Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Configuration Management
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 53 59
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 -18
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 18 16 14
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.43% 2.31% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.58% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 9
10th Percentile £463 £334 £395
25th Percentile £470 £356 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £391 £565
Median % change year-on-year +27.88% -30.80% -8.50%
75th Percentile £605 £431 £673
90th Percentile £662 £455 £702
Scotland median daily rate £500 £437 £400
% change year-on-year +14.42% +9.25% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £40.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year +47.24% +53.77% +76.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Configuration Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 658 619 754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 88.80% 89.19% 91.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 405 507
10th Percentile £300 £280 £343
25th Percentile £381 £356 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £613 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £479
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.05% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 19
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.39 £11.70
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.11 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.21 £26.76 £17.72
90th Percentile £57.50 £41.70 £27.64
Scotland median hourly rate £19.99 £20.94 £19.06
% change year-on-year -4.55% +9.88% +1.63%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Configuration Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Configuration Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Glasgow over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Glasgow

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Configuration Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
1 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
1 4 (22.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 4 (22.22%) Big Data
2 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 4 (22.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Artifactory
1 4 (22.22%) Git
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
1 4 (22.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Banking
3 6 (33.33%) Investment Banking
4 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
5 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Analyst
2 7 (38.89%) Data Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Python Data Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Asset Management Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Configuration Management Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) FastAPI
1 4 (22.22%) Flask
1 4 (22.22%) Hugging Face
1 4 (22.22%) Kafka
1 4 (22.22%) LangChain
1 4 (22.22%) LangGraph
1 4 (22.22%) Loki
1 4 (22.22%) OAuth
1 4 (22.22%) OAuth2
1 4 (22.22%) OpenTelemetry
1 4 (22.22%) PyTorch
1 4 (22.22%) RESTful
1 4 (22.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) CMDB
2 6 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (33.33%) Virtual Team
3 4 (22.22%) AI Agents
3 4 (22.22%) Private Cloud
4 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (44.44%) DevOps
3 8 (44.44%) GitOps
3 8 (44.44%) ITSM
3 8 (44.44%) Service Management
4 7 (38.89%) Analytics
4 7 (38.89%) Data Management
4 7 (38.89%) Visualisation
5 6 (33.33%) Business Analysis
5 6 (33.33%) Change Control
5 6 (33.33%) Data Architecture
5 6 (33.33%) Data Lineage
5 6 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 6 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
5 6 (33.33%) ITIL
5 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (33.33%) Programme Management
5 6 (33.33%) Time Management
5 6 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 10 (55.56%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Go
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Argo
2 4 (22.22%) Grafana
2 4 (22.22%) Istio
2 4 (22.22%) Kustomize
2 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Remedy
2 1 (5.56%) VMware