Configuration Management Contracts in the North of England

Configuration Management
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 101 130
Rank change year-on-year -23 +29 -41
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 62 130 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.32% 2.24% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 2.47% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 106 75
10th Percentile £382 £338 £413
25th Percentile £430 £456 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £610 £650 £638
90th Percentile £646 £725 £675
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile - £56.43 £27.50
25th Percentile - £58.19 £31.25
Median hourly rate £11.00 £61.13 £33.84
Median % change year-on-year -82.00% +80.63% -15.40%
75th Percentile - £64.06 £35.00
90th Percentile - £65.83 £40.25
England median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £47.50
% change year-on-year -0.83% +6.15% +18.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,026 5,268 6,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.79% 90.69% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 3,659 4,646
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 207 257
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.45%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £29.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.07
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the North of England

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the North of England

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the North of England

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the North of England

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 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
North West -14 45 £497 -2.65% 42
Yorkshire +11 16 £558 -7.08% 18
North East -5 1 - - 2
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (8.06%) nginx
2 3 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.84%) Jupyter
3 2 (3.23%) Confluence
3 2 (3.23%) Traefik
4 1 (1.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.61%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (12.90%) CATIA
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (12.90%) DELMIA
1 8 (12.90%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.61%) SAP EWM
2 1 (1.61%) SAP GTS
2 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.19%) AWS
2 9 (14.52%) GCP
3 7 (11.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (11.29%) Azure
4 6 (9.68%) CloudBees
4 6 (9.68%) GitHub
5 5 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (8.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.84%) Apigee
7 3 (4.84%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (4.84%) Serverless
8 2 (3.23%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (3.23%) IaaS
8 2 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.61%) Akamai
9 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.68%) DNS
2 4 (6.45%) Firewall
3 3 (4.84%) SSL
3 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.23%) DHCP
5 1 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.97%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.29%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (8.06%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.45%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.45%) MySQL
4 4 (6.45%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.84%) ClickHouse
6 2 (3.23%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 19 (30.65%) Jenkins
2 12 (19.35%) GitLab
3 4 (6.45%) AppScan
3 4 (6.45%) Burp Suite
3 4 (6.45%) JIRA
3 4 (6.45%) Maven
3 4 (6.45%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.84%) Git
4 3 (4.84%) gulp
5 2 (3.23%) Hudson
General
1 14 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.68%) Finance
5 3 (4.84%) Banking
5 3 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Automotive
7 1 (1.61%) Legal
7 1 (1.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (16.13%) Lead
2 9 (14.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (12.90%) Support Team Leader
4 7 (11.29%) Team Leader
5 6 (9.68%) Software Asset Manager
5 6 (9.68%) Software Manager
6 5 (8.06%) Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Configuration Manager
7 4 (6.45%) Coordinator
7 4 (6.45%) Site Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Architect
8 3 (4.84%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (4.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Designer
8 3 (4.84%) Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.23%) Business Analyst
9 2 (3.23%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) SAML
2 4 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (6.45%) OAuth
2 4 (6.45%) RESTful
3 3 (4.84%) .NET
3 3 (4.84%) Apache Beam
3 3 (4.84%) Kafka
3 3 (4.84%) Keycloak
3 3 (4.84%) Node.js
3 3 (4.84%) OpenID
4 2 (3.23%) cloud-init
4 2 (3.23%) React Native
5 1 (1.61%) Material Design
5 1 (1.61%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 21 (33.87%) CMDB
2 8 (12.90%) Management Information System
3 6 (9.68%) Virtual Team
4 5 (8.06%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.84%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.23%) Clustering
6 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.23%) PKI
6 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.61%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.61%) IoT
7 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.61%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.13%) Linux
2 4 (6.45%) Android
3 3 (4.84%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.23%) CentOS
4 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.23%) Windows
5 1 (1.61%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.61%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (29.03%) CI/CD
1 18 (29.03%) DevOps
2 16 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (24.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (22.58%) Containerisation
5 13 (20.97%) Agile
5 13 (20.97%) Asset Management
5 13 (20.97%) Service Management
6 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (14.52%) ITIL
9 8 (12.90%) ITSM
9 8 (12.90%) Migration
9 8 (12.90%) PLM
9 8 (12.90%) Workflow
10 7 (11.29%) IT Asset Management
10 7 (11.29%) Mentoring
10 7 (11.29%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
11 6 (9.68%) Software Asset Management
11 6 (9.68%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.87%) Python
2 14 (22.58%) SQL
3 9 (14.52%) Ruby
4 8 (12.90%) Go
4 8 (12.90%) Java
5 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.29%) PowerShell
6 6 (9.68%) Bash
6 6 (9.68%) Groovy
7 4 (6.45%) Scala
8 1 (1.61%) ABAP
8 1 (1.61%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 16 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) Degree
4 3 (4.84%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (4.84%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (3.23%) CCNA
5 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.23%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.61%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) Data Quality
1 8 (12.90%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) GDPR
3 2 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.23%) NCSC
3 2 (3.23%) NIST
3 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (27.42%) Docker
2 3 (4.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.61%) KVM
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.61%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 18 (29.03%) Ansible
2 17 (27.42%) Terraform
3 14 (22.58%) Kubernetes
4 7 (11.29%) Grafana
4 7 (11.29%) Prometheus
4 7 (11.29%) Puppet
5 5 (8.06%) Progress Chef
6 4 (6.45%) Graylog
6 4 (6.45%) HP Fortify
6 4 (6.45%) Nessus
6 4 (6.45%) WebInspect
7 3 (4.84%) ZABBIX
8 2 (3.23%) Consul
8 2 (3.23%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (3.23%) Graphite
8 2 (3.23%) HAProxy
8 2 (3.23%) Istio
8 2 (3.23%) linkerd
8 2 (3.23%) Packer
8 2 (3.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.90%) Siemens
3 6 (9.68%) Google
3 6 (9.68%) Splunk
4 5 (8.06%) ServiceNow
5 4 (6.45%) Checkmarx
5 4 (6.45%) Veracode
6 3 (4.84%) VMware
7 2 (3.23%) Atlassian
7 2 (3.23%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.61%) Adobe
8 1 (1.61%) BMC
8 1 (1.61%) Cognizant
8 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.61%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.61%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.61%) Oracle
8 1 (1.61%) SAP
8 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.61%) Zscaler