The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 20 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Management
Rank 157 133 91
Rank change year-on-year
-24 -42
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 34 44 78
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.796% 1.191% 1.958%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.025% 1.600% 2.864%
Number of salaries quoted 33 36 77
Average salary £39,246 £37,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.65% -25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,700 £27,750 £47,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -3.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
3317 2750 2723
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 77.66% 74.42% 68.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2845 2415 2465
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Configuration Management
North West

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Configuration Management Salary Trend

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Configuration Management across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 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
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Job
Vacancies
Stockport +9 15 £45,000 -
Oldham - 4 £39,246 -
Altrincham - 1 £40,000 -
Configuration Management
North West

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 35 (44.30%) OO
2 32 (40.51%) C#
3 31 (39.24%) .NET
3 31 (39.24%) Web Services
4 30 (37.97%) Finance
5 29 (36.71%) ASP.NET
6 22 (27.85%) W3C
6 22 (27.85%) Internet
7 20 (25.32%) Degree
8 19 (24.05%) HP
9 18 (22.78%) Red Hat
9 18 (22.78%) UNIX
9 18 (22.78%) Perl
9 18 (22.78%) SQL
10 17 (21.52%) PHP
10 17 (21.52%) SAN
10 17 (21.52%) Clustering
10 17 (21.52%) High Availability
11 16 (20.25%) Microsoft
12 15 (18.99%) IBM
12 15 (18.99%) C
12 15 (18.99%) AIX
12 15 (18.99%) Service Delivery
12 15 (18.99%) WebSphere MQ
12 15 (18.99%) WebSphere
13 14 (17.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 14 (17.72%) Replication
13 14 (17.72%) Linux
13 14 (17.72%) Oracle
14 13 (16.46%) Problem Management

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 31 (39.24%) .NET
1 31 (39.24%) Web Services
2 29 (36.71%) ASP.NET
3 15 (18.99%) WebSphere MQ
3 15 (18.99%) WebSphere
4 12 (15.19%) HTML
5 10 (12.66%) XML
6 4 (5.063%) CSS
6 4 (5.063%) .NET Framework
7 3 (3.797%) Velocity
7 3 (3.797%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (3.797%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (3.797%) ASP
8 2 (2.532%) WCF
9 1 (1.266%) Spring
9 1 (1.266%) Middleware
9 1 (1.266%) J2ME
9 1 (1.266%) J2EE
9 1 (1.266%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.063%) SharePoint
1 4 (5.063%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (3.797%) Confluence
2 3 (3.797%) IIS
3 1 (1.266%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 1 (1.266%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
3 1 (1.266%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.266%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (1.266%) iPlanet
3 1 (1.266%) Apache
3 1 (1.266%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.266%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (7.595%) MS Office
2 1 (1.266%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (27.85%) Internet
2 17 (21.52%) SAN
3 3 (3.797%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (3.797%) iSCSI
3 3 (3.797%) DNS
4 1 (1.266%) NFC
4 1 (1.266%) Firewall
4 1 (1.266%) HTTP
4 1 (1.266%) VPN
4 1 (1.266%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.39%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.063%) Oracle 8/8i
2 4 (5.063%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.063%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (5.063%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.532%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (2.532%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.266%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (5.063%) Subversion
2 3 (3.797%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.797%) JIRA
2 3 (3.797%) Maven
2 3 (3.797%) Hudson
2 3 (3.797%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (3.797%) Bugzilla
2 3 (3.797%) ClearCase
3 1 (1.266%) Redmine
3 1 (1.266%) JUnit
General
1 30 (37.97%) Finance
2 4 (5.063%) Retail
3 1 (1.266%) Marketing
3 1 (1.266%) Banking
3 1 (1.266%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 36 (45.57%) Developer
2 16 (20.25%) Administrator
3 14 (17.72%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 14 (17.72%) Linux Administrator
3 14 (17.72%) Systems Administrator
4 12 (15.19%) Lead Developer
5 11 (13.92%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.595%) Analyst
6 6 (7.595%) Problem Manager
7 5 (6.329%) Team Leader
7 5 (6.329%) Applications Support Analyst
7 5 (6.329%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 5 (6.329%) UNIX Administrator
7 5 (6.329%) Support Analyst
7 5 (6.329%) Applications Support
8 4 (5.063%) DBA
8 4 (5.063%) Oracle DBA
8 4 (5.063%) Oracle Team Leader
9 3 (3.797%) VMware Engineer
9 3 (3.797%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.85%) W3C
2 17 (21.52%) Clustering
3 14 (17.72%) Replication
4 4 (5.063%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.797%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.532%) HACMP
6 2 (2.532%) Computer Science
6 2 (2.532%) CMDB
7 1 (1.266%) Java Card
7 1 (1.266%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.266%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.266%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (22.78%) UNIX
2 15 (18.99%) AIX
3 14 (17.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (17.72%) Linux
4 5 (6.329%) Windows
5 3 (3.797%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (3.797%) Windows 2000
5 3 (3.797%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.266%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.266%) Android
6 1 (1.266%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (44.30%) OO
2 17 (21.52%) High Availability
3 15 (18.99%) Service Delivery
4 13 (16.46%) Problem Management
5 11 (13.92%) ITIL
5 11 (13.92%) Unit Testing
6 10 (12.66%) Incident Management
7 9 (11.39%) Change Management
7 9 (11.39%) Integration Testing
7 9 (11.39%) Waterfall
8 6 (7.595%) PRINCE2
8 6 (7.595%) Business Continuity
8 6 (7.595%) Requirements Analysis
8 6 (7.595%) Release Management
8 6 (7.595%) Agile Software Development
8 6 (7.595%) Change Control
9 5 (6.329%) TDD
9 5 (6.329%) Wealth Management
9 5 (6.329%) ITSM
9 5 (6.329%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (40.51%) C#
2 18 (22.78%) Perl
2 18 (22.78%) SQL
3 17 (21.52%) PHP
4 15 (18.99%) C
5 8 (10.13%) T-SQL
6 7 (8.861%) Java
6 7 (8.861%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.329%) PL/SQL
8 4 (5.063%) Python
8 4 (5.063%) C++
9 3 (3.797%) Ruby
10 1 (1.266%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (25.32%) Degree
2 4 (5.063%) MCSE
2 4 (5.063%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.797%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.266%) CCNA
4 1 (1.266%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.063%) ISO 9001
1 4 (5.063%) SLA
2 2 (2.532%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.063%) Active Directory
1 4 (5.063%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (3.797%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.532%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (2.532%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 3 (3.797%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (2.532%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 19 (24.05%) HP
2 18 (22.78%) Red Hat
3 16 (20.25%) Microsoft
4 15 (18.99%) IBM
5 14 (17.72%) Oracle
6 4 (5.063%) VMware
7 1 (1.266%) Sun
7 1 (1.266%) Cisco
7 1 (1.266%) Symbian
7 1 (1.266%) Sybase
7 1 (1.266%) JBoss
Manchester, North West
This includes: Development of a J2EE web client application. Development of a Java server application... Experience of leading small projects/developments including developing and maintaining plans using Microsoft...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Location: Manchester but must be willing to be...
Industrial tools experience, i.e., Rational ClearCase, PVCS or StarTeam would be an advantage but, equally, manually managed processes would be considered • Expert in key project management processes...
Accenture
Salary: £42,855 to £50,000 depending level, experience and location
Posted: 6 May 2013
Manchester but must be willing to be based at and...
Industrial tools experience, i.e., Rational ClearCase, PVCS or StarTeam would be an advantage but, equally, manually managed processes would be considered • Expert in key project management processes...
Accenture
Salary: £30,790 to £36,000 depending level, experience and location
Posted: 6 May 2013
Location: Manchester but must be willing to be...
Industrial tools experience, i.e., Rational ClearCase, PVCS or StarTeam would be an advantage but, equally, manually managed processes would be considered • Expert in key project management processes...
Accenture
Salary: £37,250 to £43,000 depending level, experience and location
Posted: 6 May 2013