Software Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Software Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £357 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 132 134
Rank change year-on-year +25 +2 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 24 33 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.09% 1.15% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.21% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 21
10th Percentile - £413 -
25th Percentile £256 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £357 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £406 £494 £575
90th Percentile £427 £572 £638
UK median daily rate £625 £590 £575
% change year-on-year +5.93% +2.61% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 2
10th Percentile £52.50 £52.25 £40.79
25th Percentile £57.50 £53.75 £41.98
Median hourly rate £60.25 £57.50 £45.56
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% +26.21% -
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.13 £50.73
90th Percentile £62.95 £65.75 £52.88
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.25 £56.50
% change year-on-year +2.04% +8.41% +25.56%

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 2,090 2,720 3,376
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 95.14% 95.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,951 2,390
10th Percentile £204 £238 £213
25th Percentile £364 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £553 £550
90th Percentile £675 £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 53
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.86 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.91 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.82
Median % change year-on-year +43.44% -10.21% -35.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.41 £48.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £54.20
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Scotland

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in Scotland

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in Scotland

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in Scotland

Software 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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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 +34 9 - - 40
Glasgow -7 9 £400 -11.11% 19
Aberdeen - 4 £350 - 5
Aberdeenshire - 1 £313 -
Software Engineer
UK

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Software 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (95.83%) Software Engineering
2 10 (41.67%) Linux
3 9 (37.50%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 7 (29.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
5 6 (25.00%) Azure
5 6 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 6 (25.00%) TypeScript
6 5 (20.83%) React
6 5 (20.83%) Aviation
6 5 (20.83%) C#
6 5 (20.83%) C++
7 4 (16.67%) C
7 4 (16.67%) Intel
7 4 (16.67%) Firmware
7 4 (16.67%) Internet
7 4 (16.67%) Embedded C
7 4 (16.67%) VxWorks
7 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 4 (16.67%) Electronics
7 4 (16.67%) Device Driver
7 4 (16.67%) VHDL
7 4 (16.67%) Verilog
7 4 (16.67%) Requirements Management
7 4 (16.67%) Atlassian
7 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
7 4 (16.67%) Device Driver Development

Software 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 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) CircleCI
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (29.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (20.83%) Aviation
3 4 (16.67%) Electronics
4 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 5 (20.83%) React
3 3 (12.50%) Spring
4 2 (8.33%) OpenCV
5 1 (4.17%) CSS
5 1 (4.17%) Guice
5 1 (4.17%) HTML
5 1 (4.17%) JPA
5 1 (4.17%) REST
5 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Device Driver
1 4 (16.67%) IoT
1 4 (16.67%) PCIe
1 4 (16.67%) Verilog
1 4 (16.67%) VHDL
2 2 (8.33%) CUDA
2 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Linux
2 7 (29.17%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (16.67%) VxWorks
4 2 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (95.83%) Software Engineering
2 9 (37.50%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 6 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
5 4 (16.67%) Code Optimisation
5 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
5 4 (16.67%) Device Driver Development
5 4 (16.67%) Memory Management
5 4 (16.67%) Requirements Management
6 3 (12.50%) Scrum
7 2 (8.33%) Computer Science
7 2 (8.33%) Data Modelling
7 2 (8.33%) Data Protection
7 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.33%) SDLC
8 1 (4.17%) Thought Leadership
8 1 (4.17%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (20.83%) C#
2 5 (20.83%) C++
3 4 (16.67%) C
3 4 (16.67%) Embedded C
4 3 (12.50%) Ada
4 3 (12.50%) Embedded C++
4 3 (12.50%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) Perl
4 3 (12.50%) Python
4 3 (12.50%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) Rust
5 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) MISRA
1 4 (16.67%) MISRA C
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Firmware
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 4 (16.67%) Intel
2 2 (8.33%) NVIDIA
3 1 (4.17%) Greenplum
3 1 (4.17%) VMware