Technology Strategy Contracts in Scotland

Technology Strategy
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Technology Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technology Strategy over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 150 147
Rank change year-on-year +47 -3 -9
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 28 14 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.27% 0.49% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.53% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 12 11
10th Percentile £500 £402 £300
25th Percentile £586 £439 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £603 £705
Median % change year-on-year +12.03% -14.54% +41.00%
75th Percentile £750 £681 £856
90th Percentile £843 £779 £875
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £650
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £58.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -48.07% -10.77% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Technology Strategy 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 1,956 2,645 3,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.68% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,903 2,321
10th Percentile £230 £261 £244
25th Percentile £400 £407 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 55 49
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £54.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Technology Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Technology Strategy in Scotland

Technology Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technology Strategy in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Technology Strategy in Scotland

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Strategy in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in Scotland

Technology Strategy
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 Technology Strategy within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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
Glasgow +7 8 £700 +50.05% 1
Edinburgh +46 7 £500 -35.48% 7
West Lothian +2 5 £585 -10.00%
Perthshire - 2 £688 -
Technology Strategy
UK

Technology Strategy
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 5 (17.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.71%) SaaS
4 1 (3.57%) AWS
4 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) 5G
2 3 (10.71%) LAN
2 3 (10.71%) WAN
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
1 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
1 5 (17.86%) JIRA
1 5 (17.86%) Postman
2 3 (10.71%) Cucumber
2 3 (10.71%) IntelliJ
2 3 (10.71%) JUnit
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (64.29%) Architect
2 7 (25.00%) Senior
2 7 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Functional Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Security Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Enterprise Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Technical Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.14%) IT Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Security Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.57%) React Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Apache Camel
1 3 (10.71%) J2EE
1 3 (10.71%) Kafka
1 3 (10.71%) Middleware
1 3 (10.71%) REST
1 3 (10.71%) Spring
1 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
2 2 (7.14%) CSS
2 2 (7.14%) GraphQL
2 2 (7.14%) HTML
2 2 (7.14%) Jest
2 2 (7.14%) Node.js
2 2 (7.14%) Playwright
2 2 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Operational Technology
2 3 (10.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) IT Strategy
2 20 (71.43%) Agile
3 14 (50.00%) TOGAF
4 13 (46.43%) Roadmaps
5 11 (39.29%) Waterfall
6 9 (32.14%) Project Delivery
7 6 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (17.86%) Analytics
8 5 (17.86%) CRM
9 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (14.29%) Customer Service
9 4 (14.29%) Cyber Resilience
9 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
9 4 (14.29%) ETL
9 4 (14.29%) Security Operations
9 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
10 3 (10.71%) Backlog Management
10 3 (10.71%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Java
1 3 (10.71%) SQL
2 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.14%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Kibana
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Databricks
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Google