The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 19 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 Swindon 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Management
Rank 33 33 23
Rank change year-on-year
0 -10
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 11 6 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 3.143% 1.775% 4.959%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.151% 2.655% 7.143%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 4
Average daily rate £425 £375 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -21.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £361 £306 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £431 £605
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £315
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
265 226 252
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 75.71% 66.86% 69.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 154 151
Average daily rate £423 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.42% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £250 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £475 £517
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 7
Average hourly rate £14.50 £22.50 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.55% -13.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £13.10 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.80 £25.00 £35.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Configuration Management
Wiltshire

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Configuration Management Hourly Rate Trend

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 9 (60.00%) Oracle
2 8 (53.33%) Finance
3 7 (46.67%) VMware
3 7 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (46.67%) WAN
3 7 (46.67%) VPN
3 7 (46.67%) SAN
3 7 (46.67%) NAS
4 6 (40.00%) LAN
4 6 (40.00%) ITIL
5 5 (33.33%) Information Assurance
5 5 (33.33%) Release Management
5 5 (33.33%) Change Management
5 5 (33.33%) Management Information System
6 4 (26.67%) PRINCE2
6 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
6 4 (26.67%) Transition Management
7 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (20.00%) MS Office
8 2 (13.33%) Oracle HRMS
8 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
8 2 (13.33%) Billing
8 2 (13.33%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (13.33%) MS PowerPoint
8 2 (13.33%) eRoom
8 2 (13.33%) ERP
8 2 (13.33%) SQL
8 2 (13.33%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (13.33%) Risk Management

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 2 (13.33%) eRoom
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
2 3 (20.00%) MS Office
3 2 (13.33%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle HRMS
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) WAN
1 7 (46.67%) VPN
1 7 (46.67%) SAN
1 7 (46.67%) NAS
2 6 (40.00%) LAN
3 1 (6.667%) NetScreen
3 1 (6.667%) Firewall
3 1 (6.667%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) RDBMS
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Billing
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.667%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Team Leader
1 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 4 (26.67%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Payroll Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Designer
5 1 (6.667%) Information Assurance Leader
5 1 (6.667%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) E-Business Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.667%) CMDB
3 1 (6.667%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.667%) Windows
1 1 (6.667%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) ITIL
2 5 (33.33%) Information Assurance
2 5 (33.33%) Release Management
2 5 (33.33%) Change Management
3 4 (26.67%) PRINCE2
3 4 (26.67%) Transition Management
4 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
4 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (13.33%) ERP
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (6.667%) Change Control
5 1 (6.667%) Service Delivery
5 1 (6.667%) PRINCE
5 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (6.667%) Load Balancing
5 1 (6.667%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) Degree
2 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) ISO 9001
1 1 (6.667%) QA
1 1 (6.667%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.667%) Sendmail
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Oracle
2 7 (46.67%) VMware
3 1 (6.667%) BT
3 1 (6.667%) BMC
3 1 (6.667%) NetApp
3 1 (6.667%) Cisco
3 1 (6.667%) Sun
3 1 (6.667%) EMC
3 1 (6.667%) Sourcefire
3 1 (6.667%) Qualys