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

The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills 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 Engineering over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 108 102 85
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -17
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 12 3 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.492% 0.113% 1.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.722% 0.175% 1.545%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
Average daily rate £450 - £195
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £335 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.98% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £28.50 £22.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.66% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.50 £33.63
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +8.55%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1663 1712 1877
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.18% 64.63% 66.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 879 976
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £225 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 64 50
Average hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% -20.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.40 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Software Engineering across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Scotland Software Engineering Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Software Engineering Daily Rate Trend

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland Software Engineering Daily Rate Histogram

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Software Engineering Hourly Rate Trend

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland Software Engineering Hourly Rate Histogram

Software Engineering
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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 -14 7 £463 -
Fife - 3 - -
Edinburgh +10 2 £225 -
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Software Engineering also 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 that cited Software Engineering.

1 21 (47.73%) Degree
2 19 (43.18%) .NET
3 18 (40.91%) SQL Server
3 18 (40.91%) CSS
4 15 (34.09%) Java
5 13 (29.55%) C#
5 13 (29.55%) Oracle
6 11 (25.00%) PRINCE2
7 9 (20.45%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (20.45%) Finance
7 9 (20.45%) Hibernate
7 9 (20.45%) SQL
8 8 (18.18%) JavaScript
8 8 (18.18%) DB2
8 8 (18.18%) TDD
8 8 (18.18%) Computer Science
8 8 (18.18%) Spring
9 7 (15.91%) Scrum
9 7 (15.91%) HTML
9 7 (15.91%) UNIX
9 7 (15.91%) JPA
9 7 (15.91%) RESTful
10 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
10 6 (13.64%) Extreme Programming
10 6 (13.64%) Workflow
10 6 (13.64%) Business Analysis
11 5 (11.36%) Selenium
11 5 (11.36%) Maven
11 5 (11.36%) Retail
11 5 (11.36%) VMware

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Software Engineering also 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 that cited Software Engineering. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (43.18%) .NET
2 18 (40.91%) CSS
3 9 (20.45%) Hibernate
4 8 (18.18%) Spring
5 7 (15.91%) JPA
5 7 (15.91%) HTML
5 7 (15.91%) RESTful
6 5 (11.36%) J2EE
6 5 (11.36%) Web Services
6 5 (11.36%) Middleware
7 4 (9.091%) JSF
7 4 (9.091%) JavaBeans
8 3 (6.818%) J2ME
8 3 (6.818%) J2SE
8 3 (6.818%) JMS
8 3 (6.818%) XML
8 3 (6.818%) Facelets
9 2 (4.545%) RichFaces
9 2 (4.545%) JSON
10 1 (2.273%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 5 (11.36%) MQSeries
2 3 (6.818%) GlassFish
3 2 (4.545%) Apache
4 1 (2.273%) IIS
4 1 (2.273%) MS Exchange
4 1 (2.273%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (2.273%) Apache Solr
4 1 (2.273%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 1 (2.273%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.273%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.818%) SSL
1 3 (6.818%) IPsec
2 2 (4.545%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.273%) SAN
3 1 (2.273%) Intranet
3 1 (2.273%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.91%) SQL Server
2 8 (18.18%) DB2
3 4 (9.091%) RDBMS
3 4 (9.091%) MySQL
4 3 (6.818%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.818%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (2.273%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (2.273%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (2.273%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.273%) DataStage
5 1 (2.273%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Maven
1 5 (11.36%) Selenium
2 4 (9.091%) Hudson
2 4 (9.091%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.091%) CruiseControl
2 4 (9.091%) JUnit
3 3 (6.818%) Subversion
3 3 (6.818%) JIRA
3 3 (6.818%) WATIR
3 3 (6.818%) RSpec
3 3 (6.818%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.545%) Eclipse RCP
4 2 (4.545%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.273%) Ant
5 1 (2.273%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.273%) Spring Roo
General
1 9 (20.45%) Finance
2 5 (11.36%) Retail
3 3 (6.818%) Front Office
4 1 (2.273%) Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (63.64%) Developer
2 12 (27.27%) C# Developer
3 11 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 11 (25.00%) .NET Developer
4 10 (22.73%) Java Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Project Manager
6 4 (9.091%) Senior Developer
6 4 (9.091%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (6.818%) Analyst
7 3 (6.818%) Build Engineer
8 2 (4.545%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.545%) Consultant
8 2 (4.545%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.545%) Analyst Programmer
8 2 (4.545%) Programmer
8 2 (4.545%) Senior Programmer
8 2 (4.545%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.545%) Senior Analyst Programmer
9 1 (2.273%) Oracle Consultant
9 1 (2.273%) Tuning Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Computer Science
2 5 (11.36%) Credit Risk
3 4 (9.091%) Mathematics
4 1 (2.273%) Semantic Web
4 1 (2.273%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.273%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.273%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.273%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.91%) UNIX
2 3 (6.818%) Windows
2 3 (6.818%) Linux
2 3 (6.818%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 9 (20.45%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (18.18%) TDD
4 7 (15.91%) Scrum
5 6 (13.64%) Extreme Programming
5 6 (13.64%) Workflow
5 6 (13.64%) Business Analysis
6 4 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (9.091%) Dependency Injection
6 4 (9.091%) UML
6 4 (9.091%) OO
7 3 (6.818%) DSDM
7 3 (6.818%) SOA
7 3 (6.818%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (4.545%) Unit Testing
8 2 (4.545%) Analytics
9 1 (2.273%) BDD
9 1 (2.273%) Web Application Development
9 1 (2.273%) Web Analytics
9 1 (2.273%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.09%) Java
2 13 (29.55%) C#
3 9 (20.45%) SQL
4 8 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.091%) Ruby
6 3 (6.818%) VB.NET
6 3 (6.818%) PL/SQL
6 3 (6.818%) Scala
7 2 (4.545%) Perl
8 1 (2.273%) PHP
8 1 (2.273%) VB
8 1 (2.273%) C
8 1 (2.273%) XQuery
8 1 (2.273%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (47.73%) Degree
2 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.818%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.545%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.545%) MCSA
4 2 (4.545%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.273%) MCSE
5 1 (2.273%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (2.273%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.273%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.818%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (29.55%) Oracle
2 5 (11.36%) JBoss
2 5 (11.36%) IBM
2 5 (11.36%) VMware
3 3 (6.818%) CA
3 3 (6.818%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.818%) Sybase
4 2 (4.545%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.545%) DevExpress
5 1 (2.273%) Alterian
5 1 (2.273%) Google
5 1 (2.273%) Adobe
5 1 (2.273%) Cisco
Scala Developer
Glasgow, Scotland
The role would particularly suit candidates who have a foundation in Java with particular emphasis on Scala and DB2. You should also possess good business analytical skills, strong...
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited
Rate: market rates
Posted: 24 April 2013
Java Software Engineer
Fife
The role will involve working closely with the internal development team to deliver a client project and will require your skills in the following technologies: -Java, J2EE Programming (...
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited
Rate: £27 - £32 per hour
Posted: 17 May 2013
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