Configuration Management Contracts in Somerset

Configuration Management
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 24 30
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +4
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 2.16% 1.48% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 1.95% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £270 -
25th Percentile £550 £338 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £170
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +194.12% -56.83%
75th Percentile £650 £550 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £575 £553 £525
% change year-on-year +4.07% +5.24% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.50
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £42.50
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +75.00% -46.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 130 154 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 93.53% 75.86% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 86 140
10th Percentile £263 £159 £234
25th Percentile £413 £397 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £597 £664
90th Percentile £775 £613 £724
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 16
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.50 £17.38
25th Percentile - - £32.11
Median hourly rate £18.51 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.96% -50.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile - £40.00 £61.09
90th Percentile - £50.65 £76.84
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Somerset

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in Somerset

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in Somerset

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Street -3 1 - - 1
Portishead - 1 - -
Bridgwater - 1 £600 -
Configuration Management
South West

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Police
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Business Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Contract Management
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (33.33%) Line Management
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Traceability Matrix
1 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat