Software Developer Contracts in Lanarkshire

Software Developer
Scotland > Lanarkshire

The median Software Developer daily rate in Lanarkshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 8 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lanarkshire 7.69% 5.00% 3.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.33% 5.00% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £413 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -29.17% -
75th Percentile £538 £438 £625
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £472 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +2.05% -2.63% +3.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Lanarkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Lanarkshire. 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 Lanarkshire with a recognized job title 12 20 27
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 100.00% 96.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 20
10th Percentile £326 £340 £158
25th Percentile £488 £400 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £443 £469
Median % change year-on-year +18.64% -5.60% +17.19%
75th Percentile £563 £498 £509
90th Percentile - £586 £569
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Lanarkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in Lanarkshire

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lanarkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in Lanarkshire.

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in Lanarkshire

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lanarkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Software 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 Lanarkshire region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK

Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lanarkshire 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes