Technical Debt Contracts in Scotland

Technical Debt
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Technical Debt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Debt over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 157 156
Rank change year-on-year +41 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 11 10 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.51% 0.36% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.38% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 19
10th Percentile £411 £416 £416
25th Percentile £440 £444 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.35% +12.36%
75th Percentile £469 £496 £544
90th Percentile £490 £503 £640
UK median daily rate £514 £644 £600
% change year-on-year -20.19% +7.29% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Technical Debt is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,924 2,605 3,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.58% 92.54% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,868 2,327
10th Percentile £225 £260 £249
25th Percentile £389 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £587 £560 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 55 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.32
25th Percentile £15.84 £11.78 £20.38
Median hourly rate £18.41 £17.21 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% -56.98% -
75th Percentile £40.94 £50.74 £49.15
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.94 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Technical Debt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in Scotland

Technical Debt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in Scotland

Technical Debt
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 Technical Debt 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 +44 6 £450 -7.98% 1
Glasgow +13 3 £425 -
Technical Debt
UK

Technical Debt
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 4 (36.36%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (18.18%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Cypress.io
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) Artifactory
3 2 (18.18%) GitLab
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Publishing
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Content Designer
3 2 (18.18%) Designer
3 2 (18.18%) Pega Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Content Designer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Designer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) REST
2 4 (36.36%) CSS
2 4 (36.36%) HTML
3 3 (27.27%) AWS CDK
3 3 (27.27%) React
3 3 (27.27%) Spring
3 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 3 (27.27%) Spring MVC
3 3 (27.27%) Spring Web Flow
3 3 (27.27%) Thymeleaf
4 2 (18.18%) JSON
4 2 (18.18%) JSP
4 2 (18.18%) OAuth
4 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
4 2 (18.18%) Spring Security
5 1 (9.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) Analytics
3 6 (54.55%) Community of Practice
3 6 (54.55%) Human-Centred Design
3 6 (54.55%) Inclusive Design
3 6 (54.55%) Pair Programming
3 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
4 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (45.45%) Requirements Analysis
5 4 (36.36%) Architecture Roadmap
5 4 (36.36%) Code Coverage
5 4 (36.36%) Code Quality
5 4 (36.36%) DevOps
5 4 (36.36%) Full Stack Development
5 4 (36.36%) Housing Management
5 4 (36.36%) Microservices
5 4 (36.36%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (36.36%) TDD
5 4 (36.36%) Unit Testing
5 4 (36.36%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
1 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 4 (36.36%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Grafana
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Pega
1 2 (18.18%) Splunk