Developer Contracts in West Lothian

Developer
Scotland > West Lothian

The median Developer daily rate in West Lothian is £540 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 6 4
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 18 15 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Lothian 36.00% 27.27% 27.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 36.00% 28.85% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 8
10th Percentile £456 £484 £380
25th Percentile £513 £500 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £515 £446
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% +15.41% -7.03%
75th Percentile £580 £619 £500
90th Percentile £588 £660 £516
Scotland median daily rate £458 £479 £475
% change year-on-year -4.33% +0.84% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £38.38 £62.02 £54.50
% change year-on-year -38.12% +13.79% +36.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Lothian

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West Lothian. 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 West Lothian with a recognized job title 50 52 38
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 94.55% 95.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 31 29
10th Percentile £105 £125 £203
25th Percentile £353 £285 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +21.21% +10.00%
75th Percentile £560 £609 £480
90th Percentile £589 £650 £500
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £460
% change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £35.38 -
25th Percentile - £57.50 £17.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £65.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% +233.33% -
75th Percentile - £73.25 £21.75
90th Percentile - £80.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.82
% change year-on-year +43.44% -10.21% -35.46%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Lothian

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Lothian.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in West Lothian

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Lothian

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in West Lothian.

Daily rate trend for Developer in West Lothian

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Lothian

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in West Lothian.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in West Lothian

Developer
Contract Job Locations in West Lothian

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the West Lothian region over the 6 months to 24 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
Livingston +2 18 £540 -3.14% 2
Developer
Scotland

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Lothian

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Developer 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 West Lothian region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 15 (83.33%) Java
1 15 (83.33%) REST
2 14 (77.78%) Agile
3 13 (72.22%) Spring Boot
3 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
4 12 (66.67%) Kafka
4 12 (66.67%) Spring
4 12 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (61.11%) Git
5 11 (61.11%) Confluence
5 11 (61.11%) Cucumber
5 11 (61.11%) JIRA
5 11 (61.11%) SQL
5 11 (61.11%) JUnit
5 11 (61.11%) Jenkins
5 11 (61.11%) Apache Camel
5 11 (61.11%) Docker
5 11 (61.11%) Postman
6 9 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 9 (50.00%) J2EE
6 9 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (44.44%) Oracle
8 6 (33.33%) Coaching
8 6 (33.33%) React
8 6 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
8 6 (33.33%) Component Testing
8 6 (33.33%) TDD
9 5 (27.78%) Data Protection
9 5 (27.78%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (27.78%) IntelliJ

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Lothian 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 11 (61.11%) Confluence
2 2 (11.11%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Cucumber
1 11 (61.11%) Git
1 11 (61.11%) Jenkins
1 11 (61.11%) JIRA
1 11 (61.11%) JUnit
1 11 (61.11%) Postman
2 5 (27.78%) IntelliJ
3 3 (16.67%) Maven
4 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
General
1 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (83.33%) REST
2 13 (72.22%) Spring Boot
3 12 (66.67%) Kafka
3 12 (66.67%) Spring
4 11 (61.11%) Apache Camel
5 9 (50.00%) J2EE
6 6 (33.33%) React
7 3 (16.67%) GraphQL
7 3 (16.67%) Spring Batch
7 3 (16.67%) Web Services
8 2 (11.11%) CSS
8 2 (11.11%) HTML
8 2 (11.11%) Jest
8 2 (11.11%) Node.js
8 2 (11.11%) Playwright
9 1 (5.56%) Next.js
9 1 (5.56%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Agile
2 12 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 6 (33.33%) Coaching
4 6 (33.33%) Component Testing
4 6 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
4 6 (33.33%) TDD
5 5 (27.78%) Data Protection
6 4 (22.22%) CRM
6 4 (22.22%) IT Strategy
6 4 (22.22%) Technology Strategy
7 3 (16.67%) MVC
7 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (16.67%) Scrum
8 2 (11.11%) Front End Development
8 2 (11.11%) Value Proposition
9 1 (5.56%) BDD
9 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
9 1 (5.56%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) Java
2 11 (61.11%) SQL
3 5 (27.78%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kibana
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle