Newbury Configuration Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills within the Newbury region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon 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 Crewe Croydon Daventry Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Huddersfield Ipswich Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Prestwick Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wokingham Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	35
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.064 %	0.505 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£350	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£363
% change on same period last year	+2.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.40	£33.31
% change on same period last year	+0.28 %
Processes & Methodologies Newbury
Matching contract IT job ads	94	198
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.125 %	0.200 %
Daily rates quoted	15	83
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£390
Average daily rate	£397	£394
% change on same period last year	+0.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£426	£399
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£22.25	£26.00
% change on same period last year	-14.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.50	£27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Configuration Management Berkshire

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 Newbury 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 Newbury region.

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 3 (100.00 %) Telecoms 2 2 (66.67 %) Statistics 2 2 (66.67 %) Use Case 2 2 (66.67 %) Fault Management 2 2 (66.67 %) Change Management 2 2 (66.67 %) Performance Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Multithreading 3 1 (33.33 %) Release Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Korn 3 1 (33.33 %) Perl 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 1 (33.33 %) Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) ClearCase 3 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (33.33 %) IBM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) ClearCase
General 1 3 (100.00 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Author 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Author 1 1 (33.33 %) Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) Statistics 2 1 (33.33 %) Multithreading	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Change Management 1 2 (66.67 %) Use Case 1 2 (66.67 %) Fault Management 1 2 (66.67 %) Performance Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Release Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) Perl 1 1 (33.33 %) Korn
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) IBM