Configuration Management Contracts in Scotland

Configuration Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Configuration Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Configuration Management over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 93 101
Rank change year-on-year +14 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 36 72 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.68% 2.69% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 2.93% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 42 57
10th Percentile £130 £121 £444
25th Percentile £297 £379 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.31% +22.73%
75th Percentile £600 £646 £625
90th Percentile - £676 £673
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 4
10th Percentile £22.50 - £41.92
25th Percentile - £15.75 £42.18
Median hourly rate £40.94 £16.50 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year +148.12% -64.38% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £17.25 £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £50.42 £47.50
% change year-on-year -0.83% +6.15% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Configuration Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,857 2,457 3,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.65% 91.95% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,716 2,260
10th Percentile £221 £258 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 57 54
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.07 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £43.75 £50.27
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.63 £57.05
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -15 13 £600 -2.76% 1
Edinburgh +33 10 £600 +29.73%
West Lothian -2 5 £130 +6.12% 1
Perthshire - 2 £525 -
Ayrshire - 2 - -
South Lanarkshire +2 1 - -
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 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.78%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) AWS
1 4 (11.11%) Azure
1 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (2.78%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) JIRA
2 6 (16.67%) Git
3 4 (11.11%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.78%) Appium
4 1 (2.78%) Selenium
4 1 (2.78%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Italian Language
3 4 (11.11%) Electronics
3 4 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.33%) Finance
4 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.78%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Project Controller
2 4 (11.11%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) Hardware Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) Software Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) Test Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Analyst
3 3 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Help Desk Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Help Desk Support
4 2 (5.56%) Software Asset Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Software Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Configuration Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Configuration Management Specialist
5 1 (2.78%) Configuration Specialist
5 1 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Technical Services Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) .NET
1 4 (11.11%) Playwright
1 4 (11.11%) REST
1 4 (11.11%) SOAP
1 4 (11.11%) WinForms
1 4 (11.11%) WPF
2 1 (2.78%) Kafka
2 1 (2.78%) Spring
2 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Device Driver
1 4 (11.11%) IoT
1 4 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (11.11%) PCIe
1 4 (11.11%) Verilog
1 4 (11.11%) VHDL
2 2 (5.56%) CMDB
3 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (11.11%) VxWorks
2 4 (11.11%) Windows
3 3 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Agile
2 11 (30.56%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (25.00%) Coaching
4 8 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 8 (22.22%) DevOps
4 8 (22.22%) Document Management
4 8 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 8 (22.22%) Project Management
4 8 (22.22%) Work Breakdown Structure
5 5 (13.89%) Customer Service
5 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.89%) Software Testing
6 4 (11.11%) API Testing
6 4 (11.11%) Code Optimisation
6 4 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (11.11%) Cost Reduction
6 4 (11.11%) Defect Tracking
6 4 (11.11%) Device Driver Development
6 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) C
1 4 (11.11%) C#
1 4 (11.11%) Embedded C
1 4 (11.11%) Python
1 4 (11.11%) SQL
1 4 (11.11%) VB
1 4 (11.11%) VB6
2 2 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) PMP
2 5 (13.89%) Degree
3 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (11.11%) MISRA
2 4 (11.11%) MISRA C
2 4 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Ansible
2 3 (8.33%) Packer
3 2 (5.56%) Terraform
4 1 (2.78%) Argo
4 1 (2.78%) Istio
4 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 4 (11.11%) Infragistics
2 4 (11.11%) Intel
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.56%) Adobe
4 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.78%) BMC
5 1 (2.78%) Remedy
5 1 (2.78%) SaltStack