Developer Contracts in Scotland

Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Developer daily rate in Scotland is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 287 436 537
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 13.39% 16.29% 15.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.17% 17.10% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 320 349
10th Percentile £325 £400 £381
25th Percentile £400 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £525
90th Percentile £575 £688 £603
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £26.13 £49.99 £43.13
25th Percentile £30.32 £53.38 £47.81
Median hourly rate £38.38 £59.03 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.99% +8.31% +36.25%
75th Percentile £46.61 £72.02 £57.06
90th Percentile £50.89 £79.81 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,025 2,550 3,253
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 95.26% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,774 2,303
10th Percentile £200 £223 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £557 £550 £550
90th Percentile £637 £634 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 45 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.48 £17.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.25 £18.95
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +66.36%
75th Percentile £58.13 £58.75 £48.38
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.88 £55.84
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Scotland

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Scotland

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Scotland

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Scotland

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in Scotland

Developer
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 Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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 +7 170 £445 -15.24% 39
Edinburgh -6 88 £450 -5.26% 46
West Lothian +3 7 £580 -5.31% 2
Lanarkshire +1 2 £443 -4.84% 14
Aberdeen 0 2 £419 -6.94% 9
Fife +1 1 £428 -
Midlothian - 1 £428 - 15
Stirling - 1 £350 - 2
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 118 (41.11%) Java
2 113 (39.37%) Agile
3 106 (36.93%) AWS
4 91 (31.71%) SQL
5 73 (25.44%) Spring
6 67 (23.34%) Microservices
6 67 (23.34%) Public Sector
7 60 (20.91%) Oracle
8 58 (20.21%) React
9 57 (19.86%) JavaScript
10 56 (19.51%) Spring Boot
11 55 (19.16%) Software Engineering
12 51 (17.77%) Python
12 51 (17.77%) CI/CD
13 47 (16.38%) TypeScript
14 44 (15.33%) Azure
15 43 (14.98%) Amazon S3
16 42 (14.63%) HTML
16 42 (14.63%) Serverless
17 40 (13.94%) RESTful
18 39 (13.59%) Finance
19 38 (13.24%) Code Quality
20 37 (12.89%) Social Skills
20 37 (12.89%) CSS
21 36 (12.54%) AWS Lambda
21 36 (12.54%) Docker
22 34 (11.85%) DevOps
22 34 (11.85%) Oracle Database
22 34 (11.85%) REST
23 33 (11.50%) PL/SQL

Developer Skill Set
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 12 (4.18%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.79%) Confluence
3 5 (1.74%) Apache
4 4 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.39%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.05%) GeoServer
5 3 (1.05%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.70%) JBoss
6 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.70%) WildFly
7 1 (0.35%) CICS
7 1 (0.35%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Maximo
2 1 (0.35%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 106 (36.93%) AWS
2 44 (15.33%) Azure
3 43 (14.98%) Amazon S3
4 42 (14.63%) Serverless
5 36 (12.54%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (11.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (5.92%) OpenShift
8 15 (5.23%) Power Platform
9 14 (4.88%) GCP
10 13 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.09%) Textract
13 5 (1.74%) Power Automate
13 5 (1.74%) PowerApps
14 4 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.39%) Amazon SageMaker
15 3 (1.05%) Entra ID
15 3 (1.05%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.09%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (11.85%) Oracle Database
2 32 (11.15%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (10.10%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (4.88%) Relational Database
5 13 (4.53%) Power BI
6 10 (3.48%) Big Data
7 9 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.79%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.44%) GIS
9 7 (2.44%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.44%) MySQL
10 6 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.39%) Metadata
12 4 (1.39%) Parquet
13 3 (1.05%) Impala
13 3 (1.05%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 31 (10.80%) Jenkins
1 31 (10.80%) JIRA
2 24 (8.36%) Git
3 12 (4.18%) JUnit
4 10 (3.48%) Oracle APEX
5 8 (2.79%) Cucumber
6 7 (2.44%) Maven
7 6 (2.09%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.39%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.39%) Postman
8 4 (1.39%) Subversion
9 3 (1.05%) IntelliJ
9 3 (1.05%) Mockito
9 3 (1.05%) webpack
10 2 (0.70%) Selenium
10 2 (0.70%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.35%) GitLab
11 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 67 (23.34%) Public Sector
2 39 (13.59%) Finance
3 37 (12.89%) Social Skills
4 18 (6.27%) Banking
5 14 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.48%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.39%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.70%) Retail
10 1 (0.35%) German Language
10 1 (0.35%) Law
10 1 (0.35%) Local Government
10 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (25.44%) Spring
2 58 (20.21%) React
3 56 (19.51%) Spring Boot
4 42 (14.63%) HTML
5 40 (13.94%) RESTful
6 37 (12.89%) CSS
7 34 (11.85%) REST
8 33 (11.50%) AWS CDK
9 32 (11.15%) Kafka
10 27 (9.41%) .NET
11 22 (7.67%) Node.js
12 18 (6.27%) AngularJS
13 17 (5.92%) Web Services
14 13 (4.53%) PySpark
15 10 (3.48%) XML
16 9 (3.14%) JSON
16 9 (3.14%) OAuth
16 9 (3.14%) OAuth2
16 9 (3.14%) SpaCy
16 9 (3.14%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.62%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (5.57%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.48%) Legacy Applications
5 9 (3.14%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (2.79%) Wiki
7 7 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.09%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.05%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.05%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.70%) CMDB
11 2 (0.70%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.70%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.76%) Unix
2 16 (5.57%) Linux
3 2 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.35%) AIX
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (39.37%) Agile
2 67 (23.34%) Microservices
3 55 (19.16%) Software Engineering
4 51 (17.77%) CI/CD
5 38 (13.24%) Code Quality
6 34 (11.85%) DevOps
7 33 (11.50%) SDLC
8 30 (10.45%) Full Stack Development
8 30 (10.45%) Test Automation
9 29 (10.10%) Data Modelling
10 28 (9.76%) Scrum
10 28 (9.76%) Unit Testing
10 28 (9.76%) User Experience
11 27 (9.41%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (8.71%) Artificial Intelligence
13 23 (8.01%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (8.01%) TDD
14 21 (7.32%) Machine Learning
15 18 (6.27%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (5.92%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 118 (41.11%) Java
2 91 (31.71%) SQL
3 57 (19.86%) JavaScript
4 51 (17.77%) Python
5 47 (16.38%) TypeScript
6 33 (11.50%) PL/SQL
7 25 (8.71%) Scala
8 24 (8.36%) Shell Script
9 21 (7.32%) C#
10 14 (4.88%) Kotlin
11 12 (4.18%) Bash
12 7 (2.44%) C
13 6 (2.09%) Go
14 5 (1.74%) PHP
15 4 (1.39%) Perl
16 3 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (1.05%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.70%) PowerShell
18 1 (0.35%) COBOL
18 1 (0.35%) JCL
Qualifications
1 23 (8.01%) Degree
2 10 (3.48%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.74%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.71%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.18%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (2.09%) QA
4 4 (1.39%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.70%) GDPR
5 2 (0.70%) WCAG
6 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (12.54%) Docker
2 9 (3.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (7.67%) Grafana
2 20 (6.97%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.79%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.79%) Zipkin
4 5 (1.74%) Kibana
5 3 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 60 (20.91%) Oracle
2 11 (3.83%) PayPal
3 9 (3.14%) Avaloq
3 9 (3.14%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.09%) Cadence
4 6 (2.09%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.74%) Google
6 4 (1.39%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (1.05%) Databricks
7 3 (1.05%) IBM
7 3 (1.05%) Splunk
8 2 (0.70%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.70%) Sage
8 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.35%) Adobe
9 1 (0.35%) IFS
9 1 (0.35%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.35%) Solace
9 1 (0.35%) Sybase
9 1 (0.35%) Xamarin