Configuration Management Contracts in the North West

Configuration Management
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 77 106
Rank change year-on-year -13 +29 -27
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 47 91 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.74% 2.87% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 3.16% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 69 53
10th Percentile £382 £325 £413
25th Percentile £425 £400 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £610 £650 £638
90th Percentile £649 £682 £670
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £56.43 £26.88
25th Percentile - £58.19 £29.69
Median hourly rate £11.00 £61.13 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -82.00% +81.11% -15.63%
75th Percentile - £64.06 £37.19
90th Percentile - £65.83 £41.13
England median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £47.50
% change year-on-year -0.83% +6.15% +18.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,334 2,876 3,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.19% 90.70% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,042 2,607
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £690 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 142 160
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.36 £23.15 £14.19
Median hourly rate £22.31 £36.65 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year -39.14% +82.66% +9.41%
75th Percentile £45.66 £49.52 £42.82
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.98 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the North West over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Manchester +12 23 £450 -27.13% 16
Cheshire -14 14 £590 +47.50% 11
Cumbria -16 7 £488 +39.29% 10
Lancashire -3 1 - - 3
Merseyside -8 1 - - 1
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (4.26%) Confluence
1 2 (4.26%) nginx
1 2 (4.26%) Traefik
2 1 (2.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.13%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (17.02%) CATIA
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (17.02%) DELMIA
1 8 (17.02%) Teamcenter
2 1 (2.13%) SAP EWM
2 1 (2.13%) SAP GTS
2 1 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.89%) AWS
2 5 (10.64%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (10.64%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (8.51%) GCP
4 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.38%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (6.38%) Serverless
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.26%) Azure
5 2 (4.26%) GitHub
5 2 (4.26%) IaaS
5 2 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Google Play
6 1 (2.13%) SaaS
6 1 (2.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) DNS
2 3 (6.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.13%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.02%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) GitLab
2 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.51%) JIRA
4 3 (6.38%) Git
5 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.26%) Hudson
General
1 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (17.02%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.26%) Automotive
4 2 (4.26%) Banking
4 2 (4.26%) Finance
5 1 (2.13%) Legal
5 1 (2.13%) Military
5 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (17.02%) Lead
1 8 (17.02%) Support Team Leader
2 7 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (14.89%) Team Leader
3 6 (12.77%) Software Asset Manager
3 6 (12.77%) Software Manager
4 5 (10.64%) Analyst
4 5 (10.64%) Architect
4 5 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.51%) Configuration Manager
6 3 (6.38%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Active Directory Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Asset and Configuration Manager
7 2 (4.26%) Coordinator
7 2 (4.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Migration Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Service Manager
7 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) cloud-init
1 2 (4.26%) React Native
1 2 (4.26%) SAML
2 1 (2.13%) Material Design
2 1 (2.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (48.94%) CMDB
2 8 (17.02%) Management Information System
3 6 (12.77%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.26%) Clustering
4 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.26%) PKI
4 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) CentOS
1 2 (4.26%) Linux
1 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.66%) Asset Management
1 13 (27.66%) Continuous Improvement
1 13 (27.66%) Service Management
2 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (19.15%) ITIL
4 8 (17.02%) CI/CD
4 8 (17.02%) ITSM
4 8 (17.02%) PLM
4 8 (17.02%) Workflow
5 7 (14.89%) DevOps
5 7 (14.89%) IT Asset Management
5 7 (14.89%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
6 6 (12.77%) Agile
6 6 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (12.77%) Migration
6 6 (12.77%) Quality Management
6 6 (12.77%) Software Asset Management
6 6 (12.77%) Virtual Team Management
7 5 (10.64%) Internal Audit
7 5 (10.64%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.53%) SQL
2 8 (17.02%) Python
3 5 (10.64%) Ruby
4 4 (8.51%) Go
5 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.26%) Bash
7 1 (2.13%) ABAP
7 1 (2.13%) Java
7 1 (2.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (6.38%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.13%) CCNA
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.13%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.02%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.26%) NCSC
2 2 (4.26%) NIST
2 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
1 7 (14.89%) Terraform
2 4 (8.51%) Ansible
3 3 (6.38%) ZABBIX
4 2 (4.26%) Consul
4 2 (4.26%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (4.26%) Graphite
4 2 (4.26%) HAProxy
4 2 (4.26%) Istio
4 2 (4.26%) linkerd
4 2 (4.26%) Packer
4 2 (4.26%) Podman
4 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.26%) Puppet
5 1 (2.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 10 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.02%) Siemens
3 5 (10.64%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.26%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.26%) PagerDuty
4 2 (4.26%) Splunk
4 2 (4.26%) VMware
5 1 (2.13%) Adobe
5 1 (2.13%) BMC
5 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.13%) Google
5 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.13%) SAP
5 1 (2.13%) SolarWinds