The first table below looks at the demand for the Configuration Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the 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 20 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Engineer
Rank 105 115 90
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Configuration Engineer 10 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.530% 0.044% 0.225%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.561% 0.046% 0.240%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
Average daily rate £300 - £275
90% offered a daily rate of more than £276 - £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 - £315
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1784 2179 1666
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 94.59% 94.82% 93.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 906 1171 775
Average daily rate £320 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 109 123
Average hourly rate £13.71 £13.50 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.55% -12.90%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £10.30 £7.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £30.00 £34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Configuration Engineer
England

Configuration Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
West Yorkshire +3 6 £375 -
Configuration Engineer
England

Configuration Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 10 (83.33%) Linux
1 10 (83.33%) Configuration Management
2 9 (75.00%) Subversion
2 9 (75.00%) Java
2 9 (75.00%) Ant
2 9 (75.00%) WebLogic
2 9 (75.00%) UNIX
2 9 (75.00%) E-Commerce
2 9 (75.00%) Maven
2 9 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (75.00%) WebSphere
3 7 (58.33%) Perl
3 7 (58.33%) AWK
4 6 (50.00%) Marketing
4 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
5 5 (41.67%) CruiseControl
6 4 (33.33%) Jython
6 4 (33.33%) IBM
6 4 (33.33%) Oracle
6 4 (33.33%) Python
6 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (33.33%) Bash shell
7 3 (25.00%) Solaris
7 3 (25.00%) JBoss
7 3 (25.00%) Apache
7 3 (25.00%) Tomcat
7 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
7 3 (25.00%) ATG
7 3 (25.00%) ATG Dynamo
8 2 (16.67%) VMware

Configuration Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 9 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (16.67%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 9 (75.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (25.00%) Apache
2 3 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (25.00%) ATG Dynamo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) Firewall
1 1 (8.333%) BIG-IP
1 1 (8.333%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Ant
1 9 (75.00%) Subversion
1 9 (75.00%) Maven
2 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (41.67%) CruiseControl
4 2 (16.67%) Hudson
General
1 6 (50.00%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (16.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (8.333%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 9 (75.00%) UNIX
3 3 (25.00%) Solaris
4 1 (8.333%) Windows
4 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (8.333%) CentOS
4 1 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Configuration Management
2 9 (75.00%) E-Commerce
2 9 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (16.67%) Release Management
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (8.333%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Java
2 7 (58.33%) Perl
2 7 (58.33%) AWK
3 4 (33.33%) Jython
3 4 (33.33%) Bash shell
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (16.67%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
1 4 (33.33%) IBM
2 3 (25.00%) JBoss
2 3 (25.00%) ATG
3 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Endeca
4 1 (8.333%) F5
4 1 (8.333%) Perforce
4 1 (8.333%) Cisco
4 1 (8.333%) Red Hat