Data Structures Contracts in Scotland

Data Structures
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures 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 91 145 151
Rank change year-on-year +54 +6 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 24 19 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.12% 0.71% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.53% 1.97% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 14
10th Percentile £324 £411 £408
25th Percentile £383 £484 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £613 £523
Median % change year-on-year -34.69% +17.22% +22.94%
75th Percentile £513 £647 £563
90th Percentile £548 £705 £581
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Data Structures falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 679 964 1,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 31.68% 36.08% 36.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 650 856
10th Percentile £205 £209 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% - +14.71%
75th Percentile £561 £550 £564
90th Percentile £662 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 29 26
10th Percentile £12.68 - £16.56
25th Percentile £15.74 £10.63 £20.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £14.50 £42.48
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -65.86% +1.13%
75th Percentile £29.59 £21.67 £54.38
90th Percentile £59.45 £48.93 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Data Structures as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in Scotland

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in Scotland

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in Scotland

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in Scotland

Data Structures
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 Data Structures 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 +23 18 £400 -36.00% 1
Edinburgh +34 6 £550 -2.22% 5
Data Structures
UK

Data Structures
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 9 (37.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) AWS
2 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 12 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) Relational Database
2 4 (16.67%) Metadata
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database 12c
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle8/8i Database
3 2 (8.33%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) Git
3 2 (8.33%) ER Studio
3 2 (8.33%) ERwin
4 1 (4.17%) Mockito
General
1 5 (20.83%) Banking
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Developer
2 14 (58.33%) Java Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Backend Developer
4 4 (16.67%) DBA
4 4 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (8.33%) Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Administrator
6 1 (4.17%) Business Data Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) COBOL Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Development Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Firmware Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) Kafka
1 12 (50.00%) Spring
2 11 (45.83%) RESTful
2 11 (45.83%) Spring Boot
3 8 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (33.33%) OpenTracing
4 4 (16.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (4.17%) CSS
5 1 (4.17%) Flash
5 1 (4.17%) Guice
5 1 (4.17%) JSON
5 1 (4.17%) React
5 1 (4.17%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) IoT
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Code
4 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.17%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
1 6 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (4.17%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Microservices
2 12 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 11 (45.83%) Agile
4 10 (41.67%) SDLC
5 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 8 (33.33%) Migration
5 8 (33.33%) Scrum
5 8 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 7 (29.17%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (29.17%) Software Engineering
7 6 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
7 6 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (25.00%) Data Transformation
7 6 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
7 6 (25.00%) Release Management
8 4 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (16.67%) Data Migration
8 4 (16.67%) Database Security
8 4 (16.67%) Security Management
8 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) Java
2 11 (45.83%) Kotlin
2 11 (45.83%) Scala
3 4 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.33%) Perl
4 2 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) C
5 1 (4.17%) C++
5 1 (4.17%) COBOL
5 1 (4.17%) Embedded C
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Docker
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 8 (33.33%) Zipkin
3 4 (16.67%) Data Guard
3 4 (16.67%) Grafana
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (12.50%) Splunk
4 2 (8.33%) IDERA
4 2 (8.33%) Informatica
5 1 (4.17%) Renesas