Configuration Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Configuration Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 99 125
Rank change year-on-year +12 +26 -25
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 52 49 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.94% 1.70% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 1.88% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 36 33
10th Percentile £282 £370 £339
25th Percentile £506 £400 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £503 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% +18.24% -9.57%
75th Percentile £650 £654 £680
90th Percentile £688 £694 £753
South East median daily rate £573 £596 £595
% change year-on-year -3.98% +0.21% +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £53.49 £49.34 -
25th Percentile £64.36 £50.59 £46.25
Median hourly rate £70.39 £53.88 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.65% +13.42% -32.14%
75th Percentile - £57.84 £48.75
90th Percentile - £59.51 -
South East median hourly rate £70.39 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.42% -11.54% +60.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,291 2,607 3,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.42% 90.62% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 1,771 2,166
10th Percentile £224 £313 £250
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £699 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 67 89
10th Percentile £14.50 £17.00 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.23 £12.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.39
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -2 34 £650 +5.69% 6
Buckinghamshire +27 17 £550 +37.50% 4
Oxfordshire -2 1 - - 1
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 (3.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (34.62%) AWS
2 16 (30.77%) Azure
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.85%) OpenShift
3 2 (3.85%) PaaS
3 2 (3.85%) Slack
4 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.31%) SAN
1 9 (17.31%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.77%) DHCP
2 3 (5.77%) DNS
3 2 (3.85%) VPN
3 2 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.92%) InfiniBand
4 1 (1.92%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 16 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 15 (28.85%) GitLab
2 15 (28.85%) JIRA
3 14 (26.92%) Selenium
4 13 (25.00%) Cucumber
5 12 (23.08%) REST Assured
5 12 (23.08%) SonarQube
6 3 (5.77%) Git
7 1 (1.92%) Appium
7 1 (1.92%) MSTest
7 1 (1.92%) NUnit
7 1 (1.92%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 9 (17.31%) Law
5 8 (15.38%) Police
6 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Senior
2 13 (25.00%) Developer
3 9 (17.31%) Python Developer
4 8 (15.38%) Analyst
5 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Software Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Configuration Specialist
6 6 (11.54%) Java Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 5 (9.62%) Change Analyst
7 5 (9.62%) Lead
7 5 (9.62%) Project Leader
7 5 (9.62%) Senior Java Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Backend Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Change and Release Analyst
8 4 (7.69%) Java Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Release Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 13 (25.00%) Java EE
1 13 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.85%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (3.85%) Loki
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
3 1 (1.92%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.92%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.92%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.92%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 14 (26.92%) Linux
2 9 (17.31%) Debian
2 9 (17.31%) Ubuntu
3 6 (11.54%) Windows
4 2 (3.85%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.85%) Unix
5 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.92%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (40.38%) ITIL
2 18 (34.62%) DevOps
3 17 (32.69%) Software Engineering
4 16 (30.77%) Containerisation
4 16 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
4 16 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 13 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 13 (25.00%) Software Architecture
5 13 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 11 (21.15%) Agile
7 9 (17.31%) Data Engineering
7 9 (17.31%) Data Modelling
7 9 (17.31%) Prototyping
7 9 (17.31%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 7 (13.46%) Project Delivery
8 7 (13.46%) Release Management
9 6 (11.54%) Matrix Organization
9 6 (11.54%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.00%) Java
2 12 (23.08%) Python
3 5 (9.62%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.77%) Bash
5 2 (3.85%) Go
6 1 (1.92%) C#
6 1 (1.92%) Groovy
6 1 (1.92%) Perl
6 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (80.77%) Security Cleared
2 26 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 18 (34.62%) DV Cleared
4 6 (11.54%) Degree
5 4 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (3.85%) NVQ Level 3
System Software
1 16 (30.77%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.85%) XenApp
3 2 (3.85%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.92%) NFS
4 1 (1.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 18 (34.62%) Ansible
1 18 (34.62%) Terraform
2 17 (32.69%) Kubernetes
3 12 (23.08%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (23.08%) Podman
4 4 (7.69%) SCCM
5 2 (3.85%) Argo
5 2 (3.85%) Grafana
5 2 (3.85%) Kustomize
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.85%) Puppet
5 2 (3.85%) Rancher
6 1 (1.92%) CFEngine
6 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (23.08%) VMware
2 11 (21.15%) Microsoft
3 9 (17.31%) Red Hat
4 5 (9.62%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.85%) Apple
5 2 (3.85%) Citrix
6 1 (1.92%) BMC
6 1 (1.92%) FireEye
6 1 (1.92%) Google
6 1 (1.92%) Remedy
6 1 (1.92%) Tanium