Configuration Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Configuration Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Configuration Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £413 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 439 508
Rank change year-on-year +63 +69 -81
Contract jobs requiring a Configuration Engineer 15 22 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.091% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.097% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 0
10th Percentile £401 £400 -
25th Percentile £403 £431 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% - -
75th Percentile £428 £520 -
90th Percentile £434 £609 -
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £350
% change year-on-year -15.00% +42.86% +29.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 0
10th Percentile £37.33 - -
25th Percentile £37.91 £37.50 -
Median hourly rate £40.28 £40.90 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% - -
75th Percentile £42.64 £42.50 -
90th Percentile £44.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.28 £40.90 £22.28
% change year-on-year -1.53% +83.57% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,262 22,750 29,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.10% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,825 15,940 20,711
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 1,193 1,496
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £15.67 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Configuration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Configuration Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Engineer in the UK excluding London

Configuration Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Engineer in the UK excluding London

Configuration Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Engineer in the UK excluding London

Configuration Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
East of England +16 8 - - 2
South East +14 3 - - 5
North of England +28 1 £400 - 5
Midlands +24 1 - - 2
South West +21 1 - - 2
North West +11 1 £400 - 5
East Midlands - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £425 - 3
Configuration Engineer
UK

Configuration Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Configuration Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Configuration Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 8 (53.33%) PLM
3 7 (46.67%) Windchill
3 7 (46.67%) Customer Requirements
3 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Degree
4 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (13.33%) Workflow
5 2 (13.33%) ITIL
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (13.33%) Juniper
5 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 2 (13.33%) CMDB
5 2 (13.33%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (13.33%) Teamcenter
5 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
5 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (6.67%) Availability Management
6 1 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (6.67%) Smartsheet
6 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace

Configuration Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (6.67%) CMS
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Windchill
2 2 (13.33%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Junos
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
1 1 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) CMDB
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 8 (53.33%) PLM
3 7 (46.67%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Workflow
5 1 (6.67%) Asset Management
5 1 (6.67%) Change Control
5 1 (6.67%) Change Management
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Architecture
5 1 (6.67%) Data Modelling
5 1 (6.67%) IT Asset Management
5 1 (6.67%) Master Data Management
5 1 (6.67%) PDM
5 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.67%) Product Management
5 1 (6.67%) Quality Management
5 1 (6.67%) Software Asset Management
5 1 (6.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) HP ASE
3 1 (6.67%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Def Stans
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Juniper
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Apple
2 1 (6.67%) BMC
2 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) VMware