Configuration Management Contracts in Reading

Configuration Management
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 60 76
Rank change year-on-year -7 +16 -22
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 26 27 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.19% 2.61% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 2.88% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 11
10th Percentile £521 £375 £313
25th Percentile £581 £488 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £615 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% +17.14% +11.70%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £653
90th Percentile £716 £784 £738
Berkshire median daily rate £614 £615 £425
% change year-on-year -0.20% +44.71% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £59.89 - -
Median hourly rate £60.14 - -
75th Percentile £60.39 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £70.39 £58.75 -
% change year-on-year +19.81% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,072 939 1,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.24% 90.64% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 623 819
10th Percentile £213 £363 £234
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £658 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £525 £498
% change year-on-year -3.24% +5.53% +7.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Reading

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in Reading

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Reading over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) AWS
1 14 (53.85%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) GitHub
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) VPN
1 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.85%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 14 (53.85%) Jenkins
1 14 (53.85%) Selenium
2 13 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 13 (50.00%) GitLab
2 13 (50.00%) JIRA
3 12 (46.15%) REST Assured
3 12 (46.15%) SonarQube
4 3 (11.54%) LoadRunner
5 1 (3.85%) Appium
5 1 (3.85%) Git
5 1 (3.85%) MSTest
5 1 (3.85%) NUnit
5 1 (3.85%) SpecFlow
5 1 (3.85%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (57.69%) Social Skills
2 13 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (34.62%) Law
4 8 (30.77%) Police
5 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Senior
2 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Software Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Java Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Senior Java Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Java Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Architect
6 3 (11.54%) Configuration Specialist
6 3 (11.54%) Java Architect
6 3 (11.54%) Java Technical Architect
6 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Technical Architect
7 2 (7.69%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 13 (50.00%) Java EE
1 13 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.85%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Unix
2 2 (7.69%) Mac OS
2 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Continuous Integration
1 14 (53.85%) DevOps
1 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
1 14 (53.85%) Test Automation
2 13 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 13 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 13 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 13 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 11 (42.31%) Software Engineering
4 4 (15.38%) ITIL
5 3 (11.54%) Change Control
5 3 (11.54%) Performance Testing
5 3 (11.54%) Refactoring
5 3 (11.54%) Validation
6 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (7.69%) User Experience
7 1 (3.85%) Incident Management
7 1 (3.85%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) Groovy
4 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 17 (65.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 13 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (53.85%) Terraform
2 13 (50.00%) Ansible
3 12 (46.15%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (46.15%) Kubernetes
3 12 (46.15%) Podman
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (7.69%) SCCM
5 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Apple
4 1 (3.85%) BMC
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) HP
4 1 (3.85%) Micro Focus
4 1 (3.85%) OpenText
4 1 (3.85%) Remedy