Senior Contracts in Scotland

Senior
UK > Scotland

The median Senior daily rate in Scotland is £497 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 180 237 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 8.40% 8.79% 7.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.88% 9.23% 8.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 187 198
10th Percentile £374 £400 £404
25th Percentile £418 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £580
90th Percentile £609 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £550 £598 £575
% change year-on-year -8.03% +4.00% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £31.30 - -
25th Percentile £50.63 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £17.72 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +238.60% +1.26% -68.71%
75th Percentile £60.75 £22.04 -
90th Percentile £61.00 £29.82 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £54.56 £42.93
% change year-on-year -8.36% +27.10% +30.68%

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 2,026 2,569 3,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 95.29% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,786 2,312
10th Percentile £200 £224 £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 £638 £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 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.48 £17.15
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.25 £18.43
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +37.36%
75th Percentile £58.13 £58.75 £48.56
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.88 £55.86
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Scotland

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Scotland

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Scotland

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Scotland

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Scotland

Senior
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 Senior within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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
Edinburgh +6 90 £500 +5.26% 87
Glasgow 0 52 £475 -19.15% 103
South Lanarkshire +5 19 £600 +20.00%
West Lothian - 6 - - 2
Perthshire +9 1 - - 1
Lanarkshire -1 1 - - 42
Highlands - 1 - -
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior in the job title.

1 71 (39.44%) Public Sector
2 57 (31.67%) Agile
3 48 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 33 (18.33%) SQL
5 31 (17.22%) JIRA
6 27 (15.00%) Azure
7 26 (14.44%) Security Cleared
7 26 (14.44%) Finance
8 24 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
9 23 (12.78%) Java
10 22 (12.22%) Microsoft
10 22 (12.22%) Scrum
11 20 (11.11%) Project Management
11 20 (11.11%) SC Cleared
11 20 (11.11%) Degree
12 18 (10.00%) Oracle
12 18 (10.00%) Confluence
13 17 (9.44%) Spring
13 17 (9.44%) AWS
14 16 (8.89%) Roadmaps
15 15 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (8.33%) React
15 15 (8.33%) Spring Boot
15 15 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
16 14 (7.78%) DevOps
16 14 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
16 14 (7.78%) Atlassian
16 14 (7.78%) Banking
16 14 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management

Senior 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 18 (10.00%) Confluence
2 9 (5.00%) CMS
3 5 (2.78%) IBM HTTP Server
3 5 (2.78%) WebSphere
3 5 (2.78%) WebSphere Application Server
3 5 (2.78%) WebSphere Portal
4 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.11%) Apache
5 2 (1.11%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.56%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 27 (15.00%) Azure
2 17 (9.44%) AWS
3 11 (6.11%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (5.00%) PowerApps
5 8 (4.44%) Power Automate
6 7 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.33%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.22%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.22%) IaaS
8 4 (2.22%) PaaS
8 4 (2.22%) SaaS
8 4 (2.22%) Serverless
9 2 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.11%) iPaaS
9 2 (1.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.89%) Firewall
2 5 (2.78%) HTTP
3 4 (2.22%) Network Security
4 3 (1.67%) SCCP
4 3 (1.67%) WAN
5 2 (1.11%) LAN
6 1 (0.56%) BGP
6 1 (0.56%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.56%) IPsec
6 1 (0.56%) MPLS
6 1 (0.56%) NAS
6 1 (0.56%) OSPF
6 1 (0.56%) SAN
6 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.67%) Metadata
1 12 (6.67%) Oracle Database
2 11 (6.11%) Power BI
3 8 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.11%) Informix
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.56%) Big Data
7 1 (0.56%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 31 (17.22%) JIRA
2 9 (5.00%) Git
2 9 (5.00%) Oracle APEX
3 7 (3.89%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.33%) JUnit
5 5 (2.78%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.78%) IBM UrbanCode
6 4 (2.22%) Maven
6 4 (2.22%) Postman
6 4 (2.22%) Selenium
6 4 (2.22%) Subversion
7 3 (1.67%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.11%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.11%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.56%) Appium
9 1 (0.56%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.56%) NUnit
9 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 71 (39.44%) Public Sector
2 48 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 26 (14.44%) Finance
4 23 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.78%) Banking
6 10 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.22%) Publishing
8 3 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.11%) Marketing
9 2 (1.11%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Humanities
10 1 (0.56%) Military
10 1 (0.56%) Social Science
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.44%) Spring
2 15 (8.33%) React
2 15 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 13 (7.22%) .NET
4 10 (5.56%) J2EE
5 9 (5.00%) RESTful
6 8 (4.44%) REST
7 7 (3.89%) Middleware
8 5 (2.78%) Kafka
8 5 (2.78%) Web Services
9 4 (2.22%) AWS CDK
10 3 (1.67%) Apache Camel
10 3 (1.67%) Spring Batch
11 2 (1.11%) ASP.NET Core
11 2 (1.11%) CSS
11 2 (1.11%) Node.js
11 2 (1.11%) NumPy
11 2 (1.11%) Pandas
11 2 (1.11%) PySpark
11 2 (1.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.89%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.89%) Legacy Applications
3 7 (3.89%) Wiki
4 5 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.22%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.67%) Replication
7 2 (1.11%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.11%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.11%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.11%) Social Media
8 1 (0.56%) Blog
8 1 (0.56%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.00%) Windows
2 6 (3.33%) Linux
3 2 (1.11%) Android
3 2 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (31.67%) Agile
2 24 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (12.22%) Scrum
4 20 (11.11%) Project Management
5 16 (8.89%) Roadmaps
6 15 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (7.78%) DevOps
7 14 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (6.67%) Analytics
8 12 (6.67%) Data Protection
8 12 (6.67%) User Experience
9 11 (6.11%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (6.11%) Content Management
9 11 (6.11%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (6.11%) Information Security
9 11 (6.11%) PRINCE2
9 11 (6.11%) Software Delivery
10 10 (5.56%) Computer Science
10 10 (5.56%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 33 (18.33%) SQL
2 23 (12.78%) Java
3 12 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 10 (5.56%) PL/SQL
5 7 (3.89%) Python
6 6 (3.33%) T-SQL
6 6 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.22%) C#
7 4 (2.22%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.11%) C++
8 2 (1.11%) Perl
8 2 (1.11%) Rust
8 2 (1.11%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.11%) VBA
8 2 (1.11%) VBScript
9 1 (0.56%) Groovy
9 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (14.44%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.11%) Degree
2 20 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.78%) CISSP
4 5 (2.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 5 (2.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 3 (1.67%) CLAS
6 2 (1.11%) ISEB
6 2 (1.11%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) CCNA
7 1 (0.56%) CCNP
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.56%) MCSE
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 11 (6.11%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (5.00%) PMO
5 5 (2.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.56%) P3O
7 1 (0.56%) QA
7 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.78%) Docker
2 4 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.78%) Ansible
1 5 (2.78%) Grafana
2 3 (1.67%) Kibana
3 2 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (1.11%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.11%) SCCM
4 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (12.22%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.00%) Oracle
3 14 (7.78%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.89%) IBM
5 3 (1.67%) Cisco
5 3 (1.67%) VMware
6 2 (1.11%) Ariba
6 2 (1.11%) SAP
6 2 (1.11%) Splunk
7 1 (0.56%) Citrix
7 1 (0.56%) Commvault
7 1 (0.56%) Facebook
7 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.56%) Google
7 1 (0.56%) Instagram
7 1 (0.56%) Meraki
7 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.56%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.56%) Reuters
7 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow