ITIL Contracts in Scotland

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for ITIL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ITIL over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 39 57
Rank change year-on-year -11 +18 -16
Contract jobs citing ITIL 90 170 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.05% 5.96% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 6.43% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 118 117
10th Percentile £175 £146 £115
25th Percentile £195 £180 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £423 £363
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +16.55% -7.94%
75th Percentile £492 £493 £475
90th Percentile £573 £629 £575
UK median daily rate £495 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +5.40% +4.36% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.51
25th Percentile - - £15.53
Median hourly rate - - £16.13
75th Percentile - - £16.78
90th Percentile - - £16.84
UK median hourly rate £17.69 £19.94 £16.25
% change year-on-year -11.29% +22.72% -13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

ITIL 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 1,966 2,642 3,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.56% 92.60% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 1,899 2,324
10th Percentile £232 £263 £241
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 50
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.58
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in Scotland

ITIL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for ITIL in Scotland

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Scotland over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Scotland

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in Scotland

ITIL
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 ITIL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 24 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 -7 35 £433 -2.59% 18
Edinburgh +2 28 £354 +97.49% 23
West Lothian +1 5 £188 -54.55%
Renfrewshire -5 4 £175 -57.58%
Stirling - 3 £420 -
Fife +1 2 £365 -14.12%
Dundee +9 1 - -
Lanarkshire +1 1 £185 -40.32% 5
Aberdeen -1 1 - - 5
South Lanarkshire -20 1 £590 +31.11% 2
Inverclyde - 1 £197 -
Aberdeenshire - 1 - -
ITIL
UK

ITIL
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 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.56%) IBM HTTP Server
2 5 (5.56%) WebSphere
2 5 (5.56%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (5.56%) WebSphere Portal
3 3 (3.33%) Skype for Business
4 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.11%) assyst
2 1 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (12.22%) Azure
3 5 (5.56%) OneDrive
3 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.44%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.22%) AWS
7 1 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.11%) Firewall
2 5 (5.56%) HTTP
3 4 (4.44%) SAN
4 3 (3.33%) DNS
4 3 (3.33%) NAS
4 3 (3.33%) Skype
4 3 (3.33%) SSL
5 2 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (2.22%) DHCP
5 2 (2.22%) Internet
5 2 (2.22%) LAN
5 2 (2.22%) SNMP
5 2 (2.22%) VPN
5 2 (2.22%) WLAN
6 1 (1.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.22%) NonStop SQL
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.11%) Big Data
2 1 (1.11%) Power BI
2 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.56%) IBM UrbanCode
1 5 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (1.11%) Git
General
1 44 (48.89%) Public Sector
2 42 (46.67%) Social Skills
3 18 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (18.89%) Finance
5 7 (7.78%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.56%) Banking
6 5 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.33%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.33%) Publishing
8 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (36.67%) Analyst
2 16 (17.78%) IT Analyst
2 16 (17.78%) Support Analyst
3 9 (10.00%) Consultant
3 9 (10.00%) Senior
4 8 (8.89%) IT Support
4 8 (8.89%) IT Support Analyst
4 8 (8.89%) Service Analyst
5 7 (7.78%) Project Manager
6 6 (6.67%) 1st Line Support
6 6 (6.67%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Desktop Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Management Consultant
7 5 (5.56%) Middleware Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Senior Middleware Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Service Desk Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Service Management Consultant
7 5 (5.56%) Service Manager
8 4 (4.44%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.56%) J2EE
1 5 (5.56%) Middleware
2 3 (3.33%) CSS
2 3 (3.33%) HTML
2 3 (3.33%) XML
3 1 (1.11%) .NET
3 1 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (5.56%) Driving Licence
2 5 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.44%) CMDB
3 4 (4.44%) iPhone
4 3 (3.33%) PKI
5 2 (2.22%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.11%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.11%) Clustering
6 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.11%) iPad
6 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (25.56%) Windows
2 11 (12.22%) Windows 10
3 9 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (7.78%) Apple iOS
4 7 (7.78%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.44%) Linux
6 3 (3.33%) Android
7 2 (2.22%) Unix
7 2 (2.22%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.11%) Solaris
8 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.44%) Service Management
2 29 (32.22%) ITSM
3 22 (24.44%) Agile
4 17 (18.89%) Customer Service
4 17 (18.89%) Service Delivery
5 14 (15.56%) PRINCE2
5 14 (15.56%) Problem Management
5 14 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (14.44%) Change Management
7 12 (13.33%) Project Management
8 11 (12.22%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (11.11%) Incident Management
10 8 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (8.89%) Process Management
10 8 (8.89%) Project Delivery
11 7 (7.78%) Business Analysis
11 7 (7.78%) Roadmaps
11 7 (7.78%) Time Management
12 6 (6.67%) Coaching
12 6 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.44%) SQL
2 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.22%) Java
3 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) Degree
2 12 (13.33%) ITIL Certification
2 12 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (7.78%) MCSE
4 6 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.56%) MCP
6 4 (4.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (4.44%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.33%) HNC
8 2 (2.22%) A+ Certification
8 2 (2.22%) APMP
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.11%) CISA
9 1 (1.11%) CISM
9 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.11%) CRISC
9 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (10.00%) SLA
3 7 (7.78%) QA
4 3 (3.33%) COBIT
5 2 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.11%) GDPR
6 1 (1.11%) GRC
6 1 (1.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (1.11%) NIST
6 1 (1.11%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (25.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.33%) BitLocker
2 3 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (12.22%) SCCM
2 3 (3.33%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.22%) Ansible
3 2 (2.22%) Nagios
3 2 (2.22%) OpenView
3 2 (2.22%) Terraform
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.11%) Puppet
4 1 (1.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (35.56%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.78%) Cisco
4 6 (6.67%) Citrix
4 6 (6.67%) HP
5 5 (5.56%) IBM
6 4 (4.44%) Apple
6 4 (4.44%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.33%) Dell
8 2 (2.22%) Avaya
8 2 (2.22%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (2.22%) Mitel
8 2 (2.22%) Oracle
8 2 (2.22%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.11%) AlienVault
9 1 (1.11%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.11%) Equitrac
9 1 (1.11%) IFS
9 1 (1.11%) OneTrust
9 1 (1.11%) SaltStack