The first table below looks at the demand for the Configuration Engineer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Configuration Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Engineer
Rank 481 564 554
Rank change year-on-year
+83 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Configuration Engineer 49 14 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.106% 0.024% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.114% 0.026% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 14
Average daily rate £345 £288 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -19.01%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £296 £164 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £438 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Configuration Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Configuration Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Configuration Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Configuration Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Configuration Engineer within the UK.

Configuration Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Configuration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Configuration Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Configuration Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Configuration Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Configuration Engineer within the UK.

Configuration Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Configuration Engineer
Top 27 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England +79 45 £375 +30.43%
South East +39 16 £315 -16.00%
London +22 10 £438 +59.09%
Yorkshire +8 10 £300 -
Surrey - 9 - -
North West +21 7 - -
Cheshire +12 7 - -
West Yorkshire +8 6 £375 -
Leeds -3 6 £375 -
West Midlands +11 4 - -
Berkshire - 4 £315 -
Crewe +9 3 - -
Macclesfield +4 3 - -
Guildford - 3 - -
Slough - 3 £315 -
Warrington - 3 - -
Hampshire - 3 £165 -
Staffordshire +16 2 - -
North East +15 2 - -
Tyne and Wear +12 2 - -
City of London +11 2 £475 +38.18%
Stoke-on-Trent +11 2 - -
Newcastle upon Tyne +9 2 - -
Eastleigh - 2 - -
Southampton - 1 £165 -
Solihull - 1 - -
Coventry - 1 - -

Configuration Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Configuration Engineer in their job title 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 with Configuration Engineer in their job title.

1 21 (28.77%) Telecoms
2 20 (27.40%) 3G
2 20 (27.40%) Configuration Management
3 17 (23.29%) Java
3 17 (23.29%) Linux
4 16 (21.92%) Windows
4 16 (21.92%) 2G
4 16 (21.92%) Radio Access Network
5 15 (20.55%) Subversion
5 15 (20.55%) QA
5 15 (20.55%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (19.18%) Ant
7 13 (17.81%) Perl
7 13 (17.81%) UNIX
7 13 (17.81%) Maven
8 12 (16.44%) WebSphere
8 12 (16.44%) Validation
9 11 (15.07%) RNC
9 11 (15.07%) E-Commerce
9 11 (15.07%) Ericsson
9 11 (15.07%) Jenkins
10 9 (12.33%) TCP/IP
10 9 (12.33%) XML
10 9 (12.33%) WebLogic
11 8 (10.96%) C#
11 8 (10.96%) ATM
11 8 (10.96%) IBM
11 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
11 8 (10.96%) SS7
11 8 (10.96%) RANAP

Configuration Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Configuration Engineer in their job title 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 with Configuration Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (16.44%) WebSphere
2 9 (12.33%) XML
3 5 (6.849%) Middleware
3 5 (6.849%) .NET
4 3 (4.110%) J2EE
5 2 (2.740%) Application Packaging
5 2 (2.740%) Web Services
5 2 (2.740%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.370%) Velocity
6 1 (1.370%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.370%) COM
6 1 (1.370%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 9 (12.33%) WebLogic
2 3 (4.110%) Apache
2 3 (4.110%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.110%) ATG Dynamo
3 2 (2.740%) ESB
3 2 (2.740%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.740%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.370%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.370%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (8.219%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 20 (27.40%) 3G
2 16 (21.92%) 2G
2 16 (21.92%) Radio Access Network
3 11 (15.07%) RNC
4 9 (12.33%) TCP/IP
5 8 (10.96%) ATM
5 8 (10.96%) SS7
5 8 (10.96%) RANAP
5 8 (10.96%) NBAP
6 7 (9.589%) WCDMA
7 2 (2.740%) Firewall
7 2 (2.740%) LLU
7 2 (2.740%) LTE
8 1 (1.370%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.370%) VLAN
8 1 (1.370%) BIG-IP
8 1 (1.370%) MPLS
8 1 (1.370%) DHCP
8 1 (1.370%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.219%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.740%) RDBMS
2 2 (2.740%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 15 (20.55%) Subversion
2 14 (19.18%) Ant
3 13 (17.81%) Maven
4 11 (15.07%) Jenkins
5 7 (9.589%) Hudson
6 5 (6.849%) CruiseControl
7 4 (5.479%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (5.479%) JIRA
8 3 (4.110%) StarTeam
8 3 (4.110%) Mercurial
8 3 (4.110%) Git (software)
9 2 (2.740%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.370%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.370%) GitHub
10 1 (1.370%) Selenium
10 1 (1.370%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.370%) PVCS
10 1 (1.370%) MSI
General
1 21 (28.77%) Telecoms
2 7 (9.589%) Finance
3 6 (8.219%) Marketing
4 4 (5.479%) Banking
5 1 (1.370%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.370%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.479%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.110%) CMDB
3 2 (2.740%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.370%) NHS
4 1 (1.370%) Statistical Arbitrage
4 1 (1.370%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.370%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.29%) Linux
2 16 (21.92%) Windows
3 13 (17.81%) UNIX
4 5 (6.849%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.110%) Windows 7
5 3 (4.110%) Solaris
5 3 (4.110%) Windows 2000
5 3 (4.110%) Windows XP
6 2 (2.740%) SUSE
6 2 (2.740%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.370%) CentOS
7 1 (1.370%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.40%) Configuration Management
2 15 (20.55%) Continuous Integration
3 12 (16.44%) Validation
4 11 (15.07%) E-Commerce
5 7 (9.589%) Change Management
6 6 (8.219%) ITIL
7 4 (5.479%) Release Management
8 2 (2.740%) Integration Testing
8 2 (2.740%) Software Testing
8 2 (2.740%) Test Automation
8 2 (2.740%) SOA
8 2 (2.740%) Agile Software Development
9 1 (1.370%) Network Design
9 1 (1.370%) Migration
9 1 (1.370%) Code Coverage
9 1 (1.370%) Regression Testing
9 1 (1.370%) Capacity Planning
9 1 (1.370%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (1.370%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.29%) Java
2 13 (17.81%) Perl
3 8 (10.96%) C#
4 7 (9.589%) Python
4 7 (9.589%) AWK
4 7 (9.589%) Bash shell
5 6 (8.219%) Jython
6 4 (5.479%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.110%) Ruby
7 3 (4.110%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.740%) C++
8 2 (2.740%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (5.479%) CCNP
1 4 (5.479%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (4.110%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.740%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.370%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.370%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.370%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.370%) JNCIA
4 1 (1.370%) MCDST
4 1 (1.370%) CCIP
4 1 (1.370%) CCNA
4 1 (1.370%) MCP
4 1 (1.370%) MCSE
4 1 (1.370%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.55%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.740%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.740%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (2.740%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (4.110%) SCCM
2 2 (2.740%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (15.07%) Ericsson
2 8 (10.96%) IBM
2 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.589%) Red Hat
4 6 (8.219%) Cisco
4 6 (8.219%) Oracle
5 4 (5.479%) Perforce
6 3 (4.110%) ATG
6 3 (4.110%) JBoss
7 2 (2.740%) VMware
7 2 (2.740%) Serena
7 2 (2.740%) Endeca
7 2 (2.740%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.370%) F5
8 1 (1.370%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.370%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.370%) Nokia
8 1 (1.370%) HP
8 1 (1.370%) Dell
8 1 (1.370%) Juniper
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Seeking experienced Configuration and Test Engineers with experience of developing large scale enterprise solutions within a service orientated (SOA) framework... Experience Required: Test automation... Desirable Experience: Jira. Bamboo.....
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Posted: 13 May 2013