Customer Requirements Contracts in Scotland

Customer Requirements
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Customer Requirements skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Customer Requirements over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 131 157
Rank change year-on-year +22 +26 -27
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 18 39 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.83% 1.41% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.53% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 2
10th Percentile £110 £163 £149
25th Percentile £181 £301 £192
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £523 £266
Median % change year-on-year -28.23% +96.24% -37.35%
75th Percentile £538 £549 £344
90th Percentile £722 £629 £389
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 5
10th Percentile £16.07 - £24.16
25th Percentile £16.18 - £42.33
Median hourly rate £16.36 £10.63 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.86% -77.62% -
75th Percentile £16.53 - £48.75
90th Percentile £16.64 - £49.96
UK median hourly rate £47.83 £10.63 £45.14
% change year-on-year +349.95% -76.45% +0.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Customer Requirements 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 1,916 2,556 3,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.38% 92.51% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,817 2,256
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £656 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 55 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £11.78 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.50 £38.71
Median % change year-on-year +17.18% -57.38% -7.83%
75th Percentile £46.24 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £67.13 £55.86
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Requirements in Scotland

Customer Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Requirements in Scotland

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Requirements in Scotland

Customer Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Requirements in Scotland

Customer Requirements
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 Customer Requirements within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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 -4 8 £525 -4.55% 9
Renfrewshire +1 5 - -
East Lothian - 2 £110 -
South Lanarkshire - 2 £259 -
West Lothian - 1 £188 - 1
Customer Requirements
UK

Customer Requirements
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 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (22.22%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
4 4 (22.22%) AWS
5 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Firewall
1 6 (33.33%) SAN
2 5 (27.78%) DHCP
2 5 (27.78%) DNS
2 5 (27.78%) SMTP
2 5 (27.78%) VPN
3 4 (22.22%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (22.22%) iSCSI
4 2 (11.11%) NAS
5 1 (5.56%) Internet
5 1 (5.56%) LAN
5 1 (5.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (22.22%) DB2
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
3 3 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 3 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Billing
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Python Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Data Insight Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Insight Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Insight Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Resource Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Resource Planner
4 1 (5.56%) Storage and Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) LDAP
2 4 (22.22%) Flash
2 4 (22.22%) POSIX
3 2 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Clustering
1 5 (27.78%) PKI
2 4 (22.22%) Client/Server
2 4 (22.22%) NVMe
3 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Windows
1 12 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 7 (38.89%) Unix
3 4 (22.22%) Data ONTAP
3 4 (22.22%) Linux
3 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (11.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) High Availability
2 6 (33.33%) Observability
3 5 (27.78%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (27.78%) Project Delivery
4 4 (22.22%) Capacity Management
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (22.22%) OO
4 4 (22.22%) Preventative Maintenance
4 4 (22.22%) Problem Management
4 4 (22.22%) SDLC
4 4 (22.22%) Storage Management
5 3 (16.67%) Investment Management
5 3 (16.67%) Storage Virtualisation
5 3 (16.67%) Time Management
5 3 (16.67%) Wealth Management
6 2 (11.11%) Asset Management
6 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
6 2 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Perl
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
3 4 (22.22%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) DV Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
1 5 (27.78%) BitLocker
1 5 (27.78%) Hyper-V
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft App-V
1 5 (27.78%) Terminal Services
1 5 (27.78%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 4 (22.22%) GPFS
2 4 (22.22%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (27.78%) vCenter Server
2 5 (27.78%) vMotion
3 4 (22.22%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 2 (11.11%) Ansible
4 2 (11.11%) Grafana
4 2 (11.11%) NetBackup
4 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 2 (11.11%) Terraform
5 1 (5.56%) Avamar
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) Veritas
3 5 (27.78%) Citrix
3 5 (27.78%) Infoblox
3 5 (27.78%) VMware
4 4 (22.22%) Brocade
4 4 (22.22%) EMC
4 4 (22.22%) Google
4 4 (22.22%) IBM
4 4 (22.22%) NetApp
4 4 (22.22%) Sybase
5 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.56%) Avaya
6 1 (5.56%) Computacenter
6 1 (5.56%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.56%) Oracle