Configuration Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Configuration Management
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Configuration Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Configuration Management over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 55 39
Rank change year-on-year -32 -16 +9
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 26 88 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.34% 3.74% 5.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 4.21% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 76 122
10th Percentile £350 £350 £416
25th Percentile - £510 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -33.70% +2.86% +29.63%
75th Percentile £463 £559 £545
90th Percentile £475 £600 £623
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £15.42
25th Percentile - £15.64 -
Median hourly rate - £16.29 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year - -7.99% -27.76%
75th Percentile - £16.93 £18.85
90th Percentile - - £20.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £47.11
% change year-on-year -0.83% +7.04% +16.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Configuration Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,624 2,088 3,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.93% 88.62% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 1,431 2,357
10th Percentile £276 £263 £272
25th Percentile £364 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +15.32%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £699 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 47 69
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £40.38 £24.94 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £50.00 £22.05
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the West Midlands

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the West Midlands

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Shropshire +4 16 £358 -33.70% 1
Birmingham +2 5 £450 -12.20% 7
Warwickshire +5 4 £431 -21.59%
Coventry +11 2 £381 +52.50%
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) CICS
1 2 (7.69%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.85%) Azure
1 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (3.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Network Security
2 1 (3.85%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) NGFW
2 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (53.85%) Amazon Redshift
1 14 (53.85%) MySQL
2 2 (7.69%) DB2
2 2 (7.69%) IDMS
3 1 (3.85%) Flink
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (65.38%) Git
General
1 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Network Manager
2 3 (11.54%) Developer
2 3 (11.54%) Project Manager
2 3 (11.54%) SAP Manager
2 3 (11.54%) SAP Project Manager
3 2 (7.69%) IBM Mainframe Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Mainframe Developer
4 1 (3.85%) C# Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Configuration and Release Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Configuration Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Dashboard Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Denodo Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Release and Configuration Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Kafka
1 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) IBM Mainframe
1 2 (7.69%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Agile
1 16 (61.54%) Analytics
1 16 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
1 16 (61.54%) Requirements Gathering
1 16 (61.54%) Software Engineering
2 15 (57.69%) Data Analytics
2 15 (57.69%) Data Extraction
2 15 (57.69%) ETL
2 15 (57.69%) Scrum
3 14 (53.85%) Dashboard Development
4 11 (42.31%) Process Improvement
4 11 (42.31%) Test Strategy
5 5 (19.23%) Strategic Planning
6 4 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (15.38%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (15.38%) Incident Response
6 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (15.38%) Network Design
6 4 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) CLIST
1 2 (7.69%) COBOL
1 2 (7.69%) REXX
1 2 (7.69%) SELCOPY
2 1 (3.85%) C#
2 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (61.54%) SC Cleared
1 16 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (15.38%) CCIE
3 4 (15.38%) CCNP
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.69%) Degree
5 1 (3.85%) CCNA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (53.85%) Grafana
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (53.85%) Denodo
1 14 (53.85%) Talend
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.54%) SAP
4 2 (7.69%) IBM
4 2 (7.69%) Syncsort
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle