Configuration Management Contracts in Scotland

Configuration Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Configuration Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Configuration Management over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 87 103
Rank change year-on-year -7 +16 -11
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 34 82 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.53% 2.87% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 3.09% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 44 55
10th Percentile £446 £127 £409
25th Percentile £534 £448 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +13.51%
75th Percentile £623 £653 £601
90th Percentile £656 £676 £673
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 7
10th Percentile £37.25 £15.80 £40.05
25th Percentile - £15.88 £42.04
Median hourly rate £40.94 £16.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +155.88% -66.32% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.75 £16.63 £51.25
90th Percentile - £17.00 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £46.71
% change year-on-year -0.83% +7.94% +9.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Configuration 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 1,967 2,651 3,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.60% 92.63% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,908 2,312
10th Percentile £229 £263 £240
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 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 46
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £49.34
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in Scotland

Configuration Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Configuration Management in Scotland

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Scotland

Configuration Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Configuration Management in Scotland

Configuration Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Configuration Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Configuration Management in Scotland

Configuration 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 Configuration Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 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 -33 21 £600 -2.76% 7
Edinburgh +50 11 £600 - 11
Ayrshire - 2 - -
Configuration Management
UK

Configuration 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 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.94%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) AWS
2 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.94%) Azure
3 1 (2.94%) GCP
3 1 (2.94%) IaaS
3 1 (2.94%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Internet
2 1 (2.94%) DHCP
2 1 (2.94%) DNS
2 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.94%) MariaDB
1 1 (2.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) JIRA
2 3 (8.82%) Git
3 2 (5.88%) Terragrunt
4 1 (2.94%) GitLab
4 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.94%) Selenium
4 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (11.76%) Electronics
1 4 (11.76%) Manufacturing
2 2 (5.88%) Aerospace
2 2 (5.88%) Finance
2 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.94%) Avionics
3 1 (2.94%) Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Project Controller
2 5 (14.71%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Embedded Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Hardware Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Python Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Change Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Configuration Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Configuration Management Specialist
6 1 (2.94%) Configuration Specialist
6 1 (2.94%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) IT Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Problem Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Security Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) Kafka
1 1 (2.94%) Middleware
1 1 (2.94%) Spring
1 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Device Driver
1 4 (11.76%) IoT
1 4 (11.76%) PCIe
1 4 (11.76%) Verilog
1 4 (11.76%) VHDL
2 3 (8.82%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (11.76%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (11.76%) VxWorks
4 2 (5.88%) Windows
5 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
2 10 (29.41%) Agile
2 10 (29.41%) Coaching
2 10 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (23.53%) DevOps
4 8 (23.53%) Document Management
4 8 (23.53%) Project Delivery
4 8 (23.53%) Project Management
4 8 (23.53%) Work Breakdown Structure
5 6 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (14.71%) Business Continuity
6 5 (14.71%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (14.71%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (11.76%) Line Management
7 4 (11.76%) Memory Management
7 4 (11.76%) Process Improvement
7 4 (11.76%) Requirements Analysis
7 4 (11.76%) Requirements Management
7 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Python
2 4 (11.76%) C
2 4 (11.76%) Embedded C
3 3 (8.82%) Java
4 1 (2.94%) Perl
4 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) PMP
2 2 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) MISRA
1 4 (11.76%) MISRA C
2 3 (8.82%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Firmware
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Ansible
2 6 (17.65%) Terraform
3 4 (11.76%) Packer
4 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
4 3 (8.82%) Puppet
5 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.94%) Argo
6 1 (2.94%) FreeIPA
6 1 (2.94%) Icinga
6 1 (2.94%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Atlassian
1 4 (11.76%) Intel
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.94%) BMC
4 1 (2.94%) Remedy
4 1 (2.94%) SaltStack
4 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.94%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) Tripwire