Developer Contracts in Scotland

Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Developer daily rate in Scotland is £458 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 291 486 514
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 13.40% 17.26% 14.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.17% 18.13% 15.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 361 326
10th Percentile £363 £410 £381
25th Percentile £413 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £513 £558 £525
90th Percentile £635 £700 £594
UK median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.64% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £26.13 £49.99 £48.90
25th Percentile £30.32 £53.38 £53.25
Median hourly rate £38.38 £59.03 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.99% +8.31% +36.25%
75th Percentile £46.61 £72.02 £57.50
90th Percentile £50.89 £79.81 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +14.68% +21.11%

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 2,054 2,681 3,374
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 95.24% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,919 2,400
10th Percentile £200 £231 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £580 £556 £550
90th Percentile £654 £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 44 52
10th Percentile £12.32 £12.86 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.06 £15.93 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.27 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% -17.60% -28.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.82 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +3 160 £475 -17.39% 62
Edinburgh -5 90 £450 -5.26% 35
West Lothian +8 18 £540 -11.84% 3
Aberdeen 0 2 £419 -6.94% 9
Fife 0 1 £428 - 3
Lanarkshire -1 1 £425 -21.30% 16
Midlothian - 1 £428 - 6
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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.

1 138 (47.42%) Java
2 112 (38.49%) Agile
3 94 (32.30%) AWS
4 83 (28.52%) SQL
5 74 (25.43%) Spring
6 71 (24.40%) Python
7 69 (23.71%) JavaScript
8 67 (23.02%) Microservices
9 64 (21.99%) React
10 60 (20.62%) Spring Boot
11 59 (20.27%) Public Sector
12 58 (19.93%) CI/CD
13 56 (19.24%) REST
14 54 (18.56%) Code Quality
15 51 (17.53%) Jenkins
15 51 (17.53%) Software Engineering
16 50 (17.18%) Social Skills
17 49 (16.84%) TypeScript
18 47 (16.15%) HTML
18 47 (16.15%) Oracle
19 41 (14.09%) CSS
19 41 (14.09%) Serverless
20 40 (13.75%) Git
21 39 (13.40%) Test Automation
21 39 (13.40%) DevOps
22 38 (13.06%) Docker
22 38 (13.06%) Infrastructure as Code
23 37 (12.71%) AWS Lambda
24 36 (12.37%) Amazon S3
24 36 (12.37%) 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 17 (5.84%) Confluence
2 8 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.41%) Apache
4 4 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.03%) CMS
5 3 (1.03%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.69%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.69%) JBoss
6 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.69%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.69%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.69%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.69%) WildFly
7 1 (0.34%) CICS
7 1 (0.34%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.34%) IIS
7 1 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (7.90%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Maximo
2 1 (0.34%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 94 (32.30%) AWS
2 41 (14.09%) Serverless
3 37 (12.71%) AWS Lambda
4 36 (12.37%) Amazon S3
5 34 (11.68%) Azure
6 32 (11.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (6.19%) OpenShift
8 13 (4.47%) Power Platform
9 12 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.44%) GCP
11 6 (2.06%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.37%) Rekognition
12 4 (1.37%) Textract
13 3 (1.03%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.03%) iPaaS
13 3 (1.03%) Snowflake
14 2 (0.69%) npm
14 2 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.44%) SSL
2 9 (3.09%) HTTP
2 9 (3.09%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 7 (2.41%) NetScaler
4 6 (2.06%) Kerberos
5 4 (1.37%) 5G
6 2 (0.69%) DNS
6 2 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.69%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.34%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.34%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (9.97%) Amazon Aurora
3 28 (9.62%) Oracle Database
4 14 (4.81%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.78%) Power BI
6 9 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.41%) Big Data
7 7 (2.41%) GIS
7 7 (2.41%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.72%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.37%) DB2
9 4 (1.37%) Metadata
9 4 (1.37%) Parquet
10 3 (1.03%) MariaDB
10 3 (1.03%) MySQL
11 2 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.69%) Oracle Database 11g
11 2 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 51 (17.53%) Jenkins
2 40 (13.75%) Git
3 34 (11.68%) JIRA
4 20 (6.87%) JUnit
5 17 (5.84%) Cucumber
6 12 (4.12%) Oracle APEX
6 12 (4.12%) Postman
7 10 (3.44%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.41%) Maven
9 6 (2.06%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.06%) IntelliJ
10 5 (1.72%) GitLab
10 5 (1.72%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (1.37%) Subversion
12 3 (1.03%) Selenium
12 3 (1.03%) webpack
13 2 (0.69%) Mockito
13 2 (0.69%) WebDriver
14 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
14 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (20.27%) Public Sector
2 50 (17.18%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.34%) Finance
4 19 (6.53%) Banking
5 14 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.12%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.37%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.37%) Retail
10 1 (0.34%) Automotive
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 74 (25.43%) Spring
2 64 (21.99%) React
3 60 (20.62%) Spring Boot
4 56 (19.24%) REST
5 47 (16.15%) HTML
6 41 (14.09%) CSS
7 34 (11.68%) AWS CDK
8 32 (11.00%) RESTful
9 31 (10.65%) Kafka
10 25 (8.59%) .NET
11 23 (7.90%) Node.js
12 21 (7.22%) AngularJS
13 16 (5.50%) JSON
14 14 (4.81%) XML
15 12 (4.12%) Apache Camel
15 12 (4.12%) Spring Security
15 12 (4.12%) Web Services
16 10 (3.44%) J2EE
16 10 (3.44%) OAuth
16 10 (3.44%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.53%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (5.84%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (3.78%) Data Structures
3 11 (3.78%) Legacy Applications
3 11 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.44%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.44%) Wiki
5 8 (2.75%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.06%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.72%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.03%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.69%) CMDB
9 2 (0.69%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.34%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.34%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.65%) Linux
2 22 (7.56%) Unix
3 3 (1.03%) Windows
3 3 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) AIX
5 1 (0.34%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (38.49%) Agile
2 67 (23.02%) Microservices
3 58 (19.93%) CI/CD
4 54 (18.56%) Code Quality
5 51 (17.53%) Software Engineering
6 39 (13.40%) DevOps
6 39 (13.40%) Test Automation
7 38 (13.06%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (12.37%) Artificial Intelligence
9 32 (11.00%) TDD
10 31 (10.65%) User Experience
11 27 (9.28%) Full Stack Development
11 27 (9.28%) Unit Testing
12 25 (8.59%) SDLC
13 24 (8.25%) Human-Centred Design
14 23 (7.90%) Continuous Integration
14 23 (7.90%) Conversational UI
14 23 (7.90%) Data Protection
14 23 (7.90%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (7.56%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 138 (47.42%) Java
2 83 (28.52%) SQL
3 71 (24.40%) Python
4 69 (23.71%) JavaScript
5 49 (16.84%) TypeScript
6 27 (9.28%) Scala
7 24 (8.25%) PL/SQL
8 20 (6.87%) Bash
9 18 (6.19%) C#
10 12 (4.12%) Perl
10 12 (4.12%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.78%) Kotlin
12 7 (2.41%) C
13 6 (2.06%) Go
13 6 (2.06%) PHP
14 3 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.34%) COBOL
15 1 (0.34%) JCL
15 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (11.34%) Degree
2 8 (2.75%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.06%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.31%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.47%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.69%) GDPR
4 2 (0.69%) WCAG
5 1 (0.34%) NCSC
5 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 38 (13.06%) Docker
2 7 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) NFS
4 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (6.53%) Grafana
2 18 (6.19%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.75%) Kibana
4 7 (2.41%) Terraform
5 6 (2.06%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.06%) Zipkin
6 2 (0.69%) Ansible
7 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 47 (16.15%) Oracle
2 23 (7.90%) PayPal
3 9 (3.09%) Avaloq
4 7 (2.41%) F5
5 6 (2.06%) Cadence
6 5 (1.72%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.37%) Databricks
7 4 (1.37%) Google
8 3 (1.03%) IBM
8 3 (1.03%) Pega
8 3 (1.03%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.03%) VMware
9 2 (0.69%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.69%) Sage
9 2 (0.69%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.69%) Sybase
10 1 (0.34%) Greenplum
10 1 (0.34%) IFS
10 1 (0.34%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.34%) Solace