The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 19 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Management
Rank 202 207 186
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -21
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 1385 1502 1588
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 1.360% 1.325% 1.307%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.780% 1.766% 1.779%
Number of salaries quoted 1108 1204 1279
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £66,250 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -3.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
77803 85051 89264
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 76.41% 75.04% 73.47%
Number of salaries quoted 64589 72891 75410
Average salary £46,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.15% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Configuration Management
UK

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Configuration Management Salary Trend

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Configuration Management across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 19 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
(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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +25 664 £52,000 -0.95% 65
South East -25 317 £43,835 +3.14% 42
East of England 0 101 £42,500 +6.25% 21
West Midlands +13 73 £45,000 +8.43% 12
Yorkshire -9 72 £40,000 - 8
North West -13 55 £40,000 +14.28% 8
East Midlands +3 51 £40,000 -11.11% 6
South West -55 44 £37,500 -15.73% 12
North East +8 16 £33,000 -20.00% 4
South Coast - 7 £35,000 -
Midlands +17 2 £40,000 -5.88%
Configuration Management
UK

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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.

1 797 (27.78%) SQL
2 755 (26.32%) Linux
3 717 (24.99%) Finance
4 648 (22.59%) Windows
5 620 (21.61%) Microsoft
6 586 (20.43%) Oracle
7 559 (19.48%) ITIL
8 528 (18.40%) .NET
9 519 (18.09%) SQL Server
10 474 (16.52%) Java
10 474 (16.52%) UNIX
11 463 (16.14%) C#
12 457 (15.93%) Change Management
13 447 (15.58%) Degree
14 345 (12.03%) Release Management
15 339 (11.82%) Project Management
16 322 (11.22%) Perl
17 321 (11.19%) OO
18 285 (9.934%) MS Excel
19 283 (9.864%) Puppet
20 279 (9.725%) Subversion
21 274 (9.550%) QA
22 270 (9.411%) Change Control
23 255 (8.888%) Web Services
24 246 (8.574%) Python
25 244 (8.505%) VMware
26 242 (8.435%) XML
26 242 (8.435%) ASP.NET
26 242 (8.435%) HTML
26 242 (8.435%) Continuous Integration

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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
1 528 (18.40%) .NET
2 255 (8.888%) Web Services
3 242 (8.435%) XML
3 242 (8.435%) ASP.NET
3 242 (8.435%) HTML
4 192 (6.692%) CSS
5 133 (4.636%) jQuery
6 112 (3.904%) WebSphere
7 108 (3.764%) J2EE
8 107 (3.730%) WCF
9 104 (3.625%) .NET Framework
10 103 (3.590%) Ajax
11 92 (3.207%) Middleware
12 91 (3.172%) LAMP
13 82 (2.858%) HTML5
14 78 (2.719%) Spring
15 68 (2.370%) XSLT
16 67 (2.335%) ASP.NET MVC
17 66 (2.300%) SOAP
18 52 (1.812%) WebSphere MQ
Application Platforms
1 222 (7.738%) Apache
2 157 (5.472%) SharePoint
3 140 (4.880%) IIS
4 78 (2.719%) MS Exchange
5 65 (2.266%) WebLogic
6 64 (2.231%) Tomcat
7 48 (1.673%) nginx
8 46 (1.603%) Confluence
9 44 (1.534%) Amazon AWS
10 34 (1.185%) CMS
11 30 (1.046%) SharePoint 2010
12 27 (0.941%) SharePoint Server
13 26 (0.906%) Exchange Server 2010
13 26 (0.906%) Apache Solr
14 24 (0.837%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 24 (0.837%) GlassFish
15 23 (0.802%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (0.767%) Lync
17 21 (0.732%) CM System
18 20 (0.697%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 285 (9.934%) MS Excel
2 175 (6.100%) MS Office
3 48 (1.673%) MS Project
4 36 (1.255%) MS PowerPoint
5 30 (1.046%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.871%) InfoPath
7 6 (0.209%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.209%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.209%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.174%) Office 365
9 1 (0.035%) Open Workbench
9 1 (0.035%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 40 (1.394%) Oracle EBS
2 37 (1.290%) Oracle EBS R12
3 24 (0.837%) SAP CO
3 24 (0.837%) SAP FI/CO
3 24 (0.837%) SAP FI
4 23 (0.802%) SAP GTS
4 23 (0.802%) SAP HR
4 23 (0.802%) SAP MM
4 23 (0.802%) SAP PS
4 23 (0.802%) SAP R/3
4 23 (0.802%) SAP PM
5 20 (0.697%) Dynamics CRM
5 20 (0.697%) Dynamics AX
5 20 (0.697%) Oracle Applications
6 15 (0.523%) Oracle 11i
7 13 (0.453%) Remedy ITSM
8 12 (0.418%) Oracle Financials
9 10 (0.349%) Oracle iProcurement
10 7 (0.244%) Maximo
11 6 (0.209%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 183 (6.379%) Internet
2 165 (5.751%) TCP/IP
3 158 (5.507%) DNS
4 142 (4.949%) SAN
5 127 (4.427%) Firewall
6 73 (2.544%) DHCP
7 64 (2.231%) HTTP
8 45 (1.568%) LAN
9 42 (1.464%) VoIP
10 39 (1.359%) WAN
11 38 (1.325%) Network Security
12 34 (1.185%) LDAP
13 31 (1.081%) Intranet
14 29 (1.011%) VPN
14 29 (1.011%) iSCSI
15 28 (0.976%) Cisco ASA
16 27 (0.941%) SSL
17 25 (0.871%) Wireshark
17 25 (0.871%) OpenLDAP
17 25 (0.871%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 519 (18.09%) SQL Server
2 230 (8.017%) MySQL
3 178 (6.204%) SQL Server 2008
4 105 (3.660%) Oracle 11g
4 105 (3.660%) SQL Server 2005
5 91 (3.172%) Oracle 10g
6 87 (3.032%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 74 (2.579%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 64 (2.231%) NoSQL
9 63 (2.196%) PostgreSQL
10 61 (2.126%) MongoDB
11 60 (2.091%) Oracle 8/8i
12 58 (2.022%) RDBMS
13 56 (1.952%) Data Warehouse
14 45 (1.568%) DB2
14 45 (1.568%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 42 (1.464%) Oracle Reports
16 41 (1.429%) Redis
17 37 (1.290%) GIS
18 35 (1.220%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 279 (9.725%) Subversion
2 157 (5.472%) Team Foundation Server
3 141 (4.915%) Git (software)
4 126 (4.392%) ClearCase
4 126 (4.392%) Jenkins
5 116 (4.043%) Visual Studio
6 114 (3.974%) JIRA
7 94 (3.276%) Maven
8 92 (3.207%) Hudson
9 75 (2.614%) Ant
10 63 (2.196%) Selenium
11 57 (1.987%) VSS/SourceSafe
12 54 (1.882%) Mercurial
13 52 (1.812%) CruiseControl
14 47 (1.638%) TeamCity
15 42 (1.464%) MSBuild
16 41 (1.429%) PVCS
17 40 (1.394%) ClearQuest
18 39 (1.359%) Rational DOORS
19 35 (1.220%) Oracle Forms
General
1 717 (24.99%) Finance
2 209 (7.285%) Telecoms
3 193 (6.727%) Banking
4 145 (5.054%) Retail
5 103 (3.590%) Electronics
6 66 (2.300%) Marketing
7 65 (2.266%) Aerospace
8 50 (1.743%) Military
9 44 (1.534%) Manufacturing
10 40 (1.394%) Games
11 34 (1.185%) Legal
11 34 (1.185%) Investment Banking
12 33 (1.150%) Law
12 33 (1.150%) Financial Institution
13 32 (1.115%) Advertising
14 25 (0.871%) Avionics
15 23 (0.802%) Billing
16 14 (0.488%) Publishing
17 13 (0.453%) Automotive
18 11 (0.383%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 541 (18.86%) Developer
2 411 (14.33%) Analyst
3 264 (9.202%) Administrator
4 197 (6.867%) Systems Administrator
5 145 (5.054%) Software Engineer
6 142 (4.949%) Senior Developer
7 131 (4.566%) Linux Administrator
8 125 (4.357%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 116 (4.043%) DBA
9 116 (4.043%) Release Manager
10 114 (3.974%) Architect
11 105 (3.660%) Configuration Manager
12 99 (3.451%) Configuration Analyst
13 97 (3.381%) Project Manager
13 97 (3.381%) Consultant
14 92 (3.207%) Support Analyst
15 88 (3.067%) Service Manager
16 86 (2.998%) Configuration Engineer
17 85 (2.963%) Team Leader
18 81 (2.823%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 194 (6.762%) Management Information System
2 141 (4.915%) CMDB
3 122 (4.252%) Open Source
4 104 (3.625%) Computer Science
5 87 (3.032%) Clustering
5 87 (3.032%) Replication
6 78 (2.719%) Enterprise Software
7 71 (2.475%) Statistics
8 62 (2.161%) Mobile App
8 62 (2.161%) Mathematics
9 61 (2.126%) W3C
10 54 (1.882%) SaaS
11 49 (1.708%) Client/Server
11 49 (1.708%) PMI
12 39 (1.359%) Blackberry
13 35 (1.220%) N-Tier
13 35 (1.220%) Mainframe
14 34 (1.185%) Firmware
15 29 (1.011%) Chip and PIN
16 24 (0.837%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 755 (26.32%) Linux
2 648 (22.59%) Windows
3 474 (16.52%) UNIX
4 196 (6.832%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 169 (5.891%) Windows Server 2008
6 131 (4.566%) Windows Server 2003
7 102 (3.555%) Solaris
8 94 (3.276%) CentOS
9 76 (2.649%) AIX
10 75 (2.614%) Ubuntu
11 56 (1.952%) Debian
12 49 (1.708%) Windows 7
13 37 (1.290%) Windows XP
13 37 (1.290%) Android
14 29 (1.011%) Windows Server 2012
15 27 (0.941%) VxWorks
16 25 (0.871%) VMS
17 24 (0.837%) Windows 2000
18 22 (0.767%) Fedora
18 22 (0.767%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 559 (19.48%) ITIL
2 457 (15.93%) Change Management
3 345 (12.03%) Release Management
4 339 (11.82%) Project Management
5 321 (11.19%) OO
6 270 (9.411%) Change Control
7 242 (8.435%) Continuous Integration
8 226 (7.877%) Agile Software Development
9 209 (7.285%) Service Delivery
10 208 (7.250%) E-Commerce
11 206 (7.180%) Scrum
12 205 (7.145%) PRINCE2
13 183 (6.379%) Continuous Improvement
14 180 (6.274%) Service Management
15 152 (5.298%) TDD
16 148 (5.159%) Problem Management
17 144 (5.019%) Asset Management
17 144 (5.019%) Unit Testing
18 142 (4.949%) Waterfall
19 141 (4.915%) UML
Programming Languages
1 797 (27.78%) SQL
2 474 (16.52%) Java
3 463 (16.14%) C#
4 322 (11.22%) Perl
5 246 (8.574%) Python
6 235 (8.191%) JavaScript
7 218 (7.598%) C
8 206 (7.180%) PHP
9 200 (6.971%) Bash shell
10 182 (6.344%) C++
11 157 (5.472%) Shell Script
12 123 (4.287%) Ruby
13 121 (4.217%) PL/SQL
14 116 (4.043%) PowerShell
15 97 (3.381%) T-SQL
16 65 (2.266%) VB
17 53 (1.847%) VBA
18 50 (1.743%) VB.NET
19 42 (1.464%) AWK
20 35 (1.220%) Ada
Qualifications
1 447 (15.58%) Degree
2 218 (7.598%) Security Cleared
3 163 (5.681%) SC Cleared
4 117 (4.078%) Microsoft Certification
5 74 (2.579%) ITIL Certification
6 65 (2.266%) MCSE
7 63 (2.196%) DV Cleared
8 58 (2.022%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 49 (1.708%) PMI Certification
10 46 (1.603%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (1.568%) MCP
12 42 (1.464%) ISEB
13 41 (1.429%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 32 (1.115%) MCITP
15 31 (1.081%) PMP
16 29 (1.011%) CCNA
17 25 (0.871%) PhD
18 22 (0.767%) RHCE
19 20 (0.697%) CCNP
20 19 (0.662%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (9.550%) QA
2 134 (4.671%) SLA
3 40 (1.394%) ISO 9001
4 33 (1.150%) PCI DSS
5 30 (1.046%) DO-178B
6 23 (0.802%) TickIT
7 14 (0.488%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.383%) Data Quality
9 9 (0.314%) JTAG
10 8 (0.279%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.174%) COBIT
12 4 (0.139%) HL7
13 3 (0.105%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.105%) ISO 9000
14 2 (0.070%) BS7799
15 1 (0.035%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 1 (0.035%) Dublin Core
15 1 (0.035%) DO-254
System Software
1 196 (6.832%) VMware Infrastructure
2 175 (6.100%) Active Directory
3 51 (1.778%) Oracle RAC
4 48 (1.673%) vSphere
5 36 (1.255%) Oracle RMAN
6 31 (1.081%) Hyper-V
7 29 (1.011%) Xen
8 28 (0.976%) XenApp
9 25 (0.871%) NFS
10 24 (0.837%) VMware ESX
11 18 (0.627%) XenDesktop
12 17 (0.593%) XenServer
12 17 (0.593%) Samba
13 13 (0.453%) VMware Server
13 13 (0.453%) VMware ESXi
14 11 (0.383%) Varnish
14 11 (0.383%) Microsoft App-V
15 8 (0.279%) Citrix Presentation Server
16 6 (0.209%) VirtualBox
17 5 (0.174%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 283 (9.864%) Puppet
2 99 (3.451%) Nagios
3 53 (1.847%) SCCM
4 51 (1.778%) ZABBIX
5 33 (1.150%) Vagrant
6 31 (1.081%) Data Guard
7 30 (1.046%) Zenoss
8 29 (1.011%) HP Quality Center
9 28 (0.976%) Cacti
10 27 (0.941%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 26 (0.906%) SCOM
12 24 (0.837%) Tivoli
13 22 (0.767%) OpenView Configuration Management
14 18 (0.627%) WSUS
14 18 (0.627%) CA Endevor
15 16 (0.558%) Foglight
15 16 (0.558%) Splunk
16 14 (0.488%) Legato
16 14 (0.488%) YUM
17 12 (0.418%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 620 (21.61%) Microsoft
2 586 (20.43%) Oracle
3 244 (8.505%) VMware
4 232 (8.086%) Red Hat
5 182 (6.344%) HP
6 129 (4.496%) Cisco
7 127 (4.427%) IBM
8 101 (3.520%) JBoss
9 73 (2.544%) Citrix
10 55 (1.917%) SAP
11 45 (1.568%) Fujitsu
12 44 (1.534%) Perforce
13 34 (1.185%) Atlassian
13 34 (1.185%) CheckPoint
13 34 (1.185%) Juniper
14 33 (1.150%) EMC
15 32 (1.115%) Tableau
15 32 (1.115%) NetApp
16 29 (1.011%) Salesforce.com
17 27 (0.941%) Remedy
Oxford, Oxfordshire
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced Release Manager to join my enterprise level client based in Oxford. The Release Manager will be responsible for the effective...
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Salary: Up to £42,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Oxfordshire
Our client based in Oxfordshire is looking for an experienced Onshore Release Manager to start in a exciting permanent role working for a large corporate client. Responsibilities: Accountable...
Proactive Appointments
Salary: Up to £42,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Crawley, West Sussex
bundles, backward / forward computability, Open source etc.) and distinguishing between freeware and the commercial environment is vital Fully document the Configuration Management processes What I'm looking for:...
Reflex Computer Recruitment
Salary: £34000 - £36000 per annum + Bens + Bonus
Posted: 14 June 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
This role is the gatekeeper to the release management, patch and applications change processes, and is responsible for planning and ensuring flawless execution of the deployment of software...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £35,000 to £42,000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
The Windows Systems Administrator shall maintain the core Microsoft infrastructure estate that can be considered High Availability, and Low Latency, whilst providing automation assistance using configuration management and...
ISL
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Search Consultancy
Salary: £37000 - £56000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £55000 per annum + Great Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Northern Recruitment Group
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 14 June 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
Circle Recruitment
Salary: bonus+benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Croydon, Surrey
Circle Recruitment
Salary: bonus+benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Hungerford, Berkshire
Xperian Recruitment Limited
Salary: From £34,000 to £37,000 per annum + Bonus + Pension+ Medical + Life As
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
DictateIT
Salary: From £40,000 to £45,000 per annum DOE
Posted: 23 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
William Hill
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 29 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, South East
Tesco.com
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 3 June 2013
Bedfordshire
Timothy James Consulting Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Pension, Health Care
Posted: 12 June 2013
West London
OpenBet Technology
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
York, North Yorkshire
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Highly desirable salary - please call to discuss
Posted: 13 June 2013
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £20000 - £22000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 4 June 2013
Chiswick, West London, United Kingdom
OpenBet
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Harrington Starr
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 16 June 2013
City of London
harringtonstarr
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 16 June 2013
Central London / West End
Over Achievers
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum Plus Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
Virtual Resources
Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum + good benefits (holiday pension PHI etc)
Posted: 12 June 2013
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Up to £32,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Ticketmaster UK
Posted: 18 June 2013