Configuration Management Contracts in South Wales

Configuration Management
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 39 58
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 -14
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 4 15 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.22% 3.16% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 3.58% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 12
10th Percentile £183 £463 £273
25th Percentile £267 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -31.83% +2.13% +26.48%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £632
90th Percentile £634 - £675
Wales median daily rate £409 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -31.83% +26.32% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £11.00 - -
Wales median hourly rate £11.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 253 419 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 77.37% 88.21% 84.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 320 529
10th Percentile £143 £190 £263
25th Percentile £313 £372 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +15.61%
75th Percentile £566 £588 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £490 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% +12.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 21
10th Percentile £11.45 £16.37 £15.25
25th Percentile £15.48 £16.98 £19.91
Median hourly rate £20.24 £18.14 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +11.55% -10.38% -2.58%
75th Percentile £52.31 £22.11 £46.88
90th Percentile £86.90 £49.75 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £19.17 £18.14 £20.24
% change year-on-year +5.68% -10.38% -1.27%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in South Wales

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in South Wales

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in South Wales over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in South Wales

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in South Wales

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cardiff +4 3 £409 -30.38% 3
Newport -3 1 - -
Configuration Management
Wales

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) AppScan
1 1 (25.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) CMDB
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (25.00%) LIMS
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Application Security
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Entry
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Information Management
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Line Management
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) OWASP
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) ISEB
2 1 (25.00%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (25.00%) SANS
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Graylog
1 1 (25.00%) HP Fortify
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Nagios
1 1 (25.00%) Nessus
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
1 1 (25.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (25.00%) InterSystems
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Veracode