The first table below looks at the demand for the Configuration Manager role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Configuration Manager 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 Manager
Rank 774 751 749
Rank change year-on-year
-23 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Configuration Manager 88 148 132
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.081% 0.123% 0.106%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.129% 0.113%
Number of salaries quoted 62 115 104
Average salary £46,750 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.57% +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,150 £40,000 £33,000
10% offered a salary of more than £64,750 £62,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +11.76%
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 Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Configuration Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Configuration Manager
Salary Trend

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

Configuration Manager Salary Trend

Configuration Manager
Salary Histogram

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

Configuration Manager Salary Histogram

Configuration Manager
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 Manager 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 -39 78 £47,500 -5.00%
London +35 24 £50,000 -9.09%
South East +4 21 £60,000 +31.86%
South West +2 19 £45,000 -5.26%
Berkshire +10 13 £60,000 +20.00%
Somerset - 12 £48,750 -
Bath - 12 £48,750 -
Reading +3 9 - -
East of England -7 9 £43,500 -13.00%
Scotland +5 8 £45,000 +12.50%
Hertfordshire -3 6 £43,500 -13.00%
Glasgow - 5 - -
Wiltshire - 5 £27,794 -
City of London -2 4 £50,000 -11.11%
Buckinghamshire -17 4 £62,500 +168.33%
Milton Keynes -24 4 £62,500 +168.33%
Swindon - 4 £27,794 -
West Sussex - 3 £56,000 -
Royston - 3 £70,000 -
Cheshire +4 2 £42,500 -
North West +1 2 £42,500 -
Chester -14 2 £42,500 -
Yorkshire -27 2 £37,000 -12.94%
West Yorkshire -33 2 £37,000 -12.94%
Leeds -41 2 £37,000 -12.94%
Edinburgh - 2 £45,000 -
Bedfordshire - 2 £36,500 -
Surrey +7 1 £35,000 -44.00%
East Midlands -5 1 £37,500 -
Leicestershire - 1 £37,500 -

Configuration Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Configuration Manager 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 Manager in their job title.

1 109 (64.12%) Configuration Management
2 64 (37.65%) ITIL
3 53 (31.18%) Finance
4 43 (25.29%) Release Management
5 36 (21.18%) Windows
6 35 (20.59%) .NET
7 34 (20.00%) ClearCase
8 31 (18.24%) MS Excel
8 31 (18.24%) Microsoft
9 29 (17.06%) CMDB
10 28 (16.47%) Project Management
11 26 (15.29%) Perl
11 26 (15.29%) Team Foundation Server
12 25 (14.71%) Banking
12 25 (14.71%) UNIX
13 24 (14.12%) Subversion
14 23 (13.53%) Windows Server 2008
14 23 (13.53%) SQL
15 22 (12.94%) Change Management
16 21 (12.35%) Shell Script
16 21 (12.35%) Agile Software Development
17 20 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
17 20 (11.76%) Service Delivery
17 20 (11.76%) Oracle
17 20 (11.76%) IBM
18 19 (11.18%) HP
18 19 (11.18%) SQL Server
18 19 (11.18%) XML
18 19 (11.18%) Windows Server 2003
18 19 (11.18%) ITIL V3

Configuration Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Configuration Manager 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 Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 35 (20.59%) .NET
2 19 (11.18%) XML
3 13 (7.647%) HTML
4 5 (2.941%) CGI
5 4 (2.353%) CSS
6 3 (1.765%) WCF
6 3 (1.765%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.588%) Ajax
7 1 (0.588%) AppFabric
7 1 (0.588%) Web Services
7 1 (0.588%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.588%) ADSI
Application Platforms
1 11 (6.471%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.706%) IIS
3 4 (2.353%) CMS
4 3 (1.765%) MS Exchange
5 2 (1.176%) Apache
5 2 (1.176%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.588%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.588%) ESB
6 1 (0.588%) Confluence
6 1 (0.588%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 31 (18.24%) MS Excel
2 13 (7.647%) MS Office
3 1 (0.588%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.588%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.176%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.294%) WAN
1 9 (5.294%) LAN
2 3 (1.765%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.176%) SDH
3 2 (1.176%) DNS
3 2 (1.176%) BGP
3 2 (1.176%) EIGRP
3 2 (1.176%) MPLS
3 2 (1.176%) OSPF
4 1 (0.588%) NAS
4 1 (0.588%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.588%) SAN
4 1 (0.588%) IPsec
4 1 (0.588%) VPN
4 1 (0.588%) DHCP
4 1 (0.588%) HTTP
4 1 (0.588%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.18%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.294%) DB2
3 8 (4.706%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 8 (4.706%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (4.706%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (2.353%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (1.765%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (1.765%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.588%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (0.588%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.588%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 34 (20.00%) ClearCase
2 26 (15.29%) Team Foundation Server
3 24 (14.12%) Subversion
4 17 (10.00%) Git (software)
5 15 (8.824%) Visual Studio
6 13 (7.647%) Hudson
6 13 (7.647%) Jenkins
7 12 (7.059%) ClearQuest
7 12 (7.059%) MSBuild
8 11 (6.471%) Maven
9 10 (5.882%) JIRA
10 8 (4.706%) Ant
10 8 (4.706%) Mercurial
11 5 (2.941%) StarTeam
12 4 (2.353%) VSS/SourceSafe
12 4 (2.353%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (2.353%) TeamCity
12 4 (2.353%) CruiseControl
13 3 (1.765%) Selenium
14 2 (1.176%) MSI
General
1 53 (31.18%) Finance
2 25 (14.71%) Banking
3 10 (5.882%) Telecoms
4 7 (4.118%) Retail
5 5 (2.941%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.353%) Marketing
7 2 (1.176%) Legal
8 1 (0.588%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.588%) Local Government
8 1 (0.588%) Military
8 1 (0.588%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.588%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.06%) CMDB
2 7 (4.118%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.765%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.176%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (0.588%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.588%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.18%) Windows
2 25 (14.71%) UNIX
3 23 (13.53%) Windows Server 2008
4 19 (11.18%) Windows Server 2003
5 14 (8.235%) Solaris
5 14 (8.235%) Linux
6 11 (6.471%) AIX
7 3 (1.765%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.765%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.176%) Windows XP
8 2 (1.176%) SUSE
8 2 (1.176%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.588%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (64.12%) Configuration Management
2 64 (37.65%) ITIL
3 43 (25.29%) Release Management
4 28 (16.47%) Project Management
5 22 (12.94%) Change Management
6 21 (12.35%) Agile Software Development
7 20 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
7 20 (11.76%) Service Delivery
8 19 (11.18%) ITIL V3
9 16 (9.412%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (8.824%) Asset Management
11 13 (7.647%) Business Analysis
12 11 (6.471%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (5.294%) Validation
14 8 (4.706%) Migration
14 8 (4.706%) Service Management
15 7 (4.118%) Logistics
15 7 (4.118%) Analytics
16 6 (3.529%) Stakeholder Management
17 5 (2.941%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (15.29%) Perl
2 23 (13.53%) SQL
3 21 (12.35%) Shell Script
4 17 (10.00%) C#
5 14 (8.235%) Java
5 14 (8.235%) VB.NET
6 6 (3.529%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.353%) VBA
7 4 (2.353%) C++
7 4 (2.353%) VB
8 3 (1.765%) C
8 3 (1.765%) Python
9 2 (1.176%) Groovy
9 2 (1.176%) Korn
10 1 (0.588%) VB6
10 1 (0.588%) Bourne shell
10 1 (0.588%) Bash shell
10 1 (0.588%) Uniface
10 1 (0.588%) PowerHouse
10 1 (0.588%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (5.882%) ITIL Certification
1 10 (5.882%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.294%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (4.706%) Degree
4 7 (4.118%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.588%) CCNA
5 1 (0.588%) ISEB
5 1 (0.588%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.588%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.471%) QA
2 2 (1.176%) SLA
3 1 (0.588%) COBIT
System Software
1 8 (4.706%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.765%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.176%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (1.176%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.176%) XenApp
3 2 (1.176%) XenServer
3 2 (1.176%) XenDesktop
4 1 (0.588%) VirtualBox
4 1 (0.588%) NFS
Systems Management
1 16 (9.412%) HP Quality Center
2 12 (7.059%) SCCM
3 6 (3.529%) CA Endevor
4 2 (1.176%) Control-M
4 2 (1.176%) SCOM
4 2 (1.176%) BladeLogic
4 2 (1.176%) Opalis
5 1 (0.588%) Sysprep
5 1 (0.588%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.588%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.588%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 1 (0.588%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 31 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.76%) Oracle
2 20 (11.76%) IBM
3 19 (11.18%) HP
4 12 (7.059%) Perforce
5 10 (5.882%) Remedy
6 5 (2.941%) Borland
6 5 (2.941%) Cisco
7 4 (2.353%) VMware
7 4 (2.353%) BMC
7 4 (2.353%) Fujitsu
8 3 (1.765%) Citrix
9 2 (1.176%) Nokia
9 2 (1.176%) Altiris
9 2 (1.176%) LANDesk
9 2 (1.176%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.588%) Capita
10 1 (0.588%) AccuRev
10 1 (0.588%) Avaloq
10 1 (0.588%) NetApp
Royston, Hertfordshire
The skills you would need to be successful will be a demonstrated track record in Configuration Management, Automatic Build, Continuous Integration & knowledge of Perforce Administration (or ClearCase as...
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Salary: DOE
Posted: 20 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
ClearCase, Endevor, Perforce)... In addition, you will utilise your experience working within an ITIL environment (an ITIL V3 qualification is desired)... ClearCase, Endevor, Perforce) *ITIL V3 qualification is...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + excellent package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
ClearCase, Endevor, Perforce)... Endevor, Perforce) *ITIL V3 qualification is desirable *Excellent communication skills You will be a career motivated Code Configuration Management SME, who is looking to expand...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum + excellent package
Posted: 23 May 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
Configuration Manager / Head of Environment Transformation (Software/Testing) - £85K + Package - Berks As Head of Environment Transformation, you will be a member of the IS Leadership team, providing input...
Salt
Salary: £75000 - £85000 per annum + Bonus + Package
Posted: 18 May 2013
West Sussex
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Work with Service Delivery to plan and manage IT software / application releases to the business successfully * Long range planning of my client's software release train,...
Clearwater People Solutions
Salary: £54000 - 58000 Per Annum bonus & benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Leicestershire, East Midlands
With a group turnover of £225 million and a diverse client base from construction to media.Role Outlines; In conjunction with the Software Application Development and Quality Assurance...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + + benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
They are rapidly expanding a software / DSP team to focus on this new product area.As Configuration Manager you will have a good technical degree and significant experience...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £50k + excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Software Configuration Manager / Build Manager - Edinburgh - Jenkins or Hudson / Github and SVN source control / automated build and deployment processes - £38 - 45K + bens An expanding organisation who are creating...
ReThink Recruitment
Salary: £38000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 22 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Experience of large volume, high usage workflow / CRM systems... * Workflow automation... * Crystal reports experience desirable... * Operating at an Administrator/Expert user level in all supported systems, specifically CRM...
Vertical IT
Salary: £35000 - £38000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013