Software Development Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Software Development Engineer
UK > Scotland

As of 4 May 2024, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Software Development Engineer daily rate in Scotland.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Development Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.046% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -13.64% +12.82% +14.71%

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 2,054 2,681 3,374
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 95.24% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,919 2,400
10th Percentile £200 £231 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £580 £556 £550
90th Percentile £654 £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 £12.32 £12.86 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.06 £15.93 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.27 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% -17.60% -28.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.82 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Software Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Software Development Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Software Development Engineer in Scotland

Software Development Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Development Engineer in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Software Development Engineer in Scotland

Software Development Engineer
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 Software Development Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 May 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 - 1 - -
Software Development Engineer
UK

Software Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Software Development Engineer 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 Software Development Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Process Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Guice
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems

Software Development Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Guice
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Process Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree