The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Oxford 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Management
Rank 33 35 26
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -9
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 1 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 0.427% 1.205% 0.599%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.621% 2.062% 1.389%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 1
Average daily rate - £350 £190
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +84.21%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +8.10%
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
161 194 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 68.80% 58.43% 43.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 120 39
Average daily rate £350 £425 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +54.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £300 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 19 4
Average hourly rate £10.33 £20.06 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.52% -19.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Configuration Management
Oxfordshire

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Configuration Management Daily Rate Trend

Configuration Management
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) SMTP
2 1 (25.00%) NFS
2 1 (25.00%) SNMP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (25.00%) Intranet
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Debian
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (25.00%) Jetty
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (25.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (25.00%) Python

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (25.00%) Jetty
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SMTP
1 1 (25.00%) SNMP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Intranet
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Project Coordinator
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) CRM Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Debian
1 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (25.00%) CentOS
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash shell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) NFS
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) VMware
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle