SDLC Contracts in Scotland

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for SDLC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SDLC over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 69 82
Rank change year-on-year +17 +13 -25
Contract jobs citing SDLC 71 110 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.38% 4.10% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 4.43% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 51 58
10th Percentile £379 £380 £409
25th Percentile £400 £456 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +15.79% +12.43%
75th Percentile £531 £625 £575
90th Percentile £619 £712 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £555
% change year-on-year -4.17% +8.21% +9.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £60.13 £50.06
25th Percentile - £61.77 £53.25
Median hourly rate £21.64 £64.52 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.46% +18.38% +21.11%
75th Percentile - £67.26 £57.50
90th Percentile - £68.90 -
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £56.25 £54.78
% change year-on-year -14.67% +2.68% -3.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

SDLC is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,846 2,481 3,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.82% 92.51% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,747 2,226
10th Percentile £220 £260 £250
25th Percentile £363 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 55 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.67 £11.25 £18.29
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.94 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
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 SDLC within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 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 +4 54 £450 -18.18% 17
Edinburgh +9 9 £558 +6.19% 15
Perthshire +8 2 £525 -7.57%
Fife +1 1 - - 2
SDLC
UK

SDLC
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 8 (11.27%) Apache Spark
2 6 (8.45%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (7.04%) SAS
4 2 (2.82%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (54.93%) AWS
2 20 (28.17%) Azure
3 8 (11.27%) GCP
4 4 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.63%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (4.23%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (4.23%) npm
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) ATM
1 5 (7.04%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (7.04%) iSCSI
2 4 (5.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.90%) Relational Database
2 6 (8.45%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (5.63%) DB2
4 3 (4.23%) Big Data
5 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (12.68%) JIRA
2 6 (8.45%) Git
3 4 (5.63%) Visual Studio
4 3 (4.23%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.82%) JUnit
5 2 (2.82%) Subversion
6 1 (1.41%) Appium
6 1 (1.41%) Selenium
General
1 26 (36.62%) Finance
2 14 (19.72%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.49%) Banking
3 11 (15.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (14.08%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.63%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 32 (45.07%) Developer
2 21 (29.58%) Java Developer
3 8 (11.27%) Full Stack Engineer
4 7 (9.86%) Java Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Analyst
5 6 (8.45%) Backend Developer
5 6 (8.45%) Python Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Architect
6 5 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Business Analyst
6 5 (7.04%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Lead
7 4 (5.63%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Storage Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (35.21%) Spring
2 20 (28.17%) Spring Boot
3 17 (23.94%) REST
4 14 (19.72%) AngularJS
5 12 (16.90%) Kafka
5 12 (16.90%) RESTful
6 11 (15.49%) CSS
6 11 (15.49%) HTML
6 11 (15.49%) JPA
7 7 (9.86%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (9.86%) OpenTracing
8 6 (8.45%) PySpark
9 5 (7.04%) .NET
9 5 (7.04%) Flash
9 5 (7.04%) Middleware
9 5 (7.04%) POSIX
10 4 (5.63%) React
10 4 (5.63%) SOAP
10 4 (5.63%) WinForms
10 4 (5.63%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Public Cloud
2 10 (14.08%) Data Structures
2 10 (14.08%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.04%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (7.04%) NVMe
3 5 (7.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (5.63%) Client/Server
5 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (4.23%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.41%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.49%) Unix
2 10 (14.08%) Windows
3 5 (7.04%) Linux
4 4 (5.63%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (5.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (5.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (74.65%) Agile
2 29 (40.85%) Microservices
3 26 (36.62%) Software Engineering
4 22 (30.99%) CI/CD
5 19 (26.76%) Operational Stability
6 15 (21.13%) Decision-Making
7 14 (19.72%) Artificial Intelligence
7 14 (19.72%) Full Stack Development
7 14 (19.72%) Test Automation
8 13 (18.31%) Machine Learning
9 11 (15.49%) End-to-End Testing
9 11 (15.49%) User Acceptance Testing
10 10 (14.08%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (8.45%) Community of Practice
11 6 (8.45%) Continuous Delivery
11 6 (8.45%) Dependency Injection
11 6 (8.45%) DevOps
12 5 (7.04%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 5 (7.04%) Capacity Management
12 5 (7.04%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (47.89%) Java
2 30 (42.25%) SQL
3 11 (15.49%) Kotlin
3 11 (15.49%) Python
3 11 (15.49%) Scala
3 11 (15.49%) TypeScript
4 7 (9.86%) PL/SQL
4 7 (9.86%) Shell Script
5 5 (7.04%) Perl
6 4 (5.63%) C#
6 4 (5.63%) VB
6 4 (5.63%) VB6
7 1 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (7.04%) Degree
2 3 (4.23%) Azure Certification
2 3 (4.23%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (1.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.82%) NCSC
4 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (16.90%) Docker
2 5 (7.04%) NFS
3 4 (5.63%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 13 (18.31%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.86%) Prometheus
2 7 (9.86%) Zipkin
3 4 (5.63%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 15 (21.13%) Oracle
2 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.45%) IBM
4 4 (5.63%) Brocade
4 4 (5.63%) EMC
4 4 (5.63%) Google
4 4 (5.63%) Infragistics
4 4 (5.63%) NetApp
4 4 (5.63%) Sybase
4 4 (5.63%) Veritas
5 3 (4.23%) CA Agile Central