Customer Requirements Contracts in Scotland

Customer Requirements
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Customer Requirements skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Customer Requirements over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 110 126
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 +29
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 13 19 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.80% 0.86% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.97% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 9
10th Percentile £472 £110 £163
25th Percentile £488 £201 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £317 £525
Median % change year-on-year +65.62% -39.62% +303.85%
75th Percentile £567 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £722 £631
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 11
Median hourly rate - £16.36 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year - +53.86% -77.62%
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £10.63
% change year-on-year +11.11% +323.33% -77.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Customer Requirements 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 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Requirements in Scotland

Customer Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Requirements in Scotland

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Requirements in Scotland

Customer Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Requirements in Scotland

Customer Requirements
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 Customer Requirements within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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 +1 6 £572 +8.95% 16
Lanarkshire - 6 £525 - 2
Argyll and Bute - 1 - -
Customer Requirements
UK

Customer Requirements
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 (7.69%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 8 (61.54%) Amazon S3
3 6 (46.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (46.15%) Amazon Cognito
3 6 (46.15%) AWS CloudTrail
3 6 (46.15%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (46.15%) GitHub
3 6 (46.15%) Serverless
4 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) OpenShift
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (15.38%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) SAN
2 2 (15.38%) NAS
3 1 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (7.69%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Amazon Athena
1 6 (46.15%) DynamoDB
1 6 (46.15%) Parquet
2 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (84.62%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Cloud Developer
3 5 (38.46%) Senior
3 5 (38.46%) Senior Developer
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Developer
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Backup Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Operations Manager
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) JSON
2 6 (46.15%) AWS CDK
3 3 (23.08%) REST
3 3 (23.08%) SOAP
3 3 (23.08%) Web Services
3 3 (23.08%) XML
4 1 (7.69%) Flash
4 1 (7.69%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
1 3 (23.08%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Client/Server
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Unix
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.69%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Capacity Management
3 3 (23.08%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (23.08%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
3 3 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (23.08%) Impact Assessments
3 3 (23.08%) IT Asset Management
3 3 (23.08%) ITSM
3 3 (23.08%) Release Management
3 3 (23.08%) Security Operations
3 3 (23.08%) Service Management
3 3 (23.08%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
4 2 (15.38%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) GPFS
2 1 (7.69%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) NetBackup
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (7.69%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
1 3 (23.08%) Veritas
2 1 (7.69%) Brocade
2 1 (7.69%) EMC
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) NetApp
2 1 (7.69%) Sybase