Configuration Management Contracts in Berkshire

Configuration Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Configuration Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Configuration Management over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 86 104
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 -18
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 34 27 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.74% 1.52% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.69% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 18
10th Percentile £306 £450 £313
25th Percentile £525 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £615 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +14.42% +16.85%
75th Percentile £688 £669 £695
90th Percentile £718 £688 £743
South East median daily rate £573 £596 £595
% change year-on-year -3.98% +0.21% +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Median hourly rate £70.39 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.81% - -
South East median hourly rate £70.39 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.42% -11.54% +60.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Configuration Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,714 1,594 2,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.54% 89.60% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 995 1,321
10th Percentile £258 £339 £275
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% +5.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £710 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 51 39
10th Percentile £17.45 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.31 £25.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.53 £63.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +200.00% -2.33%
75th Percentile £71.75 £74.90 £34.95
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £70.68
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Berkshire

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in Berkshire

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Berkshire

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in Berkshire

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 21 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -6 22 £650 +7.66% 3
Wokingham -2 2 £305 -
Configuration Management
South East

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) AWS
2 14 (41.18%) Azure
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.94%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) DHCP
1 2 (5.88%) DNS
1 2 (5.88%) VPN
1 2 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.94%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 15 (44.12%) GitLab
1 15 (44.12%) JIRA
2 14 (41.18%) Jenkins
2 14 (41.18%) Selenium
3 13 (38.24%) Cucumber
4 12 (35.29%) REST Assured
4 12 (35.29%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.94%) Appium
5 1 (2.94%) Git
5 1 (2.94%) MSTest
5 1 (2.94%) NUnit
5 1 (2.94%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 13 (38.24%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (26.47%) Law
4 8 (23.53%) Police
5 7 (20.59%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) Senior
2 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Software Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Configuration Specialist
3 6 (17.65%) Java Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Java Software Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 5 (14.71%) Lead
4 5 (14.71%) Project Leader
4 5 (14.71%) Senior Java Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Java Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Java Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Java Technical Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (38.24%) ARM Templates
1 13 (38.24%) Java EE
1 13 (38.24%) REST
2 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.94%) .NET
3 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.94%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.94%) Windows 7
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Continuous Integration
1 16 (47.06%) DevOps
1 16 (47.06%) Test Automation
2 14 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (38.24%) Containerisation
3 13 (38.24%) Decision-Making
3 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (38.24%) Software Architecture
3 13 (38.24%) Technical Leadership
4 11 (32.35%) Software Engineering
5 7 (20.59%) ITIL
5 7 (20.59%) Project Delivery
6 5 (14.71%) Community of Practice
6 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (14.71%) Portfolio Management
6 5 (14.71%) Programme Management
6 5 (14.71%) Project Management
7 3 (8.82%) Change Control
7 3 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (8.82%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) Java
2 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.88%) Go
4 1 (2.94%) Bash
4 1 (2.94%) C#
4 1 (2.94%) Groovy
4 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 14 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 9 (26.47%) DV Cleared
4 5 (14.71%) Degree
5 4 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 13 (38.24%) Docker
2 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.88%) XenApp
3 2 (5.88%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (47.06%) Terraform
2 15 (44.12%) Ansible
3 14 (41.18%) Kubernetes
4 12 (35.29%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (35.29%) Podman
5 4 (11.76%) SCCM
6 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (5.88%) Rancher
7 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow
1 3 (8.82%) VMware
2 2 (5.88%) Apple
2 2 (5.88%) Citrix
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) BMC
3 1 (2.94%) FireEye
3 1 (2.94%) Google
3 1 (2.94%) Remedy
3 1 (2.94%) Tanium