Senior Developer Contracts in Scotland

Senior Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Scotland is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 110 117
Rank change year-on-year +16 +7 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 34 60 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.52% 2.09% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 2.20% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 46 34
10th Percentile £378 £456 £382
25th Percentile £418 £528 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £613 £463
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% +32.43% +2.78%
75th Percentile £543 £697 £525
90th Percentile £580 £750 £654
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +12.10%

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 2,119 2,729 3,441
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 95.15% 96.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,300 1,963 2,447
10th Percentile £200 £250 £208
25th Percentile £378 £402 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £451
Median % change year-on-year - +5.44% +6.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £541
90th Percentile £663 £650 £615
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 43 56
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.83 £12.46
25th Percentile £16.31 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £23.86 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +46.69% -6.60% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.56 £61.78 £47.97
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.03
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Scotland

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Scotland

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Scotland

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in Scotland

Senior 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 Senior Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 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 +26 15 £456 -20.65% 8
Glasgow -7 12 £435 -41.22% 10
West Lothian +5 7 £558 -
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 19 (55.88%) Java
2 18 (52.94%) Spring
3 17 (50.00%) Agile
3 17 (50.00%) Spring Boot
4 16 (47.06%) React
5 15 (44.12%) SQL
6 12 (35.29%) REST
7 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
8 10 (29.41%) Public Sector
8 10 (29.41%) Microservices
8 10 (29.41%) Azure
8 10 (29.41%) AWS
8 10 (29.41%) .NET
9 9 (26.47%) Oracle
9 9 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (26.47%) RESTful
9 9 (26.47%) User Experience
9 9 (26.47%) Code Quality
10 8 (23.53%) Product Ownership
10 8 (23.53%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (23.53%) Knowledge Transfer
10 8 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (23.53%) DevOps
10 8 (23.53%) Kafka
10 8 (23.53%) Wiki
10 8 (23.53%) Git
11 7 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (20.59%) JUnit
12 6 (17.65%) J2EE
12 6 (17.65%) JIRA

Senior 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 6 (17.65%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) Apache
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) AWS
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.88%) Metadata
2 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Git
2 7 (20.59%) JUnit
3 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 6 (17.65%) JIRA
4 5 (14.71%) Cucumber
4 5 (14.71%) Postman
5 4 (11.76%) IntelliJ
5 4 (11.76%) Maven
6 3 (8.82%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (5.88%) Subversion
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 10 (29.41%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (52.94%) Spring
2 17 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 16 (47.06%) React
4 12 (35.29%) REST
5 10 (29.41%) .NET
6 9 (26.47%) RESTful
7 8 (23.53%) Kafka
8 6 (17.65%) Apache Camel
8 6 (17.65%) J2EE
9 3 (8.82%) Spring Batch
9 3 (8.82%) Web Services
10 2 (5.88%) ASP.NET
10 2 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (5.88%) CSS
10 2 (5.88%) HTML
10 2 (5.88%) JSON
10 2 (5.88%) XML
11 1 (2.94%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Legacy Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Product Ownership
1 8 (23.53%) Wiki
2 6 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.82%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Agile
2 10 (29.41%) Microservices
3 9 (26.47%) Code Quality
3 9 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (26.47%) User Experience
4 8 (23.53%) DevOps
4 8 (23.53%) Knowledge Transfer
5 7 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (17.65%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (11.76%) TDD
8 3 (8.82%) Clean Code
8 3 (8.82%) Data Protection
8 3 (8.82%) Full Stack Development
8 3 (8.82%) MVC
8 3 (8.82%) Scrum
8 3 (8.82%) Value Proposition
9 2 (5.88%) CI/CD
9 2 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
9 2 (5.88%) Human-Centred Design
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) Java
2 15 (44.12%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) PL/SQL
4 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.88%) C#
5 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Kibana
2 1 (2.94%) Grafana
2 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Oracle
2 2 (5.88%) IBM