Configuration Management Contracts in the South West

Configuration Management
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 114 109
Rank change year-on-year +56 -5 -11
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 105 49 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.24% 1.45% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 1.62% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 28 31
10th Percentile £425 £421 £225
25th Percentile £514 £491 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +10.53% +21.11%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £550
90th Percentile - £640 £594
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 12
10th Percentile £57.00 £36.80 £42.76
25th Percentile - £38.01 £48.04
Median hourly rate £70.00 £44.50 £53.11
Median % change year-on-year +57.32% -16.22% +3.13%
75th Percentile - £57.02 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.66 £59.57 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £48.48
% change year-on-year -0.83% +4.00% +20.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,668 3,026 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.24% 89.50% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,691 2,200 2,332
10th Percentile £225 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +5.37%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 317 202
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.40 £20.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £47.64
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +25.96% +5.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.71
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.82 £69.14
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the South West

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the South West

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Wiltshire +35 44 £613 +11.36% 1
Bristol +33 28 £630 +20.00% 9
Gloucestershire +7 16 £550 - 16
Dorset 0 8 £650 +23.81% 4
Somerset -2 3 £500 +194.12% 1
Devon - 3 - - 2
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 23 (21.90%) Confluence
2 7 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.81%) Apache Solr
3 4 (3.81%) nginx
4 2 (1.90%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.86%) ENOVIA
2 3 (2.86%) SAP PLM
2 3 (2.86%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.48%) AWS
2 9 (8.57%) OpenShift
3 8 (7.62%) Azure
4 7 (6.67%) Serverless
5 6 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (5.71%) Amazon S3
5 6 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (4.76%) GCP
6 5 (4.76%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.86%) PaaS
8 2 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.90%) Slack
9 1 (0.95%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.95%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.67%) Network Security
2 6 (5.71%) AMQP
3 4 (3.81%) DNS
3 4 (3.81%) HTTPS
3 4 (3.81%) IPsec
3 4 (3.81%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.81%) VPN
4 3 (2.86%) IPv4
4 3 (2.86%) OSPF
4 3 (2.86%) VLAN
5 2 (1.90%) Internet
6 1 (0.95%) Firewall
6 1 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (5.71%) InfluxDB
1 6 (5.71%) MySQL
1 6 (5.71%) Relational Database
2 5 (4.76%) Power BI
3 4 (3.81%) Couchbase
3 4 (3.81%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (29.52%) Jenkins
2 23 (21.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 23 (21.90%) Bitbucket
2 23 (21.90%) JIRA
3 12 (11.43%) Git
4 2 (1.90%) HP UFT
4 2 (1.90%) LoadRunner
General
1 35 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (19.05%) Aerospace
4 7 (6.67%) Military
4 7 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.76%) Legal
6 4 (3.81%) Electronics
6 4 (3.81%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.90%) Advertising
7 2 (1.90%) Finance
7 2 (1.90%) Law
7 2 (1.90%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.95%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (21.90%) Embedded Engineer
1 23 (21.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 23 (21.90%) Software Engineer
2 22 (20.95%) Developer
3 12 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (6.67%) Senior
4 7 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (5.71%) Support Officer
6 4 (3.81%) Availability Manager
6 4 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (3.81%) Service Manager
7 3 (2.86%) Consultant
7 3 (2.86%) Data Engineer
7 3 (2.86%) Firmware Developer
7 3 (2.86%) Industrial Engineer
7 3 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (2.86%) Lead
7 3 (2.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.86%) Site Engineer
8 2 (1.90%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (21.90%) .NET
1 23 (21.90%) .NET Core
2 13 (12.38%) YAML
3 10 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (3.81%) JSON
4 4 (3.81%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (1.90%) Fluent Bit
5 2 (1.90%) Loki
6 1 (0.95%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.95%) React
6 1 (0.95%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.90%) ARM Cortex
2 13 (12.38%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.71%) CMDB
3 6 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.81%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.86%) FPGA
6 3 (2.86%) VHDL
7 1 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.95%) SCADA
7 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 72 (68.57%) Linux
2 23 (21.90%) FreeRTOS
3 13 (12.38%) Windows
4 9 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.81%) CentOS
6 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (35.24%) CI/CD
2 34 (32.38%) Infrastructure Automation
3 28 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (26.67%) Task Automation
4 27 (25.71%) Software Engineering
5 23 (21.90%) Deployment Automation
5 23 (21.90%) OO
5 23 (21.90%) OOP
6 22 (20.95%) Continuous Integration
7 20 (19.05%) Agile
8 19 (18.10%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (17.14%) DevOps
10 15 (14.29%) Service Management
11 11 (10.48%) Validation
12 8 (7.62%) ITIL
12 8 (7.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (7.62%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 7 (6.67%) ITSM
13 7 (6.67%) Migration
13 7 (6.67%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (36.19%) PowerShell
2 36 (34.29%) Python
3 28 (26.67%) C
4 23 (21.90%) Embedded C
5 7 (6.67%) Go
5 7 (6.67%) Java
6 6 (5.71%) Bash
6 6 (5.71%) Shell Script
6 6 (5.71%) SQL
7 4 (3.81%) PHP
8 1 (0.95%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 83 (79.05%) Security Cleared
2 59 (56.19%) SC Cleared
3 22 (20.95%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.81%) Degree
5 2 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.90%) CISSP
6 1 (0.95%) CCNA
6 1 (0.95%) CCNP
6 1 (0.95%) CCSP
6 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.95%) GIAC
6 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.95%) OSCP
6 1 (0.95%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.67%) PMO
2 5 (4.76%) GDPR
2 5 (4.76%) HIPAA
2 5 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.76%) NIST
3 4 (3.81%) QA
4 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.95%) GRC
5 1 (0.95%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.95%) RMADS
5 1 (0.95%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (10.48%) Docker
3 9 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.86%) Firmware
5 2 (1.90%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.90%) vSphere
6 1 (0.95%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (44.76%) Ansible
2 25 (23.81%) Terraform
3 23 (21.90%) PowerCLI
4 16 (15.24%) Progress Chef
5 14 (13.33%) Kubernetes
5 14 (13.33%) Puppet
6 10 (9.52%) Grafana
6 10 (9.52%) Prometheus
7 9 (8.57%) Salt
8 6 (5.71%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.90%) Argo
9 2 (1.90%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.95%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.95%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (21.90%) Atlassian
1 23 (21.90%) IBM
1 23 (21.90%) Lauterbach
2 22 (20.95%) Dell
2 22 (20.95%) HP
3 15 (14.29%) VMware
4 10 (9.52%) Red Hat
5 8 (7.62%) SaltStack
6 5 (4.76%) Google
6 5 (4.76%) Remedy
7 4 (3.81%) SAP
8 3 (2.86%) Xilinx
9 2 (1.90%) OpenText
10 1 (0.95%) Oracle