Scotland Configuration Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Daventry Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Huddersfield Ipswich Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Prestwick Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wokingham Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	79
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	20	49
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.050 %
As % of the category below	1.813 %	3.063 %
Daily rates quoted	3	19
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£385
Average daily rate	£348	£408
% change on same period last year	-14.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£431
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£363
% change on same period last year	+2.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£23.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.40	£33.31
% change on same period last year	+0.28 %
Processes & Methodologies Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1103	1600
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.470 %	1.619 %
Daily rates quoted	285	344
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£324
Average daily rate	£319	£339
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	52	69
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.71	£24.82
Average hourly rate	£22.79	£26.42
% change on same period last year	-13.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.87	£28.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Configuration Management across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Configuration Management across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Configuration Management across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Edinburgh	+7	11	£419	-7.73 %
Glasgow	-10	5	£400	+2.96 %
South Ayrshire	+4	1	£225	-18.18 %
Aberdeen	0	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 19 (43.18 %) ClearCase 1 19 (43.18 %) Finance 2 14 (31.82 %) Java 3 10 (22.73 %) DB2 3 10 (22.73 %) PVCS 4 8 (18.18 %) Oracle 5 6 (13.64 %) Ant 5 6 (13.64 %) Windows 5 6 (13.64 %) Banking 6 5 (11.36 %) CruiseControl 6 5 (11.36 %) UNIX 6 5 (11.36 %) SQL Server 7 4 (9.091 %) SQL 7 4 (9.091 %) Perl 7 4 (9.091 %) ITIL

7 4 (9.091 %) Mainframe 7 4 (9.091 %) Subversion 7 4 (9.091 %) Requirements Analysis 8 3 (6.818 %) Retail Banking 8 3 (6.818 %) Retail 8 3 (6.818 %) JCL 8 3 (6.818 %) Linux 8 3 (6.818 %) Change Management 8 3 (6.818 %) Financial Institution 8 3 (6.818 %) PRINCE2 8 3 (6.818 %) IBM 8 3 (6.818 %) Microsoft 8 3 (6.818 %) COBOL 9 2 (4.545 %) VB 9 2 (4.545 %) J2EE

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 (4.545 %) J2EE 1 2 (4.545 %) WebSphere 2 1 (2.273 %) HTML 2 1 (2.273 %) Struts 2 1 (2.273 %) Middleware 2 1 (2.273 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.273 %) Tomcat 1 1 (2.273 %) SharePoint 1 1 (2.273 %) SAS
Applications 1 1 (2.273 %) MS Excel 1 1 (2.273 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (2.273 %) Great Plains 1 1 (2.273 %) MAXIMO
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.273 %) WAN 1 1 (2.273 %) Intranet 1 1 (2.273 %) Internet 1 1 (2.273 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (22.73 %) DB2 2 5 (11.36 %) SQL Server 3 2 (4.545 %) MySQL 4 1 (2.273 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 19 (43.18 %) ClearCase 2 10 (22.73 %) PVCS 3 6 (13.64 %) Ant 4 5 (11.36 %) CruiseControl 5 4 (9.091 %) Subversion 6 2 (4.545 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 2 (4.545 %) Telon 6 2 (4.545 %) ClearQuest 7 1 (2.273 %) XPEDITER 7 1 (2.273 %) Visual LANSA 7 1 (2.273 %) TestDirector	General 1 19 (43.18 %) Finance 2 6 (13.64 %) Banking 3 3 (6.818 %) Retail 3 3 (6.818 %) Retail Banking 3 3 (6.818 %) Financial Institution 4 2 (4.545 %) Health 5 1 (2.273 %) Electronics 5 1 (2.273 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 11 (25.00 %) Configuration Manager 2 6 (13.64 %) Developer 3 5 (11.36 %) Analyst 4 3 (6.818 %) Administrator 5 2 (4.545 %) Quality Engineer 5 2 (4.545 %) Operations Analyst 5 2 (4.545 %) Test Manager 5 2 (4.545 %) Project Manager 5 2 (4.545 %) Build Manager 5 2 (4.545 %) Mainframe Developer 5 2 (4.545 %) Process Engineer 5 2 (4.545 %) Software Engineer 6 1 (2.273 %) Solaris Administrator 6 1 (2.273 %) Environment Manager 6 1 (2.273 %) Business Analyst 6 1 (2.273 %) Business Systems Analyst 6 1 (2.273 %) Systems Analyst 6 1 (2.273 %) Consultant 6 1 (2.273 %) Systems Engineer 6 1 (2.273 %) Development Manager	Miscellaneous 1 4 (9.091 %) Mainframe 2 2 (4.545 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (2.273 %) Management Information System 3 1 (2.273 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 6 (13.64 %) Windows 2 5 (11.36 %) UNIX 3 3 (6.818 %) Linux 4 2 (4.545 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (4.545 %) Solaris 5 1 (2.273 %) AIX 5 1 (2.273 %) Debian 5 1 (2.273 %) Windows XP 5 1 (2.273 %) OS/400	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (9.091 %) ITIL 1 4 (9.091 %) Requirements Analysis 2 3 (6.818 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (6.818 %) Change Management 3 2 (4.545 %) Project Management 3 2 (4.545 %) Time Management 4 1 (2.273 %) Web Development 4 1 (2.273 %) Problem Management 4 1 (2.273 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (2.273 %) Test Management 4 1 (2.273 %) Test Scripting 4 1 (2.273 %) Service Management 4 1 (2.273 %) PRINCE 4 1 (2.273 %) Risk Management 4 1 (2.273 %) Asset Management 4 1 (2.273 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 14 (31.82 %) Java 2 4 (9.091 %) Perl 2 4 (9.091 %) SQL 3 3 (6.818 %) JCL 3 3 (6.818 %) COBOL 4 2 (4.545 %) VB 4 2 (4.545 %) Shell Script 5 1 (2.273 %) C# 5 1 (2.273 %) C++ 5 1 (2.273 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (2.273 %) RPG 5 1 (2.273 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 2 (4.545 %) CSQA 2 1 (2.273 %) HNC
System Software 1 1 (2.273 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 1 1 (2.273 %) Oracle RMAN	Systems Management 1 1 (2.273 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 8 (18.18 %) Oracle 2 3 (6.818 %) IBM 2 3 (6.818 %) Microsoft 3 1 (2.273 %) MicroStrategy 3 1 (2.273 %) Red Hat 3 1 (2.273 %) LANSA 3 1 (2.273 %) VMware