The first table below looks at the demand for the Configuration Manager 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 Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Manager
Rank 436 488 506
Rank change year-on-year
+52 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Configuration Manager 98 98 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.208% 0.165% 0.133%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.226% 0.179% 0.143%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 66 40
Average daily rate £425 £428 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.58% +6.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £350 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £513 £466
UK excluding London average daily rate £369 £356 £400
% change year-on-year
+3.58% -11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £19.00
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 2155 2623 2895
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
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 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Configuration Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Configuration Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Configuration Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

Configuration Manager Daily Rate Trend

Configuration Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Configuration Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Configuration Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Configuration Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Configuration Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Configuration Manager
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 Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +45 81 £438 +2.33%
London +30 53 £450 -
Scotland -5 13 £338 -
City of London -7 13 £450 -
Glasgow - 9 £338 -
South East +8 8 £438 +22.89%
West Midlands +15 5 £475 -
Edinburgh +6 4 £388 -
North West +6 4 £299 -14.50%
Yorkshire +2 4 £400 +14.28%
West Yorkshire 0 4 £400 +14.28%
South West +22 3 - -
Leeds +5 3 £343 -
Cheshire +4 3 £239 -24.28%
East Midlands 0 3 - -
Bristol - 3 - -
Lincoln - 3 - -
Lincolnshire - 3 - -
Surrey +18 2 £463 +15.62%
West Sussex +15 2 £425 -
Berkshire +11 2 £375 +21.45%
Reading +8 2 £375 +21.45%
Shropshire - 2 - -
Telford - 2 - -
Solihull - 2 - -
Knutsford - 2 £239 -
Bromley - 2 £425 -
Crawley +8 1 - -
Hampshire -5 1 - -
Essex - 1 £313 -

Configuration Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Configuration Manager 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 Manager in their job title.

1 88 (55.35%) Configuration Management
2 36 (22.64%) Release Management
3 32 (20.13%) Finance
4 31 (19.50%) ITIL
5 27 (16.98%) Subversion
6 26 (16.35%) Banking
7 25 (15.72%) CMDB
8 24 (15.09%) Change Management
8 24 (15.09%) Java
9 22 (13.84%) Microsoft
9 22 (13.84%) Continuous Integration
10 21 (13.21%) Oracle
11 19 (11.95%) Windows
11 19 (11.95%) Project Management
11 19 (11.95%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (11.32%) QA
12 18 (11.32%) .NET
13 15 (9.434%) UNIX
13 15 (9.434%) MSBuild
14 13 (8.176%) ITIL V3
14 13 (8.176%) C#
14 13 (8.176%) SQL Server
15 12 (7.547%) Linux
15 12 (7.547%) ClearCase
15 12 (7.547%) Team Foundation Server
16 10 (6.289%) Git (software)
16 10 (6.289%) Maven
16 10 (6.289%) Security Cleared
16 10 (6.289%) SOA
16 10 (6.289%) MS Excel

Configuration Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Configuration Manager 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 Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (11.32%) .NET
2 6 (3.774%) Servlets
3 4 (2.516%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.887%) J2EE
4 3 (1.887%) ASP.NET
4 3 (1.887%) XML
4 3 (1.887%) Middleware
5 2 (1.258%) Application Packaging
5 2 (1.258%) Web Services
5 2 (1.258%) COM
6 1 (0.629%) Struts
6 1 (0.629%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.629%) Spring MVC
6 1 (0.629%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.629%) Spring
6 1 (0.629%) AppFabric
6 1 (0.629%) Struts2
Application Platforms
1 6 (3.774%) Jetty
1 6 (3.774%) Apache
2 4 (2.516%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.887%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.887%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.258%) IIS
5 1 (0.629%) CM System
Applications
1 10 (6.289%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.629%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.516%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.887%) Summit
3 2 (1.258%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.629%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.629%) Endur
4 1 (0.629%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.629%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.629%) HTTP
1 1 (0.629%) Firewall
1 1 (0.629%) BIG-IP
1 1 (0.629%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.176%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.403%) MySQL
3 3 (1.887%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.258%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.258%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.258%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (1.258%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (0.629%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (0.629%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.629%) KDB
5 1 (0.629%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 27 (16.98%) Subversion
2 15 (9.434%) MSBuild
3 12 (7.547%) ClearCase
3 12 (7.547%) Team Foundation Server
4 10 (6.289%) Git (software)
4 10 (6.289%) Maven
5 9 (5.660%) CruiseControl
5 9 (5.660%) JIRA
6 8 (5.031%) Ant
7 7 (4.403%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (4.403%) Jenkins
8 6 (3.774%) TeamCity
9 4 (2.516%) Hudson
9 4 (2.516%) ClearQuest
9 4 (2.516%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.887%) InstallShield
11 2 (1.258%) Bugzilla
11 2 (1.258%) PVCS
11 2 (1.258%) TestDirector
12 1 (0.629%) Eclipse
General
1 32 (20.13%) Finance
2 26 (16.35%) Banking
3 7 (4.403%) Telecoms
3 7 (4.403%) Investment Banking
4 6 (3.774%) Retail
5 3 (1.887%) Aerospace
5 3 (1.887%) Marketing
6 1 (0.629%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.629%) French Language
6 1 (0.629%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.72%) CMDB
2 6 (3.774%) Open Source
3 3 (1.887%) NHS
3 3 (1.887%) FMCG
3 3 (1.887%) IPTV
3 3 (1.887%) Digital Media
4 2 (1.258%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.629%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.629%) Firmware
5 1 (0.629%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.629%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.629%) Wiki
5 1 (0.629%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.629%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.95%) Windows
2 15 (9.434%) UNIX
3 12 (7.547%) Linux
4 5 (3.145%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (2.516%) CentOS
6 3 (1.887%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.258%) Android
7 2 (1.258%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.258%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (1.258%) Solaris
8 1 (0.629%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.629%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.629%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (55.35%) Configuration Management
2 36 (22.64%) Release Management
3 31 (19.50%) ITIL
4 24 (15.09%) Change Management
5 22 (13.84%) Continuous Integration
6 19 (11.95%) Project Management
6 19 (11.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (8.176%) ITIL V3
8 10 (6.289%) SOA
9 9 (5.660%) Agile Software Development
10 8 (5.031%) Migration
11 7 (4.403%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (3.774%) Change Control
12 6 (3.774%) User Acceptance Testing
12 6 (3.774%) Business Intelligence
13 5 (3.145%) CMMI
13 5 (3.145%) Problem Management
13 5 (3.145%) Build Automation
14 4 (2.516%) Data Entry
14 4 (2.516%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (15.09%) Java
2 13 (8.176%) C#
3 10 (6.289%) SQL
4 9 (5.660%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.403%) Python
5 7 (4.403%) Shell Script
6 6 (3.774%) C++
6 6 (3.774%) Perl
7 4 (2.516%) C
8 2 (1.258%) VBScript
9 1 (0.629%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.629%) Ruby
9 1 (0.629%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 10 (6.289%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.660%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.516%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.629%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.629%) MCAD
4 1 (0.629%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.32%) QA
2 2 (1.258%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.629%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.629%) TickIT
3 1 (0.629%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (3.145%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.887%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.629%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (5.031%) Puppet
1 8 (5.031%) SCCM
2 3 (1.887%) Tivoli
2 3 (1.887%) Tivoli Configuration Manager
2 3 (1.887%) WSUS
3 2 (1.258%) Sysprep
3 2 (1.258%) Business Desktop Deployment
3 2 (1.258%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.629%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.629%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (0.629%) SCOM
4 1 (0.629%) SCVMM
4 1 (0.629%) BladeLogic
4 1 (0.629%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 22 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 21 (13.21%) Oracle
3 6 (3.774%) IBM
4 5 (3.145%) VMware
4 5 (3.145%) Altiris
5 4 (2.516%) HP
5 4 (2.516%) Informatica
6 3 (1.887%) Perforce
6 3 (1.887%) LANDesk
6 3 (1.887%) Pega
7 2 (1.258%) Remedy
7 2 (1.258%) Sybase
8 1 (0.629%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.629%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.629%) Murex
8 1 (0.629%) BMC
8 1 (0.629%) CA
8 1 (0.629%) Cisco
8 1 (0.629%) SAP
8 1 (0.629%) JBoss
West Midlands
Expert level skills using Subversion for source code management and configuration. Strong understanding of release management and ITIL processes for Problem, Incident, Change & Release Management. Expert level skills...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £400.00 - £475.00 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Change and Configuration Manager required for an initial 3 month contractMy client this year has en enormous challenge to deliver significant process change to align with ISO20k and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £400.00 - £430.00 per day
Posted: 4 May 2013
Cribbs Causeway, Bristol, South West
JOB TITLE- Software Configuration Manager (maternity cover)SALARY- £40,000DURATION- 6-12 monthsLOCATION- Cribbs Causeway, BristolConfiguration Manager, Source Control Manager, SCM, Subversion, Apache, Tortoise, CruiseControl.NET (CCNet), MSBuild...
Brightside Group
Rate: £35,000 - £40,000 per year
Posted: 22 May 2013