The first table below looks at the demand for the Configuration Manager role 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 Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Manager
Rank 107 103 -
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -
Contract jobs requiring a Configuration Manager 13 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.533% 0.076% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.575% 0.080% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
Average daily rate £338 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £364 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.48% -8.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £19.00
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2260 2488 2644
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.66% 93.92% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1098 1220 1303
Average daily rate £350 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £216 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 110 97
Average hourly rate £15.50 £22.50 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.11% +47.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £33.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Configuration Manager
UK

Configuration Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Configuration Manager across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Scotland Configuration Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Configuration Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Configuration Manager Daily Rate Trend

Configuration Manager
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Manager within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Glasgow - 9 £338 -
Edinburgh +12 4 £388 -
Configuration Manager
UK

Configuration Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Configuration Manager in their job title 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 with Configuration Manager in their job title.

1 9 (64.29%) Subversion
2 8 (57.14%) Configuration Management
3 6 (42.86%) Ant
3 6 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (42.86%) TeamCity
3 6 (42.86%) MSBuild
4 5 (35.71%) Release Management
4 5 (35.71%) Finance
4 5 (35.71%) CruiseControl
5 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (28.57%) Oracle
5 4 (28.57%) UNIX
6 3 (21.43%) Windows
6 3 (21.43%) Tomcat
6 3 (21.43%) MS Excel
6 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
6 3 (21.43%) C#
6 3 (21.43%) C++
6 3 (21.43%) Java
6 3 (21.43%) Perl
6 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
6 3 (21.43%) WebSphere
7 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
7 2 (14.29%) HP
7 2 (14.29%) Project Management
7 2 (14.29%) IBM
7 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (14.29%) Bugzilla
7 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
8 1 (7.143%) Struts

Configuration Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Configuration Manager in their job title 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 with Configuration Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (21.43%) WebSphere
2 1 (7.143%) Spring MVC
2 1 (7.143%) Struts2
2 1 (7.143%) J2EE
2 1 (7.143%) Struts
2 1 (7.143%) Hibernate
2 1 (7.143%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Subversion
2 6 (42.86%) Ant
2 6 (42.86%) TeamCity
2 6 (42.86%) MSBuild
3 5 (35.71%) CruiseControl
4 2 (14.29%) Bugzilla
4 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
5 1 (7.143%) ClearCase
5 1 (7.143%) Eclipse
5 1 (7.143%) Maven
5 1 (7.143%) JIRA
5 1 (7.143%) Jenkins
5 1 (7.143%) MSTest
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 1 (7.143%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) UNIX
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 1 (7.143%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Configuration Management
2 6 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (35.71%) Release Management
4 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (14.29%) Project Management
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.143%) OO
6 1 (7.143%) MVC
6 1 (7.143%) Build Automation
6 1 (7.143%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) C#
1 3 (21.43%) C++
1 3 (21.43%) Java
1 3 (21.43%) Perl
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.143%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.143%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (7.143%) Tivoli
1 1 (7.143%) Tivoli Configuration Manager
1 1 (7.143%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) HP
3 2 (14.29%) IBM
4 1 (7.143%) LANDesk
4 1 (7.143%) JBoss