Configuration Management Contracts in the South East

Configuration Management
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 123 115
Rank change year-on-year +21 -8 -38
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 105 97 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.84% 1.72% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 1.93% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 66 110
10th Percentile £276 £378 £353
25th Percentile £473 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £586 £595
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% -1.47% +40.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £737 £738
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 9
10th Percentile £40.00 £46.77 £22.45
25th Percentile £48.40 £48.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £70.39 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.42% -11.54% +60.49%
75th Percentile £91.50 £60.63 -
90th Percentile £92.37 £67.02 £68.99
England median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £48.48
% change year-on-year -0.83% +4.00% +19.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,709 5,035 6,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.69% 89.04% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,713 3,459 4,700
10th Percentile £255 £250 £244
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% +0.20% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 465 221 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.27
25th Percentile £18.32 £24.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.97
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.96% -12.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.94 £75.00 £63.55
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the South East over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management in the South East over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 9 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
Thames Valley +9 52 £555 +11.00% 15
Berkshire +6 34 £650 +7.66% 9
Hampshire -7 27 £582 -3.00% 13
Buckinghamshire +27 17 £550 +37.50% 5
West Sussex +9 6 - - 3
East Sussex - 6 £800 - 1
Kent - 5 £105 - 2
Middlesex - 3 £180 -
Surrey +2 2 £650 +4.84% 1
M4 Corridor - 2 £540 -
Oxfordshire -1 1 - - 1
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (3.81%) Confluence
2 2 (1.90%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.95%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (23.81%) AWS
2 19 (18.10%) Azure
3 3 (2.86%) Datadog
4 2 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.90%) OpenShift
4 2 (1.90%) PaaS
4 2 (1.90%) Slack
5 1 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.95%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (0.95%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.95%) GCP
5 1 (0.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.48%) SAN
2 9 (8.57%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.86%) DHCP
3 3 (2.86%) DNS
4 2 (1.90%) Internet
4 2 (1.90%) VPN
4 2 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.95%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.95%) LAN
5 1 (0.95%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (18.10%) Jenkins
2 17 (16.19%) GitLab
2 17 (16.19%) JIRA
3 14 (13.33%) Selenium
4 13 (12.38%) Cucumber
5 12 (11.43%) Git
5 12 (11.43%) REST Assured
5 12 (11.43%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.90%) ClearCase
6 2 (1.90%) ClearQuest
7 1 (0.95%) Appium
7 1 (0.95%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.95%) MSTest
7 1 (0.95%) NUnit
7 1 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.95%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.95%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (30.48%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 13 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.52%) Law
4 10 (9.52%) Legal
5 8 (7.62%) Police
6 6 (5.71%) Finance
7 5 (4.76%) Retail
8 2 (1.90%) Back Office
8 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Banking
9 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.95%) Local Government
9 1 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (22.86%) Senior
2 19 (18.10%) Architect
3 18 (17.14%) Analyst
4 17 (16.19%) Developer
5 9 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (8.57%) Python Developer
6 8 (7.62%) Configuration Specialist
7 7 (6.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 7 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 7 (6.67%) Service Analyst
7 7 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Java Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.76%) Lead
9 5 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.38%) ARM Templates
1 13 (12.38%) Java EE
1 13 (12.38%) REST
2 9 (8.57%) YAML
3 4 (3.81%) .NET
3 4 (3.81%) .NET Core
3 4 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.86%) Blazor
4 3 (2.86%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (1.90%) Fluent Bit
5 2 (1.90%) Loki
5 2 (1.90%) Web Services
6 1 (0.95%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.95%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.24%) Management Information System
2 11 (10.48%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (8.57%) CMDB
4 5 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.86%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.95%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.95%) FPGA
7 1 (0.95%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.95%) iPhone
7 1 (0.95%) Smartcard
7 1 (0.95%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 27 (25.71%) Linux
2 17 (16.19%) Windows
3 9 (8.57%) Debian
3 9 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (8.57%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.90%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.90%) Unix
5 1 (0.95%) Android
5 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.95%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.95%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (29.52%) ITIL
2 28 (26.67%) DevOps
2 28 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (20.95%) Test Automation
5 21 (20.00%) Agile
6 20 (19.05%) Software Engineering
7 19 (18.10%) Service Management
8 18 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (17.14%) Software Architecture
9 17 (16.19%) Roadmaps
10 16 (15.24%) Containerisation
10 16 (15.24%) Prototyping
10 16 (15.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (14.29%) Decision-Making
12 14 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (12.38%) Infrastructure Automation
14 11 (10.48%) ITSM
15 10 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.19%) PowerShell
2 16 (15.24%) Java
2 16 (15.24%) Python
3 7 (6.67%) Bash
4 6 (5.71%) C++
5 4 (3.81%) C#
5 4 (3.81%) Go
5 4 (3.81%) Perl
5 4 (3.81%) SQL
6 3 (2.86%) C
6 3 (2.86%) Ruby
7 1 (0.95%) Groovy
7 1 (0.95%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (63.81%) Security Cleared
2 44 (41.90%) SC Cleared
3 22 (20.95%) Degree
4 21 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.71%) Master's Degree
6 5 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.90%) NVQ Level 3
7 2 (1.90%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) SLA
2 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (1.90%) GDPR
3 2 (1.90%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.95%) DO-254
4 1 (0.95%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (18.10%) Docker
2 15 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.90%) XenApp
4 2 (1.90%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.95%) NFS
5 1 (0.95%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 32 (30.48%) Ansible
1 32 (30.48%) Terraform
2 22 (20.95%) Kubernetes
3 14 (13.33%) Puppet
4 13 (12.38%) Progress Chef
5 12 (11.43%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (11.43%) Podman
6 9 (8.57%) Salt
7 4 (3.81%) Rancher
7 4 (3.81%) SCCM
8 3 (2.86%) Nagios
9 2 (1.90%) Argo
9 2 (1.90%) Grafana
9 2 (1.90%) HP ALM
9 2 (1.90%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.90%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.95%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 25 (23.81%) VMware
2 18 (17.14%) Red Hat
2 18 (17.14%) ServiceNow
3 12 (11.43%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.62%) SaltStack
5 3 (2.86%) New Relic
5 3 (2.86%) Splunk
6 2 (1.90%) Apple
6 2 (1.90%) Citrix
6 2 (1.90%) HP
7 1 (0.95%) BMC
7 1 (0.95%) CA
7 1 (0.95%) FireEye
7 1 (0.95%) Google
7 1 (0.95%) Mentor Graphics
7 1 (0.95%) Remedy
7 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.95%) Tanium