Computer Science Degree Contracts in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered 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 96 151 147
Rank change year-on-year +55 -4 -17
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 35 14 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.59% 0.49% 0.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.78% 2.38% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 9 12
10th Percentile £404 £453 £329
25th Percentile £500 £513 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +42.35% +2.10%
75th Percentile £594 £633 £450
90th Percentile £616 £750 £529
UK median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year - +13.40% +30.20%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

Computer Science Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications 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 academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 606 589 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 27.46% 20.60% 17.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 407 367
10th Percentile £188 £163 £179
25th Percentile £363 £375 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £550
90th Percentile £668 £628 £625
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 14 19
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.65 £19.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.99 £21.75
Median hourly rate £40.94 £21.47 £39.99
Median % change year-on-year +90.73% -46.32% +40.32%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.90 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.70 £65.00 £56.17
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.73%

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 28 April 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 28 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
Edinburgh +66 28 £575 - 11
Glasgow -4 4 £371 -34.29% 6
Renfrewshire -2 1 £525 -13.93%
Aberdeen - 1 - - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) Apache
1 1 (2.86%) EPiServer
1 1 (2.86%) IIS
1 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.86%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) SaaS
2 5 (14.29%) AWS
2 5 (14.29%) Azure
3 4 (11.43%) OCI
4 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (8.57%) IaaS
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.57%) PaaS
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.71%) GCP
6 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) 2G
2 1 (2.86%) 5G
2 1 (2.86%) BIG-IP
2 1 (2.86%) DHCP
2 1 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (2.86%) Internet
2 1 (2.86%) Network Security
2 1 (2.86%) SAN
2 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) Metadata
1 9 (25.71%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.71%) Big Data
2 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (8.57%) Git
3 2 (5.71%) Gradle
3 2 (5.71%) JIRA
3 2 (5.71%) JMeter
3 2 (5.71%) JUnit
3 2 (5.71%) LoadRunner
3 2 (5.71%) Selenium
4 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 22 (62.86%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (17.14%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Automotive
5 1 (2.86%) Finance
5 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Senior
2 6 (17.14%) Architect
3 5 (14.29%) Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Lead
4 4 (11.43%) Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Database Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Design Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Database Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Design Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Database Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.71%) UAT Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) .NET
1 2 (5.71%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (5.71%) Dagger
1 2 (5.71%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (5.71%) Retrofit
1 2 (5.71%) Spring
2 1 (2.86%) Guice
2 1 (2.86%) Kafka
2 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.71%) PKI
3 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Clustering
4 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Android
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Unix
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 26 (74.29%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (25.71%) SQL Optimisation
5 8 (22.86%) Data Security
6 7 (20.00%) Analytics
7 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (14.29%) Agile
8 5 (14.29%) Data Protection
8 5 (14.29%) ERP
9 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (11.43%) Mentoring
9 4 (11.43%) RBAC
9 4 (11.43%) Scrum
10 3 (8.57%) Architectural Design
10 3 (8.57%) Data Management
10 3 (8.57%) Information Security
10 3 (8.57%) Project Management
11 2 (5.71%) Test Management
11 2 (5.71%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) SQL
2 10 (28.57%) PL/SQL
3 3 (8.57%) Java
3 3 (8.57%) Perl
4 2 (5.71%) Kotlin
4 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.71%) Python
5 1 (2.86%) C#
5 1 (2.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 35 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) Master's Degree
2 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.86%) CISA
5 1 (2.86%) CISM
5 1 (2.86%) CRISC
5 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) COBIT
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) GRC
2 1 (2.86%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.86%) ISO 8583
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Ansible
1 1 (2.86%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (37.14%) Oracle
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Avaloq
3 1 (2.86%) CA
3 1 (2.86%) Citrix
3 1 (2.86%) F5
3 1 (2.86%) Fiserv
3 1 (2.86%) Google
3 1 (2.86%) HP
3 1 (2.86%) McAfee
3 1 (2.86%) OneTrust
3 1 (2.86%) Symantec
3 1 (2.86%) Veritas
3 1 (2.86%) VMware