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 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 273 442 520
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 12.85% 16.29% 15.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.64% 17.08% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 324 335
10th Percentile £325 £408 £384
25th Percentile £400 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £464
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.37% +9.18%
75th Percentile £502 £546 £525
90th Percentile £580 £700 £595
UK median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.64% - +10.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £26.13 £49.99 £48.90
25th Percentile £30.32 £53.38 £53.25
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 £57.50
90th Percentile £50.89 £79.81 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +22.22%

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 2,002 2,588 3,292
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 95.39% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,234 1,824 2,330
10th Percentile £200 £230 £225
25th Percentile £356 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £644 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 45 53
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.90 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.29 £21.67 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -34.33% -12.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.03 £48.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.25 £55.82
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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 +5 165 £450 -18.18% 65
Edinburgh -9 78 £450 -5.26% 37
West Lothian +4 9 £560 -8.57% 3
Lanarkshire +2 2 £443 -7.81% 19
Aberdeen 0 2 £419 -6.94% 11
Fife +1 1 £428 - 1
Midlothian - 1 £428 - 12
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 113 (41.39%) Java
2 106 (38.83%) Agile
3 97 (35.53%) AWS
4 82 (30.04%) SQL
5 68 (24.91%) Spring
6 64 (23.44%) Microservices
7 56 (20.51%) Public Sector
7 56 (20.51%) Software Engineering
7 56 (20.51%) Python
8 54 (19.78%) Spring Boot
9 53 (19.41%) Oracle
10 52 (19.05%) React
11 49 (17.95%) JavaScript
12 46 (16.85%) CI/CD
13 45 (16.48%) TypeScript
14 39 (14.29%) Code Quality
14 39 (14.29%) Finance
15 38 (13.92%) Serverless
16 37 (13.55%) HTML
16 37 (13.55%) Amazon S3
16 37 (13.55%) Azure
17 36 (13.19%) Docker
18 35 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
19 34 (12.45%) Social Skills
19 34 (12.45%) RESTful
20 33 (12.09%) AWS CDK
21 32 (11.72%) SDLC
21 32 (11.72%) JIRA
22 31 (11.36%) Test Automation
22 31 (11.36%) Kafka

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 11 (4.03%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.30%) Confluence
3 6 (2.20%) Apache
4 4 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.10%) GeoServer
5 3 (1.10%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.73%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.73%) JBoss
6 2 (0.73%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.73%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.73%) WildFly
7 1 (0.37%) CICS
7 1 (0.37%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (5.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Maximo
2 1 (0.37%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 97 (35.53%) AWS
2 38 (13.92%) Serverless
3 37 (13.55%) Amazon S3
3 37 (13.55%) Azure
4 35 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
5 31 (11.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (5.86%) GCP
6 16 (5.86%) OpenShift
7 12 (4.40%) Power Platform
8 10 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.56%) Textract
10 6 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.83%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.10%) npm
13 3 (1.10%) Rekognition
13 3 (1.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.20%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.73%) SSL
3 1 (0.37%) DHCP
3 1 (0.37%) DNS
3 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (10.62%) Oracle Database
3 28 (10.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (5.13%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.66%) Power BI
6 9 (3.30%) Big Data
6 9 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.56%) GIS
8 7 (2.56%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (2.20%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.83%) MySQL
11 4 (1.47%) Metadata
11 4 (1.47%) Parquet
12 3 (1.10%) MariaDB
12 3 (1.10%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.73%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 32 (11.72%) JIRA
2 31 (11.36%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.16%) Git
4 13 (4.76%) JUnit
5 11 (4.03%) Oracle APEX
6 9 (3.30%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.56%) Maven
8 6 (2.20%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.83%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (1.83%) Postman
10 4 (1.47%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.47%) Subversion
11 3 (1.10%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.10%) Mockito
11 3 (1.10%) webpack
12 2 (0.73%) Selenium
12 2 (0.73%) WebDriver
13 1 (0.37%) GitLab
13 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (20.51%) Public Sector
2 39 (14.29%) Finance
3 34 (12.45%) Social Skills
4 16 (5.86%) Banking
5 12 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.40%) Financial Institution
6 6 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.10%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.10%) Retail
8 1 (0.37%) German Language
8 1 (0.37%) Law
8 1 (0.37%) Local Government
8 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (24.91%) Spring
2 54 (19.78%) Spring Boot
3 52 (19.05%) React
4 37 (13.55%) HTML
5 34 (12.45%) RESTful
6 33 (12.09%) AWS CDK
7 31 (11.36%) Kafka
8 30 (10.99%) CSS
8 30 (10.99%) REST
9 22 (8.06%) Node.js
10 21 (7.69%) .NET
11 17 (6.23%) AngularJS
12 14 (5.13%) Web Services
13 12 (4.40%) PySpark
14 10 (3.66%) XML
15 9 (3.30%) JSON
16 8 (2.93%) Elastic Stack
16 8 (2.93%) OpenTracing
16 8 (2.93%) SpaCy
16 8 (2.93%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.96%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (5.86%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.40%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.66%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.30%) Legacy Applications
6 8 (2.93%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.93%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.56%) Wiki
8 6 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.73%) CMDB
10 2 (0.73%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.73%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.73%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.73%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.37%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.69%) Linux
1 21 (7.69%) Unix
2 2 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.37%) AIX
3 1 (0.37%) Android
3 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (38.83%) Agile
2 64 (23.44%) Microservices
3 56 (20.51%) Software Engineering
4 46 (16.85%) CI/CD
5 39 (14.29%) Code Quality
6 32 (11.72%) SDLC
7 31 (11.36%) Test Automation
8 30 (10.99%) Artificial Intelligence
8 30 (10.99%) DevOps
9 29 (10.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (10.26%) Data Modelling
11 26 (9.52%) Scrum
11 26 (9.52%) Unit Testing
11 26 (9.52%) User Experience
12 22 (8.06%) Machine Learning
12 22 (8.06%) TDD
13 21 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
14 20 (7.33%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (6.23%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 113 (41.39%) Java
2 82 (30.04%) SQL
3 56 (20.51%) Python
4 49 (17.95%) JavaScript
5 45 (16.48%) TypeScript
6 28 (10.26%) PL/SQL
6 28 (10.26%) Scala
7 20 (7.33%) Shell Script
8 19 (6.96%) C#
9 13 (4.76%) Kotlin
10 12 (4.40%) Bash
11 7 (2.56%) C
12 6 (2.20%) Go
13 5 (1.83%) Perl
14 4 (1.47%) PHP
15 3 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.37%) COBOL
16 1 (0.37%) JCL
16 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (9.52%) Degree
2 9 (3.30%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.83%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.79%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.66%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (2.20%) QA
4 4 (1.47%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.73%) GDPR
5 2 (0.73%) WCAG
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (13.19%) Docker
2 7 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (8.79%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.69%) Grafana
3 8 (2.93%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.93%) Zipkin
4 6 (2.20%) Terraform
5 5 (1.83%) Kibana
6 2 (0.73%) Ansible
7 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (19.41%) Oracle
2 14 (5.13%) PayPal
3 9 (3.30%) Avaloq
4 6 (2.20%) Cadence
4 6 (2.20%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.20%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.47%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (1.47%) Google
6 3 (1.10%) Databricks
6 3 (1.10%) IBM
6 3 (1.10%) Splunk
6 3 (1.10%) VMware
7 2 (0.73%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.73%) Sage
7 2 (0.73%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.37%) Adobe
8 1 (0.37%) Greenplum
8 1 (0.37%) IFS
8 1 (0.37%) Solace
8 1 (0.37%) Sybase