Configuration Management Contracts in the North West

Configuration Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Configuration Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Configuration Management over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 81 114
Rank change year-on-year -14 +33 -23
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 40 73 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.43% 2.42% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 2.70% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 52 48
10th Percentile £398 £325 £400
25th Percentile £450 £350 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £641 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £658
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £56.43 £26.25
25th Percentile - £58.19 £28.13
Median hourly rate £11.00 £61.13 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -82.00% +88.08% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £64.06 £34.38
90th Percentile - £65.83 £34.75
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
North West

Configuration Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,704 3,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 89.77% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,900 2,591
10th Percentile £310 £313 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 142 155
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.61 £59.08 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the North West

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the North West

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the North West

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the North West

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester +6 17 £450 -11.76% 14
Cheshire -17 14 £590 +57.33% 6
Cumbria -10 7 £488 +39.29%
Lancashire 0 1 - - 3
Merseyside -2 1 - -
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.50%) CMS
2 1 (2.50%) nginx
2 1 (2.50%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (20.00%) CATIA
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (20.00%) DELMIA
1 8 (20.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.00%) AWS
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
3 3 (7.50%) AWS CodePipeline
3 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (7.50%) GCP
3 3 (7.50%) Serverless
4 2 (5.00%) Azure
4 2 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.50%) IaaS
5 1 (2.50%) SaaS
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) DNS
2 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) GitLab
2 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.50%) JIRA
4 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.00%) Hudson
5 1 (2.50%) Git
General
1 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Automotive
4 2 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Finance
5 1 (2.50%) Legal
5 1 (2.50%) Military
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Lead
1 8 (20.00%) Support Team Leader
2 7 (17.50%) Team Leader
3 6 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Software Asset Manager
3 6 (15.00%) Software Manager
4 5 (12.50%) Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (10.00%) Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Configuration Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Active Directory Architect
7 2 (5.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) IT Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Migration Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Service Manager
7 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) React Native
1 2 (5.00%) SAML
2 1 (2.50%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 20 (50.00%) CMDB
2 7 (17.50%) Management Information System
3 6 (15.00%) Virtual Team
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.50%) Clustering
5 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) CentOS
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) Asset Management
1 11 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 11 (27.50%) Service Management
2 8 (20.00%) PLM
2 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (20.00%) Workflow
3 7 (17.50%) IT Asset Management
3 7 (17.50%) ITIL
3 7 (17.50%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
4 6 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (15.00%) DevOps
4 6 (15.00%) Quality Management
4 6 (15.00%) Software Asset Management
4 6 (15.00%) Virtual Team Management
5 5 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
5 5 (12.50%) Internal Audit
5 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 5 (12.50%) Statistics
6 4 (10.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) SQL
2 8 (20.00%) Python
3 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.00%) Ruby
4 3 (7.50%) Go
5 1 (2.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
3 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) CCNA
4 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Degree
5 1 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.00%) NIST
2 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (15.00%) Terraform
2 3 (7.50%) Ansible
2 3 (7.50%) ZABBIX
3 2 (5.00%) Nagios
4 1 (2.50%) Consul
4 1 (2.50%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (2.50%) Graphite
4 1 (2.50%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.50%) Istio
4 1 (2.50%) linkerd
4 1 (2.50%) Packer
4 1 (2.50%) Podman
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.00%) Siemens
3 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.50%) Adobe
5 1 (2.50%) BMC
5 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.50%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) Splunk
5 1 (2.50%) VMware