Investment Management Contracts in Scotland

Investment Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Investment Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 140 130
Rank change year-on-year +20 -10 +25
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 11 32 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.51% 1.16% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.25% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 21 15
10th Percentile £453 - £248
25th Percentile £531 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £647 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +36.11% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £722 £626 £488
90th Percentile - £650 £540
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £600
% change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £43.00
75th Percentile - - £43.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -44.19% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Investment 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 1,922 2,555 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.29% 92.54% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 1,831 2,264
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% +10.71%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £550
90th Percentile £655 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 57 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.30 £19.45
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.50 £38.71
Median % change year-on-year +17.18% -57.38% -3.23%
75th Percentile £46.24 £47.73 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £65.63 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in Scotland

Investment Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Management in Scotland

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in Scotland

Investment Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Management in Scotland

Investment 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 Investment Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 May 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 +3 9 £693 +15.50% 2
Edinburgh +20 2 £600 +26.32% 4
Investment Management
UK

Investment 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 3 (27.27%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) IaaS
2 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DHCP
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
2 3 (27.27%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (27.27%) iSCSI
2 3 (27.27%) SAN
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) DB2
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 11 (100.00%) Banking
2 10 (90.91%) Investment Banking
3 9 (81.82%) Finance
4 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Hardware Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Python Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Flash
1 3 (27.27%) POSIX
2 2 (18.18%) Spring
3 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) HTML5
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Client/Server
1 3 (27.27%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (27.27%) NVMe
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Unix
3 3 (27.27%) Data ONTAP
3 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (27.27%) Windows
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Wealth Management
2 7 (63.64%) High Availability
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) SDLC
4 3 (27.27%) Capacity Management
4 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
4 3 (27.27%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Observability
4 3 (27.27%) OO
4 3 (27.27%) Open Source
4 3 (27.27%) Preventative Maintenance
4 3 (27.27%) Problem Management
4 3 (27.27%) Storage Management
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Storage Virtualisation
6 1 (9.09%) Creative Thinking
6 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
6 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) Perl
3 5 (45.45%) Java
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
1 3 (27.27%) Firmware
1 3 (27.27%) GPFS
1 3 (27.27%) NFS
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
3 1 (9.09%) Puppet
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) IBM
2 3 (27.27%) Brocade
2 3 (27.27%) EMC
2 3 (27.27%) Google
2 3 (27.27%) NetApp
2 3 (27.27%) Sybase
2 3 (27.27%) Veritas
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Solace
3 1 (9.09%) VMware