Capacity Management Contracts in Scotland

Capacity Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Capacity Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Capacity Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 124 164
Rank change year-on-year +23 +40 -6
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 24 36 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.12% 1.33% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.44% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 3
10th Percentile £438 £433 £470
25th Percentile £525 £441 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -7.50% +66.67%
75th Percentile £646 £613 £538
90th Percentile £706 £632 £560
UK median daily rate £498 £568 £563
% change year-on-year -12.33% +0.80% +15.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% +225.00% -39.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Capacity 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 1,901 2,502 3,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.38% 92.56% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,771 2,249
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 54 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.51 £18.86
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.25 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -56.59% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £52.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.22 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Capacity Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Management in Scotland

Capacity Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Capacity Management in Scotland

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Management in Scotland

Capacity Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Management in Scotland

Capacity 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 Capacity Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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 -9 10 £600 +29.73% 1
Edinburgh - 10 £438 -
South Lanarkshire +6 4 £600 -
Capacity Management
UK

Capacity 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 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (29.17%) SAS
2 5 (20.83%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
1 4 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (20.83%) iSCSI
2 4 (16.67%) SAN
2 4 (16.67%) VSAN
3 2 (8.33%) FabricPath
3 2 (8.33%) Firewall
3 2 (8.33%) LAN
3 2 (8.33%) NX-OS
3 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) DB2
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) JIRA
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Banking
4 3 (12.50%) Finance
4 3 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Exchange Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Consultant
2 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Python Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Administrator
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Exchange Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Data Centre Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Data Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) DBA
4 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) VMware Architect
4 2 (8.33%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Flash
1 5 (20.83%) POSIX
2 2 (8.33%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) NVMe
2 4 (16.67%) Client/Server
2 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.67%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 2 (8.33%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (8.33%) Mainframe
3 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) Linux
3 4 (16.67%) Data ONTAP
3 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (16.67%) Unix
3 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Agile
1 13 (54.17%) High Availability
2 12 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 8 (33.33%) Security Patching
4 7 (29.17%) Kanban
4 7 (29.17%) Migration
5 6 (25.00%) Storage Management
6 5 (20.83%) Computer Science
6 5 (20.83%) Data Protection
6 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (20.83%) Observability
6 5 (20.83%) Preventative Maintenance
6 5 (20.83%) SDLC
7 4 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (16.67%) Data Migration
7 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.67%) Storage Virtualisation
7 4 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) Perl
3 5 (20.83%) Python
4 2 (8.33%) Assembly Language
4 2 (8.33%) JCL
4 2 (8.33%) REXX
4 2 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Degree
2 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 6 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (20.83%) NFS
4 4 (16.67%) Docker
4 4 (16.67%) GPFS
4 4 (16.67%) vSphere
5 3 (12.50%) VMware NSX
6 2 (8.33%) ACF2
6 2 (8.33%) RACF
6 2 (8.33%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (16.67%) vCenter Server
1 4 (16.67%) Veritas Storage Foundation
1 4 (16.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) VMware
2 6 (25.00%) IBM
3 5 (20.83%) Atlassian
3 5 (20.83%) Cisco
4 4 (16.67%) Brocade
4 4 (16.67%) Dell
4 4 (16.67%) EMC
4 4 (16.67%) Google
4 4 (16.67%) NetApp
4 4 (16.67%) Sybase
4 4 (16.67%) Veritas
5 2 (8.33%) BMC
5 2 (8.33%) Broadcom
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft