Configuration Management Contracts in Scotland

Configuration Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Configuration Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Configuration Management over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 87 89
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 +14
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 20 35 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.24% 1.67% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.90% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 42
10th Percentile £355 £192 £121
25th Percentile £368 £422 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £596
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -16.11% +12.45%
75th Percentile £539 £600 £650
90th Percentile £569 - £676
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 20 1
10th Percentile - £22.50 -
25th Percentile - - £15.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £40.94 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.56% +148.12% -64.38%
75th Percentile - £60.75 £17.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £50.42
% change year-on-year +20.00% -0.83% +7.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 1,841 2,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.70% 87.88% 92.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 871 1,140 1,739
10th Percentile £263 £219 £260
25th Percentile £374 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 92 55
10th Percentile £15.90 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.92 £11.25
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.50 £15.99
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% +21.95% -57.28%
75th Percentile £25.15 £42.71 £50.74
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £67.13
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

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 23 May 2025.

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
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 23 May 2025. 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 -2 17 £458 -18.67% 16
Edinburgh +3 3 £425 -29.17% 18
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:

Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) LabWindows
1 1 (5.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Internet
1 1 (5.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (10.00%) Publishing
6 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
6 1 (5.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
1 5 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Service Manager
3 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Applications Support
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 2 (10.00%) IT Services Manager
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Configuration Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Technician
5 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Loki
2 1 (5.00%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) CMDB
2 4 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.00%) FPGA
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) ITIL
2 9 (45.00%) ITSM
2 9 (45.00%) Service Management
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (30.00%) Programme Management
5 5 (25.00%) Change Management
5 5 (25.00%) Data Architecture
6 4 (20.00%) Change Control
6 4 (20.00%) Data Design
6 4 (20.00%) Data Management
6 4 (20.00%) Data Security
6 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (20.00%) IT Strategy
6 4 (20.00%) Process Management
6 4 (20.00%) Security Management
6 4 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
6 4 (20.00%) Time Management
7 3 (15.00%) Change Advisory Board
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) C
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.00%) Def Stans
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Ansible
1 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Grafana
3 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.00%) Splunk
2 2 (10.00%) Veritas
2 2 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) Snow