Backend Developer Contracts in Glasgow

Backend Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Backend Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £398 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 - 78
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 8 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.91% - 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% - 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £325 - £318
25th Percentile £370 - £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 - £405
75th Percentile £400 - £475
90th Percentile £434 - -
Scotland median daily rate £398 - £450
% change year-on-year - - +24.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 836 871 970
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 95.30% 96.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 646 737
10th Percentile £270 £313 £209
25th Percentile £380 £407 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £538
90th Percentile £675 £701 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £455
% change year-on-year - +4.40% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 16 10
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.00 £20.20
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.97 £21.38
Median hourly rate £24.26 £28.75 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +12.55% +38.08%
75th Percentile £47.35 £58.75 £42.63
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.56 £48.15
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.91
% change year-on-year +43.44% -10.53% -33.14%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Backend Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in Glasgow

Backend Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Backend Developer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Backend 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 Glasgow region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Java
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) RESTful
2 6 (75.00%) Scala
2 6 (75.00%) Microservices
2 6 (75.00%) SDLC
2 6 (75.00%) Kotlin
2 6 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (62.50%) End-to-End Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Data Structures
4 4 (50.00%) Scrum
4 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
4 4 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 4 (50.00%) JIRA
4 4 (50.00%) Release Management
4 4 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Azure
5 3 (37.50%) AWS
5 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
5 3 (37.50%) Docker
5 3 (37.50%) GCP
5 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
5 3 (37.50%) Kafka
6 2 (25.00%) OpenTracing
6 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
6 2 (25.00%) Zipkin

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) Kafka
3 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (25.00%) OpenTracing
3 2 (25.00%) Spring
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (12.50%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (62.50%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Microservices
2 6 (75.00%) SDLC
2 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 4 (50.00%) Release Management
4 4 (50.00%) Scrum
4 4 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) Kotlin
2 6 (75.00%) Scala
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (25.00%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft