Enterprise Software Contracts in Scotland

Enterprise Application Software
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software 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 84 125 148
Rank change year-on-year +41 +23 -24
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 32 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.97% 0.18% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.18% 0.55% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 9
10th Percentile £463 £458 £363
25th Percentile £476 £497 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +27.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £544 £631 £525
90th Percentile £553 £658 £531
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £83.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% -11.11% +68.40%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Enterprise Software falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in Scotland

Enterprise Software
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Software in Scotland

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in Scotland

Enterprise Software
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Software in Scotland

Enterprise Software
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 Enterprise Software 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 +28 26 £490 +12.00% 5
Edinburgh +7 4 £530 -13.47% 6
Enterprise Software
UK

Enterprise Software
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 5 (15.63%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (15.63%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 5 (15.63%) Amazon S3
2 5 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (15.63%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (15.63%) OpenShift
2 5 (15.63%) SaaS
2 5 (15.63%) Serverless
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 4 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
3 4 (12.50%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 4 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
3 4 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
3 4 (12.50%) PaaS
3 4 (12.50%) Route 53
4 1 (3.13%) Azure
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.13%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (43.75%) KDB
1 14 (43.75%) Kdb+
2 3 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.25%) InfluxDB
3 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.13%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Git
1 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
1 3 (9.38%) Xcode
2 2 (6.25%) Artifactory
2 2 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) JUnit
3 1 (3.13%) Postman
General
1 20 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (50.00%) Banking
2 16 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 9 (28.13%) Finance
4 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.13%) Front Office
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (65.63%) Developer
2 16 (50.00%) Python Developer
3 14 (43.75%) C++ Developer
4 11 (34.38%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
4 11 (34.38%) Linux Developer
4 11 (34.38%) Senior
4 11 (34.38%) Senior C++ Developer
4 11 (34.38%) Senior Developer
4 11 (34.38%) Senior Python Developer
5 3 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Mobile Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Developer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) DevOps Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Java Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) AWS CDK
2 3 (9.38%) SwiftUI
2 3 (9.38%) UIKit
3 2 (6.25%) JMS
3 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (6.25%) React
3 2 (6.25%) Spring
4 1 (3.13%) Java EE
4 1 (3.13%) Kafka
4 1 (3.13%) Loki
4 1 (3.13%) Middleware
4 1 (3.13%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
1 3 (9.38%) Credit Risk
1 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (9.38%) iPad
1 3 (9.38%) iPhone
1 3 (9.38%) Mobile App
1 3 (9.38%) Virtual Team
2 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Equities
3 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 21 (65.63%) Linux
2 19 (59.38%) Windows
3 3 (9.38%) Android
3 3 (9.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 20 (62.50%) SDLC
3 17 (53.13%) Data Science
4 9 (28.13%) Agile
5 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (21.88%) Scrum
6 7 (21.88%) Test Automation
7 6 (18.75%) Data Protection
8 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
9 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (12.50%) Design Patterns
10 3 (9.38%) Customer Experience
10 3 (9.38%) Decision-Making
10 3 (9.38%) Mobile Development
10 3 (9.38%) Prototyping
10 3 (9.38%) Push Notifications
10 3 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 3 (9.38%) Software Delivery
10 3 (9.38%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 26 (81.25%) Python
2 14 (43.75%) C++
3 5 (15.63%) Bash
3 5 (15.63%) R
4 4 (12.50%) Perl
5 3 (9.38%) Groovy
5 3 (9.38%) Objective-C
5 3 (9.38%) Swift
6 2 (6.25%) Java
6 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.25%) SQL
7 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.13%) CISM
2 1 (3.13%) CISSP
2 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.13%) CRISC
2 1 (3.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.13%) OCP
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.13%) NIST
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 19 (59.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) Grafana
3 2 (6.25%) Kibana
4 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Imperva
1 2 (6.25%) Sybase
2 1 (3.13%) Google
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft