ITIL Contracts in Scotland

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for ITIL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ITIL over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 36 52
Rank change year-on-year -14 +16 -13
Contract jobs citing ITIL 84 175 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.87% 6.22% 4.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 6.72% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 119 131
10th Percentile £175 £146 £123
25th Percentile £193 £176 £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £425 £383
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +10.95% -4.23%
75th Percentile £450 £501 £475
90th Percentile £538 £634 £575
UK median daily rate £490 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +4.26% +4.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.51
25th Percentile - - £15.53
Median hourly rate - - £16.13
75th Percentile - - £16.78
90th Percentile - - £16.84
UK median hourly rate £17.69 £19.00 £16.23
% change year-on-year -6.89% +17.07% -16.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

ITIL 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 1,924 2,605 3,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.58% 92.54% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,868 2,327
10th Percentile £225 £260 £249
25th Percentile £389 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £587 £560 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 55 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.32
25th Percentile £15.84 £11.78 £20.38
Median hourly rate £18.41 £17.21 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% -56.98% -
75th Percentile £40.94 £50.74 £49.15
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.94 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in Scotland

ITIL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for ITIL in Scotland

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Scotland

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in Scotland

ITIL
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 ITIL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 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
Edinburgh +13 30 £282 +53.89% 20
Glasgow -18 27 £420 -5.83% 12
West Lothian +3 5 £188 -54.55%
Renfrewshire -3 4 £175 -51.72%
Stirling - 3 £420 - 1
Fife - 2 £365 -
Dundee +8 1 - -
Aberdeen 0 1 - - 6
Lanarkshire 0 1 £185 -40.32% 3
South Lanarkshire -18 1 £590 +24.87% 1
Inverclyde - 1 £197 -
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 3
ITIL
UK

ITIL
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 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.95%) IBM HTTP Server
2 5 (5.95%) WebSphere
2 5 (5.95%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (5.95%) WebSphere Portal
3 3 (3.57%) Skype for Business
4 2 (2.38%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.19%) assyst
2 1 (1.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (11.90%) Azure
3 5 (5.95%) OneDrive
3 5 (5.95%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.19%) AWS
6 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.90%) Firewall
2 6 (7.14%) DHCP
2 6 (7.14%) DNS
2 6 (7.14%) VPN
3 5 (5.95%) HTTP
4 3 (3.57%) NAS
4 3 (3.57%) SAN
4 3 (3.57%) Skype
4 3 (3.57%) SSL
5 2 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (2.38%) Internet
5 2 (2.38%) LAN
5 2 (2.38%) SNMP
5 2 (2.38%) WLAN
6 1 (1.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.38%) NonStop SQL
1 2 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.19%) Big Data
2 1 (1.19%) Power BI
2 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.95%) IBM UrbanCode
1 5 (5.95%) JIRA
2 1 (1.19%) Git
General
1 39 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 37 (44.05%) Public Sector
3 18 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (16.67%) Finance
5 5 (5.95%) Banking
6 3 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Publishing
7 2 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (34.52%) Analyst
2 16 (19.05%) IT Analyst
3 15 (17.86%) Support Analyst
4 9 (10.71%) Consultant
5 8 (9.52%) IT Support
5 8 (9.52%) IT Support Analyst
5 8 (9.52%) Senior
6 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) 1st Line Support
7 6 (7.14%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 6 (7.14%) Service Analyst
8 5 (5.95%) Management Consultant
8 5 (5.95%) Middleware Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Senior Middleware Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Service Desk Analyst
8 5 (5.95%) Service Management Consultant
8 5 (5.95%) Service Manager
9 4 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
9 4 (4.76%) Desktop Support
9 4 (4.76%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.95%) J2EE
1 5 (5.95%) Middleware
2 3 (3.57%) CSS
2 3 (3.57%) HTML
2 3 (3.57%) XML
3 1 (1.19%) .NET
3 1 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.95%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (4.76%) iPhone
2 4 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.57%) CMDB
3 3 (3.57%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.57%) PKI
4 2 (2.38%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.19%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.19%) Clustering
5 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.19%) iPad
5 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 28 (33.33%) Windows
2 15 (17.86%) Windows 10
3 8 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 8 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (8.33%) Apple iOS
5 6 (7.14%) Windows 7
6 4 (4.76%) Linux
7 3 (3.57%) Android
8 2 (2.38%) Unix
9 1 (1.19%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (33.33%) Service Management
2 25 (29.76%) ITSM
3 21 (25.00%) Agile
3 21 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 20 (23.81%) Customer Service
5 14 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (13.10%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (13.10%) PRINCE2
7 10 (11.90%) Change Management
7 10 (11.90%) Problem Management
8 9 (10.71%) Project Management
9 8 (9.52%) Process Management
10 7 (8.33%) Business Analysis
10 7 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (8.33%) Incident Management
10 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (7.14%) Break/Fix
11 6 (7.14%) Coaching
11 6 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
11 6 (7.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.76%) SQL
2 3 (3.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.38%) Java
4 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (15.48%) Degree
2 12 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (13.10%) ITIL Certification
3 11 (13.10%) Security Cleared
4 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared
5 9 (10.71%) MCSE
6 6 (7.14%) A+ Certification
7 5 (5.95%) MCP
8 3 (3.57%) HNC
9 2 (2.38%) APMP
10 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.19%) CISA
10 1 (1.19%) CISM
10 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.19%) CRISC
10 1 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.10%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (10.71%) SLA
3 7 (8.33%) QA
4 3 (3.57%) COBIT
5 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.19%) GDPR
6 1 (1.19%) GRC
6 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.19%) NIST
6 1 (1.19%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.57%) BitLocker
2 3 (3.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (19.05%) SCCM
2 3 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.38%) Ansible
3 2 (2.38%) Nagios
3 2 (2.38%) OpenView
3 2 (2.38%) WSUS
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.19%) Puppet
4 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 11 (13.10%) Cisco
4 8 (9.52%) Citrix
5 5 (5.95%) IBM
6 4 (4.76%) Apple
6 4 (4.76%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.76%) HP
7 2 (2.38%) Avaya
7 2 (2.38%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (2.38%) Mitel
7 2 (2.38%) Oracle
7 2 (2.38%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.19%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.19%) BMC
8 1 (1.19%) Dell
8 1 (1.19%) IFS
8 1 (1.19%) OneTrust
8 1 (1.19%) Remedy
8 1 (1.19%) SaltStack