Configuration Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Configuration Management
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 79 93 108
Rank change year-on-year +14 +15 -1
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 63 63 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.32% 2.14% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 2.33% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 42 38
10th Percentile £310 £322 £298
25th Percentile £438 £450 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £444
Median % change year-on-year - +23.94% -5.59%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £616
90th Percentile £688 £734 £722
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +31.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £53.07 £49.34 £41.75
25th Percentile £62.42 £50.59 £42.50
Median hourly rate £70.20 £53.88 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.29% +19.72% -25.00%
75th Percentile £70.39 £57.84 £47.50
90th Percentile - £59.51 £48.25
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +21.74% +21.05% -13.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,374 2,706 3,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.47% 91.98% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 1,876 2,095
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £363 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 63 86
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.70 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £25.23 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +200.00% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.11 £25.55
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -9 42 £614 -0.20% 11
Buckinghamshire +40 19 £550 +15.18% 9
Oxfordshire +4 2 £600 +26.32% 3
Configuration Management
South East

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (3.17%) Confluence
1 2 (3.17%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.40%) AWS
2 14 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (4.76%) GitHub
4 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.63%) SAN
1 13 (20.63%) TCP/IP
2 6 (9.52%) DHCP
2 6 (9.52%) DNS
3 2 (3.17%) VPN
3 2 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.59%) BGP
4 1 (1.59%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.59%) Firewall
4 1 (1.59%) InfiniBand
4 1 (1.59%) IOS XR
4 1 (1.59%) MPLS
4 1 (1.59%) Network Security
4 1 (1.59%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 15 (23.81%) GitLab
1 15 (23.81%) JIRA
2 14 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 14 (22.22%) Selenium
3 13 (20.63%) Cucumber
4 12 (19.05%) REST Assured
4 12 (19.05%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.76%) LoadRunner
6 2 (3.17%) Git
7 1 (1.59%) Appium
7 1 (1.59%) MSTest
7 1 (1.59%) NUnit
7 1 (1.59%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.59%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (19.05%) Public Sector
4 9 (14.29%) Law
5 8 (12.70%) Police
6 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (26.98%) Developer
2 14 (22.22%) Senior
3 13 (20.63%) Python Developer
4 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 7 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Configuration Specialist
5 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Java Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 5 (7.94%) Lead
6 5 (7.94%) Project Leader
6 5 (7.94%) Senior Java Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Backend Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Architect
8 3 (4.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.63%) ARM Templates
1 13 (20.63%) Java EE
1 13 (20.63%) REST
2 2 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.59%) .NET
3 1 (1.59%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.59%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.59%) JSON
3 1 (1.59%) NETCONF
3 1 (1.59%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.59%) XML
3 1 (1.59%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.94%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.59%) Grid Computing
4 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.98%) Linux
2 13 (20.63%) Debian
2 13 (20.63%) Ubuntu
3 8 (12.70%) Windows
4 5 (7.94%) Unix
5 3 (4.76%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.76%) Windows 7
5 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.33%) ITIL
2 17 (26.98%) DevOps
2 17 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (26.98%) Software Engineering
3 16 (25.40%) Continuous Integration
3 16 (25.40%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (25.40%) Test Automation
4 15 (23.81%) Agile
4 15 (23.81%) Decision-Making
5 14 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 13 (20.63%) Data Engineering
6 13 (20.63%) Data Modelling
6 13 (20.63%) Prototyping
6 13 (20.63%) Software Architecture
6 13 (20.63%) Technical Leadership
6 13 (20.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 10 (15.87%) Customer Service
7 10 (15.87%) Matrix Organization
8 8 (12.70%) Project Management
9 7 (11.11%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.81%) Python
2 13 (20.63%) Java
3 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.17%) Go
4 2 (3.17%) SQL
5 1 (1.59%) Bash
5 1 (1.59%) C#
5 1 (1.59%) Groovy
5 1 (1.59%) Perl
5 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (73.02%) Security Cleared
2 32 (50.79%) SC Cleared
3 20 (31.75%) DV Cleared
4 6 (9.52%) Degree
5 4 (6.35%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.59%) CCNP
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 14 (22.22%) Docker
2 6 (9.52%) XenApp
2 6 (9.52%) XenDesktop
3 5 (7.94%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.59%) NFS
4 1 (1.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.59%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (28.57%) Ansible
2 16 (25.40%) Terraform
3 15 (23.81%) Kubernetes
4 12 (19.05%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (19.05%) Podman
5 8 (12.70%) SCCM
6 2 (3.17%) Kibana
6 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.17%) Puppet
6 2 (3.17%) Rancher
7 1 (1.59%) CFEngine
7 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (30.16%) VMware
2 16 (25.40%) Microsoft
3 14 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 8 (12.70%) ServiceNow
5 6 (9.52%) Citrix
6 4 (6.35%) Oracle
7 3 (4.76%) FireEye
7 3 (4.76%) Tanium
8 2 (3.17%) Apple
9 1 (1.59%) BMC
9 1 (1.59%) Cisco
9 1 (1.59%) Google
9 1 (1.59%) HP
9 1 (1.59%) Micro Focus
9 1 (1.59%) Nokia
9 1 (1.59%) OpenText
9 1 (1.59%) Remedy