Collaborative Working Contracts in Scotland

Collaborative Working
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Collaborative Working skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Collaborative Working over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 72 107
Rank change year-on-year +17 +35 -46
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 64 51 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.92% 2.39% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.18% 2.71% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 33 44
10th Percentile £278 £293 £371
25th Percentile £313 £350 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £475 £444
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +7.04% -1.39%
75th Percentile £475 £588 £538
90th Percentile £524 £663 £588
UK median daily rate £490 £498 £525
% change year-on-year -1.51% -5.24% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.23 - -
Median hourly rate £45.02 - £35.00
75th Percentile £45.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £26.12 £50.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -47.76% -1.96% +156.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Collaborative Working falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,531 1,881 2,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.81% 88.02% 92.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 878 1,158 1,773
10th Percentile £263 £219 £260
25th Percentile £375 £369 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +1.06%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 92 55
10th Percentile £15.90 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.07 £15.92 £11.25
Median hourly rate £19.83 £19.50 £15.99
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +21.95% -57.28%
75th Percentile £24.66 £42.71 £50.74
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £67.13
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in Scotland

Collaborative Working
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Working in Scotland

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in Scotland

Collaborative Working
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Working in Scotland

Collaborative Working
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 Collaborative Working within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 May 2025. 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 -2 29 £375 -21.05% 32
Edinburgh +16 21 £428 -25.65% 31
Aberdeen - 3 £375 - 7
Dundee - 1 - - 3
Collaborative Working
UK

Collaborative Working
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 12 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.13%) CMS
3 1 (1.56%) Apache
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) Confluence
3 1 (1.56%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (14.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.88%) AWS
2 10 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (10.94%) Amazon S3
3 7 (10.94%) Yammer
4 6 (9.38%) IaaS
5 5 (7.81%) Azure
6 4 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.13%) GitHub
7 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.13%) Serverless
7 2 (3.13%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.56%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.56%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) Oracle Database
2 5 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.56%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.56%) DB2
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.56%) GIS
5 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.56%) Power BI
5 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.38%) Git
3 2 (3.13%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.13%) GitLab
3 2 (3.13%) JIRA
3 2 (3.13%) Newman
4 1 (1.56%) Selenium
4 1 (1.56%) Zephyr
General
1 34 (53.13%) Social Skills
2 20 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 16 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (17.19%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (9.38%) Finance
6 4 (6.25%) Banking
6 4 (6.25%) Publishing
7 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
7 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (20.31%) Analyst
2 8 (12.50%) Developer
3 7 (10.94%) Change Analyst
3 7 (10.94%) Senior
4 6 (9.38%) Business Analyst
4 6 (9.38%) Linux Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Python Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) VMware Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.25%) Service Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Business Change Analyst
6 3 (4.69%) DBA
6 3 (4.69%) IT Manager
6 3 (4.69%) IT Services Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (4.69%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Release Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (4.69%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) HTML
1 4 (6.25%) Node.js
1 4 (6.25%) Spring
1 4 (6.25%) Spring Boot
2 2 (3.13%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
2 2 (3.13%) Express.js
2 2 (3.13%) hapi
2 2 (3.13%) Jest
2 2 (3.13%) Nunjucks
2 2 (3.13%) Prisma
2 2 (3.13%) React
2 2 (3.13%) REST
2 2 (3.13%) Sass
3 1 (1.56%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.56%) CSS
3 1 (1.56%) CSS3
3 1 (1.56%) HTML5
3 1 (1.56%) Kafka
3 1 (1.56%) PostGIS
3 1 (1.56%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Management Information System
2 6 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (9.38%) Virtual Team
3 4 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.69%) Oracle Licensing
4 3 (4.69%) Replication
5 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.13%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.56%) Clustering
6 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.56%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.56%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.56%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Linux
1 7 (10.94%) Unix
2 4 (6.25%) Windows
3 1 (1.56%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (37.50%) Agile
2 22 (34.38%) Project Management
3 16 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (14.06%) Change Management
5 9 (14.06%) Scrum
6 8 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 8 (12.50%) Waterfall
7 7 (10.94%) High Availability
7 7 (10.94%) Infographics
8 6 (9.38%) Data Protection
8 6 (9.38%) Mentoring
8 6 (9.38%) Migration
8 6 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (9.38%) SDLC
9 5 (7.81%) Data Modelling
9 5 (7.81%) ITIL
9 5 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (6.25%) Service Delivery
10 4 (6.25%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.31%) SQL
2 11 (17.19%) Python
3 6 (9.38%) Erlang
3 6 (9.38%) Java
3 6 (9.38%) Perl
3 6 (9.38%) Prolog
4 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.13%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (14.06%) Degree
2 4 (6.25%) PMP
3 3 (4.69%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.69%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.56%) CBAP
5 1 (1.56%) HNC
5 1 (1.56%) IIBA
5 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.56%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (10.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.69%) Docker
2 3 (4.69%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (3.13%) Grafana
2 2 (3.13%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.94%) VMware
3 6 (9.38%) Oracle
4 2 (3.13%) IBM
5 1 (1.56%) Databricks
5 1 (1.56%) Dell
5 1 (1.56%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) Greenplum
5 1 (1.56%) Informatica
5 1 (1.56%) Pega
5 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.56%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.56%) Workday