The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills 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 Management over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Management
Rank 38 67 61
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -6
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 54 27 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 4.255% 1.669% 1.160%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.947% 2.269% 1.764%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 17 7
Average daily rate £275 £280 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.78% +1.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £270 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £358 £356 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £34.75 - £12.25
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.15 - £12.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.35 - £12.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.75 £39.00 £36.98
% change year-on-year
-3.20% +5.47%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
908 1190 737
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 71.55% 73.55% 65.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 686 351
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 28
Average hourly rate £24.00 £20.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.07% +17.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.68 £12.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Configuration Management
Yorkshire

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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 +20 50 £275 -1.78%
Configuration Management
Yorkshire

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 52 (69.33%) Linux
2 36 (48.00%) Python
2 36 (48.00%) Apache
2 36 (48.00%) Ruby
2 36 (48.00%) MongoDB
3 35 (46.67%) Bash shell
3 35 (46.67%) C++
3 35 (46.67%) PHP
3 35 (46.67%) Web Services
4 34 (45.33%) MySQL
4 34 (45.33%) Puppet
4 34 (45.33%) Node.js
4 34 (45.33%) Amazon AWS
5 32 (42.67%) Amazon EC2
5 32 (42.67%) Amazon S3
5 32 (42.67%) nginx
5 32 (42.67%) Redis
5 32 (42.67%) Route 53
5 32 (42.67%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (42.67%) Kanban
5 32 (42.67%) DNS
6 27 (36.00%) Internet
7 24 (32.00%) Oracle
7 24 (32.00%) Java
8 22 (29.33%) Telecoms
8 22 (29.33%) Continuous Integration
9 21 (28.00%) Perl
10 20 (26.67%) Client/Server
11 18 (24.00%) RDBMS
11 18 (24.00%) Test Automation

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 35 (46.67%) Web Services
2 34 (45.33%) Node.js
3 16 (21.33%) POSIX
4 6 (8.000%) WebSphere
5 5 (6.667%) LAMP
6 4 (5.333%) XML
7 3 (4.000%) HTML
7 3 (4.000%) .NET
7 3 (4.000%) jQuery
8 2 (2.667%) REST
8 2 (2.667%) UIKit
8 2 (2.667%) Application Packaging
8 2 (2.667%) WPF
8 2 (2.667%) ASP
8 2 (2.667%) SOAP
8 2 (2.667%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (2.667%) BREW
9 1 (1.333%) Middleware
9 1 (1.333%) Hibernate
9 1 (1.333%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 36 (48.00%) Apache
2 34 (45.33%) Amazon AWS
3 32 (42.67%) Route 53
3 32 (42.67%) nginx
3 32 (42.67%) Amazon EC2
3 32 (42.67%) Amazon S3
4 7 (9.333%) WebLogic
5 3 (4.000%) Tomcat
5 3 (4.000%) CMS
5 3 (4.000%) ATG Dynamo
6 1 (1.333%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (1.333%) Magento
6 1 (1.333%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.333%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (1.333%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.333%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.333%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 6 (8.000%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.333%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 32 (42.67%) DNS
2 27 (36.00%) Internet
3 17 (22.67%) SSL
3 17 (22.67%) DHCP
3 17 (22.67%) TCP/IP
4 16 (21.33%) HTTP
5 13 (17.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 7 (9.333%) Firewall
7 6 (8.000%) BIG-IP
7 6 (8.000%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.333%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (1.333%) Network Security
8 1 (1.333%) SSH
8 1 (1.333%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (48.00%) MongoDB
2 34 (45.33%) MySQL
3 32 (42.67%) Redis
3 32 (42.67%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (24.00%) RDBMS
5 16 (21.33%) SimpleDB
5 16 (21.33%) Couchbase
5 16 (21.33%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.333%) CouchDB
7 2 (2.667%) SQLite
7 2 (2.667%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.333%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (1.333%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.333%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (9.333%) Subversion
1 7 (9.333%) Maven
2 6 (8.000%) Ant
3 5 (6.667%) CruiseControl
4 4 (5.333%) Git (software)
5 3 (4.000%) Hudson
5 3 (4.000%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.667%) NUnit
6 2 (2.667%) Capistrano
7 1 (1.333%) JUnit
7 1 (1.333%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.333%) Oracle Forms
General
1 22 (29.33%) Telecoms
2 3 (4.000%) Retail
3 2 (2.667%) Marketing
3 2 (2.667%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (26.67%) Software Engineer
2 9 (12.00%) Operations Engineer
3 7 (9.333%) Developer
4 6 (8.000%) Analyst
4 6 (8.000%) Configuration Engineer
5 5 (6.667%) Release Engineer
6 4 (5.333%) Configuration Manager
7 3 (4.000%) Administrator
7 3 (4.000%) Quality Manager
7 3 (4.000%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.000%) Change Manager
7 3 (4.000%) Configuration Analyst
7 3 (4.000%) Software Manager
8 2 (2.667%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 2 (2.667%) iOS Developer
8 2 (2.667%) Linux Administrator
8 2 (2.667%) Transition Manager
8 2 (2.667%) Change Analyst
8 2 (2.667%) Server Engineer
8 2 (2.667%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (26.67%) Client/Server
2 5 (6.667%) CMDB
3 2 (2.667%) iPhone
3 2 (2.667%) iPad
3 2 (2.667%) Heroku
3 2 (2.667%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.333%) Open Source
4 1 (1.333%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.333%) NHS
4 1 (1.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 52 (69.33%) Linux
2 12 (16.00%) Windows
3 9 (12.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (9.333%) UNIX
5 6 (8.000%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (8.000%) CentOS
5 6 (8.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (6.667%) Solaris
7 3 (4.000%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (2.667%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.333%) Windows Vista
9 1 (1.333%) Windows XP
9 1 (1.333%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (42.67%) Kanban
2 22 (29.33%) Continuous Integration
3 18 (24.00%) Test Automation
4 17 (22.67%) Incident Management
4 17 (22.67%) Load Balancing
5 16 (21.33%) ITIL
5 16 (21.33%) TDD
5 16 (21.33%) Capacity Management
6 14 (18.67%) Change Management
6 14 (18.67%) Scrum
7 12 (16.00%) Security Testing
8 8 (10.67%) Release Management
9 7 (9.333%) E-Commerce
10 6 (8.000%) Performance Testing
11 5 (6.667%) Service Management
12 4 (5.333%) Test Management
12 4 (5.333%) Refactoring
12 4 (5.333%) Migration
13 3 (4.000%) Software Testing
13 3 (4.000%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (48.00%) Python
1 36 (48.00%) Ruby
2 35 (46.67%) Bash shell
2 35 (46.67%) PHP
2 35 (46.67%) C++
3 24 (32.00%) Java
4 21 (28.00%) Perl
5 10 (13.33%) SQL
6 5 (6.667%) VB
7 4 (5.333%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.333%) AWK
8 3 (4.000%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.000%) C#
9 2 (2.667%) C
9 2 (2.667%) VB.NET
9 2 (2.667%) VBA
9 2 (2.667%) VB6
9 2 (2.667%) XPath
9 2 (2.667%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.333%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (4.000%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (4.000%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (4.000%) MCSE
2 2 (2.667%) Degree
3 1 (1.333%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.333%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.333%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.000%) QA
2 3 (4.000%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.667%) SLA
4 1 (1.333%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (1.333%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.333%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 34 (45.33%) Puppet
2 3 (4.000%) ZENworks
2 3 (4.000%) Business Desktop Deployment
3 1 (1.333%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (32.00%) Oracle
2 10 (13.33%) Percona
3 7 (9.333%) Cisco
4 6 (8.000%) Red Hat
4 6 (8.000%) Perforce
4 6 (8.000%) F5
5 3 (4.000%) Novell
5 3 (4.000%) ATG
5 3 (4.000%) Remedy
5 3 (4.000%) JBoss
6 2 (2.667%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.333%) Sun
7 1 (1.333%) Juniper
7 1 (1.333%) NetApp
7 1 (1.333%) IBM
7 1 (1.333%) McAfee
7 1 (1.333%) SeeBeyond
7 1 (1.333%) Blue Coat
Leeds, Yorkshire
Service Change Analyst required for an initial 6 month contract working for my client based in Leeds.
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £100.00 - £120.00 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Demonstrable deployment/configuration experience with web application servers ideally on either IBM WebSphere or Oracle WebLogic. * Demonstrable practical experience of working in a Unix/Linux environment including system...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £320.00 - £350.00 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Demonstrable deployment/configuration experience with web application servers ideally on either IBM WebSphere or Oracle WebLogic. * Demonstrable practical experience of working in a Unix/Linux environment including system...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Rate: £320.00 - £350.00 per day
Posted: 14 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