Algorithms Contracts in Scotland

Algorithms
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Algorithms over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 121 174
Rank change year-on-year +3 +53 -21
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 10 42 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.45% 1.47% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.37% 4.05% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 27 2
10th Percentile - £588 £487
25th Percentile £400 - £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £750 £512
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +46.63% +20.35%
75th Percentile £480 - £527
90th Percentile £578 - £536
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £660
% change year-on-year -8.00% -5.30% +20.00%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Algorithms is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 730 1,037 1,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 32.88% 36.23% 33.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 712 814
10th Percentile £202 £250 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £560 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £634
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 23 23
10th Percentile £13.75 - £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £18.90
Median hourly rate £18.14 £12.30 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% -71.40% -4.44%
75th Percentile £38.25 £28.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.38 £52.55 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.42% -18.24% +3.19%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in Scotland

Algorithms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in Scotland

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in Scotland

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in Scotland

Algorithms
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 Algorithms within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 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 -28 7 £413 -45.00% 6
Edinburgh +43 3 £519 - 14
Algorithms
UK

Algorithms
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 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (10.00%) Flink
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Java Scala Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Linux Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Linux Scripter
3 4 (40.00%) Scala Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Development Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SEO Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Guice
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
1 6 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) OO
2 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) OOD
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
6 1 (10.00%) Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
6 1 (10.00%) Investment Management
6 1 (10.00%) Link Building
6 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
6 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
6 1 (10.00%) Wealth Management
6 1 (10.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) Scala
3 2 (20.00%) Perl
3 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft