The first table below looks at the demand for Configuration Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Configuration Management over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Scotland 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Management
Rank 100 92 95
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +3
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 23 14 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.905% 0.531% 0.537%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.306% 0.831% 0.822%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 9
Average daily rate £400 £336 £235
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.95% +43.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £215 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £350 £426
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £315
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Average hourly rate - £32.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +10.34%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1761 1684 1825
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 69.28% 63.84% 65.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 890 810 977
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 61 45
Average hourly rate £18.00 £24.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.53% -15.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
Configuration Management
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Configuration Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Configuration Management Daily Rate Trend

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Configuration Management across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Scotland Configuration Management Daily Rate Histogram

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 Scotland region.

Scotland Configuration Management Hourly Rate Trend

Configuration Management
Contract Locations

The table below 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 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Glasgow -14 8 £400 +14.28% 1
Edinburgh -4 6 £455 +37.87%
Renfrewshire - 6 £425 -
Aberdeen +2 1 £413 -
West Lothian - 1 - -
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Configuration Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, 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 18 (41.86%) Finance
2 14 (32.56%) Windows
3 13 (30.23%) CMDB
4 11 (25.58%) Release Management
4 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
4 11 (25.58%) Service Management
5 10 (23.26%) Solaris
5 10 (23.26%) TCP/IP
6 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
6 9 (20.93%) HP
6 9 (20.93%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (18.60%) Windows Server 2003
7 8 (18.60%) Linux
7 8 (18.60%) ITIL
8 7 (16.28%) Oracle
8 7 (16.28%) Project Management
8 7 (16.28%) SAN
8 7 (16.28%) Veritas
8 7 (16.28%) Tivoli
8 7 (16.28%) Clustering
8 7 (16.28%) Subversion
9 6 (13.95%) NAS
9 6 (13.95%) Software Distribution
9 6 (13.95%) ServiceNow
9 6 (13.95%) Netcool
9 6 (13.95%) OpenView Configuration Management
9 6 (13.95%) SQL
9 6 (13.95%) AIX
9 6 (13.95%) UNIX
9 6 (13.95%) Cisco

Configuration Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, 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 5 (11.63%) XML
2 2 (4.651%) jQuery
2 2 (4.651%) HTML5
2 2 (4.651%) CSS
2 2 (4.651%) HTML
2 2 (4.651%) XHTML
3 1 (2.326%) ASP
3 1 (2.326%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.326%) .NET
3 1 (2.326%) J2EE
3 1 (2.326%) Struts
3 1 (2.326%) XSLT
3 1 (2.326%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.326%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.326%) Struts2
3 1 (2.326%) Spring MVC
3 1 (2.326%) Spring
3 1 (2.326%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.977%) CMS
2 2 (4.651%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.326%) SAS
3 1 (2.326%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.326%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.326%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (6.977%) MS Excel
1 3 (6.977%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (9.302%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (4.651%) Tridion
3 1 (2.326%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (23.26%) TCP/IP
2 7 (16.28%) SAN
3 6 (13.95%) NAS
3 6 (13.95%) DNS
3 6 (13.95%) DHCP
4 5 (11.63%) Firewall
5 4 (9.302%) WAN
5 4 (9.302%) LAN
6 3 (6.977%) VPN
6 3 (6.977%) Wireless
6 3 (6.977%) NetScreen
7 2 (4.651%) MPLS
7 2 (4.651%) Internet
8 1 (2.326%) SMS
8 1 (2.326%) OSPF
8 1 (2.326%) BGP
8 1 (2.326%) Intranet
8 1 (2.326%) Unified Communications
8 1 (2.326%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (2.326%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.302%) SQL Server
1 4 (9.302%) Oracle Discoverer
1 4 (9.302%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (9.302%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (6.977%) MySQL
3 1 (2.326%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Subversion
2 4 (9.302%) TeamCity
2 4 (9.302%) MSBuild
2 4 (9.302%) Ant
2 4 (9.302%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (6.977%) CruiseControl
4 2 (4.651%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.326%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.326%) ClearCase
5 1 (2.326%) MSTest
5 1 (2.326%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.326%) Maven
5 1 (2.326%) JIRA
General
1 18 (41.86%) Finance
2 4 (9.302%) Banking
3 2 (4.651%) Investment Banking
3 2 (4.651%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Consultant
2 8 (18.60%) Configuration Manager
3 7 (16.28%) Analyst
4 4 (9.302%) Oracle Consultant
5 3 (6.977%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.977%) Service Manager
5 3 (6.977%) Management Consultant
5 3 (6.977%) Configuration Management Consultant
6 2 (4.651%) E-Business Consultant
6 2 (4.651%) PMO Analyst
6 2 (4.651%) Developer
6 2 (4.651%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.651%) Web Developer
6 2 (4.651%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.651%) Business Consultant
6 2 (4.651%) Build Manager
7 1 (2.326%) Communications Engineer
7 1 (2.326%) Implementation Consultant
7 1 (2.326%) Change Analyst
7 1 (2.326%) Release Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.23%) CMDB
2 7 (16.28%) Clustering
3 4 (9.302%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.326%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (32.56%) Windows
2 10 (23.26%) Solaris
3 9 (20.93%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (18.60%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (18.60%) Linux
5 6 (13.95%) AIX
5 6 (13.95%) UNIX
5 6 (13.95%) Windows XP
6 3 (6.977%) Windows Vista
7 2 (4.651%) Windows 7
8 1 (2.326%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) Release Management
1 11 (25.58%) Service Management
2 8 (18.60%) ITIL
3 7 (16.28%) Project Management
4 6 (13.95%) Software Distribution
5 4 (9.302%) Data Analysis
5 4 (9.302%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (9.302%) Problem Management
5 4 (9.302%) Service Delivery
5 4 (9.302%) Change Management
5 4 (9.302%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (4.651%) Content Management
6 2 (4.651%) Investment Management
6 2 (4.651%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (4.651%) Risk Management
6 2 (4.651%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (4.651%) Asset Management
7 1 (2.326%) ETL
7 1 (2.326%) ERP
7 1 (2.326%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) SQL
2 5 (11.63%) Shell Script
3 4 (9.302%) PL/SQL
4 3 (6.977%) C
4 3 (6.977%) Perl
4 3 (6.977%) Jython
4 3 (6.977%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.651%) Java
5 2 (4.651%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.326%) C#
6 1 (2.326%) C++
6 1 (2.326%) VBScript
6 1 (2.326%) Bourne shell
6 1 (2.326%) Korn
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) Degree
3 3 (6.977%) CCSP
3 3 (6.977%) CISSP
3 3 (6.977%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.651%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.326%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.326%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.651%) QA
2 1 (2.326%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.302%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Tivoli
2 6 (13.95%) Netcool
2 6 (13.95%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 4 (9.302%) HP SiteScope
3 4 (9.302%) HP UCMDB
4 3 (6.977%) SCCM
5 1 (2.326%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (2.326%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.326%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (2.326%) Legato
5 1 (2.326%) HP SIM
5 1 (2.326%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (2.326%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 1 (2.326%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
1 9 (20.93%) HP
2 7 (16.28%) Oracle
2 7 (16.28%) Veritas
3 6 (13.95%) ServiceNow
3 6 (13.95%) Cisco
4 4 (9.302%) VMware
5 3 (6.977%) EMC
5 3 (6.977%) Citrix
5 3 (6.977%) Juniper
6 2 (4.651%) Websense
6 2 (4.651%) Nortel
6 2 (4.651%) Avaya
7 1 (2.326%) IBM
7 1 (2.326%) JBoss
7 1 (2.326%) McAfee
7 1 (2.326%) NetIQ
7 1 (2.326%) Symantec
7 1 (2.326%) CA
7 1 (2.326%) CheckPoint