Capacity Management Contracts in Scotland

Capacity Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Capacity Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Capacity Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 129 168
Rank change year-on-year +23 +39 -19
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 25 36 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.13% 1.26% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.36% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 3
10th Percentile £438 £433 £470
25th Percentile £525 £441 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -7.50% +66.67%
75th Percentile £646 £613 £538
90th Percentile £706 £632 £560
UK median daily rate £500 £569 £563
% change year-on-year -12.09% +1.02% +16.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% +225.00% -39.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Capacity 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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,648 3,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.62% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,905 2,309
10th Percentile £230 £263 £244
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 48
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -51.45% -10.99%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £48.95
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Capacity Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Capacity Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Management in Scotland

Capacity Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Management in Scotland

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Management in Scotland

Capacity Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Management in Scotland

Capacity Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Glasgow -19 11 £600 +29.73% 1
Edinburgh - 10 £438 -
South Lanarkshire +1 4 £600 -
Capacity Management
UK

Capacity Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (28.00%) SAS
2 5 (20.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (20.00%) iSCSI
2 4 (16.00%) SAN
2 4 (16.00%) VSAN
3 2 (8.00%) FabricPath
3 2 (8.00%) Firewall
3 2 (8.00%) LAN
3 2 (8.00%) NX-OS
3 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) DB2
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.00%) Big Data
3 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.00%) HBase
3 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Banking
4 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Consultant
2 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Python Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Senior
2 4 (16.00%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Administrator
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Exchange Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Data Centre Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Data Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) DBA
4 2 (8.00%) Migration Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) SQL DBA
4 2 (8.00%) VMware Architect
4 2 (8.00%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) Flash
1 5 (20.00%) POSIX
2 2 (8.00%) ISPF
3 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) NVMe
2 4 (16.00%) Client/Server
2 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.00%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 2 (8.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (8.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Windows
2 8 (32.00%) Linux
3 4 (16.00%) Data ONTAP
3 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (16.00%) Unix
3 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Agile
2 13 (52.00%) High Availability
3 12 (48.00%) Problem Management
4 8 (32.00%) Security Patching
5 7 (28.00%) Kanban
5 7 (28.00%) Migration
6 6 (24.00%) Storage Management
7 5 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 5 (20.00%) Data Protection
7 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (20.00%) Observability
7 5 (20.00%) Preventative Maintenance
7 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (20.00%) SDLC
7 5 (20.00%) Time Management
8 4 (16.00%) Data Migration
8 4 (16.00%) Identity Management
8 4 (16.00%) Performance Metrics
8 4 (16.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (24.00%) Java
2 6 (24.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.00%) Perl
4 2 (8.00%) Assembly Language
4 2 (8.00%) JCL
4 2 (8.00%) REXX
4 2 (8.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.00%) Groovy
5 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Degree
2 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (20.00%) NFS
4 4 (16.00%) Docker
4 4 (16.00%) GPFS
4 4 (16.00%) vSphere
5 3 (12.00%) VMware NSX
6 2 (8.00%) ACF2
6 2 (8.00%) RACF
6 2 (8.00%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (4.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (4.00%) HDFS
7 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (16.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (16.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 4 (16.00%) VxRail
3 1 (4.00%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (4.00%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) VMware
2 6 (24.00%) IBM
3 5 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 5 (20.00%) Cisco
4 4 (16.00%) Brocade
4 4 (16.00%) Dell
4 4 (16.00%) EMC
4 4 (16.00%) Google
4 4 (16.00%) NetApp
4 4 (16.00%) Sybase
4 4 (16.00%) Veritas
5 2 (8.00%) BMC
5 2 (8.00%) Broadcom
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle
6 1 (4.00%) Splunk