West Sussex Configuration Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills within the West Sussex region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Corsham Coventry Crewe Croydon Daventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Huddersfield Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Prestwick Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stevenage Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Wolverhampton Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	36
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	3.866 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£317
Average daily rate	-	£383
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£391	£372
% change on same period last year	+4.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.32	£35.69
% change on same period last year	-1.01 %
Processes & Methodologies West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	283	388
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.383 %	0.383 %
Daily rates quoted	115	146
Average minimum daily rate	£371	£381
Average daily rate	£392	£394
% change on same period last year	-0.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£412	£406
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.99	£23.71
Average hourly rate	£28.91	£25.54
% change on same period last year	+13.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.83	£27.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Configuration Management across the West Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Configuration Management across the West Sussex region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Configuration Management across the West Sussex region.

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Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Linux 2 2 (66.67 %) C 2 2 (66.67 %) C++ 2 2 (66.67 %) Perl 2 2 (66.67 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (66.67 %) Release Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Ruby 3 1 (33.33 %) Incident Management 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 1 (33.33 %) Service Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Change Management 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000

3 1 (33.33 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (33.33 %) Python 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows NT 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Visio 3 1 (33.33 %) NetWare 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 3 1 (33.33 %) Novell 3 1 (33.33 %) Lotus 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 2 (66.67 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Visio	Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) Visual Studio
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Systems Engineer 1 2 (66.67 %) Configuration Management Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Service Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Service Desk Analyst	Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows NT 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 3 1 (33.33 %) NetWare 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Release Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Service Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Change Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Incident Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) C 1 2 (66.67 %) C++ 1 2 (66.67 %) Perl 2 1 (33.33 %) Python 2 1 (33.33 %) Ruby
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 1 1 (33.33 %) Novell 1 1 (33.33 %) Lotus