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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 135 148
Rank change year-on-year +20 +13 -2
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 8 29 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 1.07% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 1.16% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 19 13
10th Percentile £593 £400 £328
25th Percentile £620 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £693 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +45.89% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £722 £638 £488
90th Percentile - £660 £558
UK median daily rate £715 £675 £600
% change year-on-year +5.93% +12.50% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £40.48
25th Percentile - - £40.81
Median hourly rate - - £41.75
75th Percentile - - £42.81
90th Percentile - - £43.23
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 1,884 2,495 3,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.04% 92.48% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,766 2,240
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% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

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
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 18 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 +1 6 £693 +15.50% 3
Edinburgh +27 2 £600 +26.32% 3
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 (37.50%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) IaaS
2 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) Fibre Channel
1 3 (37.50%) iSCSI
1 3 (37.50%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) DB2
General
1 8 (100.00%) Banking
2 7 (87.50%) Investment Banking
3 6 (75.00%) Finance
4 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Python Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Flash
1 3 (37.50%) POSIX
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Client/Server
1 3 (37.50%) NVMe
2 2 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Unix
3 3 (37.50%) Data ONTAP
3 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) High Availability
1 6 (75.00%) Wealth Management
2 4 (50.00%) SDLC
3 3 (37.50%) Capacity Management
3 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 3 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Observability
3 3 (37.50%) OO
3 3 (37.50%) Preventative Maintenance
3 3 (37.50%) Problem Management
3 3 (37.50%) Storage Management
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Open Source
4 2 (25.00%) Storage Virtualisation
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
5 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Perl
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
1 3 (37.50%) GPFS
1 3 (37.50%) NFS
2 2 (25.00%) Firmware
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) IBM
2 3 (37.50%) Brocade
2 3 (37.50%) EMC
2 3 (37.50%) Google
2 3 (37.50%) NetApp
2 3 (37.50%) Sybase
2 3 (37.50%) Veritas
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Solace
3 1 (12.50%) VMware