Software Engineer Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Scotland region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 91 90 81
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 29 18 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.188% 0.682% 1.244%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.280% 0.728% 1.323%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 3
Average daily rate £500 £316 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+58.45% +26.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £308 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.69% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 8
Average hourly rate £27.50 £31.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.69% -3.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.35 £18.50 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.50 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2266 2473 2646
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.83% 93.71% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1095 1199 1298
Average daily rate £350 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 112 100
Average hourly rate £14.50 £22.50 £15.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.55% +45.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.60 £34.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Engineer
UK

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Software Engineer across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Scotland Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Engineer across the Scotland region.

Scotland Software Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Scotland Software Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Engineer across the Scotland region.

Scotland Software Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Software Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow -17 9 £500 +108.33%
Fife +1 5 - -
Edinburgh +2 4 £350 +10.91%
Aberdeenshire - 4 £500 -
Dundee +6 1 - -
Renfrewshire - 1 - -
Software Engineer
UK

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Software Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Software Engineer in their job title.

1 14 (34.15%) C#
2 13 (31.71%) .NET
3 12 (29.27%) Java
4 11 (26.83%) SQL
4 11 (26.83%) WPF
4 11 (26.83%) Multithreading
5 10 (24.39%) Web Services
5 10 (24.39%) Linux
6 8 (19.51%) TIBCO
6 8 (19.51%) TIBCO EMS
6 8 (19.51%) WCF
7 6 (14.63%) SCADA
8 5 (12.20%) MS Excel
8 5 (12.20%) J2EE
8 5 (12.20%) C++
9 4 (9.756%) Perl
9 4 (9.756%) Oracle
9 4 (9.756%) OO
9 4 (9.756%) TCP/IP
9 4 (9.756%) Siemens
9 4 (9.756%) Front Office
9 4 (9.756%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (9.756%) Wonderware
9 4 (9.756%) Software Engineering
9 4 (9.756%) Unit Testing
9 4 (9.756%) Scala
9 4 (9.756%) Git (software)
9 4 (9.756%) MongoDB
9 4 (9.756%) Allen-Bradley
10 3 (7.317%) JSF

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Software Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (31.71%) .NET
2 11 (26.83%) WPF
3 10 (24.39%) Web Services
4 8 (19.51%) WCF
5 5 (12.20%) J2EE
6 3 (7.317%) JSF
6 3 (7.317%) HTML
7 2 (4.878%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.878%) JSP
7 2 (4.878%) Flash
7 2 (4.878%) soapUI
7 2 (4.878%) Qt
8 1 (2.439%) Reactive Extensions
8 1 (2.439%) PowerMock
8 1 (2.439%) JAX-WS
8 1 (2.439%) jQuery
8 1 (2.439%) ASP.NET 2.0
8 1 (2.439%) JPA
8 1 (2.439%) Facelets
8 1 (2.439%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 8 (19.51%) TIBCO EMS
2 2 (4.878%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.439%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.756%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.439%) HTTP
2 1 (2.439%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.756%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.317%) RDBMS
3 2 (4.878%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (2.439%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.439%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.756%) Git (software)
2 3 (7.317%) Maven
2 3 (7.317%) Ant
2 3 (7.317%) JUnit
3 2 (4.878%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.878%) LabVIEW
3 2 (4.878%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.439%) Concordion
4 1 (2.439%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.439%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.439%) StyleCop
4 1 (2.439%) MbUnit
4 1 (2.439%) JIRA
4 1 (2.439%) CruiseControl
4 1 (2.439%) Subversion
4 1 (2.439%) Selenium
General
1 4 (9.756%) Front Office
2 2 (4.878%) Electronics
3 1 (2.439%) Banking
3 1 (2.439%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) SCADA
2 2 (4.878%) Mathematics
2 2 (4.878%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.439%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.439%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.439%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.439%) e-Health
3 1 (2.439%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 10 (24.39%) Linux
2 2 (4.878%) UNIX
2 2 (4.878%) Windows
2 2 (4.878%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.439%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.439%) Android
3 1 (2.439%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Multithreading
2 4 (9.756%) OO
2 4 (9.756%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (9.756%) Software Engineering
2 4 (9.756%) Unit Testing
3 2 (4.878%) UML
3 2 (4.878%) MVC
3 2 (4.878%) TDD
3 2 (4.878%) Scrum
4 1 (2.439%) Test Automation
4 1 (2.439%) Game Development
4 1 (2.439%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (2.439%) Web Application Development
4 1 (2.439%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (2.439%) Integration Testing
4 1 (2.439%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (2.439%) Extreme Programming
4 1 (2.439%) Project Management
4 1 (2.439%) Change Management
4 1 (2.439%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 14 (34.15%) C#
2 12 (29.27%) Java
3 11 (26.83%) SQL
4 5 (12.20%) C++
5 4 (9.756%) Perl
5 4 (9.756%) Scala
6 3 (7.317%) C
7 2 (4.878%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.878%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.878%) ActionScript
7 2 (4.878%) Ruby
8 1 (2.439%) ActionScript 3.0
8 1 (2.439%) Bash shell
8 1 (2.439%) AWK
8 1 (2.439%) Python
8 1 (2.439%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.439%) PHP
8 1 (2.439%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.439%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (2.439%) Degree
1 1 (2.439%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.439%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (2.439%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) TIBCO
2 4 (9.756%) Oracle
2 4 (9.756%) Siemens
2 4 (9.756%) Wonderware
2 4 (9.756%) Allen-Bradley
3 3 (7.317%) Sybase
4 2 (4.878%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.439%) NetScout
5 1 (2.439%) OPNET
5 1 (2.439%) IBM
5 1 (2.439%) SAP
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