Configuration Specialist Contracts with Work from Home Options

Configuration Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Configuration Specialist daily rate in Work from Home is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 453 609
Rank change year-on-year +118 +156 -113
Contract jobs requiring a Configuration Specialist 10 1 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.068% 0.004% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.004% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £425 - £395
25th Percentile £500 - £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £451
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.63%
75th Percentile £538 - £519
90th Percentile £554 - £560
UK median daily rate £500 £325 £451
% change year-on-year +53.85% -27.86% +31.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,806 23,471 42,177
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,297 16,589 30,510
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 538 592
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.44 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.33
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.43 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Configuration Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Configuration Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Configuration Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Configuration Specialist
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Configuration Specialist.

Configuration Specialist daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Configuration Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Configuration Specialist over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Configuration Specialist daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Configuration Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Configuration Specialist 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Configuration Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Change Management
2 4 (40.00%) LIMS
2 4 (40.00%) Service Management
2 4 (40.00%) InterSystems
3 3 (30.00%) Information Management
4 2 (20.00%) Northgate
4 2 (20.00%) NEC Housing
4 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (20.00%) NEC
4 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (20.00%) Housing Management
4 2 (20.00%) Housing Association
5 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) Dell
5 1 (10.00%) BMC
5 1 (10.00%) NHS
5 1 (10.00%) Remedy
5 1 (10.00%) Project Management
5 1 (10.00%) Workday
5 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (10.00%) Validation
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Asset Management

Configuration Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) NEC Housing
2 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (10.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Boomi
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) LIMS
2 2 (20.00%) Housing Association
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (10.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Change Management
2 4 (40.00%) Service Management
3 3 (30.00%) Information Management
4 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (20.00%) Housing Management
5 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
5 1 (10.00%) Change Control
5 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) IT Asset Management
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Project Management
5 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Validation
5 1 (10.00%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) InterSystems
2 2 (20.00%) NEC
2 2 (20.00%) Northgate
3 1 (10.00%) BMC
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) Kronos
3 1 (10.00%) Remedy
3 1 (10.00%) SaltStack
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Workday