Configuration Management Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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 69 55 89
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +34
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 26 49 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.592% 2.186% 0.687%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.396% 3.424% 1.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 31 7
Average daily rate £300 £290 £233
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +24.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £250 £194
10% offered a daily rate of more than £396 £500 £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £28.50 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +18.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +8.10%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1085 1431 1197
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 66.44% 63.83% 63.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 675 550
Average daily rate £350 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £235 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £527 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 73 75
Average hourly rate £37.80 £20.26 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+86.62% -18.98%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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
Staffordshire +4 6 - -
Birmingham +15 4 £325 -35.00%
Worcestershire - 4 £313 -
Shropshire -3 3 £400 -20.00%
Coventry -8 2 £275 -4.34%
Warwickshire -5 1 - -
Herefordshire - 1 £250 -
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 21 (39.62%) Change Management
2 9 (16.98%) Windows
2 9 (16.98%) MS Excel
2 9 (16.98%) SharePoint
2 9 (16.98%) CMDB
3 8 (15.09%) Resource Management
3 8 (15.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 8 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 8 (15.09%) Security Cleared
3 8 (15.09%) PRINCE2
3 8 (15.09%) MS Project
3 8 (15.09%) Project Management
3 8 (15.09%) Finance
4 7 (13.21%) ITIL
4 7 (13.21%) ClearCase
4 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
4 7 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (11.32%) Degree
5 6 (11.32%) Java
6 5 (9.434%) Programme Management
6 5 (9.434%) Subversion
6 5 (9.434%) Software Testing
6 5 (9.434%) Oracle
6 5 (9.434%) UNIX
6 5 (9.434%) IBM
6 5 (9.434%) Windows 7
7 4 (7.547%) Software Distribution
7 4 (7.547%) Risk Analysis
7 4 (7.547%) QA
7 4 (7.547%) .NET Framework

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 4 (7.547%) .NET Framework
1 4 (7.547%) .NET
2 3 (5.660%) Middleware
2 3 (5.660%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.774%) J2EE
4 1 (1.887%) Ajax
4 1 (1.887%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.887%) jQuery
4 1 (1.887%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (1.887%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 9 (16.98%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.660%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (5.660%) ESB
2 3 (5.660%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 2 (3.774%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.887%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.887%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (16.98%) MS Excel
2 8 (15.09%) MS Project
3 3 (5.660%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.887%) Firewall
1 1 (1.887%) SAN
1 1 (1.887%) LAN
1 1 (1.887%) DHCP
1 1 (1.887%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.887%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.547%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.660%) DB2
2 3 (5.660%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.774%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (3.774%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.774%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (3.774%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) ClearCase
2 5 (9.434%) Subversion
3 3 (5.660%) ClearQuest
3 3 (5.660%) TortoiseSVN
4 1 (1.887%) MSI
4 1 (1.887%) StarTeam
4 1 (1.887%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.887%) Git (software)
General
1 8 (15.09%) Finance
2 4 (7.547%) Retail
3 3 (5.660%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 15 (28.30%) Analyst
2 8 (15.09%) Developer
3 7 (13.21%) Change Analyst
3 7 (13.21%) Business Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Configuration Analyst
5 5 (9.434%) Programme Support Officer
6 3 (5.660%) Tester
6 3 (5.660%) Configuration Manager
6 3 (5.660%) Software Tester
6 3 (5.660%) WebSphere Engineer
6 3 (5.660%) Environment Manager
6 3 (5.660%) WebSphere Developer
6 3 (5.660%) Configuration Management Analyst
6 3 (5.660%) Configuration Engineer
7 2 (3.774%) Programme Administrator
7 2 (3.774%) Change Management Analyst
7 2 (3.774%) UML Business Analyst
7 2 (3.774%) Test Coordinator
7 2 (3.774%) Lead Developer
7 2 (3.774%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) CMDB
2 4 (7.547%) EPoS
3 2 (3.774%) Smart Meter
4 1 (1.887%) Clustering
4 1 (1.887%) VHDL
4 1 (1.887%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.887%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 1 (1.887%) Firmware
4 1 (1.887%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.98%) Windows
2 5 (9.434%) UNIX
2 5 (9.434%) Windows 7
3 4 (7.547%) Windows XP
4 3 (5.660%) Windows NT
4 3 (5.660%) HPUX
4 3 (5.660%) Linux
4 3 (5.660%) zOS
4 3 (5.660%) Windows 2000 Server
5 2 (3.774%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (3.774%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (39.62%) Change Management
2 8 (15.09%) Resource Management
2 8 (15.09%) PRINCE2
2 8 (15.09%) Project Management
3 7 (13.21%) ITIL
3 7 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (9.434%) Programme Management
4 5 (9.434%) Software Testing
5 4 (7.547%) Software Distribution
5 4 (7.547%) Risk Analysis
5 4 (7.547%) Business Analysis
5 4 (7.547%) Asset Management
5 4 (7.547%) Validation
6 3 (5.660%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (5.660%) UML
6 3 (5.660%) EAI
6 3 (5.660%) Data Modelling
6 3 (5.660%) SOA
6 3 (5.660%) Project Planning
7 2 (3.774%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.32%) Java
2 4 (7.547%) C#
2 4 (7.547%) SQL
3 3 (5.660%) C++
3 3 (5.660%) C
4 2 (3.774%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.774%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.774%) Perl
4 2 (3.774%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.887%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 8 (15.09%) SC Cleared
1 8 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.32%) Degree
3 3 (5.660%) IBM Certification
4 2 (3.774%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.547%) QA
2 3 (5.660%) TickIT
2 3 (5.660%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.887%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (5.660%) VMware ESX
1 3 (5.660%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.660%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.887%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.887%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (1.887%) Backup Exec
1 1 (1.887%) OpenView Configuration Management
1 1 (1.887%) OpenView
1 1 (1.887%) WSUS
1 1 (1.887%) SCCM
1 1 (1.887%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.434%) Oracle
2 5 (9.434%) IBM
3 4 (7.547%) VMware
4 3 (5.660%) HP
5 2 (3.774%) Pega
5 2 (3.774%) BEA
5 2 (3.774%) SAP
6 1 (1.887%) Serena
6 1 (1.887%) Xilinx
6 1 (1.887%) Business Objects
6 1 (1.887%) NetApp
6 1 (1.887%) Borland
6 1 (1.887%) Juniper
6 1 (1.887%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.887%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.887%) webMethods
6 1 (1.887%) ProCurve
VB Developer
Birmingham, West Midlands
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Rate: £25000.00 - £35000.00 per annum
Posted: 1 May 2013
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Warwickshire
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Cubic Recruitment
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 9 May 2013
Environments Build Technician
West Midlands
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Rate: £250 to £300 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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