Configuration Management Contracts in the South West

Configuration Management
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 116 103
Rank change year-on-year +51 -13 -11
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 90 53 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.83% 1.46% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.41% 1.63% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 28 29
10th Percentile £425 £346 £359
25th Percentile £478 £450 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £550
90th Percentile - £640 £607
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 15
10th Percentile £44.00 £35.00 £44.08
25th Percentile - £37.50 £49.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -46.67% +51.61%
75th Percentile - £56.71 -
90th Percentile £70.66 £57.33 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £47.50
% change year-on-year -0.83% +6.15% +17.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,643 3,248 3,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.14% 89.65% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,686 2,392 2,335
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £722 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 334 195
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.63 £16.32 £20.16
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +26.18% +9.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £70.65
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the South West

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the South West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management in the South West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Wiltshire +37 35 £700 +28.44% 5
Bristol +27 23 £540 +2.86% 21
Gloucestershire +3 13 £550 +2.33% 18
Dorset +4 9 £569 +8.33% 4
Devon - 4 £575 - 4
Somerset +2 3 £500 +194.12% 4
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 23 (25.56%) Confluence
2 7 (7.78%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.44%) Apache Solr
3 4 (4.44%) nginx
4 2 (2.22%) CMS
5 1 (1.11%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (3.33%) ENOVIA
2 3 (3.33%) SAP PLM
2 3 (3.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.00%) AWS
2 7 (7.78%) Azure
3 6 (6.67%) OpenShift
3 6 (6.67%) Serverless
4 5 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 5 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (5.56%) GCP
4 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.78%) Network Security
2 5 (5.56%) AMQP
2 5 (5.56%) HTTPS
2 5 (5.56%) IPsec
2 5 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.56%) VPN
3 4 (4.44%) DNS
4 3 (3.33%) IPv4
4 3 (3.33%) OSPF
4 3 (3.33%) VLAN
5 2 (2.22%) Firewall
5 2 (2.22%) Internet
6 1 (1.11%) FTP
6 1 (1.11%) HTTP
6 1 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.11%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.11%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.67%) MySQL
2 5 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.56%) InfluxDB
2 5 (5.56%) Power BI
2 5 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.44%) Couchbase
3 4 (4.44%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (31.11%) Jenkins
2 23 (25.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 23 (25.56%) Bitbucket
2 23 (25.56%) JIRA
3 2 (2.22%) HP UFT
3 2 (2.22%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.11%) Git
General
1 35 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (21.11%) Aerospace
4 7 (7.78%) Military
5 5 (5.56%) Legal
6 4 (4.44%) Electronics
6 4 (4.44%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.22%) Advertising
8 2 (2.22%) Finance
8 2 (2.22%) Law
8 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (24.44%) Developer
2 17 (18.89%) Embedded Engineer
2 17 (18.89%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 17 (18.89%) Software Engineer
3 10 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 6 (6.67%) Support Officer
5 5 (5.56%) Senior
6 4 (4.44%) Availability Manager
6 4 (4.44%) Service Manager
7 3 (3.33%) Consultant
7 3 (3.33%) Data Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) Firmware Developer
7 3 (3.33%) Industrial Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) Lead
8 2 (2.22%) DV Cleared Technical Consultant
8 2 (2.22%) FPGA Developer
8 2 (2.22%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (2.22%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (25.56%) .NET
1 23 (25.56%) .NET Core
2 9 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (4.44%) JSON
3 4 (4.44%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (4.44%) YAML
4 1 (1.11%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.11%) LDAP
4 1 (1.11%) React
4 1 (1.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.89%) ARM Cortex
2 13 (14.44%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.78%) CMDB
4 5 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.33%) FPGA
6 3 (3.33%) VHDL
7 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.11%) SCADA
7 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 55 (61.11%) Linux
2 17 (18.89%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (4.44%) CentOS
4 2 (2.22%) Unix
4 2 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (37.78%) CI/CD
2 26 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (28.89%) Task Automation
3 23 (25.56%) Deployment Automation
3 23 (25.56%) Infrastructure Automation
3 23 (25.56%) OO
3 23 (25.56%) OOP
4 22 (24.44%) Continuous Integration
5 21 (23.33%) Software Engineering
6 20 (22.22%) Agile
7 15 (16.67%) DevOps
8 14 (15.56%) Service Management
9 10 (11.11%) ITIL
10 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (7.78%) Change Management
11 7 (7.78%) ITSM
11 7 (7.78%) Migration
11 7 (7.78%) Programme Management
11 7 (7.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (6.67%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (36.67%) Python
2 27 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 22 (24.44%) C
4 17 (18.89%) Embedded C
5 6 (6.67%) Go
5 6 (6.67%) Java
6 5 (5.56%) Shell Script
6 5 (5.56%) SQL
7 4 (4.44%) Bash
7 4 (4.44%) PHP
8 1 (1.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 71 (78.89%) Security Cleared
2 52 (57.78%) SC Cleared
3 19 (21.11%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.44%) Degree
5 2 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.22%) CISSP
6 1 (1.11%) CCNA
6 1 (1.11%) CCNP
6 1 (1.11%) CCSP
6 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.11%) GIAC
6 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.11%) OSCP
6 1 (1.11%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) PMO
2 5 (5.56%) GDPR
2 5 (5.56%) HIPAA
2 5 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.56%) NIST
3 4 (4.44%) QA
4 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.11%) GRC
5 1 (1.11%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.11%) RMADS
5 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (8.89%) Docker
2 4 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.33%) Firmware
4 2 (2.22%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.22%) vSphere
5 1 (1.11%) Samba
5 1 (1.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (38.89%) Ansible
2 23 (25.56%) PowerCLI
3 13 (14.44%) Terraform
4 11 (12.22%) Kubernetes
5 7 (7.78%) Grafana
5 7 (7.78%) Prometheus
6 6 (6.67%) Progress Chef
7 5 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (5.56%) Puppet
8 1 (1.11%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (25.56%) Atlassian
2 22 (24.44%) Dell
2 22 (24.44%) HP
3 17 (18.89%) IBM
3 17 (18.89%) Lauterbach
4 7 (7.78%) VMware
5 5 (5.56%) Google
5 5 (5.56%) Remedy
6 4 (4.44%) SAP
7 3 (3.33%) Xilinx
8 2 (2.22%) OpenText
8 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.11%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.11%) Oracle
9 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow