Data Structures Contracts in Scotland

Data Structures
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Structures 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 110 140 150
Rank change year-on-year +30 +10 -12
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 18 23 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.81% 0.80% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.47% 2.22% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 18
10th Percentile £324 £413 £406
25th Percentile £350 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 £481
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +24.87% +6.78%
75th Percentile - £644 £541
90th Percentile £528 £700 £581
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +13.64%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Data Structures 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%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in Scotland

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in Scotland

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in Scotland

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in Scotland

Data Structures
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 Data Structures 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 -3 13 £390 -33.62% 4
Edinburgh +44 5 £475 -15.56% 10
Data Structures
UK

Data Structures
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 7 (38.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (22.22%) Metadata
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle Database
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle Database 12c
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle8/8i Database
3 2 (11.11%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) ER Studio
2 2 (11.11%) ERwin
2 2 (11.11%) Git
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Developer
2 9 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Backend Developer
4 4 (22.22%) DBA
4 4 (22.22%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Administrator
6 1 (5.56%) Business Data Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) COBOL Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Development Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) RESTful
2 8 (44.44%) Spring
3 7 (38.89%) Kafka
4 6 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (33.33%) OpenTracing
4 6 (33.33%) Spring Boot
5 4 (22.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (5.56%) Guice
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Code
3 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
1 6 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Agile
1 9 (50.00%) Microservices
1 9 (50.00%) SDLC
2 8 (44.44%) End-to-End Testing
2 8 (44.44%) Migration
3 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
4 6 (33.33%) Data Transformation
4 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 5 (27.78%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (27.78%) Dependency Injection
5 5 (27.78%) Scrum
6 4 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (22.22%) Data Migration
6 4 (22.22%) Database Security
6 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (22.22%) Security Management
7 3 (16.67%) Release Management
7 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Java
2 9 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 9 (50.00%) Scala
3 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 2 (11.11%) Perl
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) COBOL
5 1 (5.56%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 6 (33.33%) Zipkin
3 4 (22.22%) Data Guard
3 4 (22.22%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) IDERA
2 2 (11.11%) Informatica