SDLC Contracts in Scotland

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 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 66 69 69
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -11
Contract jobs citing SDLC 67 109 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.04% 3.82% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 4.12% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 50 70
10th Percentile £400 £409 £406
25th Percentile £413 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £499
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £616 £625 £579
90th Percentile £675 £714 £675
UK median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £60.22 £50.06
25th Percentile - £62.02 £53.25
Median hourly rate £21.64 £65.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.71% +19.27% +21.11%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile - £69.00 -
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -23.20% +13.64% +2.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,645 3,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.68% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,903 2,321
10th Percentile £230 £261 £244
25th Percentile £400 £407 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 55 49
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £54.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
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 SDLC 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
Glasgow -6 49 £500 -6.98% 20
Edinburgh +25 13 £558 +7.21% 17
Fife 0 1 - - 1
SDLC
UK

SDLC
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 7 (10.45%) SAS
2 6 (8.96%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (8.96%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.99%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 37 (55.22%) AWS
2 15 (22.39%) Azure
3 7 (10.45%) GCP
4 4 (5.97%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (4.48%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (4.48%) OCI
6 2 (2.99%) IaaS
6 2 (2.99%) npm
7 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.49%) GitHub
7 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.45%) Fibre Channel
1 7 (10.45%) iSCSI
2 5 (7.46%) ATM
3 4 (5.97%) SAN
4 2 (2.99%) DNS
4 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.49%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.96%) DB2
1 6 (8.96%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.99%) Big Data
2 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.49%) Power BI
3 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) JIRA
2 2 (2.99%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.99%) Git
2 2 (2.99%) JUnit
2 2 (2.99%) Subversion
3 1 (1.49%) GitLab
General
1 21 (31.34%) Finance
2 14 (20.90%) Banking
3 13 (19.40%) Public Sector
3 13 (19.40%) Social Skills
4 11 (16.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (7.46%) Investment Banking
7 4 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (37.31%) Developer
2 18 (26.87%) Java Developer
3 8 (11.94%) Full Stack Engineer
3 8 (11.94%) Lead
4 7 (10.45%) Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Java Engineer
5 6 (8.96%) Backend Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Python Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Architect
6 5 (7.46%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Business Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (7.46%) Storage Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Senior
8 3 (4.48%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (34.33%) Spring
2 18 (26.87%) Spring Boot
3 13 (19.40%) AngularJS
3 13 (19.40%) REST
4 11 (16.42%) CSS
4 11 (16.42%) HTML
4 11 (16.42%) JPA
5 10 (14.93%) RESTful
6 9 (13.43%) Kafka
7 7 (10.45%) Flash
7 7 (10.45%) POSIX
8 6 (8.96%) Middleware
8 6 (8.96%) PySpark
9 5 (7.46%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (7.46%) OpenTracing
10 2 (2.99%) JSON
10 2 (2.99%) React
10 2 (2.99%) XML
11 1 (1.49%) EJB
11 1 (1.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Public Cloud
2 8 (11.94%) Data Structures
2 8 (11.94%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.46%) NVMe
3 5 (7.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (5.97%) Client/Server
5 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.48%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.48%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.99%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.93%) Linux
2 8 (11.94%) Windows
3 7 (10.45%) Unix
4 6 (8.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (8.96%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.97%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (68.66%) Agile
2 28 (41.79%) Microservices
3 25 (37.31%) Software Engineering
4 19 (28.36%) CI/CD
5 18 (26.87%) Operational Stability
6 14 (20.90%) Decision-Making
7 13 (19.40%) Full Stack Development
8 12 (17.91%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (17.91%) Machine Learning
9 11 (16.42%) Test Automation
10 9 (13.43%) End-to-End Testing
11 7 (10.45%) Business Case
11 7 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (8.96%) Community of Practice
12 6 (8.96%) High Availability
12 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure Automation
12 6 (8.96%) User Acceptance Testing
13 5 (7.46%) Business Analysis
13 5 (7.46%) Computer Science
13 5 (7.46%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (50.75%) Java
2 21 (31.34%) SQL
3 16 (23.88%) Python
4 11 (16.42%) Scala
4 11 (16.42%) TypeScript
5 9 (13.43%) Kotlin
6 7 (10.45%) Perl
7 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (5.97%) Degree
2 3 (4.48%) Azure Certification
2 3 (4.48%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.48%) QA
3 2 (2.99%) NCSC
4 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.49%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (14.93%) Docker
2 7 (10.45%) NFS
3 4 (5.97%) GPFS
4 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (16.42%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.46%) Prometheus
2 5 (7.46%) Zipkin
3 4 (5.97%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (1.49%) Ansible
4 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.49%) Puppet
4 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (10.45%) Microsoft
1 7 (10.45%) Oracle
2 6 (8.96%) IBM
2 6 (8.96%) Sybase
3 4 (5.97%) Brocade
3 4 (5.97%) EMC
3 4 (5.97%) Google
3 4 (5.97%) NetApp
3 4 (5.97%) Veritas
4 2 (2.99%) VMware