Degree Contracts in Scotland

Academic Degree
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 18 34
Rank change year-on-year -4 +16 -14
Contract jobs citing Degree 130 203 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 8.05% 9.14% 6.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.75% 33.33% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 105 127
10th Percentile £205 £167 £138
25th Percentile £374 £325 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £488
90th Percentile £575 £626 £613
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 15 6
10th Percentile £16.62 £13.98 £14.03
25th Percentile £17.80 £16.50 £15.81
Median hourly rate £23.72 £19.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.64% +21.88% -70.64%
75th Percentile £28.38 £22.26 £16.94
90th Percentile £48.22 £25.67 £41.13
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +33.75% -11.11% +22.45%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Scotland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 319 609 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.76% 27.43% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 326 408
10th Percentile £201 £188 £163
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £675 £632
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 47 14
10th Percentile £17.01 £12.95 £13.65
25th Percentile £19.73 £16.50 £15.99
Median hourly rate £22.88 £40.94 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year -44.13% +90.73% -49.57%
75th Percentile £28.07 £60.00 £57.90
90th Percentile £61.16 £64.70 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Scotland

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Scotland

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Scotland

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Scotland

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Scotland

Degree
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 Degree within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Edinburgh -1 63 £444 -15.48% 145
Glasgow -9 47 £450 +3.45% 93
Fife 0 4 £115 -62.90% 7
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 - - 1
West Lothian +8 1 £188 -38.78% 8
Dundee 0 1 £200 -55.56% 13
Stirling 0 1 - - 13
Perthshire -1 1 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £188 -
Degree
UK

Degree
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 10 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.38%) Confluence
3 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.31%) SAS
5 2 (1.54%) JBoss
5 2 (1.54%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.77%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.77%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 15 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (8.46%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (7.69%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.77%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.77%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.77%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.77%) Simulink
5 1 (0.77%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.31%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.54%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (23.08%) Azure
2 28 (21.54%) AWS
3 21 (16.15%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (12.31%) Power Platform
5 13 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 10 (7.69%) Entra ID
7 9 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (6.92%) Serverless
8 6 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.85%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.31%) GCP
11 2 (1.54%) Asana
11 2 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.54%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.54%) SaaS
12 1 (0.77%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (0.77%) GitHub
12 1 (0.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.15%) Firewall
2 5 (3.85%) VPN
3 4 (3.08%) LAN
3 4 (3.08%) Network Security
4 3 (2.31%) WAN
5 2 (1.54%) BGP
5 2 (1.54%) DHCP
5 2 (1.54%) DNS
5 2 (1.54%) Internet
5 2 (1.54%) OSPF
5 2 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.54%) Wireless
5 2 (1.54%) WLAN
6 1 (0.77%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.77%) Intranet
6 1 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.77%) SSL
6 1 (0.77%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.23%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (8.46%) Oracle Database
2 11 (8.46%) Power BI
3 6 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.31%) OLAP
7 1 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.77%) DB2
7 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.77%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.77%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.77%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (8.46%) JIRA
2 6 (4.62%) Git
3 3 (2.31%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.77%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.77%) GitLab
4 1 (0.77%) Postman
4 1 (0.77%) TestRail
General
1 62 (47.69%) Social Skills
2 45 (34.62%) Public Sector
3 35 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (20.00%) Finance
5 11 (8.46%) Banking
6 9 (6.92%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.85%) Electronics
9 4 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.31%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.31%) Marketing
11 2 (1.54%) Military
11 2 (1.54%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.77%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.77%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (28.46%) Analyst
2 15 (11.54%) Business Analyst
3 13 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 9 (6.92%) Developer
5 7 (5.38%) Architect
6 6 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (4.62%) Data Engineer
6 6 (4.62%) Senior
7 4 (3.08%) Administrator
7 4 (3.08%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (3.08%) Data Analyst
7 4 (3.08%) Security Manager
7 4 (3.08%) Security Specialist
8 3 (2.31%) Credit Analyst
8 3 (2.31%) IT Manager
8 3 (2.31%) Release Manager
8 3 (2.31%) Security Project Manager
8 3 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (2.31%) Test Development Engineer
8 3 (2.31%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.08%) REST
2 3 (2.31%) .NET
2 3 (2.31%) CSS
2 3 (2.31%) React
2 3 (2.31%) Web Services
3 2 (1.54%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.54%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.54%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.54%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (1.54%) ASP.NET MVC 5
3 2 (1.54%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (1.54%) Blazor
3 2 (1.54%) HTML
3 2 (1.54%) Java SE
3 2 (1.54%) SOAP
4 1 (0.77%) Node.js
4 1 (0.77%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.77%) RESTful
4 1 (0.77%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.23%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.15%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (5.38%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (5.38%) PMI
4 5 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.08%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.08%) PKI
6 3 (2.31%) Analogue Electronics
6 3 (2.31%) Blackberry
6 3 (2.31%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.31%) Replication
6 3 (2.31%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.54%) FPGA
7 2 (1.54%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.54%) Verilog
7 2 (1.54%) VHDL
7 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.31%) Windows
2 7 (5.38%) Linux
2 7 (5.38%) Unix
2 7 (5.38%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.31%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.77%) Android
4 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.77%) Solaris
4 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.77%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (33.08%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (24.62%) Computer Science
3 31 (23.85%) Project Management
4 30 (23.08%) Agile
5 17 (13.08%) Migration
6 15 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (10.77%) ETL
7 14 (10.77%) Scrum
8 13 (10.00%) Data Protection
8 13 (10.00%) PRINCE2
8 13 (10.00%) Risk Management
9 12 (9.23%) Analytics
9 12 (9.23%) Business Analysis
10 11 (8.46%) Data Analysis
10 11 (8.46%) ITIL
10 11 (8.46%) Translating Business Requirements
11 10 (7.69%) Project Delivery
11 10 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (6.92%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.69%) SQL
2 17 (13.08%) Python
3 6 (4.62%) C#
4 5 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.31%) Java
5 3 (2.31%) Perl
5 3 (2.31%) VBA
6 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.54%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (0.77%) Bicep
7 1 (0.77%) Groovy
7 1 (0.77%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.77%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (8.46%) PMI Certification
3 9 (6.92%) AWS Certification
3 9 (6.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (5.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (4.62%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.85%) PMP
6 5 (3.85%) Security Cleared
7 4 (3.08%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.08%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (2.31%) MCSE
8 3 (2.31%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (1.54%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.54%) CCNP
9 2 (1.54%) ISACA
9 2 (1.54%) MCP
9 2 (1.54%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.23%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.46%) Disclosure Scotland
3 9 (6.92%) QA
4 4 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.08%) GDPR
4 4 (3.08%) PMO
5 2 (1.54%) P3O
5 2 (1.54%) SLA
6 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.77%) DO-254
6 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (10.77%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.31%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.54%) Firmware
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.77%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.77%) Docker
4 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.77%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.08%) SCCM
3 2 (1.54%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.54%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.77%) CASB
4 1 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.77%) ServiceCenter
4 1 (0.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 28 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.54%) Oracle
3 5 (3.85%) Cisco
4 3 (2.31%) Alteryx
4 3 (2.31%) Citrix
4 3 (2.31%) Juniper
4 3 (2.31%) Mentor Graphics
4 3 (2.31%) Palo Alto
4 3 (2.31%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.31%) Sun
4 3 (2.31%) Workday
5 2 (1.54%) Adobe
5 2 (1.54%) Avaya
5 2 (1.54%) CyberArk
5 2 (1.54%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (1.54%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.54%) HP
5 2 (1.54%) Microsemi
5 2 (1.54%) VMware
5 2 (1.54%) Xilinx