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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 91 102
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 -13
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 38 79 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.77% 2.93% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 3.17% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 42 56
10th Percentile £217 £121 £409
25th Percentile £425 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £596 £535
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% +11.40% +21.59%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £605
90th Percentile £624 £676 £673
UK median daily rate £550 £548 £550
% change year-on-year +0.46% -0.45% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 4
10th Percentile £22.50 £15.78 £41.92
25th Percentile - £15.81 £42.18
Median hourly rate £40.94 £16.25 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year +151.94% -64.92% +62.53%
75th Percentile £60.75 £16.94 £48.75
90th Percentile - £17.13 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £47.50
% change year-on-year -0.83% +6.15% +18.75%

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 1,887 2,493 3,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.10% 92.54% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,767 2,243
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 £550 £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 55 46
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £18.29
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.00 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -57.25% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 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 -22 18 £600 - 6
Edinburgh +43 11 £600 - 8
West Lothian -7 3 £149 +21.63%
Ayrshire - 2 - -
Perthshire - 2 £525 -
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 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) AWS
1 5 (13.16%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.63%) GCP
3 1 (2.63%) IaaS
3 1 (2.63%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) Internet
2 1 (2.63%) DHCP
2 1 (2.63%) DNS
2 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) JIRA
2 6 (15.79%) Git
3 4 (10.53%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.63%) Appium
4 1 (2.63%) Selenium
4 1 (2.63%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Electronics
2 4 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 3 (7.89%) Italian Language
4 2 (5.26%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.26%) Finance
5 1 (2.63%) Avionics
5 1 (2.63%) Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Project Controller
2 4 (10.53%) Analyst
2 4 (10.53%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (10.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (10.53%) Hardware Engineer
2 4 (10.53%) Software Engineer
2 4 (10.53%) Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (10.53%) Test Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Developer
4 2 (5.26%) Help Desk Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Python Developer
4 2 (5.26%) Service Analyst
5 1 (2.63%) Change Analyst
5 1 (2.63%) Help Desk Support
5 1 (2.63%) Problem Analyst
5 1 (2.63%) Security Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (2.63%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (2.63%) Technical Services Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) .NET
1 4 (10.53%) Playwright
1 4 (10.53%) REST
1 4 (10.53%) SOAP
1 4 (10.53%) WinForms
1 4 (10.53%) WPF
2 1 (2.63%) Kafka
2 1 (2.63%) Middleware
2 1 (2.63%) Spring
2 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Device Driver
1 4 (10.53%) IoT
1 4 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (10.53%) PCIe
1 4 (10.53%) Verilog
1 4 (10.53%) VHDL
2 3 (7.89%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.26%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Linux
2 5 (13.16%) Windows
3 4 (10.53%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (10.53%) VxWorks
4 3 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) Agile
2 11 (28.95%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (23.68%) Coaching
3 9 (23.68%) DevOps
4 8 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 8 (21.05%) Document Management
4 8 (21.05%) Project Delivery
4 8 (21.05%) Project Management
4 8 (21.05%) Work Breakdown Structure
5 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (15.79%) Test Automation
6 5 (13.16%) SDLC
7 4 (10.53%) API Testing
7 4 (10.53%) Code Optimisation
7 4 (10.53%) Continuous Deployment
7 4 (10.53%) Cost Reduction
7 4 (10.53%) Defect Tracking
7 4 (10.53%) Device Driver Development
7 4 (10.53%) Requirements Management
7 4 (10.53%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) Python
2 4 (10.53%) C
2 4 (10.53%) C#
2 4 (10.53%) Embedded C
2 4 (10.53%) SQL
2 4 (10.53%) VB
2 4 (10.53%) VB6
3 2 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (2.63%) Perl
4 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) PMP
2 3 (7.89%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Disclosure Scotland
1 4 (10.53%) MISRA
1 4 (10.53%) MISRA C
1 4 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Firmware
2 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Ansible
2 4 (10.53%) Terraform
3 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.89%) Packer
4 2 (5.26%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.26%) Puppet
5 1 (2.63%) Argo
5 1 (2.63%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Atlassian
1 4 (10.53%) Infragistics
1 4 (10.53%) Intel
1 4 (10.53%) Oracle
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.26%) VMware
3 1 (2.63%) BMC
3 1 (2.63%) Remedy
3 1 (2.63%) SaltStack
3 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.63%) Tripwire