Configuration Management Contracts in the South East

Configuration Management
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 116 97
Rank change year-on-year +9 -19 -9
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 96 114 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.74% 1.96% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.19% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 73 128
10th Percentile £293 £376 £335
25th Percentile £453 £465 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +31.29%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £669
90th Percentile £725 £737 £738
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 9
10th Percentile £41.25 £46.77 £22.45
25th Percentile £54.85 £48.50 £33.33
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +18.36% -11.43%
75th Percentile £70.39 £60.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £91.60 £67.02 £71.17
England median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £45.14
% change year-on-year -0.83% +11.70% +11.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +3 59 £550 -0.90% 23
Berkshire -6 42 £614 -0.20% 11
Buckinghamshire +26 16 £550 +8.91% 9
Hampshire -14 13 £475 -21.81% 14
West Sussex +4 6 - - 4
East Sussex - 6 £800 - 2
Kent +6 4 £105 -58.00%
Surrey +2 2 £650 +7.44% 7
Middlesex - 2 £180 -
M4 Corridor - 2 £540 -
Oxfordshire 0 1 - - 3
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (2.08%) CMS
1 2 (2.08%) Confluence
1 2 (2.08%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.88%) AWS
2 17 (17.71%) Azure
3 3 (3.13%) Datadog
3 3 (3.13%) GitHub
4 2 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.04%) GCP
5 1 (1.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.63%) SAN
2 13 (13.54%) TCP/IP
3 6 (6.25%) DHCP
3 6 (6.25%) DNS
4 2 (2.08%) Internet
4 2 (2.08%) VPN
4 2 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.04%) BGP
5 1 (1.04%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.04%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.04%) IOS XR
5 1 (1.04%) LAN
5 1 (1.04%) MPLS
5 1 (1.04%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (17.71%) Jenkins
2 15 (15.63%) GitLab
2 15 (15.63%) JIRA
3 14 (14.58%) Selenium
4 13 (13.54%) Cucumber
5 12 (12.50%) REST Assured
5 12 (12.50%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.13%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.08%) ClearCase
7 2 (2.08%) ClearQuest
7 2 (2.08%) Git
8 1 (1.04%) Appium
8 1 (1.04%) LabVIEW
8 1 (1.04%) MSTest
8 1 (1.04%) NUnit
8 1 (1.04%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.04%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.42%) Legal
5 9 (9.38%) Law
6 8 (8.33%) Police
7 5 (5.21%) Finance
7 5 (5.21%) Retail
8 4 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.08%) Back Office
9 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Banking
10 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (22.92%) Senior
2 21 (21.88%) Developer
3 16 (16.67%) Architect
4 14 (14.58%) Analyst
5 13 (13.54%) Python Developer
6 8 (8.33%) Configuration Specialist
7 7 (7.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 7 (7.29%) Service Analyst
7 7 (7.29%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Java Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Project Leader
9 5 (5.21%) Senior Java Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.54%) ARM Templates
1 13 (13.54%) Java EE
1 13 (13.54%) REST
2 4 (4.17%) .NET
2 4 (4.17%) .NET Core
3 3 (3.13%) Blazor
3 3 (3.13%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.08%) Web Services
5 1 (1.04%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.04%) JSON
5 1 (1.04%) NETCONF
5 1 (1.04%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.04%) XML
5 1 (1.04%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 9 (9.38%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.33%) CMDB
4 5 (5.21%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.13%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.04%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.04%) iPhone
7 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.04%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.75%) Linux
2 13 (13.54%) Debian
2 13 (13.54%) Ubuntu
3 10 (10.42%) Windows
4 5 (5.21%) Unix
5 3 (3.13%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.13%) Windows 7
5 3 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.08%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.04%) Android
7 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (29.17%) ITIL
2 23 (23.96%) DevOps
3 21 (21.88%) Agile
4 20 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (20.83%) Software Engineering
4 20 (20.83%) Test Automation
5 17 (17.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (17.71%) Prototyping
6 16 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 16 (16.67%) Software Architecture
7 15 (15.63%) Decision-Making
7 15 (15.63%) Service Management
7 15 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (14.58%) Containerisation
8 14 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (13.54%) Data Engineering
9 13 (13.54%) Data Modelling
9 13 (13.54%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.79%) Python
2 16 (16.67%) Java
3 6 (6.25%) C++
3 6 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.21%) Bash
4 5 (5.21%) SQL
5 4 (4.17%) C#
5 4 (4.17%) Perl
6 3 (3.13%) C
6 3 (3.13%) Ruby
7 2 (2.08%) Go
8 1 (1.04%) Groovy
8 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (57.29%) Security Cleared
2 38 (39.58%) SC Cleared
3 23 (23.96%) DV Cleared
4 20 (20.83%) Degree
5 6 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.21%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (4.17%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.08%) PhD
9 1 (1.04%) CCNP
9 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.25%) SLA
2 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (2.08%) GDPR
3 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (17.71%) Docker
2 6 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.25%) XenApp
2 6 (6.25%) XenDesktop
3 5 (5.21%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.04%) NFS
4 1 (1.04%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 20 (20.83%) Ansible
2 19 (19.79%) Terraform
3 18 (18.75%) Kubernetes
4 12 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (12.50%) Podman
5 8 (8.33%) SCCM
6 5 (5.21%) Puppet
7 4 (4.17%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.13%) Nagios
9 2 (2.08%) HP ALM
9 2 (2.08%) Kibana
9 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (2.08%) Rancher
10 1 (1.04%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 20 (20.83%) VMware
2 17 (17.71%) Microsoft
3 16 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 13 (13.54%) Red Hat
5 6 (6.25%) Citrix
6 4 (4.17%) Oracle
7 3 (3.13%) FireEye
7 3 (3.13%) HP
7 3 (3.13%) New Relic
7 3 (3.13%) Splunk
7 3 (3.13%) Tanium
8 2 (2.08%) Apple
9 1 (1.04%) BMC
9 1 (1.04%) Cisco
9 1 (1.04%) Google
9 1 (1.04%) Micro Focus
9 1 (1.04%) Nokia
9 1 (1.04%) OpenText
9 1 (1.04%) Remedy
9 1 (1.04%) Salesforce