Developer Contracts in Scotland

Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Developer daily rate in Scotland is £460 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 294 499 516
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 13.32% 17.48% 14.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.07% 18.38% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 368 327
10th Percentile £363 £413 £380
25th Percentile £413 £438 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £477 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.56% +0.42% +11.76%
75th Percentile £525 £557 £527
90th Percentile £638 £713 £593
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £26.13 £51.12 £48.90
25th Percentile £30.32 £56.21 £53.25
Median hourly rate £38.38 £62.02 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.12% +13.79% +36.25%
75th Percentile £46.61 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £50.89 £79.00 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +0.81% +15.35% +19.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,090 2,715 3,383
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 95.13% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,947 2,403
10th Percentile £204 £237 £213
25th Percentile £364 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 54
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.90 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.21 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.55 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.14
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Scotland

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Scotland

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Scotland

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Scotland

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in Scotland

Developer
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 Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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 +1 160 £475 -18.98% 52
Edinburgh -7 92 £450 -5.26% 33
West Lothian +5 18 £540 -3.14% 3
Aberdeen 0 2 £419 -6.94% 7
South Lanarkshire - 2 £700 - 1
Fife 0 1 £428 - 2
Lanarkshire -1 1 £425 -21.30% 9
Midlothian - 1 £428 - 7
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 136 (46.26%) Java
2 114 (38.78%) Agile
3 93 (31.63%) AWS
4 85 (28.91%) SQL
5 73 (24.83%) Spring
6 70 (23.81%) Python
7 68 (23.13%) JavaScript
8 65 (22.11%) Microservices
9 62 (21.09%) React
9 62 (21.09%) Public Sector
10 58 (19.73%) Spring Boot
11 57 (19.39%) CI/CD
11 57 (19.39%) REST
12 55 (18.71%) Code Quality
13 53 (18.03%) Social Skills
14 51 (17.35%) Jenkins
15 49 (16.67%) Oracle
15 49 (16.67%) Software Engineering
16 47 (15.99%) TypeScript
17 46 (15.65%) HTML
18 42 (14.29%) Git
19 41 (13.95%) DevOps
20 40 (13.61%) Serverless
20 40 (13.61%) CSS
21 38 (12.93%) Test Automation
21 38 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
22 37 (12.59%) Docker
23 36 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
23 36 (12.24%) JIRA
23 36 (12.24%) Artificial Intelligence

Developer Skill Set
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 19 (6.46%) Confluence
2 7 (2.38%) Apache
2 7 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.02%) CMS
4 3 (1.02%) GeoServer
4 3 (1.02%) IIS
5 2 (0.68%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.68%) JBoss
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.68%) WildFly
6 1 (0.34%) CICS
6 1 (0.34%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (7.82%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Maximo
1 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.34%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 93 (31.63%) AWS
2 40 (13.61%) Serverless
3 36 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
4 35 (11.90%) Amazon S3
5 32 (10.88%) Azure
6 31 (10.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (6.12%) OpenShift
8 13 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (4.42%) Power Platform
9 9 (3.06%) GCP
10 6 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.36%) Rekognition
11 4 (1.36%) Textract
12 3 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.02%) iPaaS
12 3 (1.02%) Snowflake
13 2 (0.68%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (0.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.40%) SSL
2 9 (3.06%) HTTP
2 9 (3.06%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 7 (2.38%) NetScaler
4 6 (2.04%) Kerberos
5 4 (1.36%) 5G
5 4 (1.36%) DNS
6 2 (0.68%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.68%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.34%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.22%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (9.86%) Amazon Aurora
3 28 (9.52%) Oracle Database
4 12 (4.08%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.74%) Power BI
6 9 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.38%) Big Data
7 7 (2.38%) GIS
7 7 (2.38%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.04%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.70%) DB2
9 5 (1.70%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.36%) Metadata
10 4 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.36%) Parquet
11 3 (1.02%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.02%) MySQL
12 2 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.68%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 51 (17.35%) Jenkins
2 42 (14.29%) Git
3 36 (12.24%) JIRA
4 19 (6.46%) JUnit
5 17 (5.78%) Cucumber
6 13 (4.42%) Oracle APEX
7 12 (4.08%) Postman
8 10 (3.40%) Cypress.io
9 7 (2.38%) Maven
10 6 (2.04%) Bitbucket
10 6 (2.04%) IntelliJ
11 5 (1.70%) GitLab
11 5 (1.70%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (1.36%) Subversion
13 3 (1.02%) Selenium
13 3 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (1.02%) webpack
14 2 (0.68%) Mockito
14 2 (0.68%) WebDriver
15 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 62 (21.09%) Public Sector
2 53 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.56%) Finance
4 18 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.12%) Banking
5 12 (4.08%) Financial Institution
6 10 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.70%) Retail
9 4 (1.36%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.34%) Automotive
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) Law
10 1 (0.34%) Local Government
10 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (24.83%) Spring
2 62 (21.09%) React
3 58 (19.73%) Spring Boot
4 57 (19.39%) REST
5 46 (15.65%) HTML
6 40 (13.61%) CSS
7 34 (11.56%) AWS CDK
8 30 (10.20%) Kafka
8 30 (10.20%) RESTful
9 29 (9.86%) .NET
10 23 (7.82%) Node.js
11 18 (6.12%) AngularJS
12 17 (5.78%) JSON
13 15 (5.10%) XML
14 12 (4.08%) Apache Camel
14 12 (4.08%) Spring Security
14 12 (4.08%) Web Services
15 10 (3.40%) J2EE
15 10 (3.40%) OAuth
15 10 (3.40%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.46%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (5.44%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (4.08%) Legacy Applications
3 12 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.08%) Wiki
4 10 (3.40%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.40%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.72%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.70%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.70%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.02%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.68%) CMDB
11 2 (0.68%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.34%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.34%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.54%) Linux
2 21 (7.14%) Unix
3 5 (1.70%) Windows
3 5 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.68%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) AIX
5 1 (0.34%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (38.78%) Agile
2 65 (22.11%) Microservices
3 57 (19.39%) CI/CD
4 55 (18.71%) Code Quality
5 49 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 41 (13.95%) DevOps
7 38 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (12.93%) Test Automation
8 36 (12.24%) Artificial Intelligence
9 33 (11.22%) TDD
9 33 (11.22%) User Experience
10 27 (9.18%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (9.18%) Unit Testing
11 26 (8.84%) Full Stack Development
12 25 (8.50%) SDLC
13 24 (8.16%) Human-Centred Design
14 23 (7.82%) Conversational UI
15 22 (7.48%) Analytics
15 22 (7.48%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (7.48%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 136 (46.26%) Java
2 85 (28.91%) SQL
3 70 (23.81%) Python
4 68 (23.13%) JavaScript
5 47 (15.99%) TypeScript
6 27 (9.18%) PL/SQL
6 27 (9.18%) Scala
7 20 (6.80%) Bash
8 18 (6.12%) C#
9 12 (4.08%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.74%) Perl
11 10 (3.40%) Kotlin
12 7 (2.38%) C
13 6 (2.04%) Go
13 6 (2.04%) PHP
14 3 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.02%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.34%) COBOL
15 1 (0.34%) JCL
15 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (11.22%) Degree
2 9 (3.06%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.38%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.20%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.68%) GDPR
4 2 (0.68%) WCAG
5 1 (0.34%) NCSC
5 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 37 (12.59%) Docker
2 9 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) NFS
4 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (6.46%) Grafana
2 17 (5.78%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.72%) Kibana
4 7 (2.38%) Terraform
5 5 (1.70%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.70%) Zipkin
6 2 (0.68%) Ansible
7 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (16.67%) Oracle
2 23 (7.82%) PayPal
3 9 (3.06%) Avaloq
4 7 (2.38%) F5
5 6 (2.04%) Cadence
6 5 (1.70%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.36%) Databricks
8 3 (1.02%) Google
8 3 (1.02%) IBM
8 3 (1.02%) Pega
8 3 (1.02%) Sybase
8 3 (1.02%) VMware
9 2 (0.68%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.68%) Sage
9 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.34%) IFS
10 1 (0.34%) Okta
10 1 (0.34%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.34%) Solace