Problem Management Contracts in Scotland

Problem Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Problem Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 98 136
Rank change year-on-year +4 +38 -2
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 37 70 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.68% 2.45% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.65% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 35 26
10th Percentile £410 £403 £270
25th Percentile £413 £448 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £441
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.98% +10.31%
75th Percentile £600 £473 £525
90th Percentile £661 £530 £543
UK median daily rate £474 £490 £485
% change year-on-year -3.37% +1.03% +19.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Problem 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 2,645 3,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.68% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,903 2,321
10th Percentile £230 £261 £244
25th Percentile £400 £407 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £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 55 49
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £54.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in Scotland

Problem Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in Scotland

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in Scotland

Problem Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in Scotland

Problem 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 Problem Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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 -17 25 £445 -3.78% 2
South Lanarkshire -7 9 £600 +33.33%
Edinburgh +40 1 - - 1
Renfrewshire -1 1 £475 +5.56%
Problem Management
UK

Problem 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 16 (43.24%) Confluence
2 11 (29.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (13.51%) SAS
4 4 (10.81%) IBM HTTP Server
4 4 (10.81%) WebSphere
4 4 (10.81%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (10.81%) WebSphere Portal
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.51%) Azure
2 4 (10.81%) AWS
2 4 (10.81%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (13.51%) iSCSI
2 4 (10.81%) HTTP
2 4 (10.81%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (24.32%) SQL Server
2 7 (18.92%) MongoDB
3 4 (10.81%) DB2
Development Applications
1 16 (43.24%) JIRA
2 4 (10.81%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (5.41%) Artifactory
General
1 15 (40.54%) Public Sector
2 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.92%) Banking
4 6 (16.22%) Finance
5 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (8.11%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Senior
2 11 (29.73%) Exchange Engineer
3 9 (24.32%) DBA
3 9 (24.32%) SQL DBA
4 7 (18.92%) Senior DBA
4 7 (18.92%) Senior SQL DBA
4 7 (18.92%) Senior SQL Server DBA
4 7 (18.92%) SQL Server DBA
5 5 (13.51%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Middleware Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Python Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Middleware Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Analyst
7 3 (8.11%) Senior Exchange Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Service Analyst
9 1 (2.70%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) Flash
1 5 (13.51%) POSIX
2 4 (10.81%) J2EE
2 4 (10.81%) Middleware
3 2 (5.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) NVMe
2 4 (10.81%) Client/Server
3 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) Clustering
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) iPad
4 1 (2.70%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 13 (35.14%) Windows
2 9 (24.32%) Linux
3 5 (13.51%) Windows Server
4 4 (10.81%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (10.81%) Unix
5 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) High Availability
2 12 (32.43%) Capacity Management
3 10 (27.03%) ITIL
4 9 (24.32%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (24.32%) Identity Management
5 7 (18.92%) Observability
5 7 (18.92%) Roadmaps
5 7 (18.92%) Security Patching
5 7 (18.92%) Service Management
6 5 (13.51%) Agile
6 5 (13.51%) Computer Science
6 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (13.51%) Preventative Maintenance
6 5 (13.51%) SDLC
6 5 (13.51%) Storage Management
7 4 (10.81%) Change Management
7 4 (10.81%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (10.81%) Incident Management
7 4 (10.81%) OO
7 4 (10.81%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) PowerShell
2 8 (21.62%) SQL
2 8 (21.62%) T-SQL
3 7 (18.92%) Java
3 7 (18.92%) Python
4 5 (13.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (54.05%) Security Cleared
2 17 (45.95%) SC Cleared
3 11 (29.73%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.70%) MCSE
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 12 (32.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.51%) NFS
3 4 (10.81%) Docker
3 4 (10.81%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.81%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 2 (5.41%) Grafana
4 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (43.24%) Atlassian
2 8 (21.62%) IBM
3 4 (10.81%) Brocade
3 4 (10.81%) EMC
3 4 (10.81%) Google
3 4 (10.81%) NetApp
3 4 (10.81%) Sybase
3 4 (10.81%) Veritas
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.41%) Splunk
6 1 (2.70%) Apple
6 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow