Configuration Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Configuration Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 64 75 43
Rank change year-on-year +11 -32 +8
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 47 54 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.30% 2.44% 4.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 2.78% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 46 123
10th Percentile £340 £350 £424
25th Percentile £358 £510 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -32.87% - +21.35%
75th Percentile £525 £599 £587
90th Percentile £584 £600 £638
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.64 £17.70
Median hourly rate - £16.29 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -22.45%
75th Percentile - £16.93 £20.00
90th Percentile - - -
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,667 1,939 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.64% 87.62% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,316 2,338
10th Percentile £265 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £586
90th Percentile £731 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in the West Midlands

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in the West Midlands

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in the West Midlands

Configuration Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Shropshire +1 22 £358 -33.70% 2
Warwickshire +5 15 £576 +4.73% 2
Birmingham +5 5 £450 -25.00% 6
Coventry +10 3 £325 +30.00% 1
Configuration Management
England

Configuration Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (4.26%) CICS
1 2 (4.26%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.13%) Azure
1 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (2.13%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) Network Security
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) NGFW
2 1 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (46.81%) Amazon Redshift
1 22 (46.81%) MySQL
2 2 (4.26%) DB2
2 2 (4.26%) IDMS
2 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.13%) Flink
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 36 (76.60%) Git
General
1 10 (21.28%) Public Sector
2 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4 (8.51%) Developer
1 4 (8.51%) Network Manager
2 3 (6.38%) DevOps Specialist
2 3 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (6.38%) Project Manager
2 3 (6.38%) SAP Manager
2 3 (6.38%) SAP Project Manager
3 2 (4.26%) IBM Mainframe Developer
3 2 (4.26%) Mainframe Developer
3 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
3 2 (4.26%) Subject Matter Expert
3 2 (4.26%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (2.13%) Analyst
4 1 (2.13%) C# Developer
4 1 (2.13%) Configuration and Release Manager
4 1 (2.13%) Configuration Manager
4 1 (2.13%) Database Engineer
4 1 (2.13%) Network Engineer
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 1 (2.13%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) YAML
2 1 (2.13%) Kafka
2 1 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.26%) IBM Mainframe
1 2 (4.26%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.53%) Linux
2 11 (23.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (23.40%) Windows
3 2 (4.26%) zOS
4 1 (2.13%) Solaris
4 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (51.06%) Agile
1 24 (51.06%) Analytics
1 24 (51.06%) Continuous Integration
1 24 (51.06%) Requirements Gathering
1 24 (51.06%) Software Engineering
2 23 (48.94%) Data Analytics
2 23 (48.94%) Data Extraction
2 23 (48.94%) ETL
2 23 (48.94%) Scrum
3 22 (46.81%) Dashboard Development
4 17 (36.17%) Process Improvement
4 17 (36.17%) Test Strategy
5 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure Automation
6 11 (23.40%) Validation
6 11 (23.40%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 5 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (10.64%) Strategic Planning
8 4 (8.51%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (8.51%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.40%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.26%) CLIST
2 2 (4.26%) COBOL
2 2 (4.26%) REXX
2 2 (4.26%) SELCOPY
3 1 (2.13%) C#
3 1 (2.13%) Python
3 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (68.09%) Security Cleared
2 30 (63.83%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (8.51%) CCIE
4 4 (8.51%) CCNP
5 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.26%) Degree
6 1 (2.13%) CCNA
System Software
1 11 (23.40%) Virtual Machines
1 11 (23.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.13%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 22 (46.81%) Grafana
2 12 (25.53%) Ansible
2 12 (25.53%) Puppet
2 12 (25.53%) Terraform
3 11 (23.40%) Progress Chef
3 11 (23.40%) Salt
4 1 (2.13%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.13%) Nagios
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 22 (46.81%) Denodo
1 22 (46.81%) Talend
2 11 (23.40%) Red Hat
2 11 (23.40%) VMware
3 9 (19.15%) SaltStack
4 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.38%) SAP
6 2 (4.26%) IBM
6 2 (4.26%) Oracle
6 2 (4.26%) Syncsort
7 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow