The first table below looks at the demand for the Configuration Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Configuration Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Engineer
Rank 780 840 843
Rank change year-on-year
+60 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Configuration Engineer 82 59 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.076% 0.049% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.052% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 70 53 36
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £22,500 £24,600
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £28,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+34.51% -19.28%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Configuration Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Configuration Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Configuration Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Configuration Engineer within the UK.

Configuration Engineer Salary Trend

Configuration Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Configuration Engineer over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Configuration Engineer Salary Histogram

Configuration Engineer
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +51 81 £40,000 -
South East +32 27 £38,000 +1.33%
London +34 16 £47,500 +5.55%
Yorkshire - 16 £45,000 -
West Yorkshire - 12 £40,000 -
Leeds - 10 £45,000 -
South West +1 9 £32,500 +3.17%
Bath - 9 £32,500 -
Somerset - 9 £32,500 -
Surrey - 8 £38,000 -
West Midlands -13 7 £45,000 -
Staffordshire +4 5 £29,000 -
Hampshire - 5 £38,500 -
Oxfordshire - 4 £47,500 -
Abingdon - 4 £47,500 -
East of England -6 3 £42,500 +88.88%
East Midlands - 3 £38,000 -
Andover - 3 £38,000 -
Guildford - 3 - -
Leicestershire - 3 £38,000 -
Hertfordshire - 2 £43,750 -
Leicester - 2 £37,000 -
Welwyn Garden City - 2 £43,750 -
Warwickshire - 2 £45,000 -
Cambridgeshire +9 1 £41,000 +74.46%
Cambridge -3 1 £41,000 +74.46%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
City of London - 1 £40,000 -
Stafford - 1 £29,000 -
Belfast - 1 - -

Configuration Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 IT job ads sampled with Configuration Engineer in their job title.

1 83 (64.84%) Configuration Management
2 44 (34.38%) SQL
3 42 (32.81%) Linux
4 41 (32.03%) C#
4 41 (32.03%) Continuous Integration
5 40 (31.25%) Windows
6 32 (25.00%) .NET
6 32 (25.00%) Electronics
7 31 (24.22%) Subversion
7 31 (24.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (22.66%) User Acceptance Testing
9 28 (21.88%) Change Management
10 24 (18.75%) Microsoft
11 23 (17.97%) MS Excel
11 23 (17.97%) Team Foundation Server
12 21 (16.41%) Perl
13 20 (15.63%) CruiseControl
13 20 (15.63%) Git (software)
14 19 (14.84%) Java
14 19 (14.84%) Client/Server
14 19 (14.84%) PLM
15 18 (14.06%) VMware
15 18 (14.06%) IBM
15 18 (14.06%) UNIX
16 17 (13.28%) IIS
16 17 (13.28%) Hudson
17 16 (12.50%) CM System
18 15 (11.72%) SQL Server
18 15 (11.72%) Python
19 14 (10.94%) Ant

Configuration Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 IT job ads sampled with Configuration Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 32 (25.00%) .NET
2 14 (10.94%) ASP.NET
2 14 (10.94%) WebSphere
3 4 (3.125%) Middleware
4 2 (1.563%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.563%) WCF
4 2 (1.563%) Grails
5 1 (0.781%) POSIX
5 1 (0.781%) J2EE
5 1 (0.781%) XML
5 1 (0.781%) GStreamer
Application Platforms
1 17 (13.28%) IIS
2 16 (12.50%) CM System
3 8 (6.250%) WebLogic
3 8 (6.250%) Tomcat
4 7 (5.469%) Apache
5 5 (3.906%) CMS
5 5 (3.906%) ATG Dynamo
5 5 (3.906%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (3.906%) Windows Azure
6 2 (1.563%) Confluence
7 1 (0.781%) ESB
7 1 (0.781%) Mule
Applications
1 23 (17.97%) MS Excel
2 11 (8.594%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.781%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.375%) Intranet
2 11 (8.594%) VPN
3 5 (3.906%) WAN
3 5 (3.906%) GPRS
3 5 (3.906%) LAN
4 3 (2.344%) HTTP
5 2 (1.563%) Broadband
5 2 (1.563%) Internet
6 1 (0.781%) DVB
6 1 (0.781%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.781%) MPLS
6 1 (0.781%) OSPF
6 1 (0.781%) BGP
6 1 (0.781%) IPsec
6 1 (0.781%) LDAP
6 1 (0.781%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.781%) SNMP
6 1 (0.781%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.72%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.344%) GIS
3 2 (1.563%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.781%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (0.781%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 31 (24.22%) Subversion
2 23 (17.97%) Team Foundation Server
3 20 (15.63%) CruiseControl
3 20 (15.63%) Git (software)
4 17 (13.28%) Hudson
5 14 (10.94%) Ant
5 14 (10.94%) Maven
6 11 (8.594%) MSBuild
7 10 (7.813%) Jenkins
8 8 (6.250%) Visual Studio
9 5 (3.906%) ClearCase
9 5 (3.906%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 4 (3.125%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (3.125%) CMake
11 3 (2.344%) TeamCity
11 3 (2.344%) Mercurial
11 3 (2.344%) JIRA
12 1 (0.781%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.781%) Build Forge
General
1 32 (25.00%) Electronics
2 11 (8.594%) Finance
2 11 (8.594%) Manufacturing
3 9 (7.031%) Marketing
4 6 (4.688%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.563%) Advertising
6 1 (0.781%) Military
6 1 (0.781%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.781%) Automotive
6 1 (0.781%) Games
6 1 (0.781%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.84%) Client/Server
2 10 (7.813%) CMDB
3 5 (3.906%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.125%) Replication
5 3 (2.344%) DTV
5 3 (2.344%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.344%) Computer Science
6 2 (1.563%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.781%) EPoS
7 1 (0.781%) EFT
7 1 (0.781%) EFTPOS
7 1 (0.781%) Smartcard
7 1 (0.781%) Streaming Video
7 1 (0.781%) MPEG
7 1 (0.781%) Open Source
7 1 (0.781%) Mathematics
7 1 (0.781%) STB
7 1 (0.781%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 42 (32.81%) Linux
2 40 (31.25%) Windows
3 18 (14.06%) UNIX
4 9 (7.031%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (7.031%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (5.469%) CentOS
6 6 (4.688%) Solaris
7 4 (3.125%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.125%) Windows 7
7 4 (3.125%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.781%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.781%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (64.84%) Configuration Management
2 41 (32.03%) Continuous Integration
3 31 (24.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 29 (22.66%) User Acceptance Testing
5 28 (21.88%) Change Management
6 19 (14.84%) PLM
7 14 (10.94%) Change Control
7 14 (10.94%) Web Development
8 12 (9.375%) E-Commerce
9 10 (7.813%) Time Management
9 10 (7.813%) Scrum
9 10 (7.813%) Project Management
10 9 (7.031%) Business Analysis
11 8 (6.250%) Service Delivery
11 8 (6.250%) Workflow
12 7 (5.469%) ITIL
13 6 (4.688%) Agile Software Development
13 6 (4.688%) Build Automation
14 5 (3.906%) Kanban
15 4 (3.125%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (34.38%) SQL
2 41 (32.03%) C#
3 21 (16.41%) Perl
4 19 (14.84%) Java
5 15 (11.72%) Python
6 12 (9.375%) AWK
7 11 (8.594%) PowerShell
8 9 (7.031%) Shell Script
8 9 (7.031%) VB.NET
9 8 (6.250%) Bash shell
10 7 (5.469%) Jython
10 7 (5.469%) VB
11 4 (3.125%) VB6
11 4 (3.125%) VBScript
12 3 (2.344%) JavaScript
12 3 (2.344%) PHP
13 2 (1.563%) Groovy
13 2 (1.563%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.563%) C++
13 2 (1.563%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (5.469%) SC Cleared
1 7 (5.469%) Security Cleared
1 7 (5.469%) Degree
2 6 (4.688%) HNC
3 5 (3.906%) HND
4 1 (0.781%) CCNA
4 1 (0.781%) ISEB
4 1 (0.781%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.250%) QA
2 6 (4.688%) SLA
3 1 (0.781%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (7.813%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (5.469%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.688%) VMware ESX
4 3 (2.344%) vSphere
5 1 (0.781%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (3.125%) SCCM
2 3 (2.344%) Puppet
3 1 (0.781%) YUM
3 1 (0.781%) SCOM
Vendors
1 24 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 18 (14.06%) VMware
2 18 (14.06%) IBM
3 10 (7.813%) Acronis
3 10 (7.813%) HP
4 9 (7.031%) JBoss
5 8 (6.250%) Oracle
6 6 (4.688%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.906%) ATG
7 5 (3.906%) Dell
7 5 (3.906%) NetApp
8 4 (3.125%) AccuRev
8 4 (3.125%) LANDesk
8 4 (3.125%) Sun
9 3 (2.344%) Perforce
10 2 (1.563%) Endeca
11 1 (0.781%) Cisco
11 1 (0.781%) Hitwise
11 1 (0.781%) Google
11 1 (0.781%) Omniture
Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Our products range from electronic components to industrial products from over 3,500 leading suppliers.The business is now seeking to appoint an experienced Release and Configuration Engineers...
Premier Farnell
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 25 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Are you a SQL Configuration Engineer that is looking for a fresh challenge without be restricted to 5 days in the office?... On behalf of a global client...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £28000 - £30000 per annum + Company Car, Excellent Benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
Hertfordshire
You will take responsibility for managing, controlling and maintaining all areas of Software Configuration Management across the group. You will deliver a continuously improving Configuration Management Service to...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
The role will administer, enhance and manage the company source code base via the source control system (currently VSS and SVN migrating to Git)... Knowledge Management: The role...
Crimson Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £45001 per annum + Attractive
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Senior Configuration Management / Support Consultant - SCCM / SCM / LANDesk My client is looking for a Senior Configuration Management / Support Consultant with experience of multiple configuration tools like SCCM / SCM /...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
incorporating: PMR, GPRS, and associated network communications... Essential skills include:Proven software or hardware support experience Good level of knowledge with Microsoft Office products Microsoft SQL ServerSQL Database (...
E-Resourcing
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 1 May 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
The right candidate must also have experience in a service level orientated customer environment as well as fundamental network knowledge to include Wireless LAN and an understanding of...
Calyx Managed Services
Salary: £25,500 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013