Degree Contracts in Scotland

Academic Degree
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 35 20
Rank change year-on-year +17 -15 +11
Contract jobs citing Degree 201 186 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 9.11% 6.52% 7.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 33.17% 31.74% 44.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 126 149
10th Percentile £165 £137 £148
25th Percentile £325 £164 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £480
90th Percentile £626 £606 £588
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -3.33% +2.41% +7.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 5
10th Percentile £13.98 £14.03 -
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.81 £51.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -70.64% +91.23%
75th Percentile £22.26 £16.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £25.67 £41.13 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -11.11% +26.76% -2.74%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 606 586 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 27.46% 20.53% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 407 366
10th Percentile £188 £162 £174
25th Percentile £363 £375 £359
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 15 19
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.95 £19.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.00 £21.75
Median hourly rate £40.94 £21.67 £39.99
Median % change year-on-year +88.92% -45.81% +8.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.02 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.70 £66.50 £56.17
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Scotland

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Scotland

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Scotland

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Scotland

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Scotland

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 Degree within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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 +28 78 £525 +23.53% 96
Glasgow +4 66 £435 +16.00% 88
South Lanarkshire +11 13 £375 +70.45% 7
Aberdeen +8 8 £600 +9.09% 47
Renfrewshire -1 7 £450 +17.49% 1
West Lothian -5 6 £306 +80.15% 9
Fife 0 4 £310 +79.71% 10
Highlands - 4 - - 7
Perthshire +9 2 £500 -
Dundee +5 1 £450 -21.74% 2
Inverclyde - 1 £375 - 1
Lanarkshire - 1 £500 - 34
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 24
Stirling - 1 £525 - 6
Degree
UK

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 13 (6.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.98%) Confluence
3 9 (4.48%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.99%) CMS
5 2 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.50%) Apache
6 1 (0.50%) Drupal
6 1 (0.50%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.50%) IIS
6 1 (0.50%) SAS
6 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (16.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (11.44%) Chatbot
3 20 (9.95%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (4.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (1.00%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (1.00%) Camtasia
6 2 (1.00%) Lectora
7 1 (0.50%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.50%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.99%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 3 (1.49%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.44%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (7.46%) Azure
3 13 (6.47%) Power Platform
4 8 (3.98%) AWS
4 8 (3.98%) SaaS
5 5 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.99%) OCI
6 4 (1.99%) Power Automate
6 4 (1.99%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.49%) IaaS
7 3 (1.49%) PaaS
8 2 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.00%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.00%) GCP
9 1 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.50%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.50%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.50%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.50%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.97%) Firewall
2 4 (1.99%) Internet
2 4 (1.99%) LAN
3 3 (1.49%) SSL
3 3 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.00%) DNS
4 2 (1.00%) FabricPath
4 2 (1.00%) Intranet
4 2 (1.00%) NX-OS
4 2 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.00%) VPN
4 2 (1.00%) VSAN
4 2 (1.00%) WLAN
5 1 (0.50%) 5G
5 1 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.50%) LTE
5 1 (0.50%) Network Security
5 1 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.97%) Metadata
2 9 (4.48%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.99%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (1.99%) Power BI
4 2 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.00%) Big Data
4 2 (1.00%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.00%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (1.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.50%) Looker
5 1 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (9.45%) JIRA
2 9 (4.48%) Oracle APEX
3 5 (2.49%) Git
4 4 (1.99%) JUnit
5 2 (1.00%) Gradle
5 2 (1.00%) JMeter
5 2 (1.00%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.00%) Selenium
5 2 (1.00%) Subversion
6 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.50%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 88 (43.78%) Social Skills
2 57 (28.36%) Public Sector
3 45 (22.39%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (17.91%) Finance
5 16 (7.96%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (5.47%) Banking
7 10 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.48%) Legal
9 6 (2.99%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.49%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (1.99%) Back Office
11 4 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.99%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.49%) Billing
12 3 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.00%) Marketing
14 1 (0.50%) Automotive
14 1 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 33 (16.42%) Developer
2 25 (12.44%) Software Developer
3 19 (9.45%) Analyst
4 18 (8.96%) Senior
5 15 (7.46%) Project Manager
6 14 (6.97%) Architect
7 13 (6.47%) Coordinator
8 12 (5.97%) Exchange Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) Lead
10 8 (3.98%) Administrator
10 8 (3.98%) IT Support
11 7 (3.48%) Consultant
11 7 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.99%) Data Analyst
12 6 (2.99%) IT Manager
12 6 (2.99%) Support Officer
13 5 (2.49%) Business Analyst
13 5 (2.49%) Category Manager
14 4 (1.99%) 1st Line Support
14 4 (1.99%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.47%) HTML
2 4 (1.99%) Spring
3 3 (1.49%) .NET
3 3 (1.49%) Kafka
3 3 (1.49%) REST
4 2 (1.00%) Android Jetpack
4 2 (1.00%) CSS
4 2 (1.00%) Dagger
4 2 (1.00%) Flash
4 2 (1.00%) Jetpack Compose
4 2 (1.00%) JSON
4 2 (1.00%) Retrofit
4 2 (1.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.00%) Web Services
4 2 (1.00%) XML
5 1 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.50%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.50%) SAML
5 1 (0.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.96%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.98%) PKI
3 7 (3.48%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (2.99%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.49%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.99%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.49%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.49%) FMCG
7 3 (1.49%) Freedom of Information
7 3 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.00%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (1.00%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.00%) Equities
8 2 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.00%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.95%) Windows
2 9 (4.48%) Linux
3 7 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.99%) Unix
5 3 (1.49%) Android
5 3 (1.49%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.00%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.50%) Solaris
7 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (29.35%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (22.39%) Agile
3 40 (19.90%) Computer Science
4 35 (17.41%) Project Management
5 25 (12.44%) Artificial Intelligence
6 24 (11.94%) Code Quality
7 23 (11.44%) Conversational UI
8 21 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (8.46%) Project Delivery
10 16 (7.96%) Decision-Making
11 15 (7.46%) Data Protection
11 15 (7.46%) Migration
11 15 (7.46%) Roadmaps
12 14 (6.97%) Analytics
12 14 (6.97%) Software Engineering
13 13 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (6.47%) ITIL
14 12 (5.97%) Capacity Management
14 12 (5.97%) Mentoring
14 12 (5.97%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (15.42%) SQL
2 16 (7.96%) Python
3 14 (6.97%) JavaScript
3 14 (6.97%) PowerShell
4 13 (6.47%) C#
5 10 (4.98%) PL/SQL
6 5 (2.49%) Java
6 5 (2.49%) Perl
7 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.50%) PHP
8 1 (0.50%) R
8 1 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 35 (17.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 19 (9.45%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.97%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.49%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.49%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.99%) MCSE
6 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.49%) ISEB
8 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.00%) HNC
8 2 (1.00%) HND
8 2 (1.00%) ISEB Practitioner
8 2 (1.00%) MCP
8 2 (1.00%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.00%) PMP
8 2 (1.00%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.50%) CISSP
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.96%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (3.48%) PMO
2 7 (3.48%) QA
3 6 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.49%) SLA
5 4 (1.99%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.49%) COBIT
6 3 (1.49%) GDPR
7 2 (1.00%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.50%) GRC
8 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.50%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.50%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.50%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.50%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (9.45%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.49%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.49%) VMware NSX
3 5 (2.49%) vSphere
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (4.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 5 (2.49%) SCCM
3 3 (1.49%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.00%) Ansible
4 2 (1.00%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (1.00%) VxRail
5 1 (0.50%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.50%) Nagios
5 1 (0.50%) OpenView
5 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.94%) Oracle
3 23 (11.44%) PayPal
4 10 (4.98%) Atlassian
5 9 (4.48%) VMware
6 8 (3.98%) SAP
7 7 (3.48%) Cisco
8 4 (1.99%) Adobe
8 4 (1.99%) Dell
8 4 (1.99%) Nintex
8 4 (1.99%) Workday
9 3 (1.49%) Apple
9 3 (1.49%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.00%) Avaya
10 2 (1.00%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (1.00%) Google
10 2 (1.00%) IBM
11 1 (0.50%) Okta
11 1 (0.50%) OneTrust
11 1 (0.50%) Zscaler