The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 22 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Management
Rank 80 67 45
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -22
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 15 18 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.377% 1.852% 3.432%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.767% 2.699% 4.143%
Number of salaries quoted 12 16 29
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,050 £33,550 £36,200
10% offered a salary of more than £56,250 £61,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £41,250 £42,000
% change year-on-year
+1.81% -1.78%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
849 667 700
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 77.96% 68.62% 82.84%
Number of salaries quoted 766 576 660
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +8.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £27,500 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £59,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Configuration Management
East of England

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire Configuration Management Jobs Demand Trend

Configuration Management
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Configuration Management across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Configuration Management Salary Trend

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Configuration Management across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Bedfordshire Configuration Management Salary Histogram

Configuration Management
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Dunstable -13 6 £28,000 -53.33%
Luton -12 4 £45,000 +5.88%
Configuration Management
East of England

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Configuration Management.

1 14 (51.85%) Microsoft
2 12 (44.44%) Change Management
3 10 (37.04%) Active Directory
4 9 (33.33%) Windows
4 9 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
5 8 (29.63%) ITIL
5 8 (29.63%) MS Excel
6 7 (25.93%) E-Commerce
6 7 (25.93%) DHCP
6 7 (25.93%) DNS
6 7 (25.93%) Shell Script
6 7 (25.93%) SCOM
7 6 (22.22%) SCCM
7 6 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
7 6 (22.22%) Hyper-V
7 6 (22.22%) iSeries
7 6 (22.22%) VMware
7 6 (22.22%) WebSphere
7 6 (22.22%) ERP
7 6 (22.22%) IIS
8 5 (18.52%) Oracle
8 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
8 5 (18.52%) Perl
8 5 (18.52%) Solaris
8 5 (18.52%) Linux
8 5 (18.52%) FTP
8 5 (18.52%) UNIX
8 5 (18.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (18.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Configuration Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (22.22%) WebSphere
2 3 (11.11%) .NET
2 3 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 3 (11.11%) WCF
2 3 (11.11%) WPF
3 1 (3.704%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (22.22%) IIS
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (7.407%) CMS
4 1 (3.704%) Lync
4 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (3.704%) MS Exchange
4 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (3.704%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 8 (29.63%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.704%) Infor M3
1 1 (3.704%) Lawson
1 1 (3.704%) Movex
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) DHCP
1 7 (25.93%) DNS
2 5 (18.52%) FTP
3 1 (3.704%) SAN
3 1 (3.704%) Firewall
3 1 (3.704%) NAS
3 1 (3.704%) Network Security
3 1 (3.704%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio
2 2 (7.407%) Selenium
3 1 (3.704%) Git (software)
3 1 (3.704%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (7.407%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) ERP Manager
2 5 (18.52%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) DBA
2 5 (18.52%) Administrator
2 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (14.81%) Wintel Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Wintel Support Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Wintel Support
5 2 (7.407%) Technical Developer
5 2 (7.407%) Environment Analyst
5 2 (7.407%) Environment Manager
5 2 (7.407%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (7.407%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (7.407%) Developer
5 2 (7.407%) Configuration Manager
5 2 (7.407%) Test Manager
5 2 (7.407%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.704%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) iSeries
2 2 (7.407%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Windows
2 5 (18.52%) Solaris
2 5 (18.52%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) UNIX
3 4 (14.81%) Windows 7
3 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Change Management
2 9 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 8 (29.63%) ITIL
4 7 (25.93%) E-Commerce
5 6 (22.22%) ERP
6 4 (14.81%) Problem Management
6 4 (14.81%) Service Delivery
6 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (14.81%) Validation
6 4 (14.81%) Change Control
7 3 (11.11%) PRINCE2
7 3 (11.11%) RUP
7 3 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (7.407%) Web Testing
8 2 (7.407%) Test Management
8 2 (7.407%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (7.407%) Test Automation
8 2 (7.407%) Stress Testing
8 2 (7.407%) Volume Testing
8 2 (7.407%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) Shell Script
2 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 5 (18.52%) Perl
3 5 (18.52%) Korn
3 5 (18.52%) AWK
3 5 (18.52%) C-shell
3 5 (18.52%) Bash shell
4 3 (11.11%) C#
5 1 (3.704%) C++
5 1 (3.704%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (14.81%) MCP
2 3 (11.11%) MCAD
2 3 (11.11%) MCSD
3 1 (3.704%) MCSE
3 1 (3.704%) MCSA
3 1 (3.704%) Degree
3 1 (3.704%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.704%) MCTS
3 1 (3.704%) MCITP
3 1 (3.704%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (14.81%) QA
3 3 (11.11%) SLA
3 3 (11.11%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.704%) DO-178B
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) Active Directory
2 6 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 5 (18.52%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (14.81%) XenServer
4 4 (14.81%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (3.704%) NFS
5 1 (3.704%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.704%) XenApp
5 1 (3.704%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) SCOM
2 6 (22.22%) SCCM
3 5 (18.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 5 (18.52%) Data Guard
4 4 (14.81%) WSUS
5 2 (7.407%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) VMware
3 5 (18.52%) Oracle
4 4 (14.81%) LANDesk
5 3 (11.11%) HP
6 2 (7.407%) Citrix
7 1 (3.704%) VocaLink
7 1 (3.704%) EMC
7 1 (3.704%) CommVault