The first table below looks at the demand for the Configuration Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Configuration Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the West Yorkshire 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 Engineer
Rank 82 90 77
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Configuration Engineer 6 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.478% 0.064% 0.178%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.506% 0.068% 0.189%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
Average daily rate £375 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £338 £275
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +22.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1185 1480 1059
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.42% 94.57% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 828 495
Average daily rate £313 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.08% +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 67 74
Average hourly rate £12.75 £15.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.53 £10.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.50 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Configuration Engineer
Yorkshire

Configuration Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Configuration Engineer across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

West Yorkshire Configuration Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Configuration Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Configuration Engineer across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Configuration Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Configuration Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Configuration Engineer across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Configuration Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Configuration Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Engineer within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds -2 6 £375 -
Configuration Engineer
Yorkshire

Configuration Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Configuration Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Linux
1 6 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 5 (62.50%) CruiseControl
2 5 (62.50%) Subversion
2 5 (62.50%) Maven
2 5 (62.50%) WebSphere
2 5 (62.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) Ant
2 5 (62.50%) WebLogic
2 5 (62.50%) E-Commerce
2 5 (62.50%) UNIX
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (37.50%) Solaris
3 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 3 (37.50%) Perl
3 3 (37.50%) JBoss
3 3 (37.50%) Apache
3 3 (37.50%) Tomcat
3 3 (37.50%) AWK
3 3 (37.50%) ATG
3 3 (37.50%) ATG Dynamo
4 2 (25.00%) Marketing
4 2 (25.00%) Release Management
4 2 (25.00%) Change Management
4 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) Hudson
4 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (12.50%) F5
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA

Configuration Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Configuration Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (62.50%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) WebLogic
2 3 (37.50%) Apache
2 3 (37.50%) Tomcat
2 3 (37.50%) ATG Dynamo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) BIG-IP
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) CruiseControl
1 5 (62.50%) Subversion
1 5 (62.50%) Maven
1 5 (62.50%) Ant
2 2 (25.00%) Hudson
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) UNIX
3 3 (37.50%) Solaris
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (12.50%) CentOS
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 5 (62.50%) E-Commerce
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Release Management
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
2 3 (37.50%) AWK
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) JBoss
1 3 (37.50%) ATG
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Perforce