Configuration Management Contracts in Wales

Configuration Management
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 42 57
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 -5
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 3 21 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.80% 3.41% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 3.91% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 14
10th Percentile - £463 £143
25th Percentile - £481 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year +28.37% +13.16% +2.70%
75th Percentile - £650 £648
90th Percentile - - £670
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.13
Median hourly rate £11.00 - £18.75
75th Percentile - - £19.38
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £47.50
% change year-on-year -0.83% +6.15% +18.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 288 537 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 77.21% 87.32% 83.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 410 591
10th Percentile £162 £188 £203
25th Percentile £357 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £575
90th Percentile £672 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 29
10th Percentile £11.51 £14.70 £14.05
25th Percentile £13.06 £16.98 £18.13
Median hourly rate £19.17 £18.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -19.38% +9.76%
75th Percentile £51.75 £24.38 £31.00
90th Percentile £86.72 £49.25 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Wales

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in Wales

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Configuration Management in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in Wales

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 11 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
South Wales 0 3 £690 +20.00% 4
Configuration Management
UK

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) AppScan
1 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Coordinator
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) LIMS
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Change Control
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Data Entry
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Information Management
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
1 1 (33.33%) OWASP
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SANS
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Graylog
1 1 (33.33%) HP Fortify
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
1 1 (33.33%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Checkmarx
2 1 (33.33%) InterSystems
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Veracode