The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset 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 Somerset 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 28 34 30
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -4
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 1 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 0.588% 0.588% 1.734%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.075% 0.971% 3.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +8.10%
All Processes & Methodologies
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
93 103 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 54.71% 60.59% 57.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 55 46
Average daily rate £400 £410 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.43% +15.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £230 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £433 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 12
Average hourly rate £17.50 £22.00 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.45% +44.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.23 £22.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £24.40 £30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Configuration Management
South West

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Taunton +5 1 - -
Configuration Management
South West

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) BC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) MSTest
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) TickIT
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) NUnit
2 1 (50.00%) VB6
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (50.00%) MSTest
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) VB6
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
1 1 (50.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) BC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (50.00%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) TickIT
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 9000
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SAP