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 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Engineer
Rank 788 832 848
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Configuration Engineer 80 53 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.073% 0.044% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.046% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 75 48 32
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £43,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -7.51%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £31,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+22.22% -10.00%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102828 114458 120840
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.97% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 85533 98230 102542
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 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%

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 19 June 2013 within the UK.

Configuration Engineer Salary Histogram

Configuration Engineer
Top 28 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 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
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Job
Vacancies
England +59 80 £40,000 - 4
South East +36 23 £38,000 +1.33% 1
Yorkshire - 18 £45,000 - 1
London +28 17 £47,500 +5.55% 1
West Yorkshire - 13 £40,000 - 1
Leeds - 11 £42,500 - 1
South West +4 10 £32,500 +3.17%
Bath - 10 £32,500 -
Somerset - 10 £32,500 -
Hampshire - 6 £38,500 - 1
East of England -1 5 £42,500 +88.88% 1
Surrey - 5 £38,000 -
East Midlands - 4 £38,000 -
Leicestershire - 4 £38,000 -
Oxfordshire - 4 £47,500 -
Abingdon - 4 £47,500 -
Andover - 4 £38,500 -
Hertfordshire - 3 £42,500 -
Welwyn Garden City - 3 £42,500 -
West Midlands - 3 £45,000 -
Cambridgeshire +13 2 £41,000 +74.46% 1
Cambridge +5 2 £41,000 +74.46% 1
Leicester - 2 £37,000 -
Warwickshire - 2 £45,000 -
City of London - 1 £45,000 - 1
Lutterworth - 1 £40,000 -
Coulsdon - 1 £37,500 -
Staffordshire - 1 - -

Configuration Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 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 87 (69.05%) Configuration Management
2 50 (39.68%) Continuous Integration
3 44 (34.92%) C#
4 41 (32.54%) Windows
5 38 (30.16%) Linux
5 38 (30.16%) SQL
6 36 (28.57%) Subversion
7 35 (27.78%) User Acceptance Testing
8 34 (26.98%) .NET
9 33 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (22.22%) Change Management
10 28 (22.22%) Electronics
11 27 (21.43%) Team Foundation Server
12 24 (19.05%) CruiseControl
13 23 (18.25%) Git (software)
14 22 (17.46%) Java
14 22 (17.46%) Microsoft
15 20 (15.87%) Client/Server
15 20 (15.87%) Perl
15 20 (15.87%) UNIX
15 20 (15.87%) IIS
16 19 (15.08%) PLM
16 19 (15.08%) Hudson
17 17 (13.49%) Ant
17 17 (13.49%) Python
17 17 (13.49%) MS Excel
18 16 (12.70%) Maven
19 15 (11.90%) WebSphere
19 15 (11.90%) IBM
20 14 (11.11%) VMware

Configuration Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 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 34 (26.98%) .NET
2 15 (11.90%) WebSphere
3 14 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 5 (3.968%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (3.175%) Middleware
6 2 (1.587%) XML
6 2 (1.587%) WCF
6 2 (1.587%) Grails
6 2 (1.587%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.794%) GStreamer
7 1 (0.794%) POSIX
7 1 (0.794%) Web Services
7 1 (0.794%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 20 (15.87%) IIS
2 14 (11.11%) CM System
3 9 (7.143%) WebLogic
4 8 (6.349%) Apache
4 8 (6.349%) Tomcat
5 6 (4.762%) CMS
6 5 (3.968%) Windows Azure
6 5 (3.968%) ATG Dynamo
7 2 (1.587%) Confluence
8 1 (0.794%) Mule
8 1 (0.794%) ESB
Applications
1 17 (13.49%) MS Excel
2 9 (7.143%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.794%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.524%) Intranet
2 6 (4.762%) VPN
3 4 (3.175%) GPRS
4 2 (1.587%) LDAP
4 2 (1.587%) LAN
4 2 (1.587%) WAN
4 2 (1.587%) HTTP
4 2 (1.587%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.794%) DVB
5 1 (0.794%) Internet
5 1 (0.794%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.730%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.587%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.587%) GIS
3 1 (0.794%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (0.794%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 36 (28.57%) Subversion
2 27 (21.43%) Team Foundation Server
3 24 (19.05%) CruiseControl
4 23 (18.25%) Git (software)
5 19 (15.08%) Hudson
6 17 (13.49%) Ant
7 16 (12.70%) Maven
8 12 (9.524%) MSBuild
8 12 (9.524%) Jenkins
9 9 (7.143%) Visual Studio
10 6 (4.762%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 4 (3.175%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (3.175%) CMake
12 3 (2.381%) TeamCity
12 3 (2.381%) Mercurial
12 3 (2.381%) JIRA
12 3 (2.381%) ClearCase
13 1 (0.794%) Gradle
13 1 (0.794%) Build Forge
13 1 (0.794%) LoadRunner
General
1 28 (22.22%) Electronics
2 12 (9.524%) Finance
3 11 (8.730%) Manufacturing
4 10 (7.937%) Marketing
5 4 (3.175%) Advertising
6 2 (1.587%) Banking
6 2 (1.587%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.794%) Automotive
7 1 (0.794%) Military
7 1 (0.794%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.87%) Client/Server
2 10 (7.937%) CMDB
3 6 (4.762%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.587%) N-Tier
4 2 (1.587%) Replication
4 2 (1.587%) DTV
4 2 (1.587%) Mathematics
4 2 (1.587%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.794%) Open Source
5 1 (0.794%) Online Games
5 1 (0.794%) Smartcard
5 1 (0.794%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.794%) STB
5 1 (0.794%) Streaming Video
5 1 (0.794%) EPoS
5 1 (0.794%) EFT
5 1 (0.794%) EFTPOS
5 1 (0.794%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 41 (32.54%) Windows
2 38 (30.16%) Linux
3 20 (15.87%) UNIX
4 11 (8.730%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (8.730%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (5.556%) CentOS
6 5 (3.968%) Solaris
7 1 (0.794%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.794%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.794%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (69.05%) Configuration Management
2 50 (39.68%) Continuous Integration
3 35 (27.78%) User Acceptance Testing
4 33 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (22.22%) Change Management
6 19 (15.08%) PLM
7 14 (11.11%) Web Development
8 13 (10.32%) E-Commerce
9 11 (8.730%) Change Control
10 10 (7.937%) Scrum
10 10 (7.937%) Business Analysis
11 9 (7.143%) Service Delivery
12 8 (6.349%) Build Automation
13 7 (5.556%) Workflow
13 7 (5.556%) ITIL
14 6 (4.762%) Project Management
14 6 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
14 6 (4.762%) Kanban
14 6 (4.762%) Time Management
15 5 (3.968%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (34.92%) C#
2 38 (30.16%) SQL
3 22 (17.46%) Java
4 20 (15.87%) Perl
5 17 (13.49%) Python
6 13 (10.32%) AWK
7 12 (9.524%) PowerShell
8 10 (7.937%) VB.NET
8 10 (7.937%) Bash shell
9 8 (6.349%) VB
9 8 (6.349%) Shell Script
9 8 (6.349%) Jython
10 5 (3.968%) VB6
10 5 (3.968%) VBScript
11 4 (3.175%) JavaScript
12 3 (2.381%) C++
12 3 (2.381%) PHP
13 2 (1.587%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.587%) C
13 2 (1.587%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (5.556%) SC Cleared
1 7 (5.556%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.968%) Degree
3 2 (1.587%) HNC
3 2 (1.587%) HND
4 1 (0.794%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.937%) QA
2 5 (3.968%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (6.349%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.762%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (3.968%) VMware ESX
4 2 (1.587%) NFS
4 2 (1.587%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.175%) Puppet
2 1 (0.794%) YUM
Vendors
1 22 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.90%) IBM
3 14 (11.11%) VMware
4 9 (7.143%) Oracle
4 9 (7.143%) JBoss
5 6 (4.762%) HP
5 6 (4.762%) Acronis
6 5 (3.968%) ATG
7 4 (3.175%) AccuRev
8 3 (2.381%) Perforce
9 2 (1.587%) NetApp
9 2 (1.587%) Endeca
10 1 (0.794%) Hitwise
10 1 (0.794%) Google
10 1 (0.794%) Omniture
10 1 (0.794%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.794%) Dell
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: 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: 22 May 2013
City, London
This role itself will be working within IT Development and as the Senior Configuration Engineer - You will be responsible for supporting the application lifecycle management throughout the continuous...
Timothy James Consulting Ltd
Salary: £60000 per annum + TBC
Posted: 18 June 2013