The first table below looks at the demand for the Configuration Manager 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 Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 17 June 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Manager
Rank 91 92 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Contract jobs requiring a Configuration Manager 4 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.289% 0.177% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.306% 0.186% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £343 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.14% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £395 £356 £400
% change year-on-year
+10.95% -11.00%
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
1307 1611 1081
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.57% 95.04% 93.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 899 519
Average daily rate £315 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 67 83
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 £10.00 £10.30 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.60 £34.75 £28.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Configuration Manager
Yorkshire

Configuration Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Configuration Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Configuration Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Configuration Manager Daily Rate Trend

Configuration Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Configuration Manager across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

West Yorkshire Configuration Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Configuration Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Configuration Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Configuration Manager
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Manager within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
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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
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Vacancies
Leeds -3 3 £343 -
Configuration Manager
Yorkshire

Configuration Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Configuration Manager 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 Manager in their job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Release Management
2 2 (33.33%) CMDB
2 2 (33.33%) Remedy
3 1 (16.67%) LANDesk
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
3 1 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) Reference Data
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (16.67%) Software Distribution
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Perforce
3 1 (16.67%) BIG-IP
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) SQL

Configuration Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Configuration Manager 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 Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) BIG-IP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) CMDB
2 1 (16.67%) Reference Data
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (16.67%) CentOS
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) Release Management
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Software Distribution
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Configuration Manager
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Remedy
2 1 (16.67%) Perforce
2 1 (16.67%) LANDesk
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat