The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 18 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.

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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Management
Rank 130 148 130
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -18
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 765 733 942
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 1.572% 1.262% 1.515%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.209% 1.851% 2.250%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 387 401
Average daily rate £350 £388 £373
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.67% +3.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £528 £579
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £318
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +10.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 42 67
Average hourly rate £36.50 £39.25 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.00% +4.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.34 £25.45 £19.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.45 £50.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
34628 39600 41874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.14% 68.19% 67.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 20769 22604 23882
Average daily rate £413 £400 £430
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -6.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 996 1271 1448
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.11 £13.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Configuration Management Daily Rate Trend

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Configuration Management Daily Rate Histogram

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Configuration Management Hourly Rate Trend

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Configuration Management Hourly Rate Histogram

Configuration Management
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +12 687 £350 -11.39% 164
London -3 305 £425 -5.55% 60
South East +16 151 £313 -12.83% 37
City of London +17 88 £425 +6.25% 27
Yorkshire +34 70 £275 -8.33% 8
Hampshire +29 68 £325 -18.75% 14
West Yorkshire +27 54 £288 -12.87% 4
Leeds +27 51 £300 -9.09% 2
Berkshire +10 48 £421 +20.28% 6
East of England +11 42 £335 +4.68% 21
South West +22 41 £365 -7.53% 11
West Midlands +1 37 £275 -16.66% 10
North West +11 26 £320 -8.57% 8
Surrey +11 25 £340 -15.00% 8
Scotland -2 23 £400 +16.78% 2
Essex +14 22 £325 +10.63% 11
Cheshire +7 18 £245 -22.14% 2
East Midlands +5 16 £413 -13.15% 6
Bracknell +4 16 - -
Bristol +26 14 £350 +28.44% 2
South Yorkshire +12 12 £213 - 2
Wiltshire +2 12 £423 +16.55% 6
Swindon -2 11 £425 +13.33% 2
Buckinghamshire +2 10 £275 -8.33% 2
Reading -10 10 - - 1
Milton Keynes +4 9 £250 -16.66% 2
Hertfordshire +24 8 £350 +40.00% 3
Glasgow -11 8 £400 +14.28% 2
Andover +7 7 £575 - 2
Cambridgeshire +6 7 £375 -10.17% 4

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 313 (23.50%) Linux
2 287 (21.55%) ITIL
3 264 (19.82%) Windows
4 253 (18.99%) Finance
4 253 (18.99%) Security Cleared
5 252 (18.92%) Oracle
5 252 (18.92%) Microsoft
6 225 (16.89%) Java
7 222 (16.67%) UNIX
8 217 (16.29%) SQL
9 216 (16.22%) Project Management
10 203 (15.24%) Change Management
11 186 (13.96%) Release Management
12 177 (13.29%) SC Cleared
13 139 (10.44%) Service Management
14 135 (10.14%) VMware
14 135 (10.14%) PRINCE2
15 132 (9.910%) MS Excel
16 130 (9.760%) Continuous Integration
17 129 (9.685%) QA
18 126 (9.459%) C++
19 121 (9.084%) Banking
20 119 (8.934%) SQL Server
21 117 (8.784%) OO
22 116 (8.709%) C
23 110 (8.258%) Web Services
23 110 (8.258%) Python
24 108 (8.108%) .NET
25 106 (7.958%) Agile Software Development
26 104 (7.808%) Subversion

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 110 (8.258%) Web Services
2 108 (8.108%) .NET
3 90 (6.757%) XML
4 42 (3.153%) jQuery
5 41 (3.078%) CSS
6 40 (3.003%) J2EE
6 40 (3.003%) Node.js
7 39 (2.928%) ASP.NET
8 38 (2.853%) Motif
9 37 (2.778%) WebSphere
9 37 (2.778%) HTML
10 36 (2.703%) Middleware
11 30 (2.252%) wxWidgets
12 28 (2.102%) Ajax
13 24 (1.802%) REST
14 20 (1.502%) .NET Framework
15 18 (1.351%) Spring
15 18 (1.351%) JMS
15 18 (1.351%) POSIX
15 18 (1.351%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 92 (6.907%) Apache
2 64 (4.805%) SharePoint
3 60 (4.505%) Amazon AWS
4 49 (3.679%) WebLogic
5 46 (3.453%) IIS
6 43 (3.228%) Amazon EC2
7 36 (2.703%) nginx
8 35 (2.628%) Amazon S3
8 35 (2.628%) Tomcat
9 34 (2.553%) Route 53
10 33 (2.477%) MS Exchange
11 25 (1.877%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 23 (1.727%) SAS
13 18 (1.351%) Exchange Server 2010
14 16 (1.201%) Windows Azure
15 15 (1.126%) SharePoint 2010
16 13 (0.976%) Lync
16 13 (0.976%) Confluence
17 12 (0.901%) IBM Notes
18 11 (0.826%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 132 (9.910%) MS Excel
2 84 (6.306%) MS Office
3 74 (5.556%) MS Project
4 35 (2.628%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.727%) MS PowerPoint
6 2 (0.150%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.075%) Office 365
7 1 (0.075%) Open Workbench
7 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.075%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.075%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.075%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.075%) InDesign
7 1 (0.075%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 25 (1.877%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (0.976%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (0.976%) Oracle EBS R12
3 9 (0.676%) Summit
4 8 (0.601%) SAP R/3
4 8 (0.601%) Taleo
5 7 (0.526%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.450%) Oracle Applications
6 6 (0.450%) BusinessWorks
7 5 (0.375%) Google Analytics
8 4 (0.300%) Oracle 11i
9 3 (0.225%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.225%) WebTrends
9 3 (0.225%) Global One
10 2 (0.150%) Oracle HRMS
10 2 (0.150%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.150%) Tridion
10 2 (0.150%) Oracle BRM
10 2 (0.150%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.150%) Aligne
Communications & Networking
1 100 (7.508%) SAN
2 94 (7.057%) DNS
3 75 (5.631%) TCP/IP
4 66 (4.955%) Internet
5 60 (4.505%) Firewall
6 58 (4.354%) DHCP
7 54 (4.054%) LAN
8 50 (3.754%) HTTP
9 43 (3.228%) WAN
10 35 (2.628%) NAS
11 31 (2.327%) SSL
12 27 (2.027%) Wireless
13 26 (1.952%) LDAP
14 23 (1.727%) VoIP
15 19 (1.426%) VPN
16 18 (1.351%) FTP
17 15 (1.126%) GPRS
17 15 (1.126%) Cisco ASA
18 14 (1.051%) Intrusion Detection
18 14 (1.051%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (8.934%) SQL Server
2 77 (5.781%) MySQL
3 53 (3.979%) MongoDB
4 47 (3.529%) RDBMS
5 42 (3.153%) Oracle 11g
6 39 (2.928%) SQL Server 2008
7 38 (2.853%) PostgreSQL
8 35 (2.628%) SQL Server 2005
9 34 (2.553%) NoSQL
9 34 (2.553%) Redis
9 34 (2.553%) Amazon RDS
10 29 (2.177%) Oracle 10g
11 28 (2.102%) Ingres
12 26 (1.952%) Data Warehouse
13 20 (1.502%) Oracle Reports
14 19 (1.426%) Oracle 8/8i
14 19 (1.426%) DB2
15 18 (1.351%) SimpleDB
15 18 (1.351%) Couchbase
16 17 (1.276%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 104 (7.808%) Subversion
2 98 (7.357%) ClearCase
3 76 (5.706%) Ant
4 55 (4.129%) CruiseControl
5 50 (3.754%) JIRA
6 49 (3.679%) Maven
7 46 (3.453%) NUnit
8 43 (3.228%) Git (software)
9 40 (3.003%) CppUnit
10 39 (2.928%) GoogleTest
11 36 (2.703%) Team Foundation Server
12 34 (2.553%) Jenkins
13 33 (2.477%) Visual Studio
14 30 (2.252%) ClearQuest
15 22 (1.652%) QuickTest Pro
15 22 (1.652%) Hudson
16 19 (1.426%) Eclipse
17 16 (1.201%) MSBuild
18 15 (1.126%) Rational Rose
19 14 (1.051%) StarTeam
General
1 253 (18.99%) Finance
2 121 (9.084%) Banking
3 91 (6.832%) Telecoms
4 35 (2.628%) Investment Banking
5 29 (2.177%) Retail
6 18 (1.351%) Back Office
7 17 (1.276%) Front Office
8 13 (0.976%) Law
9 12 (0.901%) Aerospace
9 12 (0.901%) Electronics
9 12 (0.901%) Billing
9 12 (0.901%) Marketing
10 11 (0.826%) Publishing
11 9 (0.676%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.526%) Legal
13 6 (0.450%) Automotive
14 5 (0.375%) Military
15 3 (0.225%) Advertising
15 3 (0.225%) Games
15 3 (0.225%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 183 (13.74%) Developer
2 169 (12.69%) Analyst
3 95 (7.132%) Configuration Manager
4 75 (5.631%) Project Manager
5 72 (5.405%) Software Engineer
6 64 (4.805%) Consultant
7 52 (3.904%) Administrator
8 51 (3.829%) Release Manager
9 41 (3.078%) Java Developer
10 39 (2.928%) Architect
11 36 (2.703%) Configuration Analyst
12 31 (2.327%) Systems Administrator
13 29 (2.177%) Change Analyst
14 25 (1.877%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 23 (1.727%) Release Engineer
15 23 (1.727%) Configuration Engineer
16 22 (1.652%) .NET Developer
16 22 (1.652%) Network Engineer
16 22 (1.652%) DBA
16 22 (1.652%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 100 (7.508%) CMDB
2 59 (4.429%) Open Source
3 58 (4.354%) Management Information System
4 43 (3.228%) Blackberry
5 32 (2.402%) Derivative
6 29 (2.177%) Clustering
7 28 (2.102%) Fixed Income
8 27 (2.027%) Client/Server
9 22 (1.652%) PMI
10 20 (1.502%) Computer Science
11 19 (1.426%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.426%) Equities
12 12 (0.901%) EPoS
12 12 (0.901%) Firmware
12 12 (0.901%) Mathematics
13 10 (0.751%) RIA
13 10 (0.751%) Equity Derivative
14 9 (0.676%) Statistics
14 9 (0.676%) IaaS
14 9 (0.676%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 313 (23.50%) Linux
2 264 (19.82%) Windows
3 222 (16.67%) UNIX
4 89 (6.682%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 73 (5.480%) Windows Server 2008
6 65 (4.880%) Windows Server 2003
7 64 (4.805%) Solaris
8 32 (2.402%) Windows XP
9 30 (2.252%) AIX
9 30 (2.252%) CentOS
10 22 (1.652%) Windows 7
11 17 (1.276%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (1.276%) Oracle Linux
12 12 (0.901%) Ubuntu
13 11 (0.826%) Tru64
14 10 (0.751%) Debian
15 8 (0.601%) Windows 2000
16 7 (0.526%) Windows Vista
17 6 (0.450%) Embedded Linux
17 6 (0.450%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (21.55%) ITIL
2 216 (16.22%) Project Management
3 203 (15.24%) Change Management
4 186 (13.96%) Release Management
5 139 (10.44%) Service Management
6 135 (10.14%) PRINCE2
7 130 (9.760%) Continuous Integration
8 117 (8.784%) OO
9 106 (7.958%) Agile Software Development
10 99 (7.432%) UML
11 96 (7.207%) Change Control
12 83 (6.231%) Scrum
13 72 (5.405%) Migration
14 68 (5.105%) Incident Management
15 66 (4.955%) Stakeholder Management
16 65 (4.880%) Problem Management
17 64 (4.805%) OOD
18 63 (4.730%) Risk Management
19 61 (4.580%) Service Delivery
20 58 (4.354%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 225 (16.89%) Java
2 217 (16.29%) SQL
3 126 (9.459%) C++
4 116 (8.709%) C
5 110 (8.258%) Python
6 103 (7.733%) Perl
7 97 (7.282%) C#
8 70 (5.255%) PHP
9 66 (4.955%) JavaScript
10 58 (4.354%) Ruby
11 57 (4.279%) Bash shell
12 49 (3.679%) PL/SQL
13 47 (3.529%) Shell Script
14 44 (3.303%) PowerShell
15 21 (1.577%) VB
16 11 (0.826%) VB.NET
16 11 (0.826%) T-SQL
17 10 (0.751%) VBA
17 10 (0.751%) XPath
17 10 (0.751%) Jython
Qualifications
1 253 (18.99%) Security Cleared
2 177 (13.29%) SC Cleared
3 84 (6.306%) Degree
4 47 (3.529%) DV Cleared
5 27 (2.027%) ITIL Certification
6 24 (1.802%) PMI Certification
6 24 (1.802%) ISEB
7 23 (1.727%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (1.727%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 20 (1.502%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 16 (1.201%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 15 (1.126%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (0.976%) MCSE
12 11 (0.826%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (0.751%) MCITP
14 7 (0.526%) CISSP
15 6 (0.450%) CCNP
15 6 (0.450%) MCTS
16 5 (0.375%) MCP
16 5 (0.375%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (9.685%) QA
2 39 (2.928%) SLA
3 17 (1.276%) COBIT
4 13 (0.976%) ISO 9001
5 10 (0.751%) ISO 9000
6 8 (0.601%) TickIT
7 5 (0.375%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.375%) DO-178B
8 4 (0.300%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.225%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.150%) HL7
10 2 (0.150%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.150%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.075%) JTAG
11 1 (0.075%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.075%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 96 (7.207%) VMware Infrastructure
2 82 (6.156%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.577%) Xen
4 20 (1.502%) VMware ESX
5 15 (1.126%) XenApp
6 14 (1.051%) vSphere
7 13 (0.976%) Oracle RAC
7 13 (0.976%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.826%) Varnish
9 9 (0.676%) NFS
9 9 (0.676%) XenServer
9 9 (0.676%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 9 (0.676%) Oracle RMAN
10 8 (0.601%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 6 (0.450%) VMware Server
11 6 (0.450%) vCloud
12 5 (0.375%) UAG
12 5 (0.375%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.300%) Postfix
13 4 (0.300%) RACF
Systems Management
1 102 (7.658%) Puppet
2 35 (2.628%) SCCM
2 35 (2.628%) SCOM
3 26 (1.952%) HP Quality Center
4 24 (1.802%) Tivoli
5 19 (1.426%) OpenView Configuration Management
6 15 (1.126%) Nagios
7 11 (0.826%) WSUS
8 10 (0.751%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 9 (0.676%) Data Guard
9 9 (0.676%) HP SIM
9 9 (0.676%) Ionix
10 8 (0.601%) BladeLogic
10 8 (0.601%) MIMEsweeper
10 8 (0.601%) Backup Exec
11 7 (0.526%) Foglight
11 7 (0.526%) Netcool
11 7 (0.526%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (0.526%) HP Operations Orchestration
11 7 (0.526%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 252 (18.92%) Oracle
1 252 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 135 (10.14%) VMware
3 104 (7.808%) Red Hat
3 104 (7.808%) HP
4 64 (4.805%) Cisco
5 62 (4.655%) IBM
6 49 (3.679%) Citrix
7 38 (2.853%) JBoss
8 32 (2.402%) Remedy
9 31 (2.327%) BMC
10 28 (2.102%) CA
11 27 (2.027%) SAP
12 23 (1.727%) Sun
13 21 (1.577%) Perforce
14 20 (1.502%) Juniper
15 18 (1.351%) EMC
15 18 (1.351%) NetApp
16 17 (1.276%) Serena
16 17 (1.276%) Niku
Barnsley, Yorkshire
My large financial client is looking to recruit a Technical Analyst - (Redhat Linux, Windows and Solaris) based within the Enterprise and Systems Architecture department The role of the...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £200.00 - £250.00 per day
Posted: 4 June 2013
Loughborough, Leicestershire
spec below) Key Responsibilities * Manage the dependencies within the release and with other projects and/or releases * Manage the overall release content and managing changes throughout the lifetime...
Vivid Resourcing Ltd
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Candidates need to have experience of: Straight configuration and service asset based configuration with configuration management systems and databases in an ITIL environment.Service Transition/Configuration Analyst Role:*...
Sand Resources
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
Hampshire
The DevOps Engineer shall be a vital cog in transitioning the organisation from a Windows centric organisation to a cross platform estate that embraces Open Source technology. The...
ISL
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
InterQuest Financial Markets key client a leading financial regulator seeks an IT Change and Configuration Management Analyst.Responsible for the effective operation of the Change Management process and...
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 28 May 2013
Hampshire, South East
DP Connect Ltd
Rate: £210 - £235 per day
Posted: 4 June 2013
Hampshire, South East
DP Connect Ltd
Rate: £210 - £235 per day
Posted: 11 June 2013
Andover, South East
LA International Computer Consultants Ltd.
Posted: 22 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £400 - £475 per annum + Market Rate
Posted: 7 June 2013
Andover, South East
LA International Computer Consultants Ltd.
Posted: 12 June 2013
Brentwood, Essex
Advanced Resource Managers
Rate: £35 - £40 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Oliver Bernard
Rate: From £500 to £600 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
South West London
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £450 to £500 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Hook, Hampshire
LA International
Rate: £410 - £420 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
People Source Consulting
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
LA International Computer Consultants Ltd.
Posted: 30 May 2013
City, London
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £400 to £550 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Hook, Hampshire
PS Computer Services LTD
Rate: From £378 to £425 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £325 - £375 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013
Bristol, South West
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 28 May 2013
City, London
Fusion People
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Fusion People
Rate: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Hampshire, South East
Sand Resources
Rate: £200 - £250 per annum
Posted: 3 June 2013
Wales
Experis IT
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 14 June 2013