Configuration Management Contracts in Dorset

Configuration Management
South West > Dorset

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 23 27
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 9 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 5.42% 5.02% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.34% 6.08% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £498 £450 £399
25th Percentile £523 £466 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £525 £440
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +19.32% +3.53%
75th Percentile £611 £538 £463
90th Percentile £634 £556 £473
South West median daily rate £564 £525 £490
% change year-on-year +7.38% +7.14% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile - £50.37 £43.64
25th Percentile - £52.43 £45.61
Median hourly rate £70.66 £56.08 £47.60
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% +17.83% -
75th Percentile - £57.33 £49.05
90th Percentile - - £50.08
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +75.00% -46.67% +51.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 142 181 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 85.54% 82.65% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 105 91
10th Percentile £174 £160 £276
25th Percentile £175 £288 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +4.17% +16.36%
75th Percentile £630 £610 £575
90th Percentile £825 £638 £638
South West median daily rate £525 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 36 37
10th Percentile £11.87 £17.50 £20.75
25th Percentile £13.69 £48.86 £45.00
Median hourly rate £15.62 £56.29 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.25% +7.22% +10.53%
75th Percentile £56.49 £62.72 £60.92
90th Percentile £60.00 £70.77 £79.52
South West median hourly rate £47.83 £61.50 £48.38
% change year-on-year -22.23% +27.13% +7.50%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Dorset

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in Dorset

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Dorset over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Dorset

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in Dorset

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Bournemouth +4 4 - -
Configuration Management
South West

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 4 (44.44%) Apache Solr
1 4 (44.44%) nginx
2 1 (11.11%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) HTTPS
1 5 (55.56%) IPsec
1 5 (55.56%) TCP/IP
2 4 (44.44%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) Internet
4 1 (11.11%) Firewall
4 1 (11.11%) FTP
4 1 (11.11%) HTTP
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security
4 1 (11.11%) tcpdump
4 1 (11.11%) VPN
4 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Couchbase
1 4 (44.44%) MySQL
1 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (44.44%) Legal
1 4 (44.44%) Military
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) JSON
1 4 (44.44%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (44.44%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (44.44%) YAML
2 1 (11.11%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
1 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) CentOS
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (44.44%) Cost Reduction
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Information Security
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) Microservices
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Risk Assessment
2 4 (44.44%) SDLC
2 4 (44.44%) Software Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Requirements Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
3 2 (22.22%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
1 4 (44.44%) HIPAA
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
1 4 (44.44%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) vSphere
2 1 (11.11%) Samba
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Google
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat