Computer Science Degree Contracts in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered 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 92 146 154
Rank change year-on-year +54 +8 -31
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 23 18 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.07% 0.67% 0.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.19% 3.16% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 12
10th Percentile £378 £401 £329
25th Percentile £500 £475 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +23.53% -13.27%
75th Percentile £588 £615 £450
90th Percentile £615 £644 £529
UK median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -2.27% +18.92% +4.52%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Scotland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 549 570 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 25.62% 21.33% 17.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 372 358
10th Percentile £180 £175 £216
25th Percentile £313 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £464
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -2.96% +9.12%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £560
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 10 23
10th Percentile £12.42 £12.71 £20.20
25th Percentile £15.49 £15.81 £23.89
Median hourly rate £19.50 £21.47 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.15% -57.07% +55.04%
75th Percentile £40.94 £43.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £60.20 £59.63 £58.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
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 Computer Science Degree 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
Edinburgh +46 19 £575 - 12
Glasgow +10 3 £325 -38.10% 10
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) 2G
1 1 (4.35%) 5G
1 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) Metadata
1 9 (39.13%) Oracle Database
2 2 (8.70%) Big Data
2 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (39.13%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (13.04%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) Gradle
3 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 2 (8.70%) JMeter
3 2 (8.70%) JUnit
3 2 (8.70%) LoadRunner
3 2 (8.70%) Selenium
4 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (78.26%) Social Skills
2 16 (69.57%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Automotive
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Senior
2 5 (21.74%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Database Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Design Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Database Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Design Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Database Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.35%) Android Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Designer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Security Advisor
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Database Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (8.70%) Dagger
1 2 (8.70%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (8.70%) Retrofit
1 2 (8.70%) Spring
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) Guice
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Android
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Unix
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 18 (78.26%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (43.48%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (39.13%) SQL Optimisation
5 5 (21.74%) Agile
5 5 (21.74%) Data Protection
6 4 (17.39%) Scrum
7 3 (13.04%) Data Security
8 2 (8.70%) Data Management
8 2 (8.70%) Dependency Injection
8 2 (8.70%) Mathematics
8 2 (8.70%) Migration
8 2 (8.70%) Performance Testing
8 2 (8.70%) Scalability Testing
8 2 (8.70%) Security Testing
8 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
8 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (8.70%) Test Management
8 2 (8.70%) Test Scripting
8 2 (8.70%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) SQL
2 10 (43.48%) PL/SQL
3 4 (17.39%) Perl
4 2 (8.70%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) Kotlin
4 2 (8.70%) Python
4 2 (8.70%) Rust
5 1 (4.35%) C#
Qualifications
1 23 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Master's Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO 20022
1 1 (4.35%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Avaloq
2 1 (4.35%) Google