The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 18 June 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 North East 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Management
Rank 27 39 40
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +1
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 5 12 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 1.656% 2.206% 1.319%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.439% 3.297% 2.317%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 3
Average daily rate - £255 £278
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.27%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £318
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +10.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
205 364 259
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 67.88% 66.91% 56.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 193 110
Average daily rate £350 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £750 £590 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 21 14
Average hourly rate £19.00 £21.50 £17.51
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.62% +22.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.11 £12.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.85 £40.00 £31.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Tyne and Wear +8 4 - - 4
Durham - - - -
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 10 (45.45%) UNIX
2 9 (40.91%) IBM
2 9 (40.91%) Red Hat
2 9 (40.91%) AIX
2 9 (40.91%) Linux
2 9 (40.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (40.91%) Change Control
3 7 (31.82%) WebSphere
3 7 (31.82%) Change Management
3 7 (31.82%) Solaris
3 7 (31.82%) Perl
3 7 (31.82%) ITIL
3 7 (31.82%) Informatica
4 6 (27.27%) SSL
4 6 (27.27%) Sun
4 6 (27.27%) Business Objects
4 6 (27.27%) SQL
4 6 (27.27%) LDAP
4 6 (27.27%) FileNet
4 6 (27.27%) Workflow
4 6 (27.27%) Service Management
4 6 (27.27%) CMDB
5 5 (22.73%) Problem Management
5 5 (22.73%) Data Protection
5 5 (22.73%) Asset Management
5 5 (22.73%) Service Delivery
5 5 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (22.73%) Windows
5 5 (22.73%) SLA
5 5 (22.73%) Cisco

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 7 (31.82%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.545%) WebSphere MQ
Application Platforms
1 6 (27.27%) FileNet
2 3 (13.64%) WebLogic
3 1 (4.545%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (4.545%) Oracle Workflow
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) LDAP
1 6 (27.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.545%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 1 (4.545%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Change Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Configuration Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Build Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Support Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (9.091%) Technical Support Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Technical Support
5 2 (9.091%) UNIX Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) Change Management Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Configuration Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Software Build Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Configuration Management Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Desktop Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) SCM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) CMDB
2 1 (4.545%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.545%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) UNIX
2 9 (40.91%) AIX
2 9 (40.91%) Linux
2 9 (40.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (31.82%) Solaris
4 5 (22.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Change Control
2 7 (31.82%) ITIL
2 7 (31.82%) Change Management
3 6 (27.27%) Service Management
3 6 (27.27%) Workflow
4 5 (22.73%) Asset Management
4 5 (22.73%) Problem Management
4 5 (22.73%) Data Protection
4 5 (22.73%) Service Delivery
4 5 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (22.73%) Capacity Management
5 1 (4.545%) Risk Management
5 1 (4.545%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Perl
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (9.091%) Java
4 1 (4.545%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.091%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.545%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) SLA
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) IBM
1 9 (40.91%) Red Hat
2 7 (31.82%) Informatica
3 6 (27.27%) Sun
3 6 (27.27%) Business Objects
4 5 (22.73%) Cisco
5 4 (18.18%) Siebel
6 3 (13.64%) JBoss
7 1 (4.545%) Oracle
7 1 (4.545%) HP
7 1 (4.545%) Axway