Developer Contracts in Livingston

Developer
West Lothian > Livingston

The median Developer daily rate in Livingston is £540 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 12 6
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 18 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Livingston 36.73% 14.29% 22.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 36.73% 15.22% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 5
10th Percentile £456 £602 £411
25th Percentile £513 £605 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £631 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% +26.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £580 £663 -
90th Percentile £588 £685 £532
West Lothian median daily rate £540 £613 £469
% change year-on-year -11.84% +30.67% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
West Lothian median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Livingston

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Livingston. 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 Livingston with a recognized job title 49 46 34
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 93.88% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 29 24
10th Percentile £98 £120 £190
25th Percentile £327 £130 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £444
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +12.68% +26.79%
75th Percentile £560 £619 £491
90th Percentile £589 £650 £500
West Lothian median daily rate £475 £500 £413
% change year-on-year -5.00% +21.21% +17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £31.45 -
25th Percentile - £55.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £65.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% +233.33% +38.99%
75th Percentile - £76.00 £21.75
90th Percentile - £81.40 -
West Lothian median hourly rate £48.00 £65.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% +233.33% +38.99%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Livingston

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Livingston

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Livingston

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Livingston

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Livingston

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Livingston

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 Livingston 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 Livingston 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
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