England Configuration Management Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills within the England region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Configuration Management over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aldershot Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Harlow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Lingfield Livingston London Lytham St Annes Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ripon Romsey Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tamworth Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	222	216
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching permanent IT job ads	1681	1926
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.824 %	0.853 %
As % of the category below	1.567 %	1.685 %
Salaries quoted	1310	1423
Average minimum salary	£39,032	£41,018
Average salary	£42,429	£44,989
% change on same period last year	-5.68 %
Average maximum salary	£45,825	£48,959
UK excluding London average salary	£39,065	£40,189
% change on same period last year	-2.79 %
Processes & Methodologies England
Matching permanent IT job ads	107264	114271
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	52.59 %	50.59 %
Salaries quoted	87873	91345
Average minimum salary	£43,347	£44,482
Average salary	£47,464	£48,555
% change on same period last year	-2.24 %
Average maximum salary	£51,581	£52,627
UK excluding London average salary	£42,840	£44,076
% change on same period last year	-2.80 %
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Configuration Management
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Configuration Management across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Configuration Management across the England region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section 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 past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	London	+9	651	£48,421	-5.45 %
2	South East	-43	445	£37,770	-10.24 %
3	South West	+37	179	£38,354	+18.27 %
4	East of England	-8	123	£42,537	-13.94 %
5	West Midlands	0	89	£36,983	-7.10 %
6	North West	-4	77	£34,960	-3.47 %
7	Yorkshire	+6	74	£37,728	+8.13 %
8	East Midlands	-60	18	£39,412	+8.37 %
9	Midlands	+5	16	£37,500	+25.00 %
10	North East	-14	5	£25,000	-24.36 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Configuration Management also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Configuration Management.

1 652 (19.93 %) Windows 2 619 (18.92 %) SQL 3 573 (17.52 %) Unix 4 561 (17.15 %) Finance 5 531 (16.23 %) Java 6 526 (16.08 %) ITIL 7 394 (12.05 %) Oracle 8 386 (11.80 %) SQL Server 9 381 (11.65 %) C 10 370 (11.31 %) Microsoft 11 365 (11.16 %) C++ 12 357 (10.91 %) ClearCase 13 354 (10.82 %) .NET 14 339 (10.36 %) Change Management 15 329 (10.06 %) OO

16 324 (9.905 %) Linux 17 314 (9.600 %) Degree 18 260 (7.949 %) Telecoms 19 258 (7.887 %) Release Management 20 255 (7.796 %) Perl 21 253 (7.735 %) Project Management 22 244 (7.459 %) Shell Script 23 237 (7.245 %) C# 24 219 (6.695 %) Banking 25 212 (6.481 %) XML 26 202 (6.175 %) MS Excel 27 196 (5.992 %) Service Management 28 193 (5.900 %) J2EE 29 182 (5.564 %) UML 30 177 (5.411 %) Solaris

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Configuration Management also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Configuration Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 354 (10.82 %) .NET 2 212 (6.481 %) XML 3 193 (5.900 %) J2EE 4 99 (3.027 %) HTML 5 90 (2.751 %) Middleware 6 73 (2.232 %) WebServices 7 68 (2.079 %) WebSphere 8 62 (1.895 %) ASP 9 59 (1.804 %) ASP.NET 10 53 (1.620 %) Spring 11 51 (1.559 %) CSS 12 43 (1.315 %) JSP 13 41 (1.253 %) XML Messaging 14 38 (1.162 %) AJAX 15 31 (0.948 %) .NET Framework 15 31 (0.948 %) COM+ 16 28 (0.856 %) JMS 17 23 (0.703 %) XSLT 18 22 (0.673 %) MFC 19 21 (0.642 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 83 (2.537 %) IIS 2 71 (2.171 %) MS Exchange 3 61 (1.865 %) Apache 4 59 (1.804 %) WebLogic 5 46 (1.406 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 33 (1.009 %) MQSeries 7 29 (0.887 %) WebSphere MQ 8 25 (0.764 %) Tomcat 9 24 (0.734 %) Lotus Notes 9 24 (0.734 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 22 (0.673 %) CMS 11 20 (0.611 %) Lotus Domino 12 19 (0.581 %) JBoss 13 18 (0.550 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 14 16 (0.489 %) Oracle Application Server 14 16 (0.489 %) SharePoint 15 15 (0.459 %) Documentum 16 13 (0.397 %) WebSphere Application Server 17 10 (0.306 %) Tuxedo 18 8 (0.245 %) Resin
Applications 1 202 (6.175 %) MS Excel 2 153 (4.677 %) MS Office 3 79 (2.415 %) MS Visio 4 25 (0.764 %) MS Project 5 15 (0.459 %) MS PowerPoint 6 10 (0.306 %) MATLAB 6 10 (0.306 %) Simulink 7 7 (0.214 %) CA Clarity 8 6 (0.183 %) Fireworks 9 5 (0.153 %) Quicktime 10 3 (0.092 %) Windchill 11 1 (0.031 %) FrameMaker 11 1 (0.031 %) Acrobat 11 1 (0.031 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 28 (0.856 %) Oracle Applications 2 21 (0.642 %) Oracle EBS 3 13 (0.397 %) assyst 3 13 (0.397 %) Microsoft CRM 4 12 (0.367 %) Dynamics CRM 5 7 (0.214 %) Teamcenter 6 5 (0.153 %) SAP Oil and Gas 7 4 (0.122 %) SoftGrid 8 3 (0.092 %) BASE24 9 2 (0.061 %) SAP HR 9 2 (0.061 %) PeopleSoft Financials 9 2 (0.061 %) Fidessa 9 2 (0.061 %) HiPortfolio 9 2 (0.061 %) Remedy AR System 9 2 (0.061 %) SAP IS-U 10 1 (0.031 %) Oracle 11i 10 1 (0.031 %) SAP SD 10 1 (0.031 %) SAP MM 10 1 (0.031 %) Siebel Analytics 10 1 (0.031 %) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking 1 156 (4.769 %) TCP/IP 2 143 (4.372 %) Firewall 3 119 (3.638 %) Internet 4 113 (3.455 %) LAN 5 106 (3.241 %) WAN 6 89 (2.721 %) SAN 7 75 (2.293 %) VPN 8 73 (2.232 %) Wireless 9 69 (2.109 %) DNS 10 62 (1.895 %) GSM 11 56 (1.712 %) DHCP 12 50 (1.529 %) UMTS 13 35 (1.070 %) VoIP 13 35 (1.070 %) GPRS 14 33 (1.009 %) 3G 15 28 (0.856 %) WCDMA 16 27 (0.825 %) MPLS 17 24 (0.734 %) VLAN 18 23 (0.703 %) Ethernet 19 22 (0.673 %) BSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 386 (11.80 %) SQL Server 2 72 (2.201 %) RDBMS 3 70 (2.140 %) Oracle 9i 4 69 (2.109 %) Oracle 10g 5 65 (1.987 %) SQL Server 2005 6 55 (1.681 %) DB2 7 42 (1.284 %) SQL Server 2000 8 36 (1.101 %) Datawarehouse 9 33 (1.009 %) Crystal Reports 10 25 (0.764 %) Oracle Reports 10 25 (0.764 %) GIS 11 23 (0.703 %) MySQL 12 22 (0.673 %) SQL Server 7 13 19 (0.581 %) MS Access 14 17 (0.520 %) BusinessObjects 15 16 (0.489 %) Oracle 8/8i 16 13 (0.397 %) ETL 17 10 (0.306 %) SQL Server Integration Services 17 10 (0.306 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 18 8 (0.245 %) Oracle 11g
Development Applications 1 357 (10.91 %) ClearCase 2 152 (4.647 %) Visual Studio 3 134 (4.097 %) Ant 4 115 (3.516 %) Subversion 5 95 (2.904 %) ClearQuest 6 85 (2.599 %) PVCS 7 70 (2.140 %) Eclipse 8 51 (1.559 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 47 (1.437 %) TestDirector 10 43 (1.315 %) Telelogic Synergy 11 40 (1.223 %) StarTeam 11 40 (1.223 %) Oracle Forms 12 35 (1.070 %) ProC 13 28 (0.856 %) JUnit 14 25 (0.764 %) Rational Rose 15 24 (0.734 %) MSI 16 19 (0.581 %) TeamTrack 17 14 (0.428 %) CruiseControl 18 11 (0.336 %) PowerBuilder 19 10 (0.306 %) LabVIEW	General 1 561 (17.15 %) Finance 2 260 (7.949 %) Telecoms 3 219 (6.695 %) Banking 4 105 (3.210 %) Government 5 85 (2.599 %) Investment Banking 6 82 (2.507 %) Pensions 7 73 (2.232 %) Insurance 8 67 (2.048 %) Retail 9 61 (1.865 %) Health 10 49 (1.498 %) Military 11 47 (1.437 %) Billing 12 43 (1.315 %) Education 13 42 (1.284 %) Games 14 39 (1.192 %) Publishing 15 34 (1.039 %) Auditing 16 33 (1.009 %) Electronics 17 29 (0.887 %) Front Office 17 29 (0.887 %) Electric 18 27 (0.825 %) Financial Institution 19 24 (0.734 %) Online Games
Job Titles 1 619 (18.92 %) Analyst 2 448 (13.70 %) Developer 3 275 (8.407 %) Software Engineer 4 243 (7.429 %) Configuration Manager 5 181 (5.533 %) Administrator 6 153 (4.677 %) Consultant 7 144 (4.402 %) Support Analyst 8 130 (3.974 %) Project Manager 9 123 (3.760 %) Team Leader 10 111 (3.393 %) Configuration Analyst 11 105 (3.210 %) Software Manager 12 97 (2.965 %) Architect 13 91 (2.782 %) Senior Developer 14 90 (2.751 %) Release Manager 15 84 (2.568 %) Java Developer 16 75 (2.293 %) Applications Support 17 68 (2.079 %) Support Engineer 18 67 (2.048 %) Technical Analyst 19 65 (1.987 %) DBA 19 65 (1.987 %) Applications Developer	Miscellaneous 1 173 (5.289 %) CMDB 2 96 (2.935 %) Asset Management 3 88 (2.690 %) Computer Science 4 71 (2.171 %) Client/Server 5 60 (1.834 %) Management Information System 6 55 (1.681 %) Derivative 7 45 (1.376 %) Replication 8 39 (1.192 %) Handset 9 36 (1.101 %) Clustering 9 36 (1.101 %) Mainframe 10 33 (1.009 %) N-Tier 11 26 (0.795 %) Multithreading 12 23 (0.703 %) Blackberry 13 22 (0.673 %) MPEG 14 17 (0.520 %) Firmware 15 16 (0.489 %) Device Driver 15 16 (0.489 %) Equity Derivative 15 16 (0.489 %) Equities 16 15 (0.459 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 17 14 (0.428 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 652 (19.93 %) Windows 2 573 (17.52 %) Unix 3 324 (9.905 %) Linux 4 177 (5.411 %) Solaris 5 109 (3.332 %) Windows XP 6 82 (2.507 %) Windows 2000 7 55 (1.681 %) Windows Server 2003 8 53 (1.620 %) AIX 9 51 (1.559 %) HPUX 10 41 (1.253 %) Windows NT 11 15 (0.459 %) VxWorks 12 14 (0.428 %) MVS 13 8 (0.245 %) Embedded Linux 14 5 (0.153 %) Symbian OS 14 5 (0.153 %) Windows CE 14 5 (0.153 %) VMS 15 4 (0.122 %) OpenVMS 15 4 (0.122 %) ThreadX 15 4 (0.122 %) pSOS 16 2 (0.061 %) Mac OS X	Processes & Methodologies 1 526 (16.08 %) ITIL 2 339 (10.36 %) Change Management 3 329 (10.06 %) OO 4 258 (7.887 %) Release Management 5 253 (7.735 %) Project Management 6 196 (5.992 %) Service Management 7 182 (5.564 %) UML 8 155 (4.739 %) PRINCE2 9 152 (4.647 %) Service Delivery 10 129 (3.944 %) Problem Management 11 120 (3.669 %) Software Engineering 11 120 (3.669 %) Risk Management 12 107 (3.271 %) Test Scripting 13 106 (3.241 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 100 (3.057 %) RUP 15 98 (2.996 %) Data Modelling 16 94 (2.874 %) Disaster Recovery 17 93 (2.843 %) OOD 18 76 (2.323 %) Business Intelligence 18 76 (2.323 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 619 (18.92 %) SQL 2 531 (16.23 %) Java 3 381 (11.65 %) C 4 365 (11.16 %) C++ 5 255 (7.796 %) Perl 6 244 (7.459 %) Shell Script 7 237 (7.245 %) C# 8 156 (4.769 %) VB 9 101 (3.088 %) PL/SQL 10 78 (2.385 %) JavaScript 11 49 (1.498 %) VBScript 12 46 (1.406 %) Embedded C 13 40 (1.223 %) VB.NET 14 38 (1.162 %) PHP 15 37 (1.131 %) Python 16 34 (1.039 %) VB6 17 24 (0.734 %) Embedded C++ 18 22 (0.673 %) Transact-SQL 18 22 (0.673 %) Korn 19 21 (0.642 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 314 (9.600 %) Degree 2 110 (3.363 %) ITIL Certification 3 56 (1.712 %) ISEB 4 53 (1.620 %) Microsoft Certification 5 50 (1.529 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 28 (0.856 %) Cisco Certification 6 28 (0.856 %) CCVP 6 28 (0.856 %) MCSE 7 27 (0.825 %) MCP 8 21 (0.642 %) ISEB Practitioner 9 19 (0.581 %) CCNP 10 12 (0.367 %) HND 10 12 (0.367 %) Sun Certification 11 11 (0.336 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 12 8 (0.245 %) CCIE 13 7 (0.214 %) CCNA 13 7 (0.214 %) PMP 13 7 (0.214 %) PMI Certification 13 7 (0.214 %) SSCP 14 6 (0.183 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 116 (3.546 %) SLA 2 96 (2.935 %) QA 3 20 (0.611 %) ISO9001 4 16 (0.489 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 9 (0.275 %) COBIT 6 8 (0.245 %) TickIT 7 7 (0.214 %) ISO9000 8 5 (0.153 %) Basel II 9 4 (0.122 %) ISO27001 10 3 (0.092 %) ISO8583 10 3 (0.092 %) JSP 440 11 2 (0.061 %) ISO12207 11 2 (0.061 %) BS7799 12 1 (0.031 %) ISO17799 12 1 (0.031 %) WAI	System Software 1 146 (4.463 %) Active Directory 2 49 (1.498 %) Oracle RAC 3 18 (0.550 %) Oracle RMAN 4 16 (0.489 %) NetBackup 5 15 (0.459 %) Backup Exec 5 15 (0.459 %) MetaFrame 6 12 (0.367 %) Terminal Services 6 12 (0.367 %) VMware ESX 7 10 (0.306 %) ISA Server 8 5 (0.153 %) RACF 9 3 (0.092 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 10 1 (0.031 %) Terminal Server 10 1 (0.031 %) VMware GSX 10 1 (0.031 %) VMware Workstation 10 1 (0.031 %) AquaLogic 10 1 (0.031 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 10 1 (0.031 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 30 (0.917 %) OpenView Configuration Management 1 30 (0.917 %) CONTROL-M 2 28 (0.856 %) Tivoli 3 13 (0.397 %) AutoSys 4 12 (0.367 %) MOM 5 11 (0.336 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 10 (0.306 %) OMEGAMON 6 10 (0.306 %) Foglight 7 9 (0.275 %) Legato 8 8 (0.245 %) CiscoWorks 8 8 (0.245 %) WSUS 9 6 (0.183 %) AllFusion Endevor 9 6 (0.183 %) Netcool/Webtop 9 6 (0.183 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 9 6 (0.183 %) Netcool 9 6 (0.183 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 10 4 (0.122 %) Unicenter 10 4 (0.122 %) BMC Marimba 11 3 (0.092 %) ServiceCenter 11 3 (0.092 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 394 (12.05 %) Oracle 2 370 (11.31 %) Microsoft 3 133 (4.066 %) Cisco 4 89 (2.721 %) IBM 4 89 (2.721 %) Citrix 5 85 (2.599 %) HP 6 65 (1.987 %) Sun 7 58 (1.773 %) SAP 8 49 (1.498 %) Symbian 8 49 (1.498 %) Perforce 9 46 (1.406 %) Red Hat 10 44 (1.345 %) Remedy 11 43 (1.315 %) Telelogic 12 42 (1.284 %) TIBCO 13 38 (1.162 %) VMware 14 35 (1.070 %) Sybase 15 23 (0.703 %) Lotus 15 23 (0.703 %) Borland 15 23 (0.703 %) VERITAS 16 21 (0.642 %) Symantec