The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Glasgow region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Management
Rank 71 56 48
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -8
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 9 5 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.940% 0.647% 1.608%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.387% 0.962% 2.355%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 5
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £310 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £393 £350 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £36.73
% change year-on-year
- +8.91%
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
649 520 467
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 67.82% 67.27% 68.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 282 277
Average daily rate £338 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £235 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 13
Average hourly rate £9.25 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-63.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Configuration Management
Scotland

Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Configuration Management across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Glasgow Configuration Management Jobs Demand Trend

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Configuration Management across the Glasgow region.

Glasgow Configuration Management Daily Rate Trend

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Configuration Management across the Glasgow region.

Glasgow Configuration Management Hourly Rate Trend

Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Configuration Management also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Configuration Management.

1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Subversion
3 5 (38.46%) Release Management
4 4 (30.77%) TeamCity
4 4 (30.77%) Service Management
4 4 (30.77%) Ant
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (30.77%) MSBuild
5 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
5 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
5 3 (23.08%) CMDB
5 3 (23.08%) CruiseControl
6 2 (15.38%) XHTML
6 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (15.38%) jQuery
6 2 (15.38%) HTML5
6 2 (15.38%) Change Management
6 2 (15.38%) Project Management
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) CMS
6 2 (15.38%) Content Management
6 2 (15.38%) HP
6 2 (15.38%) Tridion
6 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
6 2 (15.38%) Windows
6 2 (15.38%) CSS
6 2 (15.38%) HTML
6 2 (15.38%) Java
6 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (15.38%) Perl

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Configuration Management also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Configuration Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (15.38%) XHTML
1 2 (15.38%) jQuery
1 2 (15.38%) HTML5
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
2 1 (7.692%) .NET
2 1 (7.692%) XML
2 1 (7.692%) XSLT
2 1 (7.692%) ASP
2 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.692%) WebSphere
2 1 (7.692%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) CMS
2 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
2 1 (7.692%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Tridion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Subversion
2 4 (30.77%) TeamCity
2 4 (30.77%) Ant
2 4 (30.77%) MSBuild
3 3 (23.08%) CruiseControl
4 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
5 1 (7.692%) JIRA
5 1 (7.692%) MSTest
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Configuration Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Web Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Consultant
4 1 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Service Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Build Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Front-End Web Developer
4 1 (7.692%) PMO Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.692%) UNIX
2 1 (7.692%) Solaris
2 1 (7.692%) Linux
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Release Management
2 4 (30.77%) Service Management
2 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (15.38%) Change Management
3 2 (15.38%) Project Management
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (15.38%) Content Management
4 1 (7.692%) ITIL
4 1 (7.692%) OO
4 1 (7.692%) Data Analysis
4 1 (7.692%) Project Planning
4 1 (7.692%) Resource Management
4 1 (7.692%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (7.692%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) Perl
3 1 (7.692%) SQL
3 1 (7.692%) VBScript
3 1 (7.692%) C#
3 1 (7.692%) C++
3 1 (7.692%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.692%) Korn
3 1 (7.692%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
1 1 (7.692%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.692%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) HP Operations Orchestration
1 1 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (7.692%) HP SiteScope
1 1 (7.692%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) HP
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle
2 1 (7.692%) Microsoft