Configuration Management Contracts in Berkshire

Configuration Management
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Configuration Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Configuration Management over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 82 94
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 -10
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 41 33 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.08% 1.84% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.03% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 23 22
10th Percentile £283 £376 £315
25th Percentile £310 £458 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £615 £464
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% +32.45% -1.73%
75th Percentile £688 £668 £668
90th Percentile £705 £688 £735
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +31.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £63.04 - -
25th Percentile £67.77 £56.88 -
Median hourly rate £70.39 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.81% - -
75th Percentile - £60.63 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £70.20 £57.50 £48.58
% change year-on-year +22.08% +18.36% -11.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Configuration Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,748 1,623 2,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.78% 90.62% 90.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,052 1,376
10th Percentile £213 £350 £275
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £687 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 48 43
10th Percentile £18.95 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.44 £25.72 £17.25
Median hourly rate £60.57 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +174.67% -1.06%
75th Percentile £71.89 £73.69 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.51 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.27% -20.00%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 0 26 £638 +6.25% 8
Wokingham +7 6 £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 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (36.59%) AWS
2 14 (34.15%) Azure
3 3 (7.32%) GitHub
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) DHCP
1 5 (12.20%) DNS
2 2 (4.88%) VPN
2 2 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.44%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 14 (34.15%) GitLab
1 14 (34.15%) Jenkins
1 14 (34.15%) JIRA
1 14 (34.15%) Selenium
2 13 (31.71%) Cucumber
3 12 (29.27%) REST Assured
3 12 (29.27%) SonarQube
4 3 (7.32%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.44%) Appium
5 1 (2.44%) Git
5 1 (2.44%) MSTest
5 1 (2.44%) NUnit
5 1 (2.44%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 13 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (21.95%) Law
3 9 (21.95%) Public Sector
4 8 (19.51%) Police
5 3 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Senior
2 7 (17.07%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Software Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Configuration Specialist
3 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Java Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Java Software Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 5 (12.20%) Lead
4 5 (12.20%) Project Leader
4 5 (12.20%) Senior Java Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Support Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) ARM Templates
1 13 (31.71%) Java EE
1 13 (31.71%) REST
2 1 (2.44%) .NET
2 1 (2.44%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.44%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.44%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.51%) Windows
2 4 (9.76%) Unix
3 3 (7.32%) Windows 10
3 3 (7.32%) Windows 7
3 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
3 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (4.88%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Continuous Integration
1 15 (36.59%) DevOps
1 15 (36.59%) Test Automation
2 14 (34.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (31.71%) Containerisation
3 13 (31.71%) Decision-Making
3 13 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (31.71%) Software Architecture
3 13 (31.71%) Technical Leadership
4 11 (26.83%) Software Engineering
5 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (14.63%) ITIL
5 6 (14.63%) Project Delivery
5 6 (14.63%) Software Distribution
6 5 (12.20%) Community of Practice
6 5 (12.20%) Portfolio Management
6 5 (12.20%) Programme Management
6 5 (12.20%) Project Management
7 4 (9.76%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) Java
2 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.88%) SQL
4 1 (2.44%) Bash
4 1 (2.44%) C#
4 1 (2.44%) Go
4 1 (2.44%) Groovy
4 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (70.73%) Security Cleared
2 17 (41.46%) SC Cleared
3 10 (24.39%) DV Cleared
4 5 (12.20%) Degree
5 4 (9.76%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 13 (31.71%) Docker
2 6 (14.63%) XenApp
2 6 (14.63%) XenDesktop
3 5 (12.20%) Active Directory
4 4 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (36.59%) Terraform
2 14 (34.15%) Ansible
3 13 (31.71%) Kubernetes
4 12 (29.27%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (29.27%) Podman
5 8 (19.51%) SCCM
6 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.44%) Puppet
7 1 (2.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Citrix
2 4 (9.76%) Oracle
2 4 (9.76%) ServiceNow
2 4 (9.76%) VMware
3 3 (7.32%) FireEye
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.32%) Tanium
4 2 (4.88%) Apple
5 1 (2.44%) BMC
5 1 (2.44%) Google
5 1 (2.44%) HP
5 1 (2.44%) Micro Focus
5 1 (2.44%) OpenText
5 1 (2.44%) Remedy