Backend Developer Contracts in Scotland

Backend Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Backend Developer daily rate in Scotland 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 119 - 168
Rank change year-on-year - - -9
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 9 0 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.41% - 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 8
10th Percentile £325 - £342
25th Percentile £370 - £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.14%
75th Percentile £400 - £475
90th Percentile £434 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £606 £525
% change year-on-year -17.49% +15.43% +16.67%

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 2,102 2,722 3,382
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 95.11% 96.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,283 1,953 2,393
10th Percentile £201 £238 £213
25th Percentile £366 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year - +4.40% +7.06%
75th Percentile £588 £553 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 44 52
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.86 £12.02
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.91 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.91
Median % change year-on-year +43.44% -10.53% -33.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.41 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in Scotland

Backend Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Backend Developer in Scotland

Backend Developer
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 Backend Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 April 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 - 8 £398 - 4
Backend Developer
UK

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

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 Scotland region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 8 (88.89%) Java
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) Microservices
3 6 (66.67%) SDLC
3 6 (66.67%) Kotlin
3 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 6 (66.67%) RESTful
3 6 (66.67%) Scala
3 6 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (55.56%) End-to-End Testing
4 5 (55.56%) Data Structures
5 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
5 4 (44.44%) Scrum
5 4 (44.44%) AWS
5 4 (44.44%) JIRA
5 4 (44.44%) Release Management
5 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (44.44%) Backlog Refinement
6 3 (33.33%) Azure
6 3 (33.33%) Spring
6 3 (33.33%) Kafka
6 3 (33.33%) Docker
6 3 (33.33%) Apache Spark
6 3 (33.33%) GCP
6 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
7 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
7 2 (22.22%) Zipkin
7 2 (22.22%) Dependency Injection
7 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL

Backend Developer 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 3 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
2 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) RESTful
2 3 (33.33%) Kafka
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
3 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (22.22%) OpenTracing
3 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
4 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
4 1 (11.11%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (55.56%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
1 7 (77.78%) Microservices
2 6 (66.67%) SDLC
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Backlog Refinement
4 4 (44.44%) Release Management
4 4 (44.44%) Scrum
4 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (22.22%) Dependency Injection
5 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 1 (11.11%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 6 (66.67%) Scala
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
2 2 (22.22%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft