SDLC Contracts in Glasgow

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 28 41
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 -11
Contract jobs citing SDLC 49 60 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 5.59% 6.56% 4.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.08% 6.96% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 23 33
10th Percentile £400 £444 £410
25th Percentile £409 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £600
90th Percentile £626 £700 £775
Scotland median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 806 862 926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.90% 94.31% 92.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 629 702
10th Percentile £280 £325 £257
25th Percentile £400 £410 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £538
90th Percentile £675 £701 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 27 12
10th Percentile £13.75 - £17.85
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £21.00
Median hourly rate £21.13 £13.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +56.50% -58.97% +31.61%
75th Percentile £44.14 £35.00 £44.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £59.47 £49.39
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £36.50
% change year-on-year +9.11% -51.45% -10.99%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Glasgow over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Glasgow

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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 7 (14.29%) SAS
2 6 (12.24%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (12.24%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.08%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 33 (67.35%) AWS
2 12 (24.49%) Azure
3 7 (14.29%) GCP
4 4 (8.16%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.08%) IaaS
5 2 (4.08%) npm
6 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.04%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
1 7 (14.29%) iSCSI
2 4 (8.16%) ATM
2 4 (8.16%) SAN
3 2 (4.08%) DNS
3 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.04%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) DB2
1 6 (12.24%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.08%) Big Data
2 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) JIRA
2 2 (4.08%) Cypress.io
2 2 (4.08%) Git
2 2 (4.08%) JUnit
2 2 (4.08%) Subversion
3 1 (2.04%) GitLab
General
1 16 (32.65%) Finance
2 13 (26.53%) Banking
3 10 (20.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (18.37%) Social Skills
5 5 (10.20%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (51.02%) Developer
2 18 (36.73%) Java Developer
3 8 (16.33%) Full Stack Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Java Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Backend Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Python Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Storage Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Architect
7 4 (8.16%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Senior
9 2 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Scala Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (46.94%) Spring
2 18 (36.73%) Spring Boot
3 13 (26.53%) AngularJS
3 13 (26.53%) REST
4 11 (22.45%) CSS
4 11 (22.45%) HTML
4 11 (22.45%) JPA
5 10 (20.41%) RESTful
6 9 (18.37%) Kafka
7 7 (14.29%) Flash
7 7 (14.29%) POSIX
8 6 (12.24%) PySpark
9 5 (10.20%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (10.20%) Middleware
9 5 (10.20%) OpenTracing
10 2 (4.08%) JSON
10 2 (4.08%) React
10 2 (4.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.45%) Public Cloud
2 8 (16.33%) Data Structures
2 8 (16.33%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.20%) NVMe
4 4 (8.16%) Client/Server
4 4 (8.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.08%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.41%) Linux
2 7 (14.29%) Unix
3 6 (12.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (12.24%) Windows
3 6 (12.24%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.16%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (71.43%) Agile
2 26 (53.06%) Microservices
3 25 (51.02%) Software Engineering
4 19 (38.78%) CI/CD
5 18 (36.73%) Operational Stability
6 13 (26.53%) Full Stack Development
7 12 (24.49%) Artificial Intelligence
7 12 (24.49%) Machine Learning
8 11 (22.45%) Decision-Making
9 9 (18.37%) End-to-End Testing
10 7 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 6 (12.24%) Community of Practice
11 6 (12.24%) High Availability
11 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Automation
12 5 (10.20%) Capacity Management
12 5 (10.20%) Computer Science
12 5 (10.20%) DevOps
12 5 (10.20%) Observability
12 5 (10.20%) Preventative Maintenance
12 5 (10.20%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (67.35%) Java
2 20 (40.82%) SQL
3 16 (32.65%) Python
4 11 (22.45%) Scala
4 11 (22.45%) TypeScript
5 9 (18.37%) Kotlin
6 7 (14.29%) Perl
7 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (20.41%) Docker
2 7 (14.29%) NFS
3 4 (8.16%) GPFS
4 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (22.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.20%) Prometheus
2 5 (10.20%) Zipkin
3 4 (8.16%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (2.04%) Ansible
4 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.04%) Puppet
4 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) IBM
1 6 (12.24%) Sybase
2 4 (8.16%) Brocade
2 4 (8.16%) EMC
2 4 (8.16%) Google
2 4 (8.16%) NetApp
2 4 (8.16%) Veritas
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.08%) Oracle
3 2 (4.08%) VMware