882 %) Perforce 4 1 (5.882 %) Sun 4 1 (5.882 %) Microsoft